Re: C.P. Addition: Walter de Lacy and his wife, Margaret (or Margery) de Brewes [REVISED]
Douglas Richardson
The authoritative Complete Peerage, 12 Pt. 2 (1959): 169, footnote d,
indicates that Walter de Lacy, lord of`Meath, Ireland, and of Weobley,
Herefordshire, married Margaret (or Margery) de Brewes, daughter of
William de Brewes (or Briouze), [of Bramber, Sussex, by Maud, daughter
of Sir Bernard de Saint Valery, Knt.]. Complete Peerage mentions
Walter de Lacy is several places. However, there doesn't seem to be a
death date provided for either Walter de Lacy or his wife, Margaret (or
Margery) de Brewes.
My files notes indicate that Walter de Lacy died shortly before 24 Feb.
1240/1, he having gone blind before his death. I also show that his
widow, Margaret (or Margery), was living 25 June 1245. I believe the
information in my files is derived from the interesting article by H.
J. Nicholson entitled "Margaret de Lacy and the Hospital of St John at
Aconbury, Herefordshire," which appeared in the Journal of
Ecclesiastical History, 50 (1999) 629-651.
A more exact death date for Margaret (ro Margery) de Brewes, however,
is provided by J.S. Barrow in his recent work, Fasti Ecclesiæ
Anglicanæ, 1066-1300, volume 8 (2002): 101-128. This source includes
abstracts of the ancient obit book for Hereford Cathedral. This source
shows that the obit [anniversary] of Margery de Lascy' death was kept 6
March, year of death not stated:
"6 March viii B ii N. Obitus Margerie de Lascy que dedit quinque
solidos annui redditus distribuendos die anniversarii sui, canonicis
scilicet xl. denarios et clericis xx. Denarios.)." END OF QUOTE.
In footnote 83, the editor identifies Margery de Lascy in the obit
record as Margaret, wife of Walter de Lacy (he died 1241).
Thus, it would appear that Margaret (or Margery) de Brewes, widow of
Walter de Lacy, died 6 March, sometime after 1245.
For interest's sake, I've provided below a list of the numerous 17th
Century New World immigrants who descend from Walter de Lacy, lord
of`Meath and Weobley, and his wife, Margaret (or Margery) de Brewes.
Included in this list is the newly discovered Dorothy (Beresford)
Brodnax, of Virginia, who is ancestress to U.S. President George W.
Bush.
Robert Abell, Dannett Abney, Elizabeth Alsop, William Asfordby, Barbara
Aubrey, John Barclay, Charles Barnes, Christopher Batt, Henry & Thomas
Batte, Anne Baynton, Dorothy Beresford, Richard & William Bernard, John
Bevan, Essex Beville, William Bladen, George & Nehemiah Blakiston,
Joseph Bolles, Thomas Booth, Elizabeth Bosvile, Mary Bourchier, George,
Giles & Robert Brent, Nathaniel Browne, Obadiah Bruen, Stephen Bull,
William Burnet, Nathaniel Burrough, Elizabeth Butler, Charles Calvert,
William Campbell, Edward Carleton, Kenelm Cheseldine, Grace Chetwode,
Jeremy Clarke, Matthew Clarkson, James & Norton Claypoole, William
Clopton, St.Leger Codd, Henry Corbin, Elizabeth Coytemore, James
Cudworth, Francis Dade, Humphrey Davie, Frances, Jane & Katherine
Deighton, Anne Derehaugh, Edward Digges, Thomas Dudley, Archibald
Dunlop, Rowland Ellis, William Farrer, John Fenwick, John Fisher, Henry
Fleete, Edward Foliot, Thomas Gerard, William Goddard, Thomas Gordon,
Muriel Gurdon, Katherine Hamby, Elizabeth & John Harleston, John Henry,
Warham Horsmanden, Patrick Houston, Anne Humphrey, Robert Hunter, Henry
Isham, Edmund Jennings, William Keith, Mary Launce, Edmund, Edward,
Matthew & Richard Kempe, Mary Launce, Hannah, Samuel & Sarah Levis,
Thomas Ligon, Nathaniel Littleton, Thomas Lloyd, James Logan, Anne
Lovelace, Henry, Jane & Nicholas Lowe, Percival Lowell, Thomas
Lunsford, Simon Lynde, Agnes Mackworth, Roger & Thomas Mallory, Anne,
Elizabeth & John Mansfield, Oliver Manwaring, Anne & Katherine Marbury,
Elizabeth Marshall, Anne Mauleverer, Richard More, Joseph & Mary Need,
John Nelson, Philip & Thomas Nelson, Ellen Newton, John Orr, Joshua &
Rebecca Owen, Thomas Owsley, John Oxenbridge, Richard Palgrave, Herbert
Pelham, Robert Peyton, William & Elizabeth Pole, Henry & William
Randolph, Edward Raynsford, George Reade, William Rodney, Thomas
Rudyard, Elizabeth Saint John, Katherine Saint Leger, Richard
Saltonstall, Anthony Savage, William Seton, William Skepper, Diana &
Grey Skipwith, Mary Johanna Somerset, Alexander Spotswood, John
Stockman, Samuel & William Torrey, James Veatch, Jemima Waldegrave,
John & Lawrence Washington, Olive Welby, John West, Amy Willis, Thomas
Wingfield, Hawte Wyatt, George Yate.
For the connecting links between Walter and Margaret de Lacy down to
the individual colonists, please see Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta
Ancestry (2005).
Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
Website: www. royalancestry. net