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Margaret Brent (Colchester)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: England
Death: circa 1558 (66-84)
Monmouth Castle, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales
Place of Burial: Ilmington, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:

Daughter of George Colchester of Stoke and Admington, Esq. and Wife of George Colchester
Wife of Robert Brent, V
Mother of Sir William Brent, Lord of Stoke and Admington; Nicholas Brent; Thomas Brent; Helen Brent; Chettle and 2 others

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About Margaret Brent

  • 'Ancestral records and portraits: a compilation from the archives ..., Volume 2 By Colonial Dames of America. Chapter I, Baltimore, Grafton Press
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=Pox2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA524&lpg=PA524&dq...
  • Pg. 524
  • Their son, Sir John Brent of Cossington, married, first Ida, the daughter of Sir John Beauchamp, of Lilisdon, Knt., by whom he had Sir Robert, who succeeded him in the estates of Cossington; and, second Joan, the daughter of Sir Robert Latimer, Knt.
  • A son of the second married, Sir John, succeeded to the estate of Cossington (upon the death and exinction of the line of his half-brother, Sir Robert Brent).10
  • His son, Sir Robert, married Margaret, the daughter of Hugh Malet, of Currypool.
  • ' Their younger son, Robert married Margery, the daughter of George Colchester, Lord of Stoke and Admington, and died 1531. This Robert Brent founded the Brent family of Stoke and Admington, whose place of burial was in the church at Ilmington, in Warwickshire, where a memorial tablet in brass gives an account of their marriages and deaths'.
  • A son, Sir William Brent, Lord of Stoke and Admington, married Elizabeth ___, and died 1595. Their son, Sir Robert, married, 1572, Mary, the daughter of John and Katharine (Hennage) Huggeford, and died 1587. The will of Mary Brent, widow,11 bequeathed silver to her grandchildren, Elizabeth, Elinor, Anne, Jane, Richard, Gyles, William, Edward, and George Brent.
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  • 'The Virginia magazine of history and biography, Volume 14 By Virginia Historical Society
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=otIRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&dq=M...
  • Pg. 96
  • The Brents of Stoke have had a place of burial here since the coming of their ancestor out of Somersetshire about the year 1487 by 'the concealed name of John Buston, who married Margery, daughter of George Colchester, then of Stoke and Admington, Esq., about the year 1498 and died 1531.'
  • Their son William Brent Lord of Stoke and Admington dyed 1595 with Elizabeth his wife here buried. Their son Richard Brent married Mary daughter of John Huggeford and Katherine Hennage his wife, 1572 and died 1587. Here buried. Their son Richard Brent married Elizabeth daughter of Giles Reed Esquire & Katherine Grevill his wife Anno 1594 and dyed 1652. He was here buried but his wife at Bredon with her father. Their son Richard Brent married Margaret daughter of Sir john Peshall Baronet and Anne Sheldon his wife Ano 1622. Four of whose children (viz) Frances, Mary, Elizabeth, and Giles lye here buried Anno 1657. The sd. Margaret Brent died June 20th, 1666. Here buried.
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Margaret Brent's Timeline

1483
1483
England
1503
1503
Cossington, Somerset, England
1510
1510
Stow,,Gloucestershire,England
1558
1558
Age 75
Monmouth Castle, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales
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