Margaret of Norfolk or Margaret of Brotherton , in its own right Countess of Norfolk (sometimes named as "Margaret Marshal"; Video Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk
Family
Margaret (circa 1320), was the daughter of Thomas of Brotherton and Alice de Halys (died in or before 1330). Her paternal grandparents were King Edward I and Margaret of France (1279? -1318), daughter of King Philippe III of France (d.1285). His maternal grandparents are Sir Roger de Halys of Hales Hall in Loddon, Roughton, Norfolk by his wife, Alice. He has brothers and sisters: Edward of Norfolk, who married Beatrice de Mortimer, daughter of Roger de Mortimer, 1 Earl of March, but died without any problems before August 9, 1334.
Maps Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk
Life
In 1335 he married John Segrave, 4 Baron Segrave, and began having four children - two sons and two daughters - by him. In 1350, he sought divorce on the grounds that they had been contracted in marriage (in other words engaged) before he was married, and that he never agreed to live with him. He tells of his intention to travel to the continent to ask privately with the Pope for divorce. King Edward III forbade him to leave England, but he began to disguise himself, after being careful to secure safe conduct from the King of France.
The following year (1351) Edward III accused him of crossing the English Channel against its prohibition. The inquisition, about this incident, shows that Margaret illegally crossed the Strait and met a servant of her future husband, Sir Walter de Mauny, who broke his lantern with his feet so that he could pass unconsciously and act as his guardian during his stay in France. This incident and the involvement of her future husband may show a real motivation for Margaret to divorce.
The case of divorce was finally heard by the Pope's auditor, the dean of St. Hilary in Poitiers. However, Margaret's first husband died in 1353, before the divorce could be resolved. Shortly thereafter, and just before May 30, 1354, he married Sir Walter de Mauny without the King's license. They married 18 years, and had three children before he died in London on 8 or 13 January 1372.
On September 29, 1397, Margaret was created by the Duke of Norfolk to live. He died March 24, 1399, and was buried in the Gray Friars choir in the City of London.
The executor of his will reported is John Sileby & amp; Walter Fitz Piers, who in 1399 reportedly tried to return the money because of his land.
Residence
He is likely to be born in Framlingham Castle in Suffolk, England while his father Thomas de Brotherton is Earl of Norfolk's 1st. Castle was given to his father by his uncle, King Edward II before his birth and so it was his childhood home. After the death of his father, he inherited Framlingham Castle.
Marriage and issues
Margaret married first, about 1335, John Segrave, 4 Baron Segrave, with whom she had two sons and two daughters:
- John de Segrave, who died young.
- John de Segrave (died before 1 April 1353), second from the name, contracted to marry Blanche of Lancaster, younger daughter and Henry's residence of Grosmont, the first Duke of Lancaster. But the contract was later declared void and Blanche later married John from Gaunt. Around 1349, a double marriage was celebrated in which John Segrave married Blanche Mowbray, while John's sister, Elizabeth Segrave, married Blanche Mowbray's brother John de Mowbray, the 4th Baron Mowbray, Pope Clement VI had granted dispensation for the wedding over Lancaster's request, to prevent parental 'disputes', neighbors.
- Elizabeth de Segrave, 5 Baroness Segrave, who married John de Mowbray, 4th Baron Mowbray.
- Margaret de Segrave, who died young, before 1353.
Not long before May 30, 1354, Margaret married a second, and without the King's license, Sir Walter Mauny, by whom he had a son and two daughters:
- Thomas Mauny, who was drowned in a well at Deptford at the age of ten.
- Anne Mauny, who married John Hastings, the second Earl of Pembroke.
- Isabel Mauny, who lived in 1358, but died without any problems before November 30, 1371.
Distinction
Because his brother had died without problems, he managed to become the Norfolk earlord and the office of Earl Marshal for his father's death in 1338. To date, he is the only woman who holds the last position.
Fictitious depictions
Margaret is a character in Georgette Heyer's last novel My Lord John, in which she is sympathetically portrayed as a tough, though outwardly, old woman. He is saddened by the deaths of so many children and grandchildren, especially death by drowning his infant son Thomas Mauny. In his last years, he was shown to be very concerned about the future of England, because of the fault of his grandson king, King Richard II.
Ancestor
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