Margaret Brenchley

Margarets father dies in 1443.

From: The Peerage of England Collins

Daugther and co-heir of John Brenchley and brought the manor and lands to the Moore family. William Moore, of Moore- Place, Esq. who married Margaret, daughter and coheir to John Brenchley, Esq. Lord of the manor of Benenden, by his wife, Margaret, daughter and heir to Richard Golding, 21 Henry VI. (of which family was Sir William Brenchley , a Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and died in 1446, as she died in 1453, without issue), and with her he got the inheritance of Moat-Lands and Bettenham, in Kent. He lies buried in the church of Benenden, in Kent, with his father-in- law; as appears by this inscription in the chancel window on the north side:

Orate pro animabus Johannis Brenchley et Willielmi

Hasted's History of Kent (1793) " It thereafter passed to
Margaret, the daughter and coheir of John Brenchley, esq., by Margaret
Golding, his wife (she being the daughter and heiress of Richard
Golding). Margaret Brenchley married William Moore (during the 21st
year of King Henry VI) and the manor thereafter continued for some
time in the Moore/More/de la More family."

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Manor of Beneden

From BHO https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol7/pp173-183#highli...

In the reign of king Edward I. John de Benenlene held it, as one knight's fee, of the countess of Ewe, and she again of the earl of Albermarle; and it was held in the 20th year of king Edward III. in like manner, by another John de Benenden. In his descendants, who bore for their arms, Azure, a lobster, or, this manner continued, till by a female heir Joane de Benenden, it went in marriage to Sir William Brenchley, chief justice of the common pleas, who died possessed of it in 1446, as she did in 1453, s.p. and were both buried in the nave of Canterbury cathedral, in which she built and endowed a chantry; on which this manor came into the possession of Margaret, daughter and coheir of John Brenchley, esq. by Margaret his wife, daughter and heir of Richard Golding, who had been married anno 21 Henry VI. to William Moore, esq. of this parish, who, in his wife's right became entitled to it.

From BHO https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol5/pp280-294

It appears by the escheat rolls, that there was an estate here called MOATLANDS, which was formerly part of the possessions of the eminent family of Pimpe. Reginald Pimpe died in the 16th year of Henry VI. possessed of a messuage in Brenchley, called Le Moat, with the lands and appurtenances belonging to it. Soon after which it appears to have come into a family, called, from their residence in this parish, Brenchley, one of whom was Sir William Bruchelle, or Brenchley, one of the justices of the common pleas, who died May 20, 1446, without issue, and lies buried with Joane his wife, in the nave of Canterbury cathedral. They bore for their arms, A cross patent engrailed, as may be seen carved on the roof of the cloysters of that cathedral.

John Brenchley, esq. was owner of it in Henry VI.'s reign, and left an only daughter and heir Margaret, who, in the 21st year of it, carried it in marriage to William More, esq. of More-court, in Ivechurch, who was succeeded in it by his son, Walter More, esq. of Benenden, who died in the 19th year of Henry VII. leaving two sons, Thomas, of Benenden; and William, of Bettenham, in Cranbrooke; between whom this estate became divided, the line of separation crossing the

BHO https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol7/pp173-183#highli...

Hasted's History of Kent (1793) " It thereafter passed to
Margaret, the daughter and coheir of John Brenchley, esq., by Margaret
Golding, his wife (she being the daughter and heiress of Richard
Golding). Margaret Brenchley married William Moore (during the 21st
year of King Henry VI) and the manor thereafter continued for some
time in the Moore/More/de la More family."

TPD 26/8/22

From Kent Couunty Council Ex[ploring Kent's PAst

https://webapps.kent.gov.uk/KCC.ExploringKentsPast.Web.Sites.Public...
Collinson, P., Ramsey, N. & Sparks, M., 1995, A History of Canterbury Cathedral (Monograph). SKE30201.
Blockley, K., Sparks, M. & Tatton-Brown, T., 1997, Canterbury Cathedral Nave, Archaeology, History and Architecture (Monograph). SKE29723.

The Brenchley Chantry Chapel (Later the Neville Chapel) was built in 1447 between the butresses in the fourth bay west of the crossing.

The chapel was founded by the executors of Sir William Brenchley (Justice of the Common Pleas) in 1447 as a chantry chapel for himself and his widow Joan, and it was dedicated to St. John the Baptist. The chapel was designed by Richard Beke, the Priory Master Mason and it had windows in its south wall and a shallow-pitched leaded roof with a parapet and finials at the southern corners. The altar against the east wall had painted or sculpted figures above it and there was probably a cornice and a shallow vault or panelled ceiling. The Brenchley Grave, however, was situated in the nave space near the south arcade, and not in the chapel. Dame Brenchley died in 1453 and was buried with her husband. - TPD 6/9/22