Her valiant courage and undaunted spirit.
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Margaret of Anjou
Queen consort of Henry VI of England (1430-1482) and de facto leader of the Lancastrian faction in the Wars of the Roses. Born into the House of Valois-Anjou, married to Henry in 1445, she governed in her husband's place during his bouts of insanity. She commanded Lancastrian armies in person, defeated the Yorkists at the Second Battle of St Albans in 1461, then lost her only son Edward at Tewkesbury in 1471. After Tower imprisonment she was ransomed by Louis XI to France. Shakespeare's plays cast her as the She-wolf of France, one of the most active queens of the late Middle Ages.
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