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Margaret Bedingfield, in religion Thecla.
Born: 1624.
Died: 20 Feb 1642 in Ghent.

father: Mr Matthew Bedingfield of Amersden, Oxon, & Brussels
mother: Helena Lacon

Benedictines, Ghent choir nun.
She was clothed 12 Apr 1641.

She professed Feb 1642, aged 18.

She was the sister of Mary Bedingfield, Anne Bedingfield .
She was the cousin of Margarita Bedingfield, Philippa Bedingfield, Margaret Downes , Margaret Bedingfield, Ann Bedingfield, Helen Bedingfield, Grace Bedingfield, Elizabeth Hamilton, Jane Bedingfield , Katherine Bedingfield , Magdalen Bedingfield , Frances Bedingfield, Maria Bedingfield, Winefrid Bedingfield.
She was the half-sister of Helena Mildmay .

Sources: Ghent Obit: 33; Ghent Annals: 20; RAG K2292: 66r.

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Family tree (Bedingfield of Bedingfield and Redlingfield)
Family tree (Browne Lords Montaigu)
Family tree (Mildmay)

Notes:

Eleanor Mildmay, the form given for her mother's name, appears to be the same person as Helena Lacon of Kinlet, a granddaughter of Anthony Viscount Montacute. Firstly wife of Walter Mildmay and mother of Helen Mildmay AC091, she swiftly remarried after his death to Matthew Bedingfield of Redlingfield, by whom she was mother of AC010, GB017 and GB018. Matthew was living in Brussels in 1646 and subsequently married as his second wife a Flemish lady (Bedingfield Paper,s Genealogical Supplement, CRS Misc.6).