Complete Peerage Addition: Death date and will of Margaret H

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Complete Peerage Addition: Death date and will of Margaret H

Legg inn av Douglas Richardson » 01 des 2006 18:07:18

Dear Newsgroup ~

The authoritative Complete Peerage, 12 Part 1 (1953): 45 (sub Somerset)
states that Margaret Holand (wife successively of John Beaufort, Earl
of Somerset, Marquess of Dorset, and of Thomas of Lancaster, Duke of
Clarence, Earl of Aumale, Steward of England) died 30 December 1439, in
the Monastery of St. Saviour, Bermondsey, and was buried with her two
husbands under a magnificent tomb in Canterbury Cathedral.

The ancient petition below was found in the helpful online National
Archives catalogue
(http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/search.asp). The
petition was addressed to the king by the executors of Margaret,
Duchess of Clarence. It states that Margaret, Duchess of Clarence,
died on Thursday after last Christmas, she having bequeathed 1000 marks
for her burial and the health of her soul.

The modern archivist states in parenthetical brackets that Margaret
Holand died 1 January 1439, which date is patently an error. That
Duchess Margaret actually died in late December 1439, not the previous
January, is indicated by the writs of diem cl. extr. following her
death which were issued 22 January 1439/40 (Somerset and Dorset) and 4
Feb. 1439/40 (London and 23 counties) [Reference: Complete Perrage,
12(1) (1953): 45, footnote a). The reason for the archivist's error
appears to be that the petition was "dated in Rot. Parl. V, p.3 to the
parliament which met on 12 November 1439."

The Duchess' executors state in their petition that Duchess Margaret
"died on Thursday after last Christmas." This date in 1439 fell on 29
December 1439 [Reference: C.R. Cheney & Michael Jones, eds., A Handbook
of Dates (2000): 185]. This is probably the true death date of the
Duchess, as the executors included two of the Duchess' own sons, John
and Edmund Beaufort, who surely would have been in a position to know
the actual death date of their mother. The petition likewise indicates
that Duchess Margaret died testate, which fact was overlooked by
Complete Peerage.

For interest's sake, the following is a list of the numerous 17th
Century New World immigrants who descend from Margaret Holand, Duchess
of Clarence:

Samuel and William Torrey, Robert Barclay, nominal Governor of East
[New] Jersey, William Burnet (died 1729), colonial Governor of New
York, William Campbell (died 1778), colonial Governor of South
Carolina, St. Leger Codd, Edward Digges, Archibald Dunlop (died 1713),
of Connecticut, Thomas Gordon, of New Jersey, John Henry of Virginia,
Warham Horsmanden, Patrick Houston, 5th Baronet, of Georgia, Anne
Humphrey, Robert Hunter (died 1734), colonial Governor of New York and
New Jersey, Sir William Keith (died 1749), colonial Governor of
Pennsylvania & Delaware, James Logan (died 1751), of Pennsylvania, John
Orr, of Virginia, Herbert Pelham, Thomas Rudyard, Katherine Saint
Leger, William Seton, of New York, Mary Johanna Somerset, Alexander
Spotswood (died 1740), colonial Governor of Virginia, James Veatch
(died 1685), of Maryland, and John West.

Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah

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Source: National Archives catalogue
(http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/search.asp)

C 8/27/1320, Ancient Petition

Petitioners: John [Beaufort], Earl of Somerset, executor of Margaret,
Duchess of Clarence; Edmund [Beaufort], Earl of Dorset, executor of
Margaret, Duchess of Clarence; Margaret, Countess of Devon, executor of
Margaret, Duchess of Clarence; John Carpentere (Carpenter), executor of
Margaret, Duchess of Clarence; John Bugebroke, executor of Margaret,
Duchess of Clarence].

Addressees: King

Other people mentioned: Margaret [Beaufort], Duchess of Clarence;
Thomas [Courtenay], Earl of Devon; Master Adam Moleyns; Abbess of
Minoresses of London.

Nature of request: Margaret, duchess of Clarence, who died on Thursday
after last Christmas (1 January 1439), bequeathed 1000 marks for her
burial and the health of her soul, and the countess of Devon,
Carpentere and Bugebroke have made ordinance thereon. The countess,
with the consent of her husband, Carpentere and Bugebroke have also
loaned 3000 marks to the king, to be repaid at next feast of St Martin
from the proceeds of the half fifteenth granted in this parliament, and
the countess of Devon has loaned £1200 to the earl of Somerset, to be
repaid next Michaelmas. The executors ask that neither they, nor
Thomas, earl of Devon, nor Adam Moleyns, nor the abbess of the
Minoresses of London, in whose keeping the goods are, should not be
charged for the goods of the duchess in connection with the aforesaid;
those who receive repayment of the said sums are to stand in law
charged with those sums.

Endorsement: The king has granted all that is contained in this
petition.

Covering dates [1439].

Note: Dated in Rot. Parl. V, p.3 to the parliament which met on 12
November 1439.

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