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Margery Jourdemayne, "the Witch of Eye Next Westminster" (before 1415 – 27 October 1441) was a fifteenth-century English woman who was accused of treasonable witchcraft and subsequently burned at the stake. At some point between July and September 1441, Margery was arrested by the King's men and taken to the Tower of London. She was later found guilty of heresy and witchcraft and sentenced to death by burning at Smithfield. ==Celebrated case== The case that led to the execution of Margery Jourdemayne has been well documented and discussed since the fifteenth century. Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester, wife to Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, was charged with heretical witchcraft, along with four co-accused. Three of the co-accused were scholars and clerics of the Duke's court. The fourth was Margery Jourdemayne, a woman of low birth, known as a witch. Humphrey was uncle to the young Henry VI of England and, if Henry were to have died, would have been successor to the throne. Eleanor Cobham, Roger Bolingbroke, John Hume (or Home), Thomas Southwell and Margery stood accused of using witchcraft to bring about the death of Henry VI. Bolingbroke was an Oxford scholar and Eleanor's personal clerk. Thomas Southwell was a physician and Canon of St Stephen's Chapel in the Palace of Westminster, Rector of St Stephen's Walbrook, London, and vicar of Ruislip. Hume was Canon of Hereford and St Asaph and chaplain and secretary to both Eleanor and the Duke.〔Griffiths, Ralph A. The trial of Eleanor Cobham: an episode in the fall of Duke Humphrey of Gloucester. Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 51, 381–399 at 386–387 (1968–1969).〕 Margery, on the other hand, had for many years been known as someone who could provide spells and potions useful in advancing love and bringing about a pregnancy or ending one. ::"There was a Beldame called the wytch of Ey, ::Old mother Madge her neyghbours did hir name ::Which wrought wonders in countryes by heresaye ::Both feendes and fayries her charmyng would obay ::And dead corpsis from grave she could uprere ::Suche an inchauntresse, as that tyme had no peere."〔The Mirror for Magistrates ed. L.B. Campbell 435 (New York, 1960).〕 During the course of the 1441 trial, it was disclosed that Margery had been held for some months at Windsor Castle ten years previously for an unspecified offence concerning sorcery. In 1430, seven witches had been arrested in London and accused of plotting the young King Henry's death and were then imprisoned in the Fleet; it is possible that Margery was one of these seven. ::"In any event, on 22 November of that year one of the king's serjeants-at-arms was paid to escort 'a certain woman' from the city of London to Windsor, and six days later another serjeant was reimbursed for taking friar John Ashwell on the same journey. A subsequent writ directed payment to the lieutenant of Windsor Castle, John Wintershull, for his costs for keeping Friar John and Margery Jourdemayne, and their two gaolers, from 18th November 1430 to 9th May 1432. Another writ of July 1432 authorised payment to Wintershull for his costs... for keeping Margery and Ashwell".〔Freeman, Jessica Sorcery at Court and Manor: Margery Jourdemayne, the Witch of Eye next Westminster. Journal of Medieval History 30 343–357 (2004).〕 On 9 May 1432, Margery, along with Friar John Ashwell and John Virley (clerk), was examined on charges of sorcery. Ashwell and Virley were discharged on their own recognisance, but Margery was released on condition of her future good behaviour and that she refrained from further witchcraft. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Margery Jourdemayne」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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