Ancestral Trails 2016 » Margaret WOODVILLE (1459-1520)

Persönliche Daten Margaret WOODVILLE 

• Sie ist geboren im Jahr 1459 in Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire.

  Pass auf: Alter bei der Heirat (??-??-1472) war unter 16 Jahre (13).

• Sie ist verstorben am 8. Oktober 1520 in Bristol, Avon, Gloucestershire, sie war 61 Jahre alt.
• Sie wurde begraben im Jahr 1520 in Iron Acton, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire.
• Ein Kind von Anthony WOODVILLE und Gwenllian STRADLING

Familie von Margaret WOODVILLE

(1) Sie ist verheiratet mit Charles CHURCHILL.

Sie haben geheiratet im Jahr 1472, sie war 13 Jahre alt.

(2) Sie ist verheiratet mit Robert POYNTZ.

Sie haben geheiratet im Jahr 1477 in Iron Acton, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, sie war 18 Jahre alt.

Kind(er):

1. Anthony POYNTZ  1480-1535 
2. John POYNTZ  1484-1544 
3. Anne POYNTZ  1478-1528 

Notizen bei Margaret WOODVILLE

Margaret’s mother has been identified as Gwenllian, daughter of William Stradling. Nothing more is known about Gwenllian or her relationship with Anthony, but Margaret’s name suggests that the child might have been born before the battle of Towton, after which Anthony changed his allegiance from the Lancastrian cause to the Yorkist one. Of course, Margaret need not have been named after Margaret of Anjou; she might have been named for one of her mother’s relatives, for a saint, for her godmother, or after Anthony’s sister Margaret. On New Year’s Day of 1465, John Howard, who was at Edward IV’s Christmas court at Eltham with Anthony and his wife, gave “to my lord Scales child 12d.” Anthony was married to Elizabeth Scales at the time, so the entry could possibly refer to a legitimate child who died young or to Margaret; recently, however, Anne Crawford has suggested that the entry refers to a page, which seems the most likely identification.

Nothing else is heard of Margaret until her marriage to Robert Poyntz of Iron Acton in Gloucestershire. According to E. L. Barnwell, who doesn’t cite a source, on September 12, 1479 (19 Edward IV), Anthony settled 800 marks on Margaret, with 200 to be paid on the sealing of the deed; he also settled on her lands worth 100 marks a year. Poyntz was probably born in the late 1440’s and thus was probably about thirty or so. Their first son, Anthony, was born around 1480. Like her paternal grandmother Jacquetta, Margaret was fertile: she gave Robert five sons and four daughters.

Anthony Woodville was executed by order of the future Richard III on June 25, 1483. He made his will on June 23, 1483. Lynda Pidgeon makes much of his failure to name Margaret in his will, of which she writes, “It showed awareness of some of the wrongs he had committed but it displayed no affection. Perhaps he simply did not have feelings for anyone else.” This is hardly a fair judgment: Anthony’s feelings, or lack thereof, cannot be determined by a single document, especially one written when he was under the extreme emotional stress of his impending execution for a crime he most likely had not committed. Much of his will is taken up with directions to pay his debts (for which all of his goods were to “goo to the paying”), to right any wrongs he had done, and to arrange for the welfare of his soul and those of his deceased family members. Knowing that his property would be seized by the crown, he might have thought it futile to leave any bequests to his daughter; he also might have believed that as his daughter had been married suitably, there was no need to make special mention of her in his will. Notably, Anthony named Margaret’s husband one of his executors. Lacking more complete records of Anthony’s, we have no way of knowing whether he was generous to his daughter in other ways or whether he held her in his affection. Notably, Margaret and Robert named their first son Anthony.
SOURCE: http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/subpages/margaretwood.html

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