Margery Fitz Stephen

  General Notes:

Grand daugher of Miles DeCogan.

G.E.C. shows Patrick's wife as Margery, granddaugher and heir of Miles de Cogan who was lord of one moiety of the county of Cork.

Probable mother is Margaret DeCogan

It seems Margery inherited substantial rights to DeCogan lands (claimed by her first hustband Thomas Bloet) made available by marriage to Patrick DeCourcy.


From: Ireland under the Normans, Orpen 1920
THE SEIGNORY OF CORK

Ralph Fitz Stephen who was slain in 1182 (ante, vol. ii, p. 40), appears to have had a daughter (Margery) for whose marriage, together with ' all the land of Miles de Cogan, Thomas Bloet before 1211 made a fine of 500 marks (Cal. Docs. Ireland, vol. i, nos. 422, 452). This fine was still unpaid in 1227 (ibid., no. 1504). Thomas Bloet was an official of King John, and was employed by him in 1207 to summon John d'Erlee and other followers of William the Marshal in pursuance of the intrigue against the earl, of which we have given an account: ante, vol. ii, pp. 212-16. He appears as a great Munster lord in 1210, when he joined King. John with a large force from Munster (Prest. Rolls, p. 188), and he was one of the magnates who joined in the declaration of loyalty to the king in 1211 (Cal. Docs. Ireland, vol. i, no. 448). He must have been dead by February 1217, when a fine of 100 marks was accepted from Margery de Cogan ' to have the land of her inheritance in Desmond ' (ibid., no. 758). This Margery was, I think, the granddaughter of Miles de Cogan, now a feme-sole and widow of Thomas Bloet, and there was presumably no issue of the marriage. It is a reasonable conjecture that soon after this date she was married to Patrick de Courcy. There is indeed no direct evidence for this marriage, but in 1221 Patrick de Courcy and Robert de Carew were the principal tenants in chief in Cork, and they 1 and their respective descendants for several generations appear to have been held liable in equal moieties for the sixty services reserved in the original grant to Miles de Cogan and Robert Fitz Stephen.

Margery married Thomas Bloet.

Margery next married Patrick De Courcy 2nd lord of Kingsale, son of Myles (Milo) (Miles) De Courcy 1st Baron of Kinsale and Margaret (Margery) De Cogan, in 1230. (Patrick De Courcy 2nd lord of Kingsale died in 1251-1253.)