Margery Norris

Margery Norris (1521–1599) was a courtier to Queen Elizabeth I. She, her husband and her six sons all served the crown and they have a huge monument in Westminster Abbey. From the mid-1540s to 1572 she was known as Mrs Norris, or Norrys.

Life Norris was born in 1521 and she was the daughter of John Williams, 1st Baron Williams of Thame and Elizabeth Edmonds. Norris had three brothers, John, Henry and Francis, and a sister, Isabel, who married Sir Richard Wenman. Margery accompanied her husband to his service as ambassador to France in 1566-1569, during which she is known to have corresponded with the queen about affairs of state.

Norris was the mother of seven children. Their six sons all distinguished themselves as soldiers. Sir John Norreys (1547 – 3 July 1597) who as known as "Black Jack"

She was buried in the church at Rycote and her husband joined her in 1601.