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Article: Two Margarets.(exhibitions on Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy and Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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The stories of two women named Margaret who lived in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries are intertwined. Margaret of Burgundy, more commonly known as Margaret of York, was born in England in 1446. She was the daughter of Richard Plantagenet, third duke of York, and the sister of the English kings Edward IV and Richard III. In 1468 she married Charles the Bold of Burgundy at Bruges, and although they had no children she was an important guardian of his offspring from earlier marriages and the heir to his lands. She died in Bruges in 1503.
Margaret of Austria, born in 1480, was the step-grand-daughter of Margaret of Burgundy. Her parents were Charles ...