Margaret of Anjou

noun

1430–82, queen of Henry VI of England.

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Margaret of Anjou

noun

1430–82, queen of England. She married the mentally unstable Henry VI of England in 1445 to confirm the truce with France during the Hundred Years' War. She became a leader of the Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses and was defeated at Tewkesbury (1471) by Edward IV

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