Margaret Courtenay [54996] ²⁵

  General Notes:

http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/COURTENAY1.htm#Margaret%20COURTENAY4

Margaret was the daughter of William Courtenay, Earl of Devon <http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/WilliamCourtenay(10EDevon).htm>, and the Princess Catherine, and that she died at Holcombe, choked by a fishbone, A.D. 1512. Says on her tombe. This was found for her, in the person of Henry, Lord Herbert, eldest son of Charles Somerset, Earl of Worcester; and she was living at Richmond, in attendance on the infant Princess Mary <http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/aboutMary.htm>, on the second of Jul, 1520. She died before her husband, who married, secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Anthony Browne <http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/AnthonyBrowne(SirKnight).htm>. So we can only conclude that the inscription at Colyton is a mendacious inscription, and was invented to support the tradition about "little chokebone", as the natives call her, and which, like many other traditions about the Courtenays, can have had no foundation in fact.

Margaret married Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester [18243] [MRIN: 551614301], son of Charles Somerset 1st Earl of Worcester [18147] and Elizabeth Herbert Countess Worcester [18148], between 15 Jun 1514 and Jun 1520. (Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester [18243] was born about 1499, died on 26 Nov 1548 and was buried in Saint Mary's Church, Chepstow.)