Margaret of Anjou |Margaret of Anjou| |Margaret of Anjou
receiving the Book of Romances. From an illuminated manuscript
by the Talbot Master| |Tenure||23 April 1445 – 4 March 1461 30
October 1470 - 11 April 1471 |Coronation||30 May 1445
Westminster Abbey| |Spouse||Henry VI of England| |Edward of
Westminster, Prince of Wales| |House||House of Valois (by birth)
House of Lancaster (by marriage) |Father||René, King of Naples|
|Mother||Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine| |Born||23 March 1430
|Died||25 August 1482 |Burial||Angers Cathedral, Anjou| Margaret
of Anjou (French: Marguerite d'Anjou) (23 March 1430 – 25 August
1482) was the wife of King Henry VI of England. As such, she was
Queen consort of England from 1445 to 1461 and again from 1470
to 1471. She also claimed to be Queen consort of France from
1445 to 1453. Born in the Duchy of Lorraine, into the House of
Valois-Anjou, Margaret was the second eldest daughter of René I
of Naples and Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine. She was one of the
principal figures in the se