Ethel Seaton writes:Lord John Roos’s wife, Margery Despenser, did not mourn her husband for long; it is true that she could have seen little of him.
In less than a year from the day of Baugé, she married Roger Wentworth of Elmsall, armiger, ‘dishonourably and without licence from the king’.
The only memorable thing about her is her patronage, in the wake of Margaret of Anjou and Elizabeth Wydville, of Queens’ College, Cambridge.
At her death in April 1478, she left to its President, Andrew Dokett, a covered goblet, ‘cum Armis dni.
She and her first husband and her youngest brother-in-law are all remembered, together with many royal persons, in the ‘Commemoration of Benefactors’ of the College.