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 Abt 1427 - Abt 1492 (~ 65 years)
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| Name |
St. John, Margaret |
| Born |
Abt 1427 |
England  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
Abt 1492 |
Shaftsbury Abbey, Dorset, England |
| Person ID |
I04597 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
16 Jun 2015 |
| Father |
St. John, knight Oliver, b. Abt 1398, Of Penmark, Wales , bur. 4 Mar 1437, Rouen, Normandy, France (Age ~ 39 years) |
| Mother |
Beauchamp, Lady Margaret, b. Abt 1410, Of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England , d. 8 Aug 1482, Wimborne, Dorset, England (Age ~ 72 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1425 |
England |
| Family ID |
F00132 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- ...A daughter of Oliver St. John was Lady Abbesse of Shaftesbury Abbey, elected 9th March 1460 and Abbess in 1480.
Abbess of Shaftsbury:
...The voting body at the election of Edith Bonham in 1441 consisted of forty-one professed sisters and fourteen awaiting profession (tacite professae); (fn. 82) the total number at the election of Margaret St. John in 1460 was fifty-one; (fn. 83) at the election of Margaret Twyneo in 1496 twenty-five professed sisters and eleven not yet professed are mentioned; (fn. 84) at the election of Elizabeth Shelford, 1504, twenty-eight professed and twenty-two tacitly professed voted. (fn. 85) The surrender deed of the abbey on its dissolution gives the names of fiftyfive sisters besides the abbess and prioress. (fn. 86) From: 'House of Benedictine nuns: The abbey of Shaftesbury', A History of the County of Dorset: Volume 2 (1908), pp. 73-79. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40143. Date accessed: 12 June 2008.
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