Genealogy Richard Remmé, The Hague, Netherlands » Margaret Burley (± 1400-> 1421)

Personal data Margaret Burley 

Source 1Sources 2, 3

Household of Margaret Burley

She is married to Robert Corbet.

They got married before 1418.Sources 3, 4


Notes about Margaret Burley

[Jim Weber.FTW]

The following is part of a post by Hikanu Kitabayash, 2 Dec 2007, to SGM:

Generation - 10 [I think 11]

Only one other daughter can plausibly be assigned to John Boerly and Juliana Grey and that would be Margaret, but not the Margaret listed in the Visitations as the marriage given her there would be chronologically impossible for a daughter of John Boerly or any other previous John de Burley.

Soon after Henry IV assumed the throne, John Boerly, because the new king's father had had a special attachment to Sir Richard de Burley (Sir Simon's nephew and the husband of a daughter of the Earl of Stafford) and because what appears to have been John Boerly's brother William was a servant of the king whom Henry IV appears to have been fond of, John Boerly, was given the marriage rights over a minor by the name of Robert Corbet, meaning that, even if Robert came of age, he could not acquire possession of the property he held by feudal tenure until he married a woman John Boerly had given him permission to marry.  Robert apparently came to a fairly quick agreement concerning a woman so well-thought of by John that he went to the trouble of also buying the wardship of the properties Robert was due to hold by feudal tenure.  Clearly the woman concerned was important to John, so important that we must assume her to be either his daughter or the daughter of a sibling that he was a foster father of. Considering the times, any other option is highly unlikely.  This, plus the fact, that after John's death, William Boerly is chosen as one of the feofees used in the technically complicated process of giving Margaret a life interest in the manor of Shawbury, traditionally the manor held by the mother of the heir of the Corbet properties.  Robert, in the beginning, had had no choice in the matter of his marriage, but he was of age and long married when he made the land transfer.  Clearly, an arranged marriage had become one of love. Robert died in 1421 leaving his wife with five small children.  In the same year, Margaret remarried, this time to Sir William Mallory, the nephew of the wife of the Lord Grey of Codnor, the man who worked so closely with Margaret's presumed father John Boerly during the time of Welsh wars.  The children Margaret had with her two husbands will be considered further on.

Generation - 11 (I think 12)

Margaret Burley, most surely the daughter of John Boerly, had five known children by her first husband Robert Corbett who was a member of the House of Commons and the lord of the Manor of Corbet Moreton (so many spellings of this appear in the documents of earlier centuries that I am not sure which is correct in terms of the 21st century). Her daughters were Mary who married Robert Charleton of Apley, Elizabeth who married George Sandford of Sandford, and Dorothy who married Philip Kynaston of Walford.  All of these were the heirs of prominent gentry families located in Shropshire and the marriages of each of these ladies proved fruitful.  Margaret Burley's two sons by her first husband were Thomas who did not live long.  He was apparently married a woman by the name of Ancareta Burley and was a member of the House of Commons once, probably as a result of his uncle, William Boerley's influence.  He died with no children and his wife apparently died at about the same time, as there is no record of her being given her widow's dower rights.

Margaret Burley's second son, Sir Roger Corbet, married Elizabeth Hopton before anyone thought so many of her relatives would die off in succession, leaving her one of the wealthiest women in England.  Their sons were Robert who died without children, Richard who became the heir of the huge fortune of ancestors and the husband of Elizabeth daughter of Walter Lord Ferrers of Chartley.  Richard Corbet and Elizabeth Ferrer's daughters were Anne the wife of Thomas Starry of Rossall (Shropshire), Mary the wife of Thomas Thornes of Shelvock (Shropshire), Jane the wife of Thomas Cresset of Upton (Shropshire), and Elizabeth the wife of Sir Richard Cholmely of Cheshire.  All of the children of Sir Roger Corbet and Elizabeth Hopton had marriages which left descendants, except for Robert who died young and possibly the Cheshire marriage which I have not yet had a chance to check.

Almost immediately after the death of Sir Roger, Elizabeth Hopton, married at the age of 39 or 40 as her second husband and his third wife the first Earl of Worcester who delayed a trip to Ireland where he was to go as the king's lieutenant (in practical terms, as a kind of viceroy) by making a detour to woo her and marry her immediately. In 1469, they had a son Edward, the second Earl of Worcester who died as a teenager.  In 1470, the first earl was executed by the Earl of Warwick's government during the brief restoration of Henry VI.  When Edward IV came back to power in 1471, Elizabeth married a supporter of the king as staunch as her husband had been, Sir William Stanley, the brother of Lord Stanley whose second wife (her third husband) was Margaret Beaufort, the mother of the future Henry VII.  The Stanleys not only had a natural interest in the future Henry VII's welfare, but they also deeply resented that Richard III (or someone around him which, to them, was the same thing) had murdered Edward V and his brother Richard the Duke of York, the two young sons of Edward IV. The Battle of Bosworth was won through the efforts of Elizabeth Hopton's third husband Sir William Stanley and Henry VII made him Lord Chancellor of England.  Elizabeth is shown in various pedigrees as being the mother of Sir William's only son but she would have been a mother for the last time at the age of 48, so clearly this needs checking. ; No pedigree, however, has her as the mother of his daughter, so in spite of its implausibility, her bearing a child at such a late age cannot be automatically rejected.

By her second husband, Sir William Mallory, Margaret Burley had at least one son, Thomas Mallory of Papworth St. Agnes who was born 6 December 1425.  He married a daughter of John Palmer and a niece of Thomas Palmer, a prominent and long serving member of the House of Commons from Leicestershire.  Thomas, himself, was a member of the House of Commons at least two times and may have participated on a military campaign in northern England in 1462 as a companion of Edward IV.  He died during the first coup d'etat of the Earl of Warwick in 1469.  It is not absolutely clear whether his death was from natural causes or whether it was as a result of having been on someone's hit list, possibly because of his close connections with the Earl of Worcester.  He left behind a family 10 children (the oldest being 17) with the youngest still in need of a whet nurse as the child's mother had died in childbirth. ; It goes without saying that he has numerous descendants.  Some scholars have claimed that he, and not Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel, was the author of "Le Morte Darthur" (the stories of King Arthur and his knights). ; I thought it was a closed case, too, when I began my research, though I don't think so anymore for reasons that go beyond the intended scope of this posting.  Now, while the argument might still favour Sir Thomas of Newbold Revel, I also feel sure it's definitely not a closed case.  There is still room for considerable discussion.

Margaret Burley and Sir William Mallory may have had yet other children.  One might be the Anne Mallory mentioned as a sister in Thomas Mallory's will, though again this particular Anne could just as easily have been the child of Sir William's first or even his third marriage, the third one to a woman by the name of Margery.  Another child might be the Robert Mallory who was the Lieutenant of the Constable of the Tower of London during the first years of the reign of Edward IV.  The Mallory estates were literally next to those of the Earl of Worcester and many of Thomas Mallory's (and Robert's, if he were Thomas's brother) relatives had close connections with the Earl of Worcester's father who, before being given a peerage, was a prominent member of the House of Commons.  I think it is, at least, plausible that Thomas Mallory, at least, and Robert Mallory (if he were Thomas's brother) knew the Earl from childhood and that putting him in charge of the actual management of the Tower of London was a form of patronage on the part of the Earl.  I also believe it would explain other things in the life of the earl, of Elizabeth Hopton, of Thomas, and, of course, of Robert, himself, but that, too, would involve arguments that go beyond the intended scope of this posting.

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Sources

  1. "John D Newport," supplied by Newport, Updated: 2015-04-28; copy held by [RESEARCHER & CONTACT INFORMATION FOR PRIVATE USE]\., rootsweb : John. D. Newport, compiled by John D. Newport [(E-ADDRESS) FOR PRIVATE USE Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States of America
  2. Newsgroup: soc.genealogy.medieval, at groups - google.com, Hickory, (Hikanu Kitabayash) 2 Dec 2007
    Margaret (no last name or ancestry)
  3. Jim Weber
    Date of Import: 31 Oct 2012
    / RootsWeb's WorldConnect
  4. Newsgroup: soc.genealogy.medieval, at groups - google.com, Todd A Farmerie, 9 Jan 1997

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