Person:Margaret Mallory (3)

'Originally, it was thought ... that Robert Corbet, father of Mary Corbet who married Charleton of Apley, had married Margaret the daughter of William Malory. [However,] ... there were severe chronological problems in this identification.

'But in any case, it was shown in Roskell, _House of Commons_, under Mallory, that William Mallory had married Robert Corbet's widow, Margaret. This information was brought to the attention of the American genealogical public by Brice McA. Clagett, via Gary Boyd Roberts.'

'The ownership of Shawebury is also worthy of further study. At least one account of the Mallorys tells that Margaret and William Mallory lived at Shawebury, ...
... Shawebury was Corbet land, and had twice been used as the widows portion prior to Margaret's posessing it. Thus, it is extremely likely that Margaret brought this land to her (second) husband William Mallory, ...'

'The ipm of Margaret Corbet, recorded 16 Henry VI (c1439) is indexed as follows:

Margareta, quae fuit uxor Roberti Corbet de Morton armiger' defunt'

and showed her as holding Shawebury, Salop.

From the indexed entry, we see that she is NOT called Margaret Corbet, only Margaret, formerly wife of Robert Corbet. Equally important, her husband had predeceased her.'

Robert "died during his term as sheriff on 12 Aug. 1420, at the early age of 36. His heir was his elder son, Thomas, then aged ten, who subsequently sat for Shropshire in 1435 but died less than four years afterwards when, on the death of Robert's widow (who had meanwhile married Sir William Mallory of Papworth, Cambridgeshire), the family estates passed to Robert's younger son, Roger Corbet."

'The i.p.m. of Dame Margaret Corbet wife of Robert Corbet of Morton, knight, 18 Henry VI [about 1439], Ref. C 139/90/4, ...'