Among these was Countess Margaret of Flanders who established the monastery of Lille, while Val-Duchesse at Oudergern near Brussels was built with the wealth of Adelaide of Burgundy, Duchess of Brabant ( 1262 ).

Using a peasant boy named Lambert Simnel, who posed as Edward, Earl of Warwick ( the real Warwick was locked up in the Tower of London ), he led an army of 2, 000 German mercenaries paid for by Margaret of Burgundy into England.

Again enjoying the support of Margaret of Burgundy, he invaded England four times from 1495-1497 before he was finally captured and put in the Tower of London.

* 1446 – Margaret of York, wife of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy ( d. 1503 )

In June 1476, he started his studies at the University of Leuven, where he pursued philosophy, theology and Canon Law, due to a scholarship granted by Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy, becoming a Doctor of Theology in 1491, Dean of St. Peter's and vice-chancellor of the university.

His sister Margaret had become the wife of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy in 1468.

Richard, along with his brother the King, fled to Burgundy in October 1470 after Warwick defected to the side of Margaret of Anjou.

* November 23 – Margaret of York, wife of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy ( b. 1446 )

* July 3 – Perkin Warbeck's troops land in Kent, in support of his claim to the English crown, backed by Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy.

** Margaret of Burgundy

# Margaret of Austria, ( 1480 – 1533 ), who was first engaged at the age of 2 to the French Dauphin ( who became Charles VIII of France a year later ) to confirm peace between France and Burgundy.

However, Margaret wished to be a nun ( and was later canonized ); Charles instead married ( on 18 November 1268 ), Margaret, Countess of Tonnerre ( 1250 – 4 September 1308, Tonnerre ), the daughter of Eudes of Burgundy.

After the death of Beatrice, he married Margaret of Burgundy in 1268.

* August 15 – Margaret of Burgundy ( b. 1290 )

* Margaret of Burgundy ( d. 1315 )

On 3 July 1495, funded by Margaret of Burgundy, Warbeck landed at Deal in Kent, hoping for a show of popular support.

The rulers of Burgundy were his brother-in-law Charles, Duke of Burgundy, and his sister Margaret of York.

The consequence of this was the Tour de Nesle Affair in Paris, which led to legal action against all three of Isabella's sisters-in-law ; Blanche of Burgundy and Margaret of Burgundy were imprisoned for life for adultery.

Edward meanwhile reversed Warwick's policy of friendship with France by marrying his sister Margaret to Charles the Bold, the Duke of Burgundy.

The county of Flanders fell to the Duchy of Burgundy next, after the 1369 marriage of Margaret III, Countess of Flanders, and Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.

Lincoln fled the English court on 19 March 1487 and went to the court of Mechelen ( Malines ) and his aunt, Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy.

Bostock, who had been held aboard Queen Anne's Revenge, was returned unharmed to Margaret and was allowed to leave with his crew.

Queen Margaret University was founded in 1875, as The Edinburgh School of Cookery and Domestic Economy, by Christian Guthrie Wright and Louisa Stevenson.

Queen Margaret University campus.

Mountbatten's qualification for offering advice to this particular heir to the throne was unique ; it was he who had arranged the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Dartmouth Royal Naval College on 22 July 1939, taking care to include the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret in the invitation, but assigning his nephew, Cadet Prince Philip of Greece, to keep them amused while their parents toured the facility.

* 1261 – Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway ( d. 1283 )

In 1984, he was appointed as a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour by Queen Elizabeth II on the advice of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for his " services to the study of economics.

In 1984, he was appointed as a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour ( CH ) by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom on the advice of the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for his " services to the study of economics.

* Anne Boleyn, Queen consort to King Henry VIII of England ; Irish paternal grandmother Margaret Butler

The union was the work of Queen Margaret I of Denmark ( 1353 – 1412 ), a daughter of King Valdemar IV of Denmark.

With the mental collapse of King Henry VI, Queen Margaret used the Duchy of Lancaster lands in the Midlands, including Kenilworth, as one of her key bases of military support.

* 1461 – Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton – Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England.

* Dunlop, Eileen, Queen Margaret of Scotland.

* 1276 – Margaret of Brabant, Queen of Germany ( d. 1311 )

In 1250 Innocent proclaimed the pious Queen Margaret of Edinburgh ( died 1093 ), wife of King Malcolm III of Scotland, a saint of God.

The Queen, who was favourable, Margaret Thatcher, who undertook to do everything that our Parliament asked of her, and Jean Wadds, who represented the interests of Canada so well in London ...

At the time of the death of his father and older brother Edmund, Earl of Rutland at the Battle of Wakefield, Richard, who was eight years old, was sent by his mother, the Duchess of York to the Low Countries, beyond the reach of Henry VI's vengeful Queen, Margaret of Anjou.

Bruce's family also included his brothers, Edward, Alexander, Thomas, and Neil, his sisters Christina, Isabel ( Queen of Norway ), Margaret, Matilda, and Mary, and his nephews Donald II, Earl of Mar and Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray.

This was in 1947 when the King, accompanied by Queen Elizabeth ( later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother ), Princess Elizabeth ( later Elizabeth II ) and Princess Margaret were travelling to South Africa.

James III of Scotland | James III and Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland | Margaret, whose betrothal led to Shetland passing from Norway to Scotland

Henry VII and Queen Elizabeth had several children, four of which survived infancy: Arthur, Prince of Wales, Henry, Duke of Richmond, Margaret, who married James IV of Scotland, and Mary, who married Louis XII of France.

) In the event that all 3 of his children died without heir, the will stipulated that the descendant of his younger sister Mary would take precedence over the descendants of his elder sister, Margaret, Queen of Scotland.

* February 24 – Queen Margaret of Norway and Denmark defeats Albert of Sweden in battle and becomes ruler of all three kingdoms.