Possible C.P. Addition: Margaret Neville's 1st marriage to J

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Possible C.P. Addition: Margaret Neville's 1st marriage to J

Legg inn av Douglas Richardson » 05 sep 2007 00:47:00

Dear Newsgroup ~

Complete Peerage, 12(1) (1953): 454-460 (sub Suffolk) has a good
account of the life of King Henry VIII's well known brother-in-law,
Charles Brandon, K.G., 1st Duke of Suffolk.

Regarding his various wives, the following is stated regarding his
marriage to Margaret Neville on page 458:

"He then married before 7 Feb. 1506/7 Margaret (born 1466), ... widow
of Sir John Mortimer (died before 12 Nov, 1504), 3rd daughter and coh.
of John (Neville), Marquess of Montagu, by Isabel, daughter and coh.
of Sir Edmund Ingaldesthorpe, of Borough Green, co. Cambridge. This
marriage was declared void by the Archdeaconry Court of London, about
1507, and by Papal Bull, dated at Orvieto, 12 May 1528."

On page 458, footnote g, it is further related that Margaret, Lady
Mortimer, married, 3rdly, about Feb. 1521/2, Robert Downes, who was
living, 15 Oct. 1524. She died 31 Jan. 1527/8."

Margaret Neville's 3rd marriage to Robert Downes, Gentleman, is proven
by a Chancery Proceeding dated 1518-1529, which is found in the
National Archives catalog:

C 1/498/7
Robert Downes, gentleman, and Margaret, his wife, late the wife of
John Mortymer, knight. v. Robert Brown and Anne, his wife, late the
wife of James Framyngham, knight 'naturall' daughter of the said
Margaret, Antony Wingfield, knight, and William Waller.: Bond
collusively obtained settling lands of the said Margaret on Anne, in
tail. (Decree endorsed.) Subpoena and injunction.: Suffolk, Middlesex,
Worcester.

The above lawsuit also names Margaret Neville's illegitimate daughter,
Anne, wife successively of Sir James Framyngham and Robert Brown.
This daughter is not mentioned by Complete Peerage.

I also find various sources which allege that Margaret Neville had
another marriage to either John Horne, Thomas Horne, or Robert Horne.
See, for example, Kathy Lynn Emerson, Wives and Daughters: The Women
of Sixteenth Century England (1984): 160.

If Margaret Neville's Horne marriage can be confirmed, it would
obviously be a new addition to Complete Peerage's Suffolk account.

Comments are invited.

Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah

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