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- BIOGRAPHY
Margaret de Fiennes was born after 1269, the daughter of William (Guillaume II) de Fiennes, seigneur de Fiennes et Tingry, lord of Wendover, and Blanche de Brienne, dame de Loupelande.
Margaret had a sister Joan, whose daughter Margaret Wake was the mother of Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent. Margaret was also a first cousin of Humphrey de Bohun, 4th earl of Hereford.
In September 1285, when she was fourteen or fifteen years old, Margaret became the second wife of Sir Edmund Mortimer, lord of Wigmore, the second son and eventual heir of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Wigmore, and Maud de Braose. They had five children of whom Roger and Maude would have progeny. Roger, 1st earl of March, became a much reviled figure as lover of Isabelle de France, wife of King Edward II, and accused of ordering the king's murder.
Margaret died on 7 February 1333. Through her granddaughter Katherine Mortimer, she was an ancestor of Anne Boleyn.
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