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Show dt ' Famous Women 1 i . MAMQAftBT bBAUFORT. Margaret Beaufort was ths daughter daugh-ter and heiress of the Duka of Somerset. Som-erset. Being vary beautiful, aha was at tho early ago of Is eagerly souaht In marriage by two poreona of high rank. Ono was tho eon of tho Duke of Suffolk, tho other ems Edmund, Earl of Richmond, half hrother of the retrnlsg monarch. Henry VI. Wavering between the two pro-pooaJa. pro-pooaJa. Margaret waa advleod to consult con-sult ftt. Klcnoiaa, patron aatnt of un-deotded un-deotded maldena. MdeaUr St. Kich-olas Kich-olas decided upon Edmund, for aho married aoon afterward. , Kdsaund died aoon after the birth of a sou, who later became King Henry VII. Margaret married twlca after the death of her ft rat hueband. First aho married Humphrey Stafford, eon of the Duke of Buckhighain, aad thea Thomas Lord Stanley, suhoequontly Karl of Derby. Wo ara not told whether she consulted St. Nicholas ta tho choice of her second and third hushands. Marys-ret founded oeveral collegea snd did ether worka of charity. char-ity. he died tn June, at the ; ase of SS, Juet after her frrandaoo. Henry VIII, ascended tho throne. |