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]
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- ^ 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.)
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.