Biography of Margaret Donnington Countess Bath 1509-1561
Maternal Family Tree: Margaret Donnington Countess Bath 1509-1561
In 1509 Margaret Donnington Countess Bath was born to John Donnington of Stoke Newington.
Before 1511 Thomas Kitson (age 26) and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath (age 1) were married. The difference in their ages was 24 years.
In 1511 [her daughter] Elizabeth Kitson was born to [her husband] Thomas Kitson (age 26) and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath (age 2).
Before 1515 [her future husband] John Bourchier 2nd Earl Bath (age 16) and Elizabeth Hungerford were married. He the son of John Bourchier 1st Earl Bath (age 44) and Cecily Daubeney Baroness Fitzwarin (age 40). He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England. 
In 1524 [her daughter] Katherine Kitson was born to [her husband] Thomas Kitson (age 39) and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath (age 15).
Before 25 May 1524 [her future husband] John Bourchier 2nd Earl Bath (age 25) and Eleanor Manners Countess Bath (age 21) were married at Hengrave Hall, Bury St Edmunds. He the son of John Bourchier 1st Earl Bath (age 53) and Cecily Daubeney Baroness Fitzwarin (age 50). He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward III of England. 
In 1535 [her daughter] Anne Elizabeth Kitson was born to [her husband] Thomas Kitson (age 50) and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath (age 26).
On 30 Apr 1539 John Bourchier 1st Earl Bath (age 68) died. He was buried at St Brannock's Church, Braunton. His son [her future husband] John Bourchier 2nd Earl Bath (age 40) succeeded 2nd Earl Bath, 4th Count Eu, 12th Baron Fitzwarin. Eleanor Manners Countess Bath (age 36) by marriage Countess Bath.
Before 12 Jun 1540 [her son-in-law] Edmund Croftes (age 20) and [her daughter] Elizabeth Kitson (age 29) were married. She the daughter of Thomas Kitson (age 55) and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath (age 31).
On 11 Sep 1540 [her husband] Thomas Kitson (age 55) died.
On 15 Oct 1540 [her son] Thomas Kitson was born to [her former husband] Thomas Kitson (deceased) and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath (age 31).
Around 1541 [her daughter] Jane Long was born to [her husband] Richard Long (age 47) and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath (age 32).
In 1541 Richard Long (age 47) and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath (age 32) were married.
In 1542 [her son] Henry Long was born to [her husband] Richard Long (age 48) and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath (age 33).
Around 1543 [her daughter] Mary Long was born to [her husband] Richard Long (age 49) and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath (age 34).
Before Oct 1545 [her son-in-law] John Spencer (age 21) and [her daughter] Katherine Kitson (age 21) were married. She the daughter of Thomas Kitson and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath (age 36).
Around 1546 [her daughter] Catherine Long was born to [her husband] Richard Long (age 52) and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath (age 37).
On 29 Sep 1546 [her husband] Richard Long (age 52) died.
On 08 Apr 1548 Henry Daubeney 1st Earl Bridgewater (age 54) died. Earl Bridgewater extinct. His nephew [her future husband] John Bourchier 2nd Earl Bath (age 49) succeeded 3rd Baron Daubeney.
On 04 Dec 1548 a double wedding of a father and son, and a mother and daughter, was celebrated at Hengrave Hall, Bury St Edmunds.
John Bourchier 2nd Earl Bath (age 49) and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath (age 39) were married. She by marriage Countess Bath. He the son of John Bourchier 1st Earl Bath and Cecily Daubeney Baroness Fitzwarin. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England.
John Bourchier (age 19) and Frances Kitson were married. She the daughter of Thomas Kitson and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath (age 39). He the son of John Bourchier 2nd Earl Bath (age 49) and Eleanor Manners Countess Bath. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England.
On 08 Oct 1556 [her former brother-in-law] Henry Long (age 70) died.
Around Sep 1557 [her son-in-law] William Barnaby and [her daughter] Frances Kitson were married. He was land agent to her former father-ine-law the [her husband] John Bourchier 2nd Earl Bath (age 58); the marriage as a consequence gave great offence to her friends. She the daughter of Thomas Kitson and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath (age 48).
On 10 Feb 1561 [her husband] John Bourchier 2nd Earl Bath (age 62) died. He was buried on 10 Mar 1561 at the Church of St John Lateran, Hengrave. His grandson William Bourchier 3rd Earl Bath (age 3) succeeded 3rd Earl Bath, 13th Baron Fitzwarin.
On 12 Dec 1561 Margaret Donnington Countess Bath (age 52) died at Stoke Newington [Map]. She was buried on 12 Jan 1562 at the Church of St John Lateran, Hengrave.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 20 Dec 1561. The xx day of Desember my lade the contes of Bayth (deceased) ded at here plase at Nuwhyngtun, late the wyff of ser Thomas Kyttsun and to ser Recherd Longe and wyff to the yerle of Bayth latt dissessyd, and she had a vj baners-rolles and a gret baner of armes and a x dosen of skochyons and vj of sylke.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 10 Jan 1562. The x day of January was cared in-to the contrey, to be bered by her hosband the yerle and her hosband ser Thomas Kyttsun, the contes of Bathe.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 11 Jan 1562. The xj day of January was bered in Suffoke my lade contes of Bayth wedow, and the last wyff to the [her former husband] sed erle, and late the wyff of ser Thomas Cutsun, and late to ser Recherd Longe knyght; with a grett banar of armes and vj banar-rolles of all mareges [marriages], and a x dosen skochyons of armes, and vj of sylke wrought with fyne gold.
Note. P. 275. Funeral of the countess of Bath. Margaret, only child of John Donnington, of Stoke Newington in Middlesex, married successively to sir Thomas Kytson, sir Richard Long, and John Bourchier earl of Bath. The last died in 1560. Her monument in Hengrave church, Suffolk, with recumbent effigies of herself and her three husbands, is engraved in Gage's History of that parish, 1822, 4to. p. 65; and in the same volume are several letters to and from her, an inventory of her property, her will, and an account of her funeral expenses, &c.
[her daughter] Frances Kitson was born to Thomas Kitson and Margaret Donnington Countess Bath.