![]() ![]() It was from that country, seven years later, that she had now returned, after her supporters had lost at Barnet, to engage King Edward the Fourth in a decisive battle. Albans in 1461, and although defeated at Hedgeley Moor and Hexham, had escaped to France. She won at Wakefield, gained a doubtful victory at St. In battle after battle Margaret had fought with the spirit of a dozen commanders. She had ruled England for her husband but had failed to appease the people’s discontent she had failed, too, to suppress the ambitious Yorkist faction, with the result known as the War of the Roses. ![]() “Of valiant courage and undaunted spirit,Īnd as unlike her peace-loving husband Henry as could be. Margaret of Anjou, the daughter of the titular King of Naples and Sicily, was a beautiful, proud woman. In this young prince was centred all the hopes of the followers of the unhappy House of Lancaster. With Margaret at Weymouth was her only son, Prince Edward, handsome, ardent and filled with the martial spirit of his glorious grandfather, Henry the Fifth. Her purpose, she had declared, was to restore her captive husband Henry to his precarious throne. Paul’s, he heard that Queen Margaret had landed at Weymouth. Now, surely, Edward must have thought, there would be peace and contentment in this war-torn realm.īut there was no such thought that spring day of 1471, in the mind of Queen Margaret, the indomitable wife of the half-witted Henry the Sixth whom Edward had deposed.įor, almost as soon as Edward had risen from his knees in St. Warwick the Kingmaker, general of the Lancastrian army of Henry the Sixth, was dead. By the decisive victory which he was sure the Lord had given him over his enemy the Earl of Warwick on Barnet field, the King had at last regained the throne for himself and his House of York. ![]() King Edward the Fourth fell upon his knees and, raising his eyes to the altar of St. ![]() Edward IV gets his first glimpse of his prisoner, the Lancastrian Queen Margaret of Anjou, after her capture at the Battle of Tewksesbury, by C L Doughty ![]()
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