The will of Margaret Wastell, of Harbledown Kent, 1538

<!DOCTYPE html> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-gb" lang="en-gb" dir="ltr"> <head> <base href="https://fmg.ac/fr/publications/journal/vol-14/702-fnd-14-03" /> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="keywords" content="Medieval Genealogy, Prosopography, Foundation of Medieval Genealogy, FMG" /> <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" /> <meta name="description" content="Promoting the study of medieval genealogy and prosopography." /> <meta name="generator" content="Joomla! - Open Source Content Management" /> <title>The will of Margaret Wastell, of Harbledown Kent, 1538 - Foundation for Medieval Genealogy</title> <link href="/templates/fmg/favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon" /> <link href="/plugins/system/jce/css/content.css?badb4208be409b1335b815dde676300e" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <link href="/templates/fmg/css/template.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <link href="/templates/fmg/css/print.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <script src="/media/jui/js/jquery.min.js?6512c0dfae57d352acc1af83268af09b" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/media/jui/js/jquery-noconflict.js?6512c0dfae57d352acc1af83268af09b" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/media/jui/js/jquery-migrate.min.js?6512c0dfae57d352acc1af83268af09b" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/media/system/js/caption.js?6512c0dfae57d352acc1af83268af09b" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/media/jui/js/bootstrap.min.js?6512c0dfae57d352acc1af83268af09b" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(window).on('load', function() { new JCaption('img.caption'); }); </script>  </head> <body class="contentpane modal"> <div id="system-message-container"> </div> <ul class="category-module"> </ul> <div class="item-page foundations toc"> <div id="pop-print" class="btn"> <a href="#" onclick="window.print();return false;"> <span class="icon-print" aria-hidden="true"></span> Imprimer </a> </div> <div class="clearfix"> </div> <h1> </h1> <h1 style="text-align: center;">The will of Margaret Wastell, of Harbledown Kent, 1538<br /><o:p></o:p></h1> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>by Francis Woodman<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1">[1]</a></em></strong></p> <h3>Abstract</h3> <p class="AbstractText">The will of Margaret Wastell, d.1538, names one surviving child and several grandchildren but makes no mention of her deceased husband John (d.1518), one of Europe’s leading architects of his day. John died in Bury St Edmunds, Margaret twenty years later in a distant Kent hospital yet threatened legal actions (hitherto undated) reveal that Margaret was John’s widow and that she had rebuilt her life totally in another place surrounded by her remaining family. Her later circumstances were clearly comfortable, and her descendants were notable in their own way. She had simply led two lives — one as wife and another as widow with nothing at first sight to connect her dual existences. <o:p></o:p></p> <p><em>Foundations (2022) <strong>14</strong>: 88–98                          <span class="pull-right">© Copyright FMG and the author</span></em></p> <p class="readmore"> <a href="/fr/login"> Veuillez vous identifier ou vous inscrire pour lire la suite... </a> </p> </div> </body> </html>

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