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Biography of Margaret Chedworth Duchess Norfolk 1436-1494

1483 Richard III Rewards his Supporters

1485 Battle of Bosworth

In 1436 Margaret Chedworth Duchess Norfolk was born to John Chedworth.

Before 1437 [her future husband] John Norreys (age 36) and Alice Merbrook were married.

Before 29 Sep 1442 [her future husband] John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk (age 17) and Katherine Moleyns (age 18) were married. They were third cousins. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward I of England. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Henry III of England.

Around 1445 Nicholas Wyfold and Margaret Chedworth Duchess Norfolk (age 9) were married.

Around 1446 [her daughter] Elizabeth Wyfold was born to [her husband] Nicholas Wyfold and Margaret Chedworth Duchess Norfolk (age 10).

After 1450 [her future husband] John Norreys (age 50) and Eleanor Clitherow were married.

Around 1456 [her husband] Nicholas Wyfold died.

Before 01 Sep 1466 John Norreys (age 66) and Margaret Chedworth Duchess Norfolk (age 30) were married. The difference in their ages was 36 years.

On 01 Sep 1466 [her husband] John Norreys (age 66) died. He was buried in the Norreys Chapel St Michael's Church, Bray.

Before 22 Jan 1467 John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk (age 42) and Margaret Chedworth Duchess Norfolk (age 31) were married. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward I of England.

Around 1468 [her daughter] Katherine Howard Baroness Berners was born to [her husband] John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk (age 43) and Margaret Chedworth Duchess Norfolk (age 32).

On 30 Sep 1472 [her step-son] Thomas Howard 2nd Duke of Norfolk (age 29) and Elizabeth Tilney Countess of Surrey (age 28) were married. He the son of [her husband] John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk (age 47) and Katherine Moleyns. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward I of England.

Before 1474 Edmund Gorges (age 19) and [her step-daughter] Anne Howard (age 27) were married. She the daughter of [her husband] John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk (age 48) and Katherine Moleyns. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward I of England.

In 1474 [her step-daughter] Anne Howard (age 28) died in Wraxall, Somerset [Map].

Around 1475 [her son-in-law] John Norreys (age 35) and [her daughter] Elizabeth Wyfold (age 29) were married. She the daughter of [her former husband] Nicholas Wyfold and Margaret Chedworth Duchess Norfolk (age 39).

In or before 1478 Robert Mortimer (age 35) and [her step-daughter] Isabella Howard (age 28) were married. She the daughter of [her husband] John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk (age 52) and Katherine Moleyns. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward I of England.

In 1481 [her step-daughter] Jane Howard (age 31) died.

Richard III Rewards his Supporters

On 05 Jul 1483 [her husband] John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk (age 58) was created 1st Duke Norfolk by King Richard III of England (age 30). Margaret Chedworth Duchess Norfolk (age 47) by marriage Duchess Norfolk.

His son [her step-son] Thomas Howard 2nd Duke of Norfolk (age 40) was created 1st Earl Surrey. Elizabeth Tilney Countess of Surrey (age 39) by marriage Countess Surrey.

William Berkeley 1st Marquess Berkeley (age 57) was created 1st Earl Nottingham.

John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk and William Berkeley 1st Marquess Berkeley were heirs to the vast Mowbray estates that had been inherited by Anne Mowbray 8th Countess Norfolk who had been married to Richard of Shrewsbury 1st Duke of York (age 9).

Richard of Shrewsbury 1st Duke York 1473-'s father King Edward IV of England had legislated that in the event of Anne's death his son Richard would continue to benefit from the inheritance; she died in 1481.

Francis Lovell 1st Viscount Lovell (age 27) was created 1st Viscount Lovell. Anne Fitzhugh Viscountess Lovell by marriage Viscountess Lovell. [Note. Some sources place his created on 01 Jan 1483 although the source for that is unknown. ]

In 1484 [her step-daughter] Margaret Howard (age 39) died.

Battle of Bosworth

On 22 Aug 1485 King Richard III of England (age 32) was killed during the Battle of Bosworth. His second cousin once removed Henry Tudor (age 28) succeeded VII King of England. Earl Richmond forfeit.

Humphrey Cotes (age 35) died. It isn't clear on which side he was fighting.

Those supporting Henry Tudor included:

John Blount 3rd Baron Mountjoy (age 35).

John Cheney 1st Baron Cheyne (age 43).

Richard Guildford (age 35).

Walter Hungerford (age 21).

Thomas Stanley 1st Earl of Derby (age 50).

John Wingfield.

Edward Woodville Lord Scales (age 29).

Edward Courtenay 1st Earl Devon (age 26).

Rhys ap Thomas Deheubarth (age 36).

Jasper Tudor 1st Duke Bedford (age 53).

William Beaumont 2nd Viscount Beaumont (age 47).

Giles Daubeney 1st Baron Daubeney (age 34).

William Stanley (age 50).

Roger Kynaston of Myddle and Hordley (age 52).

[her future son-in-law] Henry Marney 1st Baron Marney (age 38).

William Brandon (age 29) was killed.

James Harrington (age 55) was killed.

[her husband] John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk (age 60) was killed and attainted. He was buried firstly at Thetford Priory, Norfolk [Map] and therafter at Church of St Michael the Archangel, Framlingham [Map]. Duke Norfolk, Baron Mowbray, Baron Segrave forfeit.

John Sacheverell (age 85) was killed.

Philibert Chandee 1st Earl Bath

[her former step-son] William Norreys (age 44), Gilbert Talbot (age 33), John de Vere 13th Earl of Oxford (age 42) and John Savage (age 41) commanded,.

Robert Poyntz (age 35) was knighted.

Those who fought for Richard III included:

John Bourchier 6th Baron Ferrers of Groby (age 47).

John Conyers (age 74).

Thomas Dacre 2nd Baron Dacre Gilsland (age 17).

William Berkeley 1st Marquess Berkeley (age 59).

Richard Fitzhugh 6th Baron Fitzhugh (age 28).

John Scrope 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton (age 48).

Thomas Scrope 6th Baron Scrope of Masham (age 26).

Henry Grey 4th or 7th Baron Grey of Codnor (age 50).

Edmund Grey 1st Earl Kent (age 68).

Ralph Neville 3rd Earl of Westmoreland (age 29).

John de la Pole 1st Earl Lincoln (age 23).

Humphrey Stafford (age 59).

George Talbot 4th Earl of Shrewsbury (age 17).

[her step-son] Thomas Howard 2nd Duke of Norfolk (age 42) was wounded, captured and imprisoned in the Tower of London [Map] for three years. He was attainted; Earl Surrey forfeit.

Francis Lovell 1st Viscount Lovell (age 29) fought and escaped.

John Zouche 7th Baron Zouche Harringworth (age 26) was captured.

John Babington (age 62), William Alington (age 65), Robert Mortimer (age 43), Robert Brackenbury, Richard Ratclyffe (age 55) and Richard Bagot (age 73) were killed

Walter Devereux Baron Ferrers of Chartley (age 53) was killed.

William Catesby (age 35) was executed at Leicester, Leicestershire [Map] after the battle.

George Stanley 9th Baron Strange Knockin 5th Baron Mohun Dunster (age 25) held as a hostage by Richard III before the Battle of Bosworth.

Henry Percy 4th Earl of Northumberland (age 36) betrayed King Richard III of England by not committing his forces at the Battle of Bosworth.

John Iwardby (age 35) was killed.

Around 1487 [her son-in-law] Henry Marney 1st Baron Marney (age 40) and [her daughter] Elizabeth Wyfold (age 41) were married. She the daughter of [her former husband] Nicholas Wyfold and Margaret Chedworth Duchess Norfolk (age 51).

Before 13 May 1490 [her son-in-law] John Bourchier 2nd Baron Berners (age 23) and [her daughter] Katherine Howard Baroness Berners (age 22) were married. She by marriage Baroness Berners. She the daughter of [her former husband] John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk and Margaret Chedworth Duchess Norfolk (age 54). He the son of Humphrey Bourchier and Elizabeth Tilney Countess of Surrey (age 46). He a great x 3 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward I of England.

In 1494 Margaret Chedworth Duchess Norfolk (age 58) died.

Royal Descendants of Margaret Chedworth Duchess Norfolk 1436-1494

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom