Margaret Plantagenêt Duchess of Norfolk
- Born: Abt 1322
- Marriage: Sir John Segrave Knight, Baron de Segrave 141
- Died: 24 Mar 1399, London, Middlesex, England about age 77 141
- Buried: Quire of Grey Friars, London, England 141
 Noted events in her life were:
• Background Information. 141
Margaret, suo jure Countess of Norfolk under the limitation in the creation of the Earldom elder of two daughters and coheirs by 1st wife. On the death, s.p. of her niece Joan, Countess of Suffolk, in 1375, she became sole heir of her father. She had already, in Feb 1372/3, be styled Margaret Marshal, and in July 1377, as Margaret Marshal, Countess of Norfolk, daughter and heir of Thomas of Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk and Marshal of England, she claimed to perform the office of Marshal by deputy at the Coronation of Richard II. On 29 Sep 1397, the day her grandson and heir apparent was cr. Duke of Norfolk, she was cr. in Parliament, in her absence, Duchess of Norfolk for life.
Margaret married 1stly, in 1337/8, John Segrave, Lord Segrave, who died in 1353. She married 2ndly before 30 May 1354, Walter Mauny, Lord Mauny, who died in Jan 1371/2. She died died s.p.m., 24 Mar 1398/9, and was buried in the choir of the Grey Friars' London. On her death the dignity of Duchess of Norfolk, conferred on her for life, became extinct, but the Earldom devolved on her grandson Thomas de Mowbray.
~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. IX, pp.600-601
Margaret married Sir John Segrave Knight, Baron de Segrave, son of Sir Stephen de Segrave Knight, Baron de Segrave and Alice de Arundel.141 (Sir John Segrave Knight, Baron de Segrave was born about 1315 in Segrave, Barrow-Upon-Soar, Leicestershire, England, died on 1 Apr 1353 141 and was buried in Chacombe Priory, Northamptonshire, England.)
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