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==Death== [[Image:Christ's College - detail - geograph.org.uk - 939910.jpg|thumb|upright=.9|Coat of arms at [[Christ's College, Cambridge]] with two [[Yale (mythical creature)|yales]] as supporters]] Margaret had been ill for several days, as legend has it, after eating a cygnet (a young swan) for dinner. The Countess died in the Deanery of [[Westminster Abbey]] on 29 June 1509. This was the day after her grandson [[Henry VIII]]'s 18th birthday, 5 days after his coronation and just over two months after the death of her son.<ref name=waos1>{{Cite web |title=Margaret Beaufort |url=http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/margaret-beaufort |access-date=22 August 2013 |publisher=Westminster Abbey Official site}}</ref> She had made her will and a schedule of bequests in February 1509, making arrangements for her funeral and donations to religious foundations.<ref>Michael Jones & Malcolm Underwood, ''The King's Mother: Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby'' (Cambridge, 1992), p. 240: John Gough Nichols, [https://archive.org/details/collectionofallw00nichiala/page/356/mode/2up ''A collection of all the wills, now known to be extant, of the Kings and Queens of England'' (London, 1780), pp. 356β403]</ref> She made bequests of her jewellery and gold cups to Catherine of Aragon, [[Margaret Tudor]], and [[Mary Tudor, Queen of France|Mary Tudor]],<ref>Nicola Tallis, ''All The Queen's Jewels, 1445β1548: Power, Majesty and Display'' (Routledge, 2023), pp. 51, 56β59.</ref> and a chalice to the parish church at [[Collyweston]].<ref>[https://archive.org/details/collegiumdivijoh00stjo/page/120/mode/2up "The Will of Lady Margaret", ''Collegium Divi Johannis Evangelistae, 1511β1911'' (Cambridge, 1911), p. 121]</ref> Margaret is buried in the [[Henry VII Chapel]] of the Abbey. Her tomb is now situated between the later graves of [[William III of England|William III]] and [[Mary II]] and the tomb of her great-great-granddaughter [[Mary, Queen of Scots]].<ref name=waos1/> [[File:Margaret Beaufort 2.jpg|thumb|left|upright=.9|Tomb of Lady Margaret Beaufort, [[Westminster Abbey]]]] Her tomb was created by [[Pietro Torrigiano]], who probably arrived in England in 1509 and received the commission in the following year.<ref>Michael Wyatt, ''The Italian Encounter with Tudor England: A Cultural Politics of Translation'' (Cambridge University Press, 2005), p. 47. {{ISBN?}}</ref><ref>Robert Forsyth Scott, [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.24479/page/n441/mode/2up 'Contracts for the tomb of Lady Margaret Beaufort', ''Archaeologia'', 66 (1915) p. 368]</ref> The gilded bronze sculpture on the tomb depicts Margaret with her head resting on pillows and her hands raised in prayer, wearing garments characteristic of widowhood; the face was probably sculpted from a death mask. The black marble tomb is embellished with heraldic bronze insignia, including a [[yale (mythical creature)|yale]], her [[heraldic badge]], at her feet.<ref name="Tomb">{{Cite web |title=Lady Margaret Beaufort |url=http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/margaret-beaufort |access-date=24 June 2016 |publisher=Westminster Abbey}}</ref> [[Erasmus]] wrote the Latin inscription on her tomb. In English it reads: "Margaret, Countess of Richmond, mother of Henry VII, grandmother of Henry VIII, who donated funds for three monks of this abbey, a grammar school in Wimborne, a preacher in the whole of England, two lecturers in Scripture, one at Oxford, the other at Cambridge, where she also founded two colleges, one dedicated to Christ, and the other to St John, the Evangelist."<ref name=Tomb/> In 1539 iron railings, elaborately painted with coats of arms and other ornaments, were erected around the tomb. The ironwork was sold off by the Abbey in 1823 but recovered and restored a century later.<ref name=Tomb/> {{Clear}}
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