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English mystic (c. – after )

Margery Kempe (c.&#; – after ) was an English Catholic mystic, known for writing through dictation The Book of Margery Kempe, a work considered by some to be the first autobiography in the English language.

Her book chronicles her domestic tribulations, her extensive pilgrimages to holy sites in Europe and the Holy Land, as well as her mystical conversations with God. She is honoured in the Anglican Communion, but has not been canonised as a Catholic saint.

Early life and family

She was born Margery Burnham or Brunham around in Bishop's Lynn (now King's Lynn), Norfolk, England.

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Her father, John Brunham, was a merchant in Lynn, mayor of the town and Member of Parliament. The first record of her Brunham family is a mention of her grandfather, Ralph de Brunham, in in the Red Register of Lynn.

By , he had joined the Parliament of Lynn.^[1] Kempe's kinsman Robert Brunham, possibly her brother, became a Member of Parliamen