Lady Margaret Fiennes, 11th Baroness Dacre

Resided Herstmonceux, England. Her Family Owned an Iron Works In England.

From the Find A Grave page on Margaret Fiennes Lennard

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=33583487

Birth: 1540 - Monmouth, Wales

Death: Mar. 10, 1611 - Chevening, Kent, England

Baroness Dacre, daughter of Thomas Fiennes, 9th Lord Dacre, and Mary Neville. Married the High Sheriff of Kent Sampson Lennard 16 Nov 1564 in Kent, England.

Sampson and Lady Margaret's home was at Chevening, co. Kent, 15 miles southeast of London, until perhaps 1594, the year of her brother's death, after which they were much at Hurstmonceux Castle, which they greatly embellished and where they entertained lavishly.

At St. Botolph's Church at Chevening is the stately alabaster tomb of Sampson Lennard and Margaret Fiennes.

In the south chancel, a stately tomb of alabaster, on which are the figures of a man in armour, and a lady in her robes, with their heads resting on cushions; at his feet is a brass head out of a ducal crown, and at her's a dog; on the south side are three sons (Henry, George & Thomas) kneeling on cushions, the first in robes, the others in armour; on the north side are five daughters (Anne, Mary, Margaret, Elizabeth & Frances), erected for Sampson Lennard, esq. with his wife Margaret Fiences, lady Dacre, &c. obt. 1615; on the top are six coats of arms with their quarterings.

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Parents:

• Thomas Fiennes (1516 - 1541)
• Mary Neville Fiennes (1520 - 1565)

Spouse:

• Sampson Lennard (1544 - 1615)

Burial: St Botolph Churchyard, Chevening, Kent, England

Created by: Sonnet Tidwell

• Record added: Feb 06, 2009
• Find A Grave Memorial# 33583487

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Tomb of Margaret and Sampson Lennard, inside the chancel at Chevening Church. Sampson's effigy is beside Margaret's. The figures below are representations of their daughters, and on the opposite side are the sons. Photo taken 8/1/2016.

References

• The fortunes of a family (Bosville of New Hall, Gunthwaite and Thorpe) through nine centuries, / by Lady Macdonald of the Isles. by Macdonald, Alice Edith Middleton, Lady, 1861- (Publication date 1928) Topics Bosville family. Publisher Edinburgh, Printed by T. and A. Constable ltd., 1928. Page 49. < Archive.Org >