Margaret Dymoke (born ) was a

lady-in-waiting A lady-in-waiting (alternatively written lady in waiting) or court lady is a female personal assistant at a Royal court, court, attending on a royal woman or a high-ranking nobility, noblewoman. Historically, in Europe, a lady-in-waiting was o ...

at the court of

Henry VIII of England Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is known for his Wives of Henry VIII, six marriages and his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. ...

. Her married names were Vernon, Coffin and Manners. She was born around 1500 in

Scrivelsby Scrivelsby is a village and ecclesiastical parish in the East Lindsey district of the County of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated south of Horncastle and is on the B1183 road east from the A153 road. It is administered by the civil pari ...

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (), abbreviated ''Lincs'', is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England. It is bordered by the East Riding of Yorkshire across the Humber estuary to th ...

, the daughter of Sir Robert Dymoke of Scrivelsby and Jane Cressner. Her first husband was Richard Vernon of Haddon (d. 1517), by whom she had at least two children. Her second husband was Sir William Coffin,

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Anne Boleyn Anne Boleyn (; 1501 or 1507 – 19 May 1536) was List of English royal consorts, Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the Wives of Henry VIII, second wife of King Henry VIII. The circumstances of her marriage and execution, by beheading ...

, the second wife of Henry VIII. In 1536 five women were appointed to serve Queen Anne while she was imprisoned in the

Tower A tower is a tall Nonbuilding structure, structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant factor. Towers are distinguished from guyed mast, masts by their lack of guy-wires and are therefore, along with tall buildings, self-supporting ...

and to report to

Sir William Kingston Sir William Kingston, Order of the Garter, KG ( – 14 September 1540) was an English courtier, soldier and administrator. He was the Constable of the Tower, Constable of the Tower of London during much of the reign of Henry VIII. Among the no ...

, the

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, and through him to the King's chief minister,

Thomas Cromwell Thomas Cromwell (; – 28 July 1540) was an English statesman and lawyer who served as List of English chief ministers, chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 to 1540, when he was beheaded on orders of the king, who later blamed false cha ...

, all that the Queen said. These women included Margaret; Queen Anne's aunt, Lady Anne Shelton; Lady Mary Kingston, the wife of

, the

; Lady Elizabeth Boleyn, Queen Anne's aunt by marriage; and

Elizabeth Stoner Elizabeth Chamber, better known as Elizabeth Stonor (died after 8 December 1602), was an English courtier. She is remembered as the wife of Sir Walter Stonor, and was one of the women chosen to serve Anne Boleyn, the King's second wife, during ...

, wife of the King's

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. Sir William Kingston described the five as "honest and good women", but Queen Anne said that it was "a great unkindness in the King to set such about me as I have never loved". George Cavendish, ''Wolsey'', pp. 451–460 Margaret went on to become the lady-in-waiting of the King's third wife,

Jane Seymour Jane Seymour (; 24 October 1537) was Queen of England as the third wife of King Henry VIII from their marriage on 30 May 1536 until her death the next year. She became queen following the execution of Henry's second wife, Anne Boleyn, who was ...

. Her third husband was Sir Richard Manners.

Ancestry

Issue

* Sir George Vernon (c. 1508 – 1565) * Elizabeth Vernon

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dymoke, Margaret English ladies-in-waiting 16th-century English women People from Scrivelsby 1500s births Year of death unknown

Margaret Margaret is a feminine given name, which means "pearl". It is of Latin origin, via Ancient Greek and ultimately from Iranian languages, Old Iranian. It has been an English language, English name since the 11th century, and remained popular thro ...

Household of Anne Boleyn Household of Jane Seymour