Margaret Crassus
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: after 14 June 1247.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by Cawley.
Relationships
Father: William Crassus.
This relationship is given by Hunt (p. 34).
Mother: a daughter of John Marshal.
Vincent states that William Crassus married a daughter of John Marshal.
Spouse: Ralph de Somery.
This relationship is given by Hunt (p. 34), citing a marriage contract and a confirmation charter, both in the Brooksby cartulary.
Spouse: Maurice de Gaunt.
This relationship is given by the Worcestershire VCH (3 sub Dudley) and by Hunt (p. 35).
Children (by Ralph):
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Ralph de Somery (died 1220) married Ida de Longespee.
William Perceval de Somery (died before 20 June 1222).
Joan de Somery married Thomas de Berkeley.
Isabel de Somery married Alan de Englefield.
References
Cawley, Charles. Margaret Crassus, in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
Hunt, John. Lordship and the Landscape: A Documentary and Archaeological Study of the Honor of Dudley c. 1066 - 1322 (British Archaeological Reports, 1997).
“Parishes: Dudley,” in A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 3 (London, 1913). [Victoria County History]
Vincent, Nicholas. “The Borough of Chipping Sodbury and the Fat Men of France (1130-1270)” in Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archeological Society 116 (1998), 141-159.