She died on the 25th of April 1482 and was buried at Angers Cathedral. René, whom she probably never saw after 1470, had died in the previous year. During her last years Chastellain wrote for her consolation his _Temple de Bocace_ dealing with the misfortunes of contemporary princes. As the courageous champion of the rights of her son and her husband, Margaret must command a certain sympathy. But she was politically unwise, and injured their cause by her readiness to purchase foreign help at the price of English interests. Comines wrote well of her that she would have done more prudently if she had endeavoured to adjust the disputes of the rival factions instead of saying "I am of this party, and will maintain it" (_Mémoires_ vi. ch. 13). Her fierce partisanship embittered her enemies, and the Yorkists did not hesitate to allege that her son was a bastard. This, like the scandal concerning Margaret and Suffolk, is baseless; the tradition, however, continued and found expression in the _Mirror for Magistrates_ and in Drayton's _Heroical Epistles_, as well as in Shakespeare's _Henry VI_. BIBLIOGRAPHY.--For contemporary English authorities see under HENRY VI. French authorities and especially the _Chroniques_ of George de Chastellain, and the _Mémoires_ of Philippes de Comines contain much that is of value. The _Letters of Margaret of Anjou_ (Camden Soc., 1863) have small historical importance. There have been numerous biographies, the chief is Mrs Hookham's _Life of Margaret of Anjou_ (1872). But the best modern accounts are to be found in G. du Fresne de Beaucourt's _Histoire de Charles VII._, Dr Gairdner's Introductions to the _Paston Letters_, Sir James Ramsay's _Lancaster and York_ (1892), and _The Political History of England_, vol. iv. (1906), by Professor C. Oman. Dr Karl Schmidt's _Margareta von Anjou, vor und bei Shakespeare_ (Palaestra, liv., Berlin, 1906) is a useful digest of authorities. (C. L. K.)