Events
Date of Birth: 4 April 1314. (or 7 December 1313?)
Place of Birth: Winstanstow, Shropshire.
The date and place are given in Margery’s proof of age. The date is given as the day of St Ambrose, which Eyton (9:316) interprets as the date of St Ambrose’s death, although the feast of St Ambrose was normally celebrated on 7 December as 4 April fell in Lent.
Date of Death: before 1 May 1349.
Place of Death: unknown.
Margery died before her husband.
Relationships
Father: Thomas FitzAer.
This relationship is given by Eyton (9:316). See the Evidence section below.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: Sir Alan de Cherleton.
This relationship is given by Eyton (9:55, 318-9).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
John de Cherleton (born 2 February 1340 - died 25 December 1380) married Joan de Langley.
Thomas de Cherleton (born before 1349 - died 6 October 1387)
Evidence
Margery’s proof of age (CIPM v. 7, no. 161):
Margery, daughter and heir of Thomas Fitz Aer.
Writ to the escheator to take the proof of age of the said Margery, and warn Roger de Mortuo Mari and William le Botiller of Wemme, in whose hands are part of the said Margery’s lands, to be present, 9 July, 2 Edward III.
Endorsed by the escheator that he warned the said Roger and William, who appeared by their attorneys, and could say nothing why the king should not render the lands to the aforesaid Margery as of full age.
Salop. Proof of age taken at Wenlok, 25 August, 2 Edward III.
Walter le Scot, aged 60 years, says that the aforesaid Margery was fourteen years of age on the day of St. Ambrose the bishop last, for she was born at Wistannestowe in the said county on the said day, 7 Edward II, and baptized on the same day in the church there, and this he knows because Reginald his son married on that day a certain Alice.
Peter de Muneton, aged 44 years, says the like, and knows it because he buried Reginald his father on that day.
William Attewode, aged 40 years, says the like, and knows it because he buried Margery his mother at Christmas next before the said feast of St. Ambrose.
Hugh de Patynton, aged 50 years, says the like, and knows it because he married Mabel, daughter of Roger de Wilmescote, at Whitsunday next after the said feast of St. Ambrose.
Reginald de Chelmondwik, aged 40 years, says the like, and knows it because his wife lifted the aforesaid Margery from the sacred font.
Roger de Assecote, aged 48 years, says the like, and knows it because William his brother took priest’s orders at Easter next before the feast of St. Ambrose.
William Bastard, aged 52 years, says the like, and knows it because he was with his father before the king’s coroner at Wistannestowe on the very day on which the aforesaid Margery was born, through a certain accident (infortunio) that had happened there.
Walter de Kelmescote, aged 42 years, says the like, and knows it because his own daughter Maud was born in the same week.
John de Acton, aged 41 years, says the like, and knows it because he was (stetit) with Thomas FitzAer, father of the said Margery, and announced her birth to him.
Robert Attewode, aged 54 years, says the like, and knows it because he took a certain field for a term of twenty years from the aforesaid Thomas at the Ascension next after the aforesaid feast of St. Ambrose.
Richard de Holicote, aged 43 (?) years, says the like, and knows it because Hugh, his first-born son, was born in the same year.
John Engelard, aged 54 years, says the like, and knows it because Isabel his lady died in the same year in which the said Margery was born.
References
Calendars of Inquisitions Post Mortem (Public Record Office, generally available online at British History Online, HathiTrust, the Internet Archive, or Mapping the Medieval Countryside).
Eyton, Robert William. Antiquities of Shropshire v. 1 (1854), v. 9 (1859).
A History of the County of Shropshire: Volume 11 (Victoria County History, 1985).
Peel, Alice Maude. “Charltons of Apley Castle, Shropshire” in Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society v. 53 pt. 2 (1950).