Margaret Beauchamp of Bletso, Lady Welles

Margaret Beauchamp d. 8 August 1482

Family

From ThePeerage.com

• Margaret Beauchamp was the daughter of John Beauchamp and Edith Stourton.
• She married, firstly, Sir Oliver St. John, son of John St. John and Elizabeth Paullett, before 1437.
• She married, secondly, Sir John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, son of John de Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset and Lady Margaret de Holand, between 1439 and 1442.
• She married, thirdly, Sir Lionel de Welles, son of Eudes de Welles and Maud de Greystoke, circa April 1447.
• She died on 8 August 1482.3 She was buried at Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England.

From before 1437, her married name became St. John. From between 1439 and 1442, her married name became Beaufort. From circa April 1447, her married name became de Welles.

Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir Oliver St. John

1. 1.Oliver St. John d. b 10 Apr 1497
2. 2.Agnes St. John
3. 3.Edith St. John
4. 4.Elizabeth St. John
5. 5.Mary St. John
6. 6.Sir John St. John d. a 1488
7. 7. Margaret St. John, Abbess of Shaftesbury

Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir Lionel de Welles

1. 1. John de Welles, 1st Viscount Welles d. 9 Feb 1499

Child of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset

1. 1.Lady Margaret Beaufort b. 31 May 1443, d. 29 Jun 1509

Citations

• The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 45.
• Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 103.
• Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family, page 104.

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Beauchamp_of_Bletso
• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=18691
• http://www.stepneyrobarts.co.uk/7530.htm
• http://parsonsfamily.blogware.com/indiI1348.html
• 'Parishes: Bloxham', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 9, Bloxham Hundred, ed. Mary D Lobel and Alan Crossley (London, 1969), pp. 53-85. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol9/pp53-85 [accessed 15 December 2018]. After John de Beauchamp's death Edith, who later married Sir Robert Shottesbrooke, held Bloxham in dower until her own death in 1442. (fn. 118) ... The Beauchamp property descended on the death of Edith Shottesbrooke to her daughter Margaret Beauchamp. She married first Oliver St. John (d. c. 1435), secondly John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, and finally Leo Welles, Lord Welles, a Lancastrian slain at the Battle of Towton in 1461. (fn. 120)

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Biography

MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER OF HENRY VII

Duchess of Somerset Lady Welles

Margaret Beauchamp (c.1410 – before 3 June 1482) was the daughter of Sir John Beauchamp, de jure 3rd Baron Beauchamp of Bletsoe, and his second wife, Edith Stourton. She was the maternal grandmother of Henry VII.

Biography

Margaret Beauchamp, born about 1410, was the daughter of Sir John Beauchamp, de jure 3rd Baron Beauchamp (d. 1412-1414) of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and his second wife, Edith Stourton (d. 13 June 1441), daughter of Sir John Stourton of Stourton, Wiltshire.[1]

In 1421 she was heiress to her only brother, John Beauchamp, who died young and unmarried, from whom she inherited the manors of Lydiard Tregoze in Wiltshire, Ashmore in Dorset, and Bletsoe and Keysoe in Bedfordshire, and, according to modern doctrine, the right to any barony of Beauchamp created by summons to Parliament directed to her great-great-grandfather, Roger Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp (d. 3 January 1380) of Bletsoe.[2][3]

She married firstly Sir Oliver St John (d.1437), son and heir of Sir John St John and Isabel Paveley, daughter and heiress of Sir John Paveley, by whom she had two sons and five daughters:[4]

Sir John St John (d.1513/14) of Bletsoe, who married Alice Bradshagh, daughter of Sir Thomas Bradshagh, of Haigh, Lancashire.[5] Oliver St John (d.1497), esquire, of Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, who married Elizabeth Scrope, widow successively of Sir John Bigod (d.1461) of Settrington, Yorkshire, and Henry Rochford (d. 25 October 1470), esquire, of Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire, and daughter of Henry Scrope, 4th Baron Scrope of Bolton, and Elizabeth le Scrope, daughter of John Scrope, 4th Baron Scrope of Masham.[6] Edith St John, who married Geoffrey Pole, esquire.[7] Mary St John, who married Sir Richard Frogenall.[4] Elizabeth St John (d. before 3 July 1494) who married firstly, before 2 April 1450, as his second wife, William la Zouche, 5th Baron Zouche (d. 25 December 1462) of Harringworth, and secondly, before 10 December 1471, as his second wife, John Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton (d. 17 August 1498).[4] Agnes St John, who married David Malpas.[4] Margaret St John, Abbess of Shaftesbury.[4] She married secondly, after 2 August 1441, John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, by whom she had one daughter:

Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, who married Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, by whom she was the mother of Henry VII. She married thirdly, by licence dated 14 April 1447, as his second wife, Lionel de Welles, 6th Baron Welles, by whom she had one son:[8]

John Welles, 1st Viscount Welles, who married Cecily of York, the daughter of Edward IV of England.[8] Welles was slain at the Yorkist victory of the Battle of Towton in March 1461. Margaret never remarried.

References

• Cokayne, George Edward (1912). The Complete Peerage, edited by Vicary Gibbs II. London: St. Catherine Press. pp. 44–5.
• Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G., ed. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families III (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 1449966381.
• Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G., ed. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families IV (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 1460992709.

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Margaret is our closest common relative to Queen Elizabeth II of England. Her daughter, Margaret Beaufort was mother of King Henry VII and grandmother of King Henry VIII