Margaret, or Margery--she bears both names on the Rolls--_born_ probably
1222; _married_ at Bury Saint Edmund's "when the Earl was at Merton"--
probably January 11-26, 1236,--clandestinely, but with connivance of
mother, to Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester; divorced 1237; livery
of her estates granted to brother John, May 5, 1241; therefore _died_
shortly before that date. Most writers attribute to Earl Hubert another
daughter, whom they call Magotta: but the Rolls show no evidence of any
daughter but Margaret. Magotta, or Magot, is manifestly a Latinism of
Margot, the French diminutive for Margaret; the Earl's gifts to
monasteries for the souls of himself and relatives, include "M. his
daughter," but make no mention of two; and the grants made by the King
to Earl Hubert and Margaret his wife, and Margaret their daughter,
certainly imply that Margaret was the sole heir of her mother.
[Character inferentially historical, except as regards religion, for
which no evidence is forthcoming.]