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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]
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.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burley
Hikaru Kitabayashi wrote:
"John Boerly represented Shropshire regularly in the House of Commons and when his brother-in-law, Lord Grey de Ruthin, was taken hostage by Owen Glendower and the Welsh wars began in earnest, John Boerly was the one who was commissioned by the king to muster the men of Shropshire and the Marches to fight in the king’s campaigns. In the process, he became well acquainted and closely associated with, not only the future Henry V, but also a distant cousin of his wife, Lord Grey of Codnor, the general Henry IV had chosen to prosecute the Welsh wars and, afterwards, the man he chose to pacify that principality. Lord Grey of Codnor’s wife was the rather older half sister of a man alluded to before, Sir William Mallory, the man who was to become the second husband of a woman it is safe to assume to be John Boerly’s daughter, Margaret Burley." [1] [2]
She married (1) Robert Corbet, Esq., before 1410; (2) William Mallory (after Robert died 1420)
She died 26 Jan. 1439.
She had 2 sons & 3 dau.s by Robert, including Robert m Elizabeth Hopton. (from Royal Ancestry, Vol II, p 292)
See also http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/corbet-robert-1383-1420