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===Motherhood=== [[File:Pembroke Castle 1.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|[[Pembroke Castle]] in 2007, the Norman castle where Margaret gave birth to Henry Tudor in 1457]] [[File:A young woman, believed by some to be a young Margaret Beaufort.jpg|thumb|19th-century portrait, perhaps intended as Lady Margaret Beaufort, [[National Portrait Gallery, London]]]] While in the care of her brother-in-law [[Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke]], on 28 January 1457, the 13-year-old Margaret gave birth to a son, [[Henry VII of England|Henry Tudor]], at [[Pembroke Castle]]. As she was not yet physically mature, the birth was extremely difficult. In a sermon delivered after her death, Margaret's confessor, [[John Fisher]], deemed it a miracle that a baby could be born "of so little a personage".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gristwood |first=Sarah |title=Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses |publisher=Basic Books |date=2013 |location=New York |page=49}}</ref> Her son's birth may have done permanent physical injury to Margaret; despite two later marriages, she never had another child. Years later, she enumerated a set of proper procedures concerning the delivery of potential heirs, perhaps informed by the difficulty of her own experience.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gristwood |first=Sarah |title=Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses |publisher=Basic Books |date=2013 |location=New York |page=48}}</ref> Shortly after her re-entry into society after the birth, Jasper helped arrange another marriage for her to ensure her son's security.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Tallis |first=Nicola |title=Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Matriarch |publisher=Michael O'Mara Books Limited |date=2020 |isbn=978-1-7892-9258-9 |location=London |page=58}}</ref> She married [[Sir Henry Stafford]] ({{Circa|1425}}β1471), the second son of [[Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham]], on 3 January 1458, at the age of 14. A dispensation for the marriage was necessary because Margaret and Stafford were second cousins; it was granted on 6 April 1457. They enjoyed a fairly long and harmonious marital relationship and were given [[Woking Palace]], to which Margaret sometimes retreated and which she restored. Margaret and her husband were given 400 marks' worth of land by Buckingham, but her own estates were still their main source of income. For a time the Staffords were able to visit Margaret's son, who had been entrusted to Jasper Tudor's care at Pembroke Castle in Wales. {{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}
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