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Name |
Margery Dinham |
Gender |
Female |
Death |
13 Dec 1471 |
Person ID |
I191427 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
1 Oct 2022 |
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Notes |
- Margery Dinham (d.13 December 1471), eldest sister, who married Nicholas IV Carew (1424? 1470) of Mohuns Ottery in the parish of Luppitt, Devon. His purbeck marble chest tomb survives in the Chapel of St Nicholas in Westminster Abbey, the ledger stone of which bore a Latin inscription, now effaced. The Devonshire biographer Prince (d.1723) wrote concerning this monument "To whose memory an antient plain tomb of gray marble is there still seen erected with an inscription in brass round the ledg, and some coats of arms on the pedestal".[16] The inscription and arms were still remaining in 1733, but had disappeared by 1877.[17] The Latin epitaph was recorded by Prince as follows:[18]
Orate pro animabus Nicolai Baronis quondam de Carew et Dominae Margaritae uxoris eius filiae Johannis Domini Dinham, militis; qui quidem Nicolaus obiit sexto die mensis Decembris anno dom(ini) 1470. Et praedicta Domina Margareta obiit 13 die mensis Decembris anno 1471.
This may be translated into English as follows: "Pray for the souls of Nicholas, sometime Baron Carew, and of the Lady Margaret his wife, daughter of John, Lord Dinham, Knight; which Nicholas died on the 6th day of the month of December in the year of our Lord 1470 and the aforesaid Lady Margaret died on the 13th day of the month of December in the year 1471"
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