Lady Margaret Lee

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Lady Margaret Lee (Wyatt)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Allington Castle, Kent, England (United Kingdom)
Death: circa 1543 (28-45)
Warwick, Warwickshire, England (United Kingdom)
Place of Burial: Warwick, Worcestershire, England
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Sir Henry Wyatt, Kt. and Anne Wyatt
Wife of Sir Anthony Lee, MP
Mother of Sir Robert Lee, KG, MP; Cromwell Lee; Catherine Symonds (Lee); Jacoba (or?) Joyce Cheyne; Sir Henry Lee, MP, Queen's Champion and 4 others
Sister of Francis Wyatt; Henry Wyatt, Jr.; Mary Wyatt; Anne Wyatt; Sir Thomas Wyatt, MP and 2 others

Occupation: Lady-in-waiting, Lady-In-Waiting to Queen Anne Boleyn
Managed by: Charlene Newport
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About Lady Margaret Lee

Lady Margaret Lee (née Wyatt) (1506(?) – 1543(?)) was a sister of the poet Thomas Wyatt and a favourite of Queen Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII of England.

Marriage and issue

About 6 July 1532 Margaret Wyatt married Sir Anthony Lee (d.1549), by whom she had four sons and five daughters:

  • Sir Henry Lee.
  • Robert Lee (died c.1598).
  • Thomas Lee.
  • Cromwell Lee (d.1601), who compiled an Italian-English dictionary.
  • Anne Lee, who married Leonard Spenser of Naunton Hall in Rendlesham, Suffolk.
  • Lettice Lee, who married Nicholas Cooke of Linstead, Suffolk.
  • Katherine Lee, who married Gyles Symonds (died circa 1596) of Cley next the Sea, Norfolk.
  • Joyce Lee, who married, on 29 November 1562, John Chenye, son of Sir Robert Chenye of Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire.
  • Jane Lee, who married Peter Reade of Gimingham, Norfolk.

See her biography at wikipedia.org

She did NOT marry anyone named Sir Thomas John Fitz Rogers, Baron Rogers of Aston and she is NOT the same person as Margaret Rogers, daughter of John Wyatt, a tanner from Deritend, Birmingham, who was the mother of Rev. John Rogers "The Martyr"

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Lady Margaret Lee's Timeline

1506
1506
Allington Castle, Kent, England (United Kingdom)
1536
1536
1538
1538
Buckinghamshire, England (United Kingdom)
1540
1540
1541
1541
Cley Next The Sea, Norfolk, England
1542
1542
1543
1543
Age 37
Warwick, Warwickshire, England (United Kingdom)
1544
1544
1546
1546
Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England (United Kingdom)
1548
1548