lands of aliens. As well as lands in France that she held in her own right, she also acquired the estates that had belonged to her husband. However, in 1372 her lands in France were confiscated by King Charles V. Marie drew up her will on 20 February 1377 at her estate of Braxted Park in Great Braxted in Essex, which stipulated that she wanted to be buried in the choir of the chapel at Denny in the habit of a Franciscan nun. Marie died on the 16 or 17 March 1377 and was buried in Denny Abbey, to the north of Cambridge on the road to Ely. The abbey became a farmhouse and all traces of Marie de St Pol's tomb have been lost. She is believed to have been buried next to the high altar; the site is now grass. In 1992 a memorial was placed on a pillar opposite her husband's splendid tomb effigy in Westminster Abbey, situated in the north ambulatory. Designed by Donald Buttress, Abbey Surveyor, the memorial was made from slate and stone with partial gilding, and bears the Countess's coat of arms and the inscription: “MARY DE ST POL COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE 1304 AD 1377”. See also Elizabeth de Burgh, Lady of Clare Countess of Pembroke References H. Jenkinson, 'Mary de Sancto Paulo, Foundress of Pembroke College, Cambridge', in Archaeologia vol. 66 (1915) Gilbert Ainslie, Master of Pembroke College, Life of Mary Valence (Pembroke College manuscripts) British philanthropists Year of birth uncertain 1377 deaths Burials in Cambridgeshire Pembroke College, Cambridge 14th-century English women 14th-century English people Pembroke