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She was Sole Executrix of her husband's Will. She died before her father. Her father's entry in the "Dictionary of National Biography", states that Margaret Coningsby, his daughter (the only child mentioned in the entry, so presumably an heiress), married, firstly, Sir Robert Alington, of Horseheath, Cambridgeshire.
It also states details of her second husband. They had five sons and six daughters. Robert died in 1552 at the age of 31.
Margaret then married Thomas Pledger of Ashdon Essex.
On the north wall of the Alyngton Chapel there is a large Elizabethan memorial enclosed by a contemporary wrought iron grille with a fiuer-de-lis finials at the corners. There is a kneeling man in Greenwich armour (Thomas Pledger) with a lady wearing a ruff, kneeling at a prayer desk, behind him (Margaret).
Margaret died aged 78 in 1598.
Thomas died in 1599 aged 70, four years before the death of Queen Elizabeth I.
The lives of these two devout Christians coincided with the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth I. Thomas and Margaret lived in troubled times. During the reign of Mary, they must have been aware of the burning of several well-known Bishops, and hundreds of other victims, including the disinterment and burning of the bodies of two foreign reformers in Cambridge on the orders of Cardinal Pole. The Pledger monument carries three shields of arms – for Pledger, a second shield of ten coats over Margaret’s head, and a third over the figure of Thomas Pledger.
Here lyeth Margaret Conningesbye of Kings Lynn, one of the Justices of the Common Plees at Westminster, who married Robert Allington ........by whom she has five sons and six daughters that is to say; William, John, Gyles, James, George, Alice, Margaret, Elizabeth, Fraunces and Beatrix. after she married with thomas Pledger, Gentleman, with whom she lived thirtie and fower yeres, and died the 16th day of Maye, ano domini 1598. and sayde Thomas Pledger dyed the 13th daye of March 1599 in the three score and tenth year of his age.
Margaret is a 12th great-grandmother of Gregory Lauder-Frost.
[1] Family Search Website Robert ALLINGTON (AFN:MGGW-V8) Born: Abt 1521 Place: Of, Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, England Died: 23 May 1552 Place: Married: Abt 1539 Place: Of, Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, England Father: Giles ALLINGTON (AFN:9GF9-3C) Mother: Ursula DRURY (AFN:MGGW-T3) [2] [3]
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