Margaret de Vere

Second Marriage and family

Margaret's second husband was Sir Nicholas de Loveyne. As their son Nicholas was described as aged “5 years and more” in 1375, his parents had presumably married at the end of 1369 or early in 1370.

Margaret and Nicholas had two children:

Nicholas de Loveyne (c. 1370)

Margaret de Loveyne (c.1372-1408)

Sir Nicholas died on 24 September 1375.

Third Marriage and family

Margaret's third marriage was to Sir John Devereux.

Their two children were:

John Devereux

Joan Devereux

Sir John Devereux died on 22 February 1392/3.

On 25 February 1393/4, the escheator of Buckinghamshire was instructed to assign dower to Margaret, as widow of Sir John.

Death

Margaret died in 1398. Contemporary sources differ about the precise date. One of the writs that were issued on 20 June for an Inquisition Post Mortem stated that she had died on the Tuesday after the Nativity of John the Baptist (i.e. on 25 June 1398, which is later than the date of the writ itself). However, another two writs also dated 20 June give her date of death as Saturday after St Barnabas (i.e. 15 June 1398), which is clearly the more credible version.

Margaret was buried at Greyfriars, London, along with her third husband, in a raised tomb between the Common and Jesus altars.

On 12 October 1398, the escheators of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk were ordered to take into custody on behalf of the King land that Margaret had held at the time of her death.