Dame Margaret Norton

Margaret Warde was the daughter of Sir Roger Warde, Knight, and wife Joan Tunstall. Her date of birth is not known but is estimated to be c.1459. She died on September 3, 1520, at Wath, Yorkshire, England.

Margaret Warde married Sir John Norton, Knight. He was the son of Sir John Norton, Knight, and wife Joan Pigot. He was also known as John Conyers.

Family

From Find A Grave Memorial no. 113704017

Daughter of Sir Roger Warde and Joan Tunstall. Granddaughter of Sir Thomas Tunstall and Eleanor FitzHugh, Sir Roger Warde and Joan Markenfield.

She was the wife of Sir John Norton, the son and heir to Sir John Norton and Joan Pigot.

They had two sons and three daughters;

• John
• Henry
• Anne, wife of Christopher Wandesforde
• Margaret, wife of Sir Roger Lascelles
• Jane, wife of Sir William Mallory

Notes

“Sir Roger de Ward, Knight, married [Elinor, daughter to Sir Thomas Constable, Knight,] Joan Tunstall, and had issue, Christopher, who succeeded him; Simon, who died without issue; Margaret, married to Sir John Cogniers, Knight, alias Norton, of Norton; she died 1520, and lies at Warke; Robert, John, and Elizabeth died young. (1)

Sources

• History of the Ancient Parish of Guiseley: With Introductory Chapters on the Antiquities of the District (Google eBook) Philemon Slater Hamilton, Adams, 1880 - 287 pages. Page 108 "de Warde Family"
• The visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564 made by William Flower ; edited by Charles Best Norcliffe. Published 1881 by Mitchell and Hughes in London .Written in English. Page 334. Wife and mother of children shown as Joan Tunstall
• link to The Ancestors of Sir William Mallory, of Studley and Hutton, Yorkshire (d. 1603) A continuation of the ancestry of Henry Stratton and a plausible continuation of the ancestry of William Addams Reitwiesner by William Addams Reitwiesner
• link to “Who was Margaret (Warde) Norton’s mother ?”

Citations

From https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1159.htm...

1. Unknown author, The Lineage and Ancestry of HRH Prince Charles, by Gerald Paget, Vol. II, p. 170, 250.
2. Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 121.
3. Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 369.
4. Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 238.
5. Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 21.
6. Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 389.
7. Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 218.
8. Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 487.

Links

• https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1159.htm...