Margaret (Corbet) Mytton (abt. 1420 - aft. 1463)

Born about 1420 in Longnor, Shropshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of William Mytton Esq. — married about 1435 in England

Descendants

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Biography

Margaret's father Thomas Corbet, born 1398, died in 1427, so Margaret must have been born prior to that date. She died after 1463.^[1]

Margaret may have been born in 1416, in Staffordshire, England^[2] or born 1418, in Leigh, Shropshire to Thomas Corbet born 1371.born 1 July 1418, Leigh, Shropshire, England^[3]

William and Margaret (Corbet) Mytton had two sons and four daughters:^[4]

• John Mitton, Esq., married (1) Anne (or Agnes) Swinnerton,^[5] (2) Joan (or Jane) Middlemore
• Richard Mitton
• Anne Mitton, married Richard Mynors
• Jane Mitton, married Roger Knight
• Joan Mitton, married John Washbourne, Esq.
• Eleanor Mitton, married Thomas Cornwall, Knt.

Margaret died after 1463.^[6]

Disputed Parents

There is confusion on her parents. While Richardson names him as "Thomas Corbet of Leigh, Shropshire," he offers no other information, and no mention of a mother. The two Thomas candidates, both married to Elizabeth Cornwall born 1395 (from WikiTree, info as of April 14, 2016):

• Thomas Corbet born 1398, son of Thomas and Jane Burley (both born 1370)
• Thomas Corbet born 1371, son of Thomas Corbet born 1340

An image uploaded to Corbet-72 shows Thomas of Leigh, or Lye, etc., buried at Sibbestone 1424, as son of Roger Corbet & Beatrice, and father of "Thomas of Lye, etc., Sheriff, etc., ob. c 1482 s.p." married "Jane Boerly".^[7] This would seem to rule out Thomas Corbet and Jane Borely as ancestors of Margaret m William Mytton.

Estimated birth year: Her father died 1427, so she was born no later than 9 months after his death (if that's her father, and that's when he died).^[1] However, her birth year was changed from "before 1427" to "about 1420" to accommodate the birth year given on daughter Jane's profile (1435).

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} William Mytton, "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors & Cousins" (website, compiler Mr. Marlyn Lewis, Portland, OR; accessed June 13, 2015).
2. ↑ Corbett-173
3. ↑ Eileen McKinnon-Suggs (suggs1[at]msn.com), Our Kingdom Come (Ancestry link), accessed December 2, 2005), source for WikiTree profile Corbet-340 created through the import of Lupton file.ged on Jul 8, 2011 by Kim Ostermyer. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Kim and others.
4. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol IV, pp 88-89, MITTON #13
5. ↑ "widow of Humphrey Swinnerton, and daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Swinnerton" (Richardson)
6. ↑ Margaret Corbet, "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" (website, compiled by Mr. Marlyn Lewis, Portland, OR; accessed April 14, 2016), but no citation for date of death. ^{[citation needed]}
7. ↑ see this jpg, titled "Corbet of Chaddesley-Corbet, Hope & Leigh-Juxta-Caus, Leighton & subsequently of Sundorne", from The family of Corbet: its life and times, by Augusta Elizabeth Brickdale Corbet (Vol II, between pp 190 and 191; the 55th page within volume II)

• The WikiTree profile Corbet-215 was created through the import of breesefam.ged on 09 May 2011.
• The WikiTree profile Corbett-173 was created through the import of Putnam2-1_2010-01-02_2011-02-16_2011-10-11.ged on Oct 12, 2011 by John Putnam.