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Margaret (Russell) Denys (abt. 1386 - 1460)

Margaret Denys formerly Russell aka Kemys
Born about in Dyrham, Gloucestershire, Englandmap [uncertain]
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Wife of — married before 1408 (to 24 Mar 1422) in Dyrham, Gloucestershire, Englandmap
Wife of — married about 12 Dec 1422 (to about 1431) [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 74 in Siston, Gloucestershire, Englandmap [uncertain]
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Biography

Margaret Russell, elder daughter of Maurice Russell of Dyrham in Gloucestershire and his first wife, Isabel Childrey, was born about 1386 possibly at Dyrham in Gloucestershire. [1]The visitation of Gloucestershire names her mother as Isabell Bruyne which seems to be one of many errors in the work. [2] Her parents had no son so Margaret and her younger sister, Isabel, were their father's heirs.[3]

At some time prior to 1408 Margaret became the second wife of Sir Gilbert Dennys. [1] [2] Their first son, Maurice, was born about 1408 as he was 14 at the time of Gilbert's death in 1422. [4][5]History of Parliament notes the birth of another son and a daughter, Joan,[1] while the visitation of Gloucester names children, Maurice, William, Richard who became a priest and Margaret, a nun at Lacock.[2]

Meanwhile Margaret's father had married again. His new wife, Joan Dauntsey, bore him a son, Thomas. Maurice Russell died in 1416. Shortly thereafter Joan Dauntsey married Sir John Stradling. [3]

Gilbert Denys died on 24 March 1422. [1] [4] In his will dated at Siston on 16 October 1421 he asked to be buried in the local church near the grave of his first wife and appointed his daughter, Joan, Margaret's stepdaughter, wife of Thomas Gamage, as his executor.[6] The most powerful of the overseers of Gilbert's will was Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester and soon to be made a cardinal, the consequence of which was that the wardship and marriage of Margaret's son, Maurice, was granted to Beaufort's son-in-law, Edward Stradling, [1] nephew of Sir John Stradling.

By the terms of her husband's will Margaret was to receive the whole of his movable property, provided that she took a vow of celibacy. Should she do otherwise she would receive only the legal third. On the 12th of December 1422, in indecent haste, she obtained a license to marry John Kemys. [1] John was son of John Kemys and his wife, Agnes Stradling.[7]Agnes Stradling was Edward Stradling's sister, so that the suggestion that there was some coercion on Edward's part is not without merit. [8] John was probably considerably younger than Margaret who bore him a son, Roger. [7] John appears to have died in 1431.[7]

It's wasn't until the death of Margaret's half brother, Thomas, in 1430, followed soon thereafter by that of his infant daughter, Margery, who might or might not have been illegitimate,[7] that Margaret and Isabel Russell finally came into their entire inheritance.[3]

Margaret died in 1460. [1]

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 History of Parliament online: DENYS, Sir Gilbert (d.1422), of Siston, Glos, History of Parliament Online
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Chitting, Henry, The Visitation of the County of Gloucester Taken in the Year 1623 (London: Harleian Society Publications, 1885.), p. 50: Dennis
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 History of Parliament online: RUSSELL, Sir Maurice (1356-1416), of Kingston Russell, Dorset, Horsington, Som. and Dyrham, Glos
  4. 4.0 4.1 Niall C.E.J. O'Brien, Medieval News (blog): "Inquisitions post mortem at Chipping Sodbury in Gloucestershire, 1419-1422" (including Sir Gilbert Denys), posted December 29, 2014
  5. Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 3 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), Volume 1, page 636, DENNIS 11.
  6. "The Family of Corbet, its life an times" by Mrs. Augusta Elizabeth Brickdale Corbet Page 180: The will of Gilbert Denys
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Visitation of Gloucestershire Page 98: Kemys
  8. The Denys Family of Olveston Court

Acknowledgements

  • from the Genealogy worksheets compiled by Ralph Pryor during his 40 years of research, traveling extensively in the military and in retirement" by Greg Rose, Grandson.
  • Russell-376, created on 19 October 2010 through the import of Ancestors of Lois Greene.ged.




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