Her partisans killed York near Wakefield, Yorkshire, in December 1460 and freed the king from captivity at the second Battle of St. After the king was captured by the Yorkists at Northampton in July 1460, she upheld her son’s claim to the royal succession and refused to accept the compromise by which York was declared Henry’s heir. When hostilities again broke out in 1459, Margaret embittered the struggle by outlawing the Yorkist leaders. From overcoming oppression, to breaking rules, to reimagining the world or waging a rebellion, these women of history have a story to tell. Meet extraordinary women who dared to bring gender equality and other issues to the forefront. Albans Richard of York then controlled the government until the indomitable Margaret ousted him from power in 1456.

In May 1455 this factional dispute erupted into armed conflict with a Yorkist victory over the Lancastrians at St.

Soon she became a key member of the king’s party, which was bitterly opposed by the powerful Richard, duke of York. Her marriage to the ineffectual, mentally unbalanced Henry VI in April 1445 was arranged as part of a truce in the Hundred Years’ War between France and England. Margaret was the daughter of René I of Anjou, titular king of Naples. Strong-willed and ambitious, she made a relentless, but ultimately unsuccessful, effort to obtain the crown for her son, Prince Edward (1453–71). 25, 1482, near Saumur), queen consort of England’s King Henry VI and a leader of the Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses (1455–85) between the houses of York and Lancaster. Margaret of Anjou, (born March 23, 1430, probably Pont-à-Mousson, Lorraine, Fr.-died Aug.

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