Early Life and Education
Born in Gloucestershire, England, Margaret Brent and her siblings were all adults when they emigrated from England. She was one of six daughters (of a total of thirteen children) of the Lord of Admington and Stoke, Richard Brent, and his wife, Elizabeth Reed (daughter of Edward Reed, Lord of Tusburie and Witten). Although Richard Brent served as the local sheriff, and the family was at least nominally part of the Church of England, their religion and political loyalty became suspect when one daughter proclaimed her return to the Catholic church and emigrated to Belgium. She became a nun (and later abbess), and was joined by other sisters during the drawn out religious conflicts which culminated in the English Civil War. (Ode Brent, a knight in 1066, is direct ancestor to the Brents of Stoke, by their lineage account, while Elizabeth Reed's family claimed descent from William the Conqueror of 1066.)
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