Margaret Cholmeley

Margaret Babthorpe was the daughter of Sir William Babthorpe (1528-1581) and Barbara Constable (d. by 1558) and married Sir Henry Cholmondeley (some versions of her life say it was Sir Francis Cholmley of Whitby, Yorkshire, who died between 1614 and 1617). The story goes that she was an ardent recusant, imprisoned for her faith, but after 1603, both she and her husband converted to Protestantism and embraced their new faith with as much zeal as they had previously shown for Catholicism. By Cholmondeley her children included Richard (1580-1632), Mary (m. Henry Fairfax) and Margaret (m. Timothy Comyn). She is said by some sources to have taken a second husband, Thomas Meynell of Hawnby. Source "A Who's Who of Tudor Women" by Kathy Lynn Emerson.

See also: Richard III: Sources for the Ibsen Lineage