• General Notes

  Margaret, Baroness Lisle, b. 1360, d. 20 Mar 1391/2, daughter of Warin de Lisle, Lord Lisle. [Magna Charta Sureties]
  
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  Her death date given above is based on CP II:131, which was corrected by CP XIV:87 to agree with CP VIII:54, which is "between May and September 1392".
  
  ----------------------------------------BARONY OF LISLE (III)
  
  MARGARET LISLE, according to modern doctrine suo jure BARONESS LISLE of Kingston Lisle and BARONESS TEYES, daughter and heir by 1st wife, being heir of her father after her brother Gerard's death. She was aged 22 and more at her father's death, and 30 and more at the death of her stepmother. She married, in November 1367, at Wingrave, Bucks, when aged about 7, Thomas BERKELEY, son of Maurice, LORD BERKELEY, by Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh DESPENSER the younger, LORD DESPENSER,[e] which
  Thomas succeeded his father as LORD BERKELEY 8 June 1368. On 7 July 1379 Thomas and Margaret had a Papal indult for a portable altar. On 30 November 1381 it was agreed between Thomas, Lord Berkeley, and Warin, Lord Lisle, that Margaret wife of Thomas and daughter of Warin should have all Warin's lands; Warin to come and go and dwell at Berkeley Castle, enjoying free hunting and fishing; he and Thomas to travel together in all wars; and the issue of Thomas and Margaret to bear and use the arms of Lisle after Warin's death. They had livery of her stepmother's dower 29 May 1392. She died between May and September 1392, and was buried at Wotton-under-Edge, co. Gloucester. He died sp.m. 13 July 1417, and was buried at Wotton.The brasses remain, but are without inscription. [Complete Peerage VIII:53-4
  
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  [e] On account of Margaret's youth it had been agreed that they should remain apart for four years. "The sicknes of the lord Maurice Berkeley increasing, notwithstanding the former agreement [Wednesday after Trinity 41 Edw. III] of fower years stay: they were by his request maryed at the said lord Lisle his house at Wengrave in Buckinghamshire in November next following And being himself unable to travell to his sons marriage sent with his son to attend him three of his houshold nights. Sir Richard de Acton, Sr John Tracy and St Nicholas de Berkeley, and 23 of his houshold Esquiers (all named in his houshold accompt;) The Knights were suted in their liveries of fine cloth of ray furred with miniver, And the Esquires n their liveries of coarser ray and less costly furre: And the young bridgegroom himself was in scarlet and sattin and a silver girdle And the lord Maurice himselfe that kept home, infirmed in body, in honor notwithstanding of the mariage, ade himself a sute de panno deaurato, which I think I may English, cloth of gold; And at the day of the solemmization of the marriage, Sr Richard de Acton gave the minstrels fourty shillings . . . The lord Thomas bringeth his wife the lady Margaret to Berkeley about the fifth of Richard the second, whom her said father accompanyeth." (J. Smyth, Berkeley MSS. (Bristol and Glos. Arch.Soc.), vol. ii, pp, 2, 3, 4) Smyth describes the wife as "a very mild and devout lady but nothing active in her family."
  
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  The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999 Page: 80-8
  
  Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000
  Page: VIII:53-4, II:131
  

Details of Margaret's family with Thomas (The Magnificent) de Berkeley