Margaret Percy

The Lady Margaret Gascoigne (née Percy) (born c. 1447) was an English noblewoman, the daughter of Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland and Eleanor Poynings.

She married Sir William Gascoigne, "the Younger", son of Sir William Gascoigne and wife. Their daughter Agnes (or Anne) Gascoigne married Sir Thomas Fairfax (died 1520–1521), who was an ancestor of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.^[1][2] Lady Margaret Percy was a descendant of Edward III.^[3]

Family

She married Sir William Gascoigne V (c. 1450 – 1486),^[4] son of Sir William Gascoigne IV (c. 1427 – c. 1463)^[5] [great-grandson of Sir William Gascoigne I (c. 1350 – 1419), Chief Justice of England] and Joan Neville (c. 1436–1464) (great-granddaughter of Robert Ferrers, 5th Baron Boteler of Wem and Joan Beaufort). The couple had the following children:^[6][7]

• Sir William Gascoigne VI: married firstly Alice Frognall and secondly Margaret Nevill (daughter of Richard Nevill, 2nd Baron Latimer of Snape). Had issue by both marriages. Second son by first marriage, Sir Henry Gascoigne, was ancestor of the Wyvill Baronets (from the 3rd onwards).^[8][9] Male line by primogeniture ended with his grandson William Gascoigne VIII, whose only daughter and heiress (other children died young) Margaret (1530–1592/93) married Sir Thomas Wentworth (1520–1586/87), High Sheriff of York (who thereby got possession of the Gascoigne family seat at Gawthorpe, York^[10]), and became the paternal grandmother of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford.^[11]
• Margaret or Margery (c. 1473 – 1515):^[12] married Ralph Ogle, 3rd Baron Ogle, and had issue.^[13]
• Elizabeth (1470–1559):^[14] married before April 1493 as his second wife Sir George Tailboys (c. 1467 – 1538), de jure 9th Baron Kyme and Sheriff of Lincolnshire, grandson of Sir William Tailboys, de jure 7th Baron Kyme. This couple were ancestors of Mildred Warner^[15] (paternal grandmother of George Washington, 1st president of the USA) and her sister Mary Warner^[16] (ancestress of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, mother of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom) (see here for descent chart).
• Anne or Agnes (c. 1474 – 1504): married firstly Sir Thomas Fairfax (c. 1475 – 1520). She had twin sons: the elder, Nicholas, was ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales and the younger, William, was an ancestor of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (see here for descent chart). Married secondly Ralph Nevill, of Thornton Bridge.
• Dorothy (c. 1475 – 1527):^[17] married Sir Ninian Markenfield (died 1527).^[18] Ancestors of William Howard Taft,^[19] 27th president of the USA Sir Ninian's other wife was Eleanor Clifford, daughter of Henry Clifford, 10th Baron de Clifford.^[20] (Of interest: Sir Ninian's sister Anne was ancestress of George Gascoigne, poet, and Zachary Taylor,^[21] 12th president of the USA)

Ancestry

Ancestors of Margaret Percy

16. Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland               8. Henry Hotspur Percy                       17. Lady Margaret Neville               4. Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland                             18. Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March               9. Lady Elizabeth Mortimer                       19. Philippa Plantagenet, 5th Countess of Ulster               2. Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland                                   20. John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby               10. Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland                       21. Lady Maud Percy               5. Lady Eleanor Neville                             22. John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster               11. Lady Joan Beaufort                       23. Katherine Swynford               1. Margaret Percy                                         24. Sir Richard de Poynings, 3rd Lord Poynings               12. Robert de Poynings, 4th Lord Poynings                       25. Isabel Grey               6. Sir Richard de Poynings                             26. Thomas Squery               13. Margaret Squery                       27.               3. Eleanor de Poynings, Baroness de Poynings[22]                                   28.               14. Henry Seamer                       29.               7. Joan Seamer                             30.               15.                       31.

Notes

1. Reitwiesner, William Addams (2011). Child, Christopher Challender, ed. The Ancestry of Catherine Middleton. Scott Campbell Steward. Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society. pp. 118–9. ISBN 978-0-88082-252-7.
2. The Ancestry of Catherine Middleton prepared by William Addams Reitwiesner (chart) – April 2011
3. Lundy, Darryl. "Lady Margaret Percy". The Peerage.
4. Lundy, Darryl. "Sir William Gascoigne". The Peerage.
5. Lundy, Darryl. "Sir William Gascoigne". The Peerage.
6. http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/Gascoigne.htm
7. http://www.multiwords.de/genealogy/gascoigne02.htm
8. Lundy, Darryl. "p21259.htm#i212582". The Peerage.
9. http://www.angelfire.com/realm3/ruvignyplus/
10. Burke's Peerage, see page 564 of this edition
11. Burke's Peerage, see page 564 of this edition (however, the book confuses this Margaret with William V's daughter Margaret, Lady Ogle)
12. Margaret or Margery
13. http://www.mathematical.com/ogleralph1468.html
14. Lundy, Darryl. "Elizabeth". The Peerage.
15. http://washington.ancestryregister.com/GASCOIGNELineage00006.htm
16. Lundy, Darryl. "Mary Warner". The Peerage.
17. Dorothy
18. Sir Ninian Markenfield
19. Descent of William Howard Taft from Edward III
20. http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/Clifford1299.htm
21. Descent of Zachary Taylor from Edward III
22. Lundy, Darryl. "thepeerage.com: Eleanor de Poynings, Baroness de Poynings". The Peerage.