Biography of Margery Unknown -1557

Before 12th December 1518 [her future husband] George Rolle (age 23) and Eleanor Dacres (age 28) were married.

Before 1522 [her future husband] George Rolle (age 26) and Elizabeth Ashton were married.

Before 1533 [her future husband] Leonard Chamberlain (age 29) and Dorothy Newdigate (age 27) were married.

Before 1545 Henry Brinklow and Margery Unknown were married.

On or before 20th January 1546 [her husband] Henry Brinklow died.

After 20th January 1546 Stephen Vaughan Merchant (age 44) and Margery Unknown were married at Calais [Map].

In 1549 [her husband] Stephen Vaughan Merchant (age 47) died.

Abbot John Whethamstede’s Chronicle of the Abbey of St Albans

Abbot John Whethamstede's Register aka Chronicle of his second term at the Abbey of St Albans, 1451-1461, is a remarkable text that describes his first-hand experience of the beginning of the Wars of the Roses including the First and Second Battles of St Albans, 1455 and 1461, respectively, their cause, and their consequences, not least on the Abbey itself. His text also includes Loveday, Blore Heath, Northampton, the Act of Accord, Wakefield, and Towton, and ends with the Coronation of King Edward IV. In addition to the events of the Wars of the Roses, Abbot John, or his scribes who wrote the Chronicle, include details in the life of the Abbey such as charters, letters, land exchanges, visits by legates, and disputes, which provide a rich insight into the day-to-day life of the Abbey, and the challenges faced by its Abbot.

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Before 23rd June 1551 George Rolle (age 56) and Margery Unknown were married.

Before 20th November 1552 Leonard Chamberlain (age 48) and Margery Unknown were married.

On 20th November 1552 [her husband] George Rolle (age 57) died.

Before 29th November 1554 [her husband] Leonard Chamberlain (age 50) and Dorothy Andrews of Woodstock were married.

Before 5th May 1557 Margery Unknown died.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 5th May 1557. The v day of May a-for non was bered my lade Chamburlayne, the wyff of ser [her husband] Lenard Chamburlayne (age 53) of Oxffordshyre, with ij whyt branchys and a fayr [herse] of wax, and v dosen penselles and skochyons and ij dosen of [staff-torches]; xxiiij powre men and women dyd bere them, and they [had] gownes of fyne brode cottun of blake; and iiij baners borne abowte her; and with prestes and clarkes, a grett compene of mornars; and ther dyd pryche att the masse docthur Chadsay, and he mad a godly sermon; and after a grett dener; and master Longkaster was the harold; and ther was a grett dolle of money at the cherche.

After 5th May 1557 [her former husband] Leonard Chamberlain (age 53) and Anne Blount (age 57) were married.

Around August 1561 [her former husband] Leonard Chamberlain (age 57) died at Guernsey [Map].