Margaret (Botreaux) Hungerford (abt. 1412 - 1478)

Born about 1412 in Botreaux castle, Boscastle, Cornwall, England

Ancestors

Wife of Robert Hungerford — married 1420 in England

Descendants

Died 7 Feb 1478 at about age 66 in Wiltshire, England

Biography

Father Sir William Botreaux, 3rd Lord Botreaux b. 20 Feb 1389, d. 16 May 1462

Mother Elizabeth Beaumont b. c 1389, d. bt 1426 - 1458

Margaret Botreaux was born circa 1412 at Botreaux Castle, Cornwall, England; Over 50 in 1462.^[1]

She married Sir Robert Hungerford, 2nd Lord Hungerford, son of Sir Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford, Sheriff of Somersetshire & Dorsetshire, Speaker of the House of Commons, Lord High Treasurer, Constable of Windsor Castle and Katherine Peverell, circa 6 July 1420 at Aller, Somersetshire, England; They had 3 sons (including Sir Robert, Lord Hungerford & Moleyns; & Arnold) and 3 daughters (Katherine, wife of Sir Richard West, 7th Lord la Warre, 4th Lord West, & of Nicholas Leventhorpe, Esq; Eleanor, wife of John White, Gent., of Sir William Tyrrell, of Sir Henry FitzLewis, & of Thomas Garth, Esq; & Mary).^[2][3]

Margaret Botreaux died on 7 February 1478; Buried at Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire.^[4]

Family

• Sir Robert Hungerford, 2nd Lord Hungerford b. c 1411, d. 18 May 1459

Children

• Sir Robert Hungerford, 3rd Lord Hungerford, Lord Moleyns b. c 1429, d. 18 May 1464
• Eleanor Hungerford b. c 1430, d. b 1489
• Sir Arnulf Hungerford b. c 1431, d. Feb 1461
• Katherine Hungerford b. c 1434, d. 12 May 1493
• William Hungerford b. c 1435
• Mary Hungerford b. c 1437

Will of Margaret Botreaux

Margaret left an extensive Will^[5] , appearing as Margaret, Lady Hungerford. The comprehensive nature of the will is brought about by the attainders in place against the family. At the time of the will, 8 Aug 1476, her eldest son, Robert, Lord Moleyns, had been executed for treason against the King as had his eldest son, Thomas.

In her will, she made provisions for two other sons of Robert, brothers to Thomas. These were Walter Hungerford, who received the majority interest, including Heytesbury, and Leonard Hungerford. Failing adherence and loyalty, a provision in the Will likely imposed by the treason committed by the father and eldest son, the estates were to pass to Sir Edmund Hungerford, the brother of her husband and then holding the Down Ampney estates.

Her will also recognized Mary Hungerford, the daughter and heir to Sir Thomas Hungerford, at the time a minor. She, Mary, was to be the recipient of the Hungerford estates when the attainders were reversed in 1485 and they passed to her husband Edward Hastings. The will made provisions should the line of Mary fail and in that lineage, she mentioned her daughter, Katherine Hungerford, stated as Katýne Lady la Warre; she was the wife of Sir Richard West, Baron la Warr.

Sources

1. ↑ The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. II, p. 242-243
2. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 319
3. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 152
4. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 429
5. ↑ Testamenta vetusta, Vol 1, page 310-322

• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry (2013) Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol III, page 360, Margaret Botreaux.
• Testamenta vetusta: being illustrations from wills, of manners, customs, &c. as well as of the descents and possessions of many distinguished families. From the reign of Henry the Second to the accession of Queen Elizabeth; Sir Nicholas Harris; Volume 1, available archive.org
• http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p511.htm#i15347

• British History online: A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 3. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1908: The liberty of Alverstoke with Gosport