Margaret Mortimer, Baroness Berkeley

Margaret Mortimer
Margaret Mortimer
Baroness Berkeley
	Joan de Geneville, Baroness Geneville

Margaret Mortimer, Baroness Berkeley (2 May 1304 – 5 May 1337) was the wife of

Joan de Geneville, Baroness Geneville.^[1]

Family

Margaret Mortimer was the eldest of the twelve children of

Her father Roger proposed the marriage of his eldest daughter Margaret to

After her father's fall from power in 1322, Margaret was arrested.[1] In 1324, she was sent to Shouldham Priory. Her marriage to Berkeley was confirmed, and her offspring declared legitimate by Pope John XXII in 1329.^[1]

Margaret died on 5 May 1337. She was buried at St. Augustine's Abbey, Bristol, Gloucestershire.^[1] After her death, her husband married again to Catherine born Clivedon.^[4]

Ancestors of Margaret Mortimer, Baroness Berkeley

Jeanne de Fougères

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Mortimer 2003, p. 320.
^ ^a ^b Mortimer 2003, p. 95.
^ Wells-Furby, Bridget (2004). A Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Berkeley Castle. Vol. 17. Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. p. lv.
^ Smyth, John (1883). Lives of the Berkeleys. Vol. 1. p. 346.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Mortimer 2003, p. 338.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Mortimer 2003, p. 339.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Mortimer 2003, p. 341.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Mortimer 2003, p. 340.