Margaret and John were married in 1442 and Margaret quickly became pregnant. John was frustrated and disillusioned and returned to England. John had expectations of being named lieutenant-general in France but the position was given to Richard, Duke of York. In 1440, he was back in France with a considerable force and had several military successes. He returned to England but then went right back to France in 1439 where he became captain of Cherbourg, Avranches, Falaise and other fortresses. He was very bitter and claimed that the ransom personally cost him £24,000 and left him destitute. His seventeen years of imprisonment was the longest period endured by an English aristocrat during the Hundred Years War. Thomas Beaufort was shortly released but negotiations for John’s release from captivity dragged on from the time of his capture until 1438. John and his brother Thomas were captured and held prisoner by the French. In the spring of 1421, John joined Thomas, Duke of Clarence in a chevauchée in Maine and Anjou where they were involved in a battle at Baugé. John was knighted by King Henry V and was present at the siege of Melun from July to November of 1420. In 1419, John and his younger brothers Thomas and Edmund Beaufort went to Normandy to fight in the Hundred Years War. The Earl of Somerset had inherited his title when his elder brother Henry died in 1418. However, King Henry IV went through some maneuvers to ensure these children and their descendants would not inherit the throne of England. But John of Gaunt eventually married Katherine and their children were legitimized by King Richard II. John of Gaunt had a long time relationship with Katherine Swynford and had several children with her who were all initially illegitimate and named Beaufort after one of John’s lordships in France. John was the grandson of John of Gaunt, the third son of King Edward III. In 1442, Margaret married again, this time to John Beaufort who was the 3rd Earl of Somerset at the time of the marriage. Sir Oliver died fighting in France in 1437 leaving Margaret a widow with many children to raise. All the adult children would marry except for the last daughter, another Margaret who became the abbess of Shaftsbury.
Margaret would give birth to two sons and five daughters with St.
When Margaret was about fifteen, she married Sir Oliver St. She also inherited the right to any barony of Beauchamp. In 1421, her only brother John died young and she inherited his manors of Lydiard Tregoze in Wiltshire, Ashmore in Dorset and Bletsoe and Keysoe in Bedfordshire. We know nothing of her childhood but judging from the way she educated her daughter later, she must have received a solid education. Margaret’s family was more of the gentry than the nobility. 1410 and was the daughter of Sir John Beauchamp, 3rd Baron Beauchamp of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire and his second wife Edith Stourton, daughter of Sir John Stourton of Stourton, Wiltshire. This is the story of Henry VII’s grandmother. Both the grandmother and mother of Henry were named Margaret Beaufort at some time in their life. It is easy to understand why there was confusion. Recently there was some confusion on my Tudor History Lovers Facebook page about a photo of the tomb of John and Margaret Beaufort, Duke and Duchess of Somerset, the parents of Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII. Tomb of Margaret Beauchamp and her second husband John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset (Photo by Memorino from Wikimedia Commons)
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