Beatrix Shirley

Ragdale Hall

Ragdale Hall (aka Rakedale Hall) was at one time the possession of Beatrix (aka Beatrice) and was passed to her son Sir Ralph. Abstracts of Ragdale explain the ownership of this property and has information on her date of death.

Shirley Name and History

LeicestershireVillages.com has an excellent article on the Shirley name and family history, with an explanation of the ownership of certain of their properties

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=130651384

Note: Beatrix, sister and heir of John de Brewes or de Braose, knight (baron of Brecknoe, Brembre and Gowre) of Westneston, Sussex. [Burke's Peerage]

quisition p.m. Beatrice, who was the wife of Hugh Shirley, taken at Leicester on Thursday before the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, 18 Henry VI, 1440. Before Thomas Palmer, the escheator, and on the oath of John Chaumbleyn, of Hathern, Henry atte halle, of Overton, John Nauntell, of Hathern, Robert Bernevile, of Threngeston, John Kendale, of Twycrosse, John Herdewyn, of Newebold, William Smyth, of Barrow, William Somervyle, of Cossington, John Souche, of Belton, William Bygge, of Rothley, Thomas Bygge, of Rothley, John Draper, of Thurmaston, and John Smyth and Thomas Ireland, both of Cotes, jurors, who say that Beatrice held no lands of the king in chief in co. ¿eices. on the day she died, but they say that a certain Ralph Basset of Drayton, knight, was seised of the manors of Rakedale, Willughes, Radeclyve, etc., in his demesne as of fee, and granted them to Sir Walter Skyrlow, bishop of Durham, and others as trustees, who granted them to Beatrice from Baster, 7 Henry IV (1406) for a term of 8 years at a yearly rent of £20, the reversion of them to Ralph Shirley, knight, and his male heirs for ever. After the expiration of the aforesaid eight years the said Ralph Shirley entered on the aforesaid manors, and still remains in peaceful possession of them. The manors were not held of the king, but of whom they are held the jurors are unaware. Beatrice died on Wednesday before St. George the martyr, 18 Henry VI. Ralph Shirley is her next heir and aged 40 years and more.

children:

6.i Joan Shirley m. Robert Newmarch

6.ii Elizabeth Shirley died unmarried mentioned in 1415 deposition of brother Ralph

6.iii Isabella Shirley m. Sir John Cockayne of Ashbourne mentioned in 1415 deposition of brother Ralph

6.iv Nicholaia Shirley (Fem.) died unmarried mentioned in 1415 deposition of brother Ralph

6.v Ralph Shirley b 1392

Family links:

Spouse:

 Hugh Shirley (1355 - 1403)

Children:

 Ralph Shirley (1391 - 1443)*

Burial: Non-Cemetery Burial

Created by: Debbie Shirley Record added: May 31, 2014 Find A Grave Memorial# 130651384

• Braose (Brewse) of Westneston (Wiston) on stirnet.com

The following connection is given by Visitation (Sussex, 1530+1633-4, Shirley). {Giles de Braose or Brewse}

	m. Beatrix St. Helene (dau of Sir John St. Helene of Crowell)

 	(A) 	Giles de Braose or Brewse

 	(i) 	Jey [John] de Braose or Brewse (a 1326)

 	(a) 	Peter Brewse of Westneston (Wiston, Sussex) & Wedonhull

 	This appears to be the Peter whose ancestry is shown differently by Elwes & Robinson (see just above ##). Visitation identifies his wife as a dau of Lord Ros but, whilst Elwes & Robinson first identify her as Joan, granddau of Lady Ada de Saundford, and then report another source as suggesting that she was dau of Sir John Weedon, they report that it was "More likely" that she was ...

m. Joan de Mautravers (dau/coheir of John de Mautravers by Joan, dau of Sir Walter Foliot by Ada de Saundford)

 	((1)) 	Sir Jey (John) Brewse of Westneston (dsp(s))

 	m1. Margaret Poynings (dau of Sir Thomas Poynings, Lord St. John of Basinge)

 	((A)) 	son (d infant)

 	m2. _ Wykham

 	((2)) 	Beatrix Brewse or Braose (d 1439-40)

 	m. Sir Hugh Shirley (d Shrewsbury 1403)

• The de Braose website

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[The following was copied from her husband's profile page]

 ACCORDING TO OTHER SOURCES WHICH SITE DOCUMENTS ISABEL BASSET WAS THE LEGITIMATE DAU. OF RALPH BASSET

   Sir Hugh Shirley, Constable of High Ferrers Park & Donington Castle, Grand Falconer of Ireland1,2

   M, b. circa 1362, d. 22 July 1403

   Father Sir Thomas Shirley3 d. 1362

   Mother Isabel de Meinhill3 b. a 1340, d. 25 Apr 1393

   Sir Hugh Shirley, Constable of High Ferrers Park & Donington Castle, Grand Falconer of Ireland was born circa 1362 at of Shirley, Hollington, Hone, & Hope, Derbyshire, England; Of age in 1383.2 He married Beatrix Brewes, daughter of Sir Peter de Brewes and Joan Howard, circa 1387; They had 1 son (Ralph) and 4 daughters (Isabel, Elizabeth, Nichole, & Joan).2 Sir Hugh Shirley, Constable of High Ferrers Park & Donington Castle, Grand Falconer of Ireland died on 22 July 1403 at Battle of Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.2

   Family Beatrix Brewes b. c 1366, d. 1440

   Children

       Joan Shirley+4,2 b. c 1390

       Isabel Shirley+5,2 b. c 1391, d. a 1459

       Sir Ralph Shirley, Sheriff of Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire+2 b. 23 Apr 1391, d. c 1443

   Citations

   1.[S9532] Unknown author, Burke's Peerage, 1938, p. 998.

   2.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 651.

   3.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 650-651.

   4.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 546.

   5.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 224.

   From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1032.htm#...