John Wake

From Brad Verity (Nov 2, 2013) at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/7g__mErVKHs/m/...

Here is what historian Michael Hicks says, in full, about Margaret Fitzlewis Lucy, in his 2003 book 'Edward V: The Prince in the Tower', pp. 34-37. I've already posted what he says about Margaret (aka Elizabeth) Plantagenet Lumley, and what he says about the non-existent (as it turns out) mistress of Edward IV, Elizabeth Lucy. The material in parentheses () are Hicks's footnotes. The material in brackets [] are my own comments:

When Margaret [Fitz Lewis] died on 4 August 1466, still only about thirty and apparently at her family’s home at Horndon in Essex, she left an infant son twelve weeks old (and her heir) called John Wake, presumably conceived about August 1465. Although her magnificent brass at Ingrave (Essex) calls her Margaret Wake, neither writs nor inquisitions post-mortem call her other than Margaret late the wife of Sir William Lucy, so she may not have been confirmed as married to Thomas Wake. His heir Roger Wake, already adult in 1476, was his son by an earlier marriage (GEC viii. 263; PRO C140/20/6/1-16; CPR 1467-77, 598; W.E. Hampton, Monuments of the Wars of the Roses (Upminster, 1979), no. 76; W.E. Hampton, ‘Roger Wake of Blisworth’, Richard III: Crown & People, ed. J. Petre (1985), 160 n5).