"Promoting a woman to assume rule, superiority, dominion or empire over any kingdom, nation or city is repugnant to nature, despising God, a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved order, and finally it is the subversion of good order, of all equality and justice. Queen Margaret of Anjou (1430-1482), wife of King Henry VI of England (1421-1471) was delighted with it for centuries. She was nicknamed "the she-wolf of France" by Shakespeare and portrayed as a ruthless, murderous and cold-hearted monster. However, this may not be an accurate portrayal of Margaret. She was a powerful woman; born into a life of violence, instability and loss that shaped her personality into that of a queen as formidable as Elizabeth I. Born March 23, 1430, Marguerite of Anjou (Margaret d'Anjou in French ) in Pont-à-Mousson, France to René d'Anjou and Isabelle, Duchess of Loreine. Margaret was born into a great noble family, not only was she the daughter of a duke and niece of King Charles VII of France, she was also the descendant of two queens of England: Mathilde, wife of William the Conqueror and Eleanor of Aquitaine. , wife of Henry II. Yet while Margaret was growing up in a cultured legal environment, during the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453), a conflict for the French throne raged between the principal belligerents of France and England. The constant threat of danger would have a greater effect on young Margaret than anyone could have imagined. As a child, Margaret was raised primarily by her mother and grandmother; her father had been taken hostage in Dijon, Burgundy, when she was only a few years old. With her mother in charge of her education, Marguerite was able to study with the same tutors who taught her brothers until the age of five...... middle of paper ...... Louis XI for l 'buried in Angers Cathedral at Château Dampierre between his mother and father. Marguerite d'Anjou died on August 25, 1482 at the age of fifty-two, Louis actually granted her last request and her remains are still there today.Works citedGregory, Philippa. The kingmaker's daughter. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2012. Kendall, Paul Murray. Richard III. New York: WW Norton & Company, 2002. Castor, Helen. She-Wolves: the women who ruled England before Elizabeth. Np: Harper Collins Publishers, 2011. “Henry VI”. English monarchs. Accessed April 15, 2014. http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/plantagenet_11.htm.Henry VI Part 3. Written by William Shakespeare. Blakeman, John. Henry VI. London: Cambridge University Press, 1919. Accessed April 15, 2014. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29689/29689-h/29689-h.htm.