Note 1058 — MAGNA CARTA. (continued 6)

Both ladies, however, remained prisoners after Henry III.’s accession. Peter de Maulay, constable of Corfe Castle, was, in that king’s fifth year, credited with sums expended on their behalf. Rot. Claus., I. 466; see also I. 483. Both found permanent homes in England—Margaret as wife of Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent (mentioned in preamble of Magna Carta); Isabel as wife of Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk (one of the Charter’s executors). See Ramsay, Angevin Empire, 421, and authorities there cited.