Margaret (Wyatt) Lee (bef. 1506 - bef. 1543)

Born before 1506 in England

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Died before 1543 at about age 37 in England

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Margaret Wyatt, the daughter of Henry Wyatt and Anne Skinner, was born about 1506. She was baptised in 1509.

"Margaret Wyatt was born in 1506, grew up in a family with close connections to the court. Her father, Sir Henry Wyatt the Elder of Allington Castle, Kent^[1], was allied with Henry VII and Henry VIII and served as privy councillor and treasurer of the king's chamber, Her brother, Sir Thomas Wyatt, was the foremost Tudor poet and an ambassador at Henry's court, while her sister, Mary Wyatt, attended Ann Boleyn at the scaffold. Margaret was married to Sir Anthony Lee, M.P., and bore him nine children. Unfortunately, little else can be discovered about her, her husband, or their family life. Nothing further can therefore be suggested concerning the meaning of the prominently displayed pendant of Lucretia, other than that Lady Lee hoped to present herself as a virtuous woman."^[2]

Margaret is best remembered for having been a companion of Anne Boleyn, whose family estates lay near the Wyatts and who later employed Margaret as one of her ladies-in-waiting. Margaret was one of Anne's chief ladies-in-waiting, and accompanied her to Calais, France in 1532^[3]

Her second marriage was to Sir Anthony Lee about 6 July 1532.^[4] They had had nine children, five daughters and four sons.

1. Sir Henry Lee
2. Robert Lee (died c.1598).
3. Thomas Lee.
4. Cromwell Lee (d.1601), who compiled an Italian-English dictionary.
5. Anne Lee, who married Leonard Spenser of Naunton Hall in Rendlesham, Suffolk.
6. Lettice Lee, who married Nicholas Cooke of Linstead, Suffolk.
7. Katherine Lee, who married Gyles Symonds (died circa 1596) of Cley next the Sea, Norfolk.
8. Joyce Lee, who married, on 29 November 1562, John Chenye, son of Sir Robert Chenye of Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire.
9. Jane Lee, who married Peter Reade of Gimingham, Norfolk. ^[5]

Lady Margaret (neé Wyatt) Lee died about 10 March 1543. Queen Anne had written a short farewell to Margaret inside her prayer book:

"Remember me when you do pray,

that hope doth lead from day to day."

She was buried at St Peter's Churchyard ^[6], Quarrendon , Aylesbury Vale District, Buckinghamshire, England.^[7]<

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allington_Castle?oldformat=true
2. ↑ Ainsworth, Maryan, et al. 2013. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. "German Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1350-1600" https://books.google.com/books?id=MKkSBtJNBUwC&pg=PA152&dq=Lady+Margaret++Wyatt&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NBi_VKmaJdGZyAS8zYFo&ved=0CCQQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=Lady%20Margaret%20%20Wyatt&f=false
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Lee_(lady-in-waiting)?oldformat=true
4. ↑ Chambers, E.K. 1936. "Sir Henry Lee; An Elizabethan Portrait" Clarendon Press, Oxford. page 19 https://archive.org/details/sirhenryleeeliza00cham_0/page/n5/mode/2up
5. ↑ Chambers, E.K. 1936. "Sir Henry Lee; An Elizabethan Portrait" Clarendon Press, Oxford. page 24 https://archive.org/details/sirhenryleeeliza00cham_0/page/n5/mode/2up
6. ↑ now a ruin, see https://heritageportal.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/Monument/MBC1815
7. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124576721/margaret-lee: accessed 02 January 2024), memorial page for Lady Margaret Wyatt Lee (unknown–1536), Find a Grave Memorial ID 124576721, citing St. Peter's Churchyard, Quarrendon, Aylesbury Vale District, Buckinghamshire, England; Maintained by Billy Budd (contributor 51223934)

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