Henry VI Marries Margaret of Anjou
1445
The pious, weak English king married the fifteen-year-old French princess in a ceremony whose dowry was the surrender of Maine. The queen, fierce where her husband was vague, became the effective leader of the Lancastrian faction. Her rivalry with Richard of York would ignite the Wars of the Roses a decade later.
In context
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Before and after in Europe
- Before: 1444: Truce of Tours
- After: 1446: Brunelleschi Dies in Florence
Before and after in Politics
Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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