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Margaret Stanley, Countess of Derby (née Lady Margaret Clifford; 1540 – 28 September 1596) was the only surviving daughter of Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland and Lady Eleanor Brandon. Her maternal grandparents were Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Mary Tudor, Queen of France.
Margaret Stanley, Countess of Derby (née Clifford; 1540 – 28 September 1596) was the only surviving daughter of Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland and Lady Eleanor Brandon. Her maternal grandparents were Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Mary Tudor, former queen consort of France.
9 de mar. de 2017 · He was descended from the Woodvilles, Howards, Nevilles and a certain Thomas Stanley who happened to be married to Margaret Beaufort and who sat around on hillsides during key battles of the Wars of the Roses waiting to see how it would all pan out – landing the title Earl of Derby for his pains.
8 de ene. de 2016 · After the deaths of Jane, Catherine and Mary, and the bastardisation of Catherine's sons, Elizabeth I's heir was, according to Henry VIII's will, Margaret Stanley, countess of Derby. The countess has received far less attention, both from academic historians and popular writers, regarding her role as a claimant to the English throne.
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When Countess Margaret Clifford Stanley was born in 1540, in Brougham Castle, Westmorland, England, her father, Henry Clifford, was 23 and her mother, Eleanor Brandon, was 22. She married Sir Henry Stanley 4th Earl of Derby on 7 February 1555, in Westminster, Middlesex, England.
4 de sept. de 2023 · In a time when women could not own land or property, Lady Margaret ‘masterminded her own destiny’, becoming the ‘first recognised Queen Mother and a powerful woman in her own right,’ the podcast website explains. She married Sir Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, who placed the English crown on his stepson, King Henry VII.
