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| | Britannia Biographies: Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby |
 | | The Countess of Richmond and Derby, commonly called Lady Margaret Beaufort, was the daughter of John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset (son of John of Gaunt by Catherine Swynford), and his wife, Margaret Beauchamp. |
 | | At the age of about seven, she became the child bride of John De La Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, but the union was later dissolved. |
 | | She, soon afterward, married Henry Stafford, the second son of the Duke of Buckingham, and submitted to the Yorkist rule; but, after the Battle of Tewkesbury, she was obliged to send her son, Henry, now the sole hope of the Lancastrian cause, to seek refuge in Brittany. |
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