Margaret (Pigot) Metcalfe (1493 - 1531)

Born 1493 in Melmerby, Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 3 Feb 1531 at about age 38 in Nappa, Yorkshire, England

Margaret Pigot (b. 1493 - d. 03 Feb 1530/1).^[1]

Biography

This profile is part of the Metcalfe Name Study.

Margaret is the eldest daughter of Thomas Pigot of Clotherholme and Melmerby, Yorkshire. She was a co-heir with her sisters, Dame Jane Hussey and Elizabeth.

Margaret married James (b. c. 1460 - d. 20 Sep 1539), son of Thomas Metcalfe (b. c. 1424 - d. 1503/4), Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of William Hartlington.^[2]

Parents

• Father: Thomas, son of Sir Geoffrey Pigot of Clotherholme, Rippon and Margaret (d. 1485), dau. of William Sewerby, esq. of Sewerby
• Mother: Isabel Gascoigne.^[3]

Siblings

• Jane "Johanna", Lady Husseye of the North Hall

m.1 Sir Gyles Hussey of Caythorpe, Lincoln

m.2 Thomas Folkyngham, esq. of North Hall, Yorkshire

• Elizabeth

m.1 Sir James Strangeways of Harlesey Castle (d.s.p 1541)

m.2 (by 1545) Charles (b. by 1525 - d. 1551), illegitimate son of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk

m.3 (as first wife) Francis Neville of Barnby, Doncaster, Yorkshire (d. 23 Dec 1582).[3]

• Margery.^[4]

m. Thomas Waterton, esq.

Marriage

m. (1507) Sir James Metcalfe of Nappa (b. c. 1460 - d. 20 Sep 1539). Issue:

• Sir Christopher of Nappa (b. 01 Aug 1513 - d. 09 May 1574)
• Humphrey
• Edmund of Worton
• Oswald of Hornby (bur. 04 Jun 1604 Hornby)

m.1 ____, dau. of William Parkinson

m.2 Mary, dau. of Roger Meynell of North Kilvington

• Robert
• Ann
• Alice
• Elizabeth
• Margaret (will 04 Jun 1566)

m. William Hilton

Sources

1. ↑ Marshall (1878), gives her DOB as 1493.
   alt DOB: 5 Aug 1492^{[citation needed]}.
   Note that her father inherited Clotherholme from his brother Randolf in 1503, so Marg. was probably born at Melmerby.
2. ↑ p. 121-122.[1]
3. ↑ Marshall (1878), names Isabel Gascoigne as the wife of Thomas Pigot. Her origins are obscure.
4. ↑ Urban, S. (1823). "Minor correspondence," in Gentleman's Magazine, pp. vi. Google Books.[2]
   Margery is not a co-heir with her other sisters, (Raine, 1869)

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  • see: "X. Thomas Pigot of Clotherham, esq."