Margaret Corbet

Also known as Mary Corbet

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: about 1251.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Pryce (p. 42).

Relationships

Father: Robert Corbet.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 29), and given by Tout/Carr, by Meisel (p. 8), by Lieberman (p. 92), and by Eyton (7:15). Pryce (p. 42) gives Thomas Corbet of Caus, but elsewhere (p. 773) he gives Robert Corbet of Caus. Margaret's son Gruffudd mentions his uncle Thomas Corbet, who was Margaret's brother, in a letter to Henry III (Pryce,no. 596: "dominus Thom(as) Corb(er)t avunculus meus").

Mother: Emma, probably a daughter of Hugh Pantulf.

This relationship is given by Meisel (p. 8).

Spouse: Gwenwynwyn ab Owain Cyfeiliog ap Gruffudd.

This relationship is shown by Bartrum (Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 29), and given by Lieberman (p. 92), and by Tout/Carr. The relationship is shown by a contemporary grant in Pryce (no. 579).

Children:

Gruffudd married Hawise le Strange.

Evidence

from the Close Rolls:  Volume 1  p. 492.

Pro  uxore  Wenunwin’ — Rex  perdonavit  Margarete,  que  fuit  uxor Wenunwin’,  tallagium  quod  Willelmus  Basset  et  Eustachius  de  Ludeham, quondam  assessores  tallagii  regis,  assederunt  per  preceptum  regis  anno etc.  xj,  super  duas  partes  manerii  de  Assheford',  quas  eadem  Margareta tenet  de  rege  ad  firmam  quamdiu  regi  placuerit.  Et  mandatum  est baronibus  de  Scaccario  quod  ipsam  Margaretam  do  predicto  tallagio quietam  esse  faciant.     Teste  rege  apud  Westmonasterium,  xv  die  Aprilis. 

from the Fine Rolls: 

10/258 (29 August 1226):

Shrewsbury. For Margaret, who was the wife of Gwenwynwyn . To Robert of Lexington. The king has committed to Margaret, who was the wife of Gwenwynwyn , for as long as it pleases him, two thirds of the manor of Ashford with appurtenances that are in the king’s hand, so that she answers for however much of the farm pertains to those two thirds as will be provided before the barons of the Exchequer for how much she ought to answer. Order to cause her to have full seisin thereof, saving to the king the corn of this autumn in the tenth year and the rent of Michaelmas term in the same year.

10/346 (21 October 1226):

Westminster. For the wife of Gwenwynwyn . Order to Robert of Lexington to cause Margaret, who was the wife of Gwenwynwyn , to have full seisin of the two thirds of the manor of Ashford that are in the king’s hand, which the king committed to him to hold for £30 each year, to be rendered to the king at two terms, namely at the Exchequer of Easter and the Exchequer of Michaelmas.

13/48 (24 November 1228):

Westminster. For the wife of Gwenwynwyn . The king has granted Margaret, who was the wife of Gwenwynwyn , that she may have and hold in her hand two thirds of the manor of Ashford from Michaelmas in the twelfth year until Michaelmas in the thirteenth year by rendering £20 at the Exchequer at two terms, namely £10 at Easter in the thirteenth year and £10 at Michaelmas in the same year. The king has also pardoned Margaret the 100s. that she owed for the arrears of the farm of the same manor from Easter term in the twelfth year. And the king has further granted her that, of the £15 which she owes him for the arrears of the same farm from Michaelmas term in the twelfth year, she may render £7 10s. at this Exchequer of Michaelmas in the twelfth year and £7 10s. at Hilary in the thirteenth year. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus and to cause Margaret to be quit of the aforesaid 100s.

14/424 (8 August 1230):

Nottingham. Concerning respite of a demand. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire to place in respite, until 15 days from Michaelmas in the fourteenth year, the demand of £30 that he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Margaret, who was the wife of Gwenwynwyn , for the arrears of the farm of two parts of the manor of Ashford , the demand of 108s. which he makes by the same summons from the same M. for the tallage assessed upon the same two parts of the same manor, and the demand of 2 m. which he makes by the same summons from the same M. for the tallage assessed upon the vill of Longstone, which is a member of the aforesaid manor, so that it may be inquired then by the rolls of the Exchequer for which debts Margaret ought to answer to the king. Witness S. of Seagrave.

15/32 (10 November 1230):

Concerning the bailiwick of the High Peak committed to B. de Lisle. The king has committed the bailiwick of the High Peak to B. de Lisle to keep for as long as it pleases the king by rendering £100 each year at the Exchequer. And £30 for the manor of Ashford , which Margaret, who was the wife of Gwenwynwyn , holds, ought not be allowed to the same B. in those £100, or 20s. likewise from a messuage and twelve acres of land with appurtenances in Bistalleg’ and Ashop, which the nuns of Derby hold of the king’s gift, or any money for the pasture of Fairfield and Mainstone. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

15/125 (1 March 1231):

Concerning respite of a demand. Order to the sheriff of Derbyshire to place in respite, until 15 days from Easter in the fifteenth year, the demand of 108s. that he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Margaret, who was the wife of Gwenwynwyn of Wales , for the tallage assessed to the king’s use upon the vill of Ashford, and the demand of 2 m. that he similarly makes by summons of the Exchequer from the same Margaret for the tallage assessed to the king’s use upon the vill of Longstone, which vills are in her hand by bail of the king.

References

Bartrum, Peter C., “Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 29” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500. 

Close Rolls of the Reign of Henry III (H.M. Stationery Office, 1902).

Eyton, R.W. Antiquities of Shropshire Volume 7 (London, 1858).

Henry III Fine Rolls Project. The National Archives and King’s College London (accessed 18 February 2023). 

Lieberman, Max. The Medieval March of Wales (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Meisel, Janet. Barons of the Welsh Frontier: The Corbet, Pantulf, and Fitz Warin Families, 1066-1272 (University of Nebraska Press, 1980).

Pryce, Huw. The Acts of the Welsh Rulers. (University of Wales Press, 2005).

Sanders, Ivor John. English Baronies (Oxford: 1960).

Tout, T.F. (A.D. Carr, rev.) “Gwenwynwyn” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).