Margaret Tame (abt. 1500 - aft. 1558)

Born about 1500 in Gloucestershire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Humphrey Stafford — married about 10 Feb 1526 in England

Descendants

Died after 1558 after about age 58 in England

Margaret Tame was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Biography

Margaret Tame was the daughter of Sir Edward Tame, of Fairford, Gloucs. and Agnes Greville, ^[1] dau. of John Greville

In 1544 she was a coh. of her brother, Edmund Tame, Knt., and inherited the manor of Rendcombe, Gloucestershire.

Tame arms: Argent, a dragon vert and a lion azure, crowned gules, combatant.”^[1]

Margaret married first to Humphrey Stafford. Humphrey Stafford, Knt., was the son and heir of Humphrey Stafford, Esq., of Cotered and Rushden, Hertfordshire, and his first wife, Margaret Fogge.^[2][3] According to his father's Inquisition Post Mortem dated 5 August 1546, his son and heir, Humphrey, was aged 39 and above, so he was born by 1507.^[4]

Her first husband Sir Humphrey Stafford (b. by c. 1507 - d. 1548), is the father of all her children. Their marriage settlement is dated 10 February 1526.^{[5] [6]}

Humphrey and Margaret two sons and three daughters:

• Humphrey Stafford, Knt^[2][3]
• John Stafford, Esq.^[2][3]
• Anne Stafford, wife of Anthony Cope, Knt.^[2][3]
• Frances Stafford, wife of Thomas Smith, Knt.^[2][3]
• Ellen (or Eleanor) Stafford, married first to Anthony Cope, Esq., and second to Thomas Barlow^[2][3]

Cope

She remarried to John Cope or Coope, Knt. of Canons Ashby, Northants. (b. bef. 1513 - d. 22 Jan 1558), as his third wife.^[7][8]

JOHN COPE (or COOPE), Knt.,

• Sheriff of Northamptonshire, 1545–46, Knight of the Shire for Northants., 2nd son of William Cope, Esq., of Banbury, Oxfordshire, Cofferer to Henry VIII, by his wife, Jane, daughter of John Spencer, Esq., of Hodnell, Warwickshire. He was knighted before March 1550. SIR JOHN COPE left a will proved 21 May 1558 (P.C.C. 25 Noodes). His wife, Margaret, survived him.^[9]

Notes

• Bindoff (1982), asserts that Tame married Cope bef. Jun 1542,^[7] ... but it's prob. a typo since Stafford died in 1548.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Chitting, & Philpot. Visitation of Glouchester 1623, 1569, 1582-3. Pub. 1885.p.260. Tame Pedigree to Humphrey Stafford.Tame Pedigree.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City: the author, 2011. Vol. I, pages 121-122, BASSET #13, Humphrey Stafford. See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5} 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. III, pages 242-243, HASTANG 17, Humphrey Stafford. See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.
4. ↑ Official Papers - Miscellaneous Inquisitions Post Mortem. Ref.: DR10/1895. Date: 5 August 1546. National Archives.
5. ↑ OFFICIAL PAPERS - MISCELLANEOUS INQUISITIONS POST MORTEM

   REF: DR10/1895

   Date: 5 August 1546

   National Archives, citing Shakespeare Birthplace Trust https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/00edc47f-9d8e-4fcb-8366-46564ea5af42
6. ↑ 'Blatherwycke', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire, Volume 6, Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire (London, 1984), pp. 18-22. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/northants/vol6/pp18-22 [accessed 4 March 2021]. Brass plate, c. 1548:

   'Plate 63: 16th-Century Brasses', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire, Volume 6, Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire (London, 1984), p. 63. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/northants/vol6/plate-63 [accessed 4 March 2021].

7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Bindoff, S.T. (1982). "Cope, John (by 1513-58), of Canons Ashby, Northants.," in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982. HOP. Web.
8. ↑ SGM
9. ↑ Kimber & Johnson, Baronetage of England 1 (1771): 50–55 (sub Cope). Bigland, An Account of the Parish of Fairford in the County of Gloucester (1791): 12, 19–27. Bridges, Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 2 (1791): 275–280 (Tame arms: a Griffin and a lion crowned Countersalient). Rudge, Hist. of the County of Gloucester 1 (1803): 255, 309. Baker, Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822– 1830): 349–356 (Keynes-Aylesbury-Stafford pedigree). Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta 2 (1826): 749 (will of Anthony Cope). Gentleman’s Mag. n.s. 26 (1846): 31–33. Whellan, Hist., Gazetteer, and Directory of Northamptonshire (1849): 442. Lee, Hist. of the Town and Parish of Tetbury (1857): 79. Warwickshire Antiqs. Magazine Pt. 8 (1859): 148 (Verney pedigree: “… [Thame] ux. Sr. Hump: Stafford of Blatherwick Kt.). Holt, Tames of Fairfield (1870). Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 6 (1870): 250–251. Grosart, Complete Poems and Translations in Prose of Humfrey Gifford Gentleman (1875): 167. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 94. Macklin, Brasses of England (1907): 239. Ward Brasses (Cambridge Manuals of Science & Literature) (1912): 136. Gifford, A Posie of Gilloflowers (1933): xiii. Adams, Living Descendants of Blood Royal 2 (1959): 239, 659. VCH Wiltshire 9 (1970): 119–124. An Inventory of the Hist. Monuments in the County of Northampton 6 (1975): xvii. VCH Gloucester 8 (2001): 42–69; 11 (1976): 264–269.

See Also:

• Bigland, Ralph. An Account of the Parish of Fairford. 1791. Archive.org, Edmund Tame, p. 12; an effigy of Edmund and his wives on p. 21.
• Chitting, & Philpot. Visitation of Glouchester 1623, 1569, 1582-3. Pub. 1885.p.260. Tame Pedigree to Humphrey Stafford.Tame Pedigree.
• Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 881.
• Visitation of Northamptonshire Page 15: Cope of Cope's Ashby

Acknowledgements

• Savage.ged on 21 February 2011