She is noted for her 1516 will, which details aspects of elite religious practice and also mentions a chain that had belonged to Edward V, one of the Princes in the Tower.
[7] Their children included: The Capels were able to get their son Giles a place at the court of Henry VII, though their financial activities in the city brought some difficulties.
[17] Margaret's own inscribed Latin Bible survives in the Bodleian Library, which she gave to Roger Philpot of Winchester College.
[22] The will also mentions domestic furnishings including a bed with valences of crimson satin embroidered with the Capel and Arundell arms, anchor badge, and motto, and red sarcenet silk curtains.
[23][24] Elizabeth Paulet would receive a book of hours, "a large primer of parchment limned with images and covered with tawny velvet and green damask with three great clasps of silver and gilt",[25] and from her mother's collection of jewellery, "a pomander of gold graven and enamelled with red and white" and a collar of gold of white gilliflowers and red entredeux, and other pieces.
Included in the 1516 will, Margaret bequeathed her son Giles Capel a gold chain of her late husband's, which had belonged to Edward V, one of the Princes in the Tower.
[35] Margaret Capel's older half-sister Anne was the wife of James Tyrrell, who is thought to have been involved in the deaths of the Princes in the Tower.