Margaret (Russell) Dennys

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Margaret Denys (Russell)

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Birthplace: Dyrham, Gloucestershire, England
Death: 1460 (61-69)
Siston, Gloucestershire, , England
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Sir Maurice Russell and Isabel Russell
Wife of Sir Gilbert Denys and John Kemeys, of Siston
Mother of Maurice Denys, of Olveston; William Dennys; Richard Denys; Margaret Denys; Matilda Gamage, Lady of Coity and 2 others
Sister of Isabel Hatfield
Half sister of Thomas Russell

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About Margaret (Russell) Dennys

  • Sir Maurice Russell (2 February 1356 – 27 June 1416) of Kingston Russell, Dorset and Dyrham, Glos. was a prominent member of the Gloucestershire gentry, the 3rd son, but eventual heir of Ralph Russell(1319–1375) and his wife Alice(d.1388). He was ....
  • By 1st wife Isabel Childrey, on marriage to whom, in 1369, Dyrham and other estates were entailed to the progeny of the marriage:[41]
    • ' (1)Margaret(c. 1375-1460) married twice: (1) c. 1404 as his 2nd wife, Sir Gilbert Denys(d.1422) of Siston, Glos.3 sons, 2 daughters, heir Maurice Denys(1409–1466). (2) John Kemys.
    • (2)Isabel(d.1437) married 4 times: (1) William le Scrope, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, beheaded 1399 at Bristol by Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster. He was a staunch adherent to Richard II, and a zealous treasurer of the Exchequer.[42] (2) Sir Thomas de la River(d.1406) of Tormarton & Acton Turville, Glos., whom she bore a son, Maurice de la River, who inherited the Gorges manor of Bradpole, Dorset, which he sold in 1457 to the Earl of Ormonde.[43] (3) Sir John Drayton(d.1417) of Nuneham Courtenay.[44] She bore Drayton 2 daughters, Joan, who was married to Drew Barantyne, her marriage having been purchased by Thomas Chaucer, 5 times Speaker of the House of Commons & son of the great poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Hatfield & Isabel had sold the reversion of Drayton's manor of Nuneham Courtenay to Thomas Chaucer; Elizabeth who m. 1stly Christopher Preston of Slapton, Northants., 2ndly by 1437 John Wenlock, 1st Baron Wenlock, future Speaker of the House of Commons. (4) Stephen Hatfield(d.1461), esquire.
  • Isabel and Drayton sold their share in the Russell ....
  • From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Russell,_knight
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Title: Welsh Genealogies AD 1400-1500 Author: Peter Clement Bartrum Publication: Aberystwyth. Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales, 1983 Page: Kemeys 5, p.1129

Please see Peter Bartrum: Kemeys 5; https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000173410010963 (Steven Ferry, January 10, 2024.)

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Margaret (Russell) Dennys's Timeline

1388
1388
Coyty,Glamorgan,Wales
1392
1392
Dyrham, Gloucestershire, England
1408
September 29, 1408
Siston, Gloucestershire, England
1421
1421
Combrawleigh, Devon, England (United Kingdom)
1423
1423
Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
1424
1424
Newport, Monmouthshire, England, United Kingdom
1425
1425
Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
1460
1460
Age 68
Siston, Gloucestershire, , England
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