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Wotton, Margaret ( - 1541)

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Medley, Grey

Born / Died

Birth Date: n.d.
Death Date: 1541-09

Notes

Joint Godmother to Princess Elizabeth

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Type: marriage
    Union began: exactly
    Union ended: exactly
  2. Grey, Thomas (1477 - 1530)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: exactly 1509
    Union ended: exactly
    Note: Union produced a fourth son, who died young, and a fourth daughter

Siblings

Male

  • Wotton, Edward (1489 - 1551)
  • Wotton, Nicholas (1497 - 1566/7)

Female

  • Wotton, Mary ( - )

Offspring

Titles

General Lands Note

Granted custody of the lands of her late husband during the minority of her son Henry, 14 Sept. 1533

Details of Offices

Began
Bailiff, Exeter 1533/4 -3 -2
Keeper, Essex 1533/4 -3 -2

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Shute House, Devon
    (Performance Venue)
    Acquired: 1509
    Divested: 1541-09
    Residence of 2nd husband
  • Gest Hall, Tilty Abbey, Essex
    Acquired: 1535-10
    Leased (for 60 years). House also known as Gestes Hall and the Founder's House. The house stood against the west end of Titley Abbey church

Lands

  • Essex: Tilty Grange, Manor & demense lands
    Acquired: 1535-10-06
    Leased (for 60 years)

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Chichester (Unknown), Chichester, Sussex Marchioness of Dorset's Bearwards

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Marchioness of Dorset's Bearwards Wotton, Margaret (0 - 1541) Performing Animals 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Shute House Devon Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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  • The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982
  • Emerson, Kathy Lynn. Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth-Century England. Troy, NY: Whitston Publishing, 1984
  • Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII [1509--47]. 21 vols and Addenda (2 vols). London: HMSO, 1864--1932
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  • Page, William, ed. The Victoria History of the County of Essex. 9 vols and Bibliography and Bibliography Supplement (2 vols). Westminster and London; London and Oxford: Archibald Constable [vols 1–2]; Oxford UP [vols 3–9, Bibliography and Supplement], 1903--94