When Margaret Willoughby was born about 1476, in Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, England, her father, Sir Henry Willoughby, was 25 and her mother, Margaret Markham, was 27. She married John de la Zouche II in 1496. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 6 March 1525, in Harringworth, Northamptonshire, England, at the age of 50.
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English: habitational name from any of various places called Willoughby, for example in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, and Warwickshire. They are named from an Old English +wilig ‘willow’ + Old Norse bȳ ‘farmstead, village’.
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