Life:

 

c1373

birth of Margery, daughter of John Brunham, Mayor of Lynn

1393

marriage with John Kempe

1413

23 June, private agreement of John and Margery to live chaste

1413

death of her father, John Brunham

1413

departure from Lynn on her pilgrimage to Italy and the Holy Land

1414

9 Nov, mystical marriage to the Godhead in Rome

1415

visits Julian of Norwich

1417

departure on her pilgrimage to Compostella in Spain

1417

Trial in Leicester, then stay in York and later in London

c1418

return to Lynn

1431

deaths of her son and husband

1433

brief sojourn on the cost of Norway, then stay at Danzig,
20 July present at the exposition of the four holy relics at Aachen

1434

arrival at Syon Monastery, Middlesex

1438

admission into the Guild of the Trinity of Lynn

c1439

death at Lynn

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