Margaret de Chesney

  General Notes:

246D:27, Margery de Chesney, widow of Hugh de Cressi, married as her second husband Robert Fitz Roger, second Lord of Warkworth. Margery was the daughter of William de Chesney, styled de Norwich, of Horsford, Norfolk, Sheriff of Norfolk & Suffolk. ¹⁶⁰

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Appendix J), Vol. X, p. 117, Margaret de Chesney was one of the three daughters and coheirs of William de Chesney, also known as de Norwich, from his office of Sheriff of Norfolk. ¹⁴¹

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ⁹⁵²
William de Chesney, son and heir of Robert Fitz Walter, used his mother's surname. He was also known as "William de Norwich." He was a very important many in his day, as Sheriff of Norfolk, the founder of Sibton Abbey, Suffolk, and benefactor to Blyburgh. The manor of Horsford descened to William's daughter Margaret, who first married Hugh de Cressey and married as her second husband Robert Fitz Roger, who died in 1215, and who was also the founder of Langley Priory, Norfolk. The Manor of Horsford passed to Roger de Cressy, her son by her first husband, and from him it passed three more generations. When that branch of the de Cressy family became extinct in 1296, the manor of Horford passed to Robert Fitz Roger, the great grandson of Margaret and her second husband Robert Fitz Roger.

~"Some Account of the Manor or Castle of Horsford," Norfolk Archaelogy, Vol. XV, p. 270 & Pedigree chart, p. 291

Margaret married Robert Fitz Roger Lord of Warkworth, son of Roger Fitz Richard 1st Lord of Warkworth and Alice de Vere. (Robert Fitz Roger Lord of Warkworth was born before 1177 in Warkworth Castle, Alnwick, Northumberland, England ¹⁶⁰ and died in 1214 in Essex, England ¹⁶⁰.)