Maternal Family Tree: Margaret Donnington Countess Bath 1509-1561
In 1509 Margaret Donnington Countess Bath was born to John Donnington of Stoke Newington.
Before 1511 Thomas Kitson [aged 25] and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath [aged 1] were married. The difference in their ages was 24 years.
In 1511 [her daughter] Elizabeth Kitson was born to [her husband] Thomas Kitson [aged 26] and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath [aged 2]. She married before 12th June 1540 Edmund Croftes and had issue.
Before 1515 [her future husband] John Bourchier 2nd Earl Bath [aged 15] and Elizabeth Hungerford were married. He the son of John Bourchier 1st Earl Bath [aged 44] and Cecily Daubeney Baroness Fitzwarin [aged 40]. They were sixth cousins. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England.
In 1524 [her daughter] Katherine Kitson was born to [her husband] Thomas Kitson [aged 39] and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath [aged 15]. She married before October 1545 John Spencer and had issue.
Before 25th May 1524 [her future husband] John Bourchier 2nd Earl Bath [aged 25] and Eleanor Manners Countess Bath [aged 21] were married at Hengrave Hall, Bury St Edmunds. He the son of John Bourchier 1st Earl Bath [aged 53] and Cecily Daubeney Baroness Fitzwarin [aged 50]. They were fourth cousin once removed. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
In 1535 [her daughter] Anne Elizabeth Kitson was born to [her husband] Thomas Kitson [aged 50] and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath [aged 26]. She married in or before 1566 William Spring and had issue.
On 30th April 1539 John Bourchier 1st Earl Bath [aged 68] died. He was buried at St Brannock's Church, Braunton. His son [her future husband] John [aged 40] succeeded 2nd Earl Bath, 4th Count Eu, 12th Baron Fitzwarin. Eleanor Manners Countess Bath [aged 36] by marriage Countess Bath.
On 13th March 1540 Henry Bourchier 2nd Earl Essex 3rd Count of Eu died. Earl Essex, Viscount Bourchier extinct. His daughter Anne [aged 23] succeeded 7th Baroness Bourchier. His second cousin once removed [her future husband] John [aged 41] succeeded 2nd Count Eu. Neither he or his descendants used the title.
Before 12th June 1540 [her son-in-law] Edmund Croftes [aged 20] and Elizabeth Kitson [aged 29] were married. She the daughter of Thomas Kitson [aged 55] and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath [aged 31].
On 11th September 1540 [her husband] Thomas Kitson [aged 55] died.
On 15th October 1540 [her son] [her former husband] Thomas Kitson was born to Thomas Kitson [deceased] and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath [aged 31]. He married before 7th May 1567 Elizabeth Cornwallis and had issue.
Around 1541 [her daughter] Jane Long was born to [her husband] Richard Long [aged 47] and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath [aged 32].
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In 1541 Richard Long [aged 47] and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath [aged 32] were married.
In 1542 [her son] Henry Long was born to [her husband] Richard Long [aged 48] and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath [aged 33].
Around 1543 [her daughter] Mary Long was born to [her husband] Richard Long [aged 49] and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath [aged 34].
Before October 1545 [her son-in-law] John Spencer [aged 21] and Katherine Kitson [aged 21] were married. She the daughter of Thomas Kitson and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath [aged 36].
Around 1546 [her daughter] Catherine Long was born to [her husband] Richard Long [aged 52] and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath [aged 37].
On 29th September 1546 [her husband] Richard Long [aged 52] died.
On 8th April 1548 Henry Daubeney 1st Earl Bridgewater [aged 54] died. Earl Bridgewater extinct. His nephew [her future husband] John [aged 49] succeeded 3rd Baron Daubeney.
On 4th December 1548 a double wedding of a father and son, and a mother and daughter, was celebrated at Hengrave Hall, Bury St Edmunds.
John Bourchier 2nd Earl Bath [aged 49] and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath [aged 39] were married. She by marriage Countess Bath. He the son of John Bourchier 1st Earl Bath and Cecily Daubeney Baroness Fitzwarin.
John Bourchier [aged 19] and Frances Kitson were married. She the daughter of Thomas Kitson and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath. He the son of John Bourchier 2nd Earl Bath and Eleanor Manners Countess Bath.
Around September 1557 [her son-in-law] William Barnaby and Frances Kitson were married. He was land agent to her former father-ine-law the John Bourchier 2nd Earl Bath [aged 58]; the marriage as a consequence gave great offence to her friends. She the daughter of Thomas Kitson and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath [aged 48].
On 10th February 1561 [her husband] John Bourchier 2nd Earl Bath [aged 62] died. He was buried on 10th March 1561 at the Church of St John Lateran, Hengrave. His grandson William [aged 3] succeeded 3rd Earl Bath, 13th Baron Fitzwarin, 4th Baron Daubeney
On 12th December 1561 Margaret Donnington Countess Bath [aged 52] died at Stoke Newington [Map]. She was buried on 11th January 1562 at the Church of St John Lateran, Hengrave; see Henry Machyn's Diary.
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Henry Machyn's Diary. 20th December 1561. The xx day of Desember my lade the contes of Bayth [deceased] ded at here plase at Nuwhyngtun, late the wyff of ser [her former husband] Thomas Kyttsun and to ser Recherd Longe and wyff to the yerle of Bayth latt dissessyd, and she had a vj baners-rolles and a gret baner of armes and a x dosen of skochyons and vj of sylke.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 10th January 1562. The x day of January was cared in-to the contrey, to be bered by her hosband the yerle and her hosband ser [her former husband] Thomas Kyttsun, the contes of Bathe.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 11th January 1562. The xj day of January was bered in Suffoke my lade contes of Bayth wedow, and the last wyff to the sed erle, and late the wyff of ser Thomas Cutsun, and late to ser Recherd Longe knyght; with a grett banar of armes and vj banar-rolles of all mareges [marriages], and a x dosen skochyons of armes, and vj of sylke wrought with fyne gold.
Note. P. 275. Funeral of the countess of Bath. Margaret, only child of John Donnington, of Stoke Newington in Middlesex, married successively to sir Thomas Kytson, sir Richard Long, and John Bourchier earl of Bath. The last died in 1560. Her monument in Hengrave church, Suffolk, with recumbent effigies of herself and her three husbands, is engraved in Gage's History of that parish, 1822, 4to. p. 65; and in the same volume are several letters to and from her, an inventory of her property, her will, and an account of her funeral expenses, &c.
[her daughter] Frances Kitson was born to Thomas Kitson and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath. She married (1) John Bourchier, son of John Bourchier 2nd Earl Bath and Eleanor Manners Countess Bath, and had issue (2) September 1557 William Barnaby.