Ancestral Glimpses » Margaret Mautby (1424-1484)

Persoonlijke gegevens Margaret Mautby 

• Zij is geboren in het jaar 1424 in Caiston, Norfolk, ENGLAND.

  Let op: Was jonger dan 16 jaar (10) toen kind (Willem Paston) werd geboren (6 juni 1434).

• Zij is overleden op 4 november 1484 in Norfolk, ENGLAND, zij was toen 60 jaar oud.
• Een kind van John Mautby en Margaret Berney
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 29 november 2017.

Gezin van Margaret Mautby

Zij is getrouwd met John Paston.

Zij zijn getrouwd rond 1439.

Kind(eren):

1. Willem Paston  1434-1496
2. Margaret Paston  ± 1436-± 1511 
3. John Paston  ± 1439-± 1479
4. Edmund Paston  

Notities over Margaret Mautby

MALTBY-PASTON (Addenda)
Since writing the above a few interesting notes concerning this family were found in a delightful book, The Norfolk Broads, by W. A. Dutt, and seem well worth quoting in this book. On page 104 is the following: "A bv-road branching off southeast from the Ormsby road where it skirts the village green leads to Mautby, a parish bordering the Bure. Here again we come in touch with the Pastons, for Margaret Paston, whose letters are the most delightful in the famous collection, was a dau. of John de Mauteby, who held the manor in the middle of the fifteenth century. Undeniably, it is Margaret Paston who gives life to the Letters, which although invaluable to students who would acquaint themselves with the conditions of life in England during the reigns of the kings of the bouses of York and Lancaster, would be somewhat dry reading if it were not for her love for her lord and careful guardianship of his interests. Her fond love for her children, too, is often manifested though there are times when we might think her mercenary if we failed to understand the customs of the age in which she lived.
For instance she writes to her 'right worshipful husband' as follows: 'I was at Norwich this week to purvey such things as needeth me this winter; and I was at my mother's, and while I was there, there came in one Wrothe, a kinsman of Elizabeth Clere, and he saw your dau., and praised her to my mother, and said she was a goodly young woman; and my mother prayed him for to get for her a good marriage if he knew of any; and he said he knew one . . . the which is Sir John Cley's son, that is Chamberlain with my Lady of York, and he is of age eighteen years old. If ye think it to be for to be spoken of, my mother thinketh that it should be got for less money now in this world than it should be hereafter, either that one or some other good marriage.' From this epistle it might be imagined that Dame Margaret considered mutual love an unessential adjunct of matrimonial contracts; but
elsewhere she reveals a kindly interest in a love-sick maiden. Writing to her son, Sir John Paston, who was probably with King Edward IV at Pomfret at the time, she says. 'I would you should speak with Wekis (Wykes, an usher of the King's Chamber), and know his disposition to Jane Walsham. She hath said, since he departed hence, but (unless) she might have him, she would never marry, her heart is so sore set on him, she told me that he said to her that there was no woman in the world he loved so well. I would not he should jape her, for she meaneth good faith.' But, like a careful match-maker, she is anxious that her young friend's matrimonial prospects should not be entirely marred by this usher who loved and rode away, for she adds, "If he will not have her let me know in haste, and I shall purvey for her in otherwise.' Then the careful mother shows herself, for she goes on to say, 'As for your harness and gear that you left here, it is in Daubeney's keeping, it was never removed since your departing, because that he had not the keys, I trow it shall get injured unless it be taken heed to betimes. ... I sent your grey horse to Ruston to the farrier, and he saith he shall never be nought to ride, neither right good to plow not to cart; he saith he was splayed, and his shoulder rent from the body. I know not what to do with him.' This letter was
conveyed to her son by the rector of Filby, as appears from a postscript: 'I would you should make much of the parson of Filby, the bearer hereof, and make him good cheer if you may." Delightful Dame Margaret! Her gentle wraith seems to haunt the meads of her Caister* home. She was bur. in Alautby Church, in accordance with the instructions of her will, in which she desires to be interred 'in the aisle of that church at Alawteby, in which aisle
rest the bodies of divers of mine ancestors;' and that 'under a scutcheon of arms" should be inscribed the words. 'God is my trust.' Her tomb has vanished with the south aisle in which it stood; but at the south end of the nave is a marble tomb and cross-legged effigy of Sir Walter de Mauteby, one of her ancestors who died in 1248.
Source: Verrill, Dorothy Maltby, ed., Maltby-Maltbie Family History, (Birdsey L. Maltbie, New Jersey, 1916), pp. 95-97.

Heeft u aanvullingen, correcties of vragen met betrekking tot Margaret Mautby?
De auteur van deze publicatie hoort het graag van u!

Tijdbalk Margaret Mautby

Klik op de namen voor meer informatie. Gebruikte symbolen:  grootouders    ouders    broers/zussen    kinderen