Margaret Mallory (abt. 1392 - 1439)

Born about 1392 in Shawbury, Shropshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Robert Corbet MP — married before 1410 (to 12 Aug 1420) in Moreton Corbet, Shropshire, England

Descendants

Died 26 Jan 1439 at about age 47 in Shelton, Bedfordshire, England

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Biography

Margaret, whose family is unknown, married Robert Corbet, son of Roger Corbet of Moreton Corbet in Shropshire and his wife, Margaret Erdington. They were married before 1410. ^[1]

^[2]calls her Margaret Mallory and it is worth noting that the fact that she subsequently married William Mallory does not mean that she cannot have been born a Mallory.

She bore her husband at least 2 sons, Thomas and Robert, before his death on 12 August 1420 aged only 36. ^[1] As Thomas was aged 10 on his father's death his mother was probably born circa 1392

Margaret's second husband was William Mallory of Papworth in Cambridgeshire.^[1]

She died 26 January 1439.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} History of Parliament online: CORBET, Robert (1383-1420), of Moreton Corbet, Salop
2. ↑ The Family of Corbet; it's Life and Times

• Royal Ancestry 2013 D. Richardson Vol. II p. 292

• F N Craig, "Corrections and Additions to the Purfoy Line in the Maternal Ancestry of Governor Thomas Dudley of Massachusetts Bay," The American Genealogist, 77, 1 (Jan 2002), p 56.

• Wikipedia: Robert Corbet (died 1420)

• Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition , by Frederick Lewis Reference: 26 May 2003 T

Acknowledgements

• This person was created on 14 April 2010 through the import of Jamie 2010_2010-04-10.ged.
• This person was created on 19 April 2011 through the import of Stout - Trask - Cowan .ged.

Was her LNAB Burley?

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/soc.genealogy.medieval/akSfFHbA7Dw/jCKbcl0H4NcJ [This was posted in 2007 by "Hikaru." Douglas Richardson commented that sources are completely lacking.] William Boerly had two daughters by Ellen Grendon. The first daughter
 Joan was married as a 16 year old to the much older Staffordshire
 general Sir Philip Chetwyn, a first cousin of Sir Thomas Malory of
 Newbold Revel. It has been speculated that this relationship gave Sir
 Thomas a special geographic knowledge of southwestern France.
 However, Margaret Burley's son by Sir William Mallory would have been
 a first cousin of the general's wife. This doesn't, of itself, mean
 much, other than studies concerning the authorship of "Le Morte
Darthur" are still open to debate in many points of detail, even if
 the debate favours Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel. Sir Philip, 
though, soon died and Joan Burley (From her generation, all Burleys
 reverted to more normal spellings.) married again Sir Thomas Littleton
 who was a highly respected member of the judiciary and, in that ex-
officio capacity, a regular participant in parliament. His legal
 thinking was particularly influential in shaping common law more 
clearly with regard to issues dealing with land. Also, his hand can be
seen in the drafting of the constitutional documents justifying the
 overthrow of Henry VI and the assumption of the throne by Edward IV.
 This marriage (and also that of Joan's younger sister Elizabeth to Sir
 Thomas Trussell) has been very fruitful in its impact on the British 
upper classes. 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 need s
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 of 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 D'Arthur" (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. This then takes the history of the medieval de Burleys of
 Herefordshire and Shropshire to a time where they have abandoned the 
initial "de" and where other sources of information can easily help 
genealogical researchers, so with this I would like to stop.