Marion Kent

Marion Kent (died 1500) was an English businessperson and property manager from York.[1][2]

She inherited a merchant business from her spouse, who died in 1468. The business dealt in a variety of goods, including cloth,[2] oil, iron (of which York Minster was a purchaser), and timber (some of which she supplied to the guild of Corpus Christi).[1] She belonged to the elite of her craft and sat on the council of the mercers guild in 1474–1475, a position highly unusual for a woman in that period.[2][3][4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Kent, Marion (d. 1500) | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/64496. Retrieved 21 November 2018. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ a b c Kermode, Jenny (2002). Medieval Merchants: York, Beverley and Hull in the Later Middle Ages. Cambridge University Press. p. 340. ISBN 9780521522748. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  3. ^ Rees Jones, Sarah (2017). "Women and Citizenship in Later Medieval York". In Simonton, Deborah (ed.). The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience. Routledge. ISBN 9781351995757. OCLC 971613678.
  4. ^ Goldberg, Jeremy (1992). Women, Work, and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy: Women in York and Yorkshire c. 1300–1520. Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780198201540. OCLC 45727438.