♀Margaret de Furneaux

Margaret de Furneaux was a gentlewoman of fourteenth-century Cornwall. She was the twenty-first great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her daughter Isabel de Beaupre.

Margaret’s own parents are not known. She is said to have married Sir Ralph de Beaupre, a Cornish knight of Trenoweth-with-Trewithgy, in the parish of Probus, Cornwall, and the son of Sir Stephen de Beaupre, a knight of Kelynack, in the parish of St. Just, Cornwall. Their daughter Isabel de Beaupre married John de Longland, an esquire of Grove, in the parish of South Brent, Somerset, the village now called Brent Knoll. Isabel’s third daughter, Agnes Longland, was born at Axbridge, in Somerset, about 1370.

Notes

Sources

Margaret’s marriage and her daughter are from Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd edition (2011), vol. 1, pp. 173–174, a compiled genealogy, in the descent chart that opens its account of Agnes Longland. Ralph and Margaret appear there by name only, without an entry of their own; Richardson gives the Longland family in full under Fitz Ives in vol. 2. The chart names no parents for Margaret.

Dates

No date is given for Margaret’s birth, marriage or death. The nearest date in the family is her granddaughter Agnes’s birth about 1370, from her age of ten in 1380.