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Margaret of France

2 stories mention Margaret of France on DeadlyCurious.

The Footnote June 25, 2026 · Newgate Street, City of London

The Demolished London Church Where Four Medieval English Queens Were Buried Under Whose Bones Modern Newgate Street Now Runs

The Franciscan Greyfriars Church on Newgate Street was the burial site of four major English royal women — Isabella of France, Margaret of France, Eleanor of Provence's heart, and Joan of the Tower. The church was dissolved in 1538, destroyed in the 1666 Great Fire, and the modern street pattern was laid out over the unrecovered burials.

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The Footnote June 24, 2026 · Christ Church Greyfriars site, London

The London Franciscan Church Where Three Medieval Queens Were Buried and Whose Site Is Now a Vacant Plot Behind Newgate

The Greyfriars Church at Newgate was the Franciscan mother house in England and the burial site of Queens Margaret of France, Isabella of France, and Joan of the Tower. Henry VIII's Dissolution stripped the church of its monastic income; the Great Fire of 1666 destroyed the rebuilt structure; the World War II Blitz finished the remains.

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