Baroness Hungerford Lady Margaret de Botreaux

1410 - 1477  (67 years)

• Name	Lady Margaret de Botreaux  [1, 2]
  Title	Baroness Hungerford
  Birth	1410	Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset, England   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	7 Feb 1477	Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England   [2]
  Burial	Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England   [2]
  Person ID	I10397	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Family	Lord Robert Hungerford,   b. 1405, Hungerford, Somerset, England d. 18 May 1459, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England (Age 54 years)
  Marriage	1439	Somerset, England
  Children	1. 4th Baron Hungerford of Fairleigh Sir Thomas Hungerford,   b. 1437, Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset, England d. 18 Jan 1469, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England (Age 32 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F3896	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1410 - Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset, England Marriage - 1439 - Somerset, England Death - 7 Feb 1477 - Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S54] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT : Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Ancestry Family Trees. [S6040] FindAGrave Old World, Margaret Botreaux Hungerford 1412-1478. Lady Margaret de Botreaux Hungerford was fourty at the death of her father, and brought great wealth as well as a vast estate covering Somerset, Moels and Botreaux to her husband in marriage. She was considered to be a remarkable lady, a most energetic wife, and a much tried and devoted mother. When her son, Sir Robert, was taken prisoner in the Battle of Castillon, she went to great lengths to gather immense sums for his freedom, and was able to see his return after seven years and four months. Her strength was again tested when the same son faced the executioner when fighting on the Lancastrian side at Hexham, beheaded by the Yorks in 1463. Six years later, she lost her grandson, Sir Thomas Hungerford, executed at Salisbury in 1469. After all her effots to abide by her husband's wishes concerning their burials at a fabulous cost, her tomb was completely destroyed in the years to come. Her seal remains, it depicts her as sitting in a laced bodice and cover chief, an open book on her lap, and the label "Myne trouth assured", then the inscription of "Sigillum Margarete d' ne Hungerford de Botreaux." https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101360077/margaret-hungerford