biography
pronunciation:
[ãzhoo]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1430–82)
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| biography:
| Queen consort of England, probably born in Pont-à-Mousson, NE France. The daughter of René of Anjou, she was married to Henry VI of England in 1445. Owing to his mental weakness she was in effect sovereign, and the war of 1449, in which Normandy was lost, was laid by the English to her charge. In the Wars of the Roses, after a brave struggle of nearly 20 years, she was finally defeated at Tewkesbury (1471), and imprisoned for four years in the Tower, until ransomed by Louis XI. She then retired to France, where she died in poverty. |
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