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Why was Henry tempted to sell his mother in 1504 when his father's feath made her a King's widow.
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Henry VII had a rather dubious claim to the throne. His mother Margaret Beaufort was descended from Edward III nearly 100 years earlier.
Margaret had 4 husbands the last was Thomas Stanley who died in 1504. Stanley was not Henry's father but technically his step father.
Henry VII was pretty strapped for cash. Most of his reign was to do with consolidating the country after the wars of the Roses and trying to put the country back into the black. He got a reputation as a miser. I would not be surprised if he did consider the possibility of selling his mother's hand in marriage.
Margaret was old, she died a couple of years later and if she maried a youngre man he mould have probably inherited the duchy of Richmond, land and money.
However it may be that he did not and it was propaganda but about by his enemies to make him out as a miser.