Re: Another C.P. Addition: Margaret Neville, wife of Sir William

On May 16, 7:20 am, Douglas Richardson <royalances...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I believe Margaret (Neville) Lucy was Earl Edmund's first cousin, she
> being the same person as Margaret Neville, the daughter of Lady
> Elizabeth Neville, who is mentioned in the 1423 record of the Privy
> Council above mentioned.  This Margaret Neville's mother, Elizabeth
> (Holand) Neville, was the aunt of Earl Edmund Mortimer.
>
> Interestingly, I find that the matter of the identify of Margaret
> Neville, wife of William Lucy, Knt., was discussed in print back in
> 1878 by "Ermentrude" in Notes & Queries 5th series, 9 (1878): 266.
> Ermentrude states there that she found herself "confirmed by Harl. MS.
> 807 in the conclusion" that Margaret Neville, wife of William Lucy,
> was the daughter of Sir John Neville, by his wife, Elizabeth Holand.
> Unfortunately, Ermentrude failed to quote Harleian MS. 807.  As such,
> I'm uncertain exactly what she saw in that source.  However, I assume
> she found a record which stated that Sir John Neville and his wife,
> Elizabeth Holand, had a daughter, Margaret Neville, who married
> William Lucy.

Perhaps it is a bit premature to draw so definitive a conclusion based
on a self-serving assumption of what an unseen source might say.

taf