Margaret of Anjou
15th-century English royal consort (1430-1482)
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She led armies while her husband lost his mind, called the council that lit a thirty-year war, and watched her only son die in battle before spending her last years as a ransomed prisoner living on French charity.
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Born in 1430 into the House of Valois-Anjou, Margaret became Queen of England at fifteen through marriage to Henry VI. When her husband's recurring insanity left the throne vulnerable, she stepped into the vacuum — ruling in his place and in May 1455 convening a Great Council that pointedly excluded the Yorkist faction under Richard of York. That exclusion sparked the Wars of the Roses. For more than thirty years she personally commanded the Lancastrian side, earning praise for her "valiant courage and undaunted spirit" even as the conflict devoured England's old nobility and killed thousands.…
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