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Margaret Wotton, Marchioness of Dorset

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restrict his allowance throughout his minority which caused much consternation from her peers, who labelled her actions "unmotherly", and inappropriate behaviour towards a nobleman closely related to the King. Margaret only agreed to Henry's marriage with Lady Frances Brandon, niece of the King, on the condition that her father,
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Here under lyeth buried the lorde John ... Grey, Knyght (fourth son of) the lorde Thomas Grey mar ..... ques Dorcet, who dyed the xix daye of November 1564; and dame Mary his wyfe, daughter of Sir Anthony Browne, Knyght of the Garter, m(aster)r of the horse, and con'seler to Kynge Henry ye VIII. Dame
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Margaret first began a long series of quarrels with her son, who had succeeded to the Marquessate of Dorset in 1530, when he was forced to pay a fine of £4000 for breach of contract after he had renounced his betrothal to Katherine Fitzalan, daughter of the Earl of Arundel. As a result, she tried to
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Several years later when he came of age, Henry brought his quarrel with his mother before the Kings' Council, where she belatedly admitted that her son's allowance was not "meet or sufficient to maintain his estate", and she offered to increase it. Henry was not appeased, therefore she moved out of
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Collin's Peerage of England, published 1812: ... a tomb in the chapel of the mansion house at Pirgo in Essex; on which was a knight kneeling with four sons, his lady kneeling with four daughters, and many coats and quarterings; and bearing on the verge this inscription:
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In 1505, Margaret married her first husband, William Medley, esquire, by whom she had one son, George (died 1562). In 1509, sometime after the death of her husband in February of that year, she married as his second wife,
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In 1534, she felt compelled to answer charges that she was "an unnatural mother". As a result, she offered to contribute to her son's advancement "as my small power is and shall be".
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In October 1530, her husband died and she was given custody of all his property during their eldest son, Henry's minority.
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Lord Thomas Grey (1526 – after 1554), who was executed together with his brother, Henry, for having participated in
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In 1534, she was compelled to answer to the charges that she was an "unnatural mother".
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It is most likely she died in the 1540s, and some sources suggest she died in 1541.
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Margaret and her husband were part of the group who accompanied Henry VIII's sister,
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The Sisters Who Would Be Queen; The Tragedy of Mary, Katherine & Lady Jane Grey
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Anne Grey (d.1548), who married Sir Henry Willoughby (slain 27 August 1549 during
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was also executed at this time, though she had not taken part in the rebellion.
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She was the subject of two portraits by Hans Holbein the Younger.
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Margaret was born in 1485, the daughter of Sir Robert Wotton of
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De Lisle states that she predeceased her husband by 18 months.
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would support the couple until her son reached his majority.
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By her second husband she had four sons and four daughters:
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Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.).
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Portrait of Margaret Wotton, Marchioness of Dorset, after
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was a diplomat who arranged the marriage of Henry VIII to
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Index


Hans Holbein the Younger
Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset
Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk
Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset
Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk
allowance
Henry VIII of England
godmothers
Elizabeth I of England
Hans Holbein the Younger
Lady Jane Grey
Boughton Malherbe
Kent
Edward Belknap
Sir Edward Wotton
Treasurer of Calais
Nicholas Wotton
Anne of Cleves
Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset
Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset
Cecily Bonville, Baroness Harington and Bonville
Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden
Margaret Audley, Duchess of Norfolk
Henry Fitzalan, 19th Earl of Arundel
Kett's Rebellion
Wollaton
Nottinghamshire
Sir Francis
Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk

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