Richard de Beauchamp, 2nd Baron St Amand

BEAUCHAMP-BARONS ST. AMAND. By Writ of Summons, dated 25 March 1313, Lineage. WALTERDL BEACCIIAMP, younger son of John, Lord Beau-champ. of Powyke, a military person of celebrity in the reigns of HENRY IV. and HENRY V., m. Elizabeth, dau. and co-heiress of Sir John Roche, Knt. of Broham, and had issue, • William. of whom presently. • Richard. bishop of Salisbury supposed to have been the Ant chancellor of the order of the Garter. • Elizabeth m. to Sir Richard Dudley. and had • son and a data., the latter of whom. Joane Dudley, became heiress to her brother, and 'a. Sir John Bayntun, Knt., from which marriage, through a long line of distinguished ancestors. descended Edward Bayntun Rolt, Esq.. of Spye Park, co. Wilts, who was created a baronet in 1762, an honour now extinct (see p. 688).

The elder son. WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, m. Elizabeth (afterwards wife of Roger Touchet), eldest dau. and co-heiress of Gerard de Braybrooke, (grandson, and eventually heir of Almaric St. Amand, 3rd and last Baron St. Amand of that family,) and was summoned to parliament in right of his wife, - as William de Beauchamp, Baron of St. Amend," from 2 January, 1449, (the barony had been forty-six years previously in abeyance) to 26 May, 1465. His lordship was soon afterwards, being then sewer to the king, constituted chamberlain of North Wales. Re made his will 18 March 1467, and d. the following day, being succeeded by his only son, RICKHARD DE BEAUCHAMP, 2nd Baron St. Amend, of the family of Beauchamp, attainted in the 1st of RICHARD III, (1483-4) but fully restored upon the accession of HENRY VII. This nobleman, b. four years before his father's death, was in the expedition made in the 8th of HENRY VII. (1492-3), in aid of Maximilian the Emperor against the French. He d. in 1508, and by his testament dated 12 June, in that year, he desires to be interred in the Black Friars' Church, near Ludgate, within the city of London, and for lack of issue by Dame Anne his wife, settles divers lordships in the cos. Wilts, Bedford, Berks, Huntingdon, and Hereford, upon his natural son by Mary Wroughton, Anthony St. Amand, and the heirs of his body. The Barony at the decease of this nobleman, Nicholas, in his Synopsis, presumes became vested in the descendants and representatives of Isabella, sister of Almaric St. Amand. 2nd baron St. Amand of that family (Maud wife of John Babington and Allanore, the sisters of Elizabeth Braybrooke, who brought the barony into the family of Beauchamp, the other co-heiresses of Gerard de Braybrooke having died issueless, which Isabella et. 1st, Richard Handlo, and 2nd, Robert de Ildesle; but Sir Harris Nicolas observes further in a note, " that although no other issue Is assigned to William Beauchamp, 4th Lord St. Amand (or first of that family), in either of the numerous pedigrees he had consulted, than his son Richard the last Baron, it is to be remarked, that in the will of the said Richard, Lord St. Amand, he bequeaths a cup to his niece Leverseye,. This expression was probably used to describe his wife’s niece; but it must be observed, that If he had a sister of the whole blood who left issue, the barony became vested in her and her descendants," upon the death of the last lord. Arms, Gules, a fess between 6 martlets., or, within a bordure, argent Burke, Bernard. A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. Harrison, 1866. ___________________________________________________ The de Albini family held the Manor of Clophill, of five hides, and the Manor of Cainhoe, of four hides at the time of Domesday Book in 1086…. The whole barony was held from the king for the service of twenty five knights, to be provided to the royal army on demand. The barony remained in the de Albini family until 1233 when Robert, the last male heir died and the barony was divided between his three sisters. One of these, Joan, wife of Geoffrey de Beauchamp, died without issue. The other two sisters, Isabel, wife of William de Hocton and Azelina, wife of Aimery de Saint-Amand. The Saint-Amand family became extinct with the death of the last male heir in 1402. The eventual heiress, Elizabeth Braybrook, married Sir William Beauchamp in 1449 and the Saint-Amand barony was revived for him but in 1441 the Beauchamps had sold their half of the barony to Sir John Cornwall who was then created Baron Millbrook. Cainhoe Castle was included in the half of the manor given to Isabel de Hocton. Her second husband was Drew des Preaux. Her son William must have assumed the name de Albini as he is known by that name when he succeeded his mother in 1262. His son Simon died in 1272 and this half of barony was then divided between his three sisters Isabel, Christina and Joan. The youngest sister, Joan married three times and by her second husband Sir Roger Dakeney left a son, Robert, to whom her sixth share of the barony descended after her death in 1310. He died in 1316. He later acquired a further ninth of the manor. Isabel married Hugh de Saint-Croix and later William de Hotot. Her son Peter de Saint-Croix succeeded and died, along with his son, perhaps of the Black Death in 1349 (the year it first entered England). His second son Thomas inherited and in 1362 alienated his sixth of the barony to Sir John Cheyne, with a remainder to John Dakeney. The sixth of the barony which went to Christina was divided into further thirds (eighteenths of the whole manor) on her death in 1318, going to her three daughters by Peter de la Stane - Elizabeth, Margery and Christina. Christina married Anthony de Byddik and died in 1326 and she was succeeded by her son John de Mere, who granted it to John Dakeney for life in 1334, John acquiring full possession in 1336. Elizabeth's son Peter de Norton inherited her part of the barony and, on his death, his brother Thomas received it, but alienated it to John Dakeney in 1334. It then reverted to Thomas' son and he sold it to John Dakeney in 1373. Margery's son Brian Saffey inherited her share but died, probably of Black Death, in 1349. His uncle Thomas Saffey then succeeded to it and it passed to his sister Joan in 1361 and she, in 1364, alienated it to John Dakeney. When he purchased Elizabeth de la Stane's share of the manor in 1373 John Dakeney thus gained possession of Isabel's original half share. Ironically, he died three years later and his son died as a minor in 1384, his half of the barony passing out of the family, to John's sister Alice, wife of Walter Alnthorpe. Between 1415 and 1428 the half barony was alienated to Reginald de Grey and remained in this family until Richard de Grey, earl of Kent, sold it to Giles, Lord Daubeny some time during the reign of Henry VII (1485-1509). The Victoria County History states that Lord Daubeny's son probably sold his half of the barony to Sir William Compton and, on his death, in 1528 it reverted to the Crown under the terms of Sir William's (Beauchamp) will.

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It appears that Richard may have adopted the name of Richard de St. Amand at some time after assumming the barony.

Richard, 6th Baron Beauchamp De Saint-Amand of Wilts, England was 3 1/2 when his father William died and 38 when his mother died. He was convicted by the "Act of 1484", but soon pardoned. He was made a Knight of King Henry VII about 1485, perhaps during the coronation. He received a grant of property forfeited by his stepfather, Roger in March of 1485. Richard was appointed Keeper of Blackmore Forest, Wilts, as "Sir Richard Beauchamp" in 1486. In 1488, he was commissioner of Musters in Wilts and in 1501 he was an officer supervising the official welcome of Katherine of Aragon. In 1504 "Richard Beauchamp, Knight, Lord St-Amand" served as Steward of Malborough, Wilts. he had no children by Dame Anne but did have a "natural son", Anthony, by his lover, Mary Wroughton about 1470. He made his last will and testament on June 14, 1508 and died in July 1508. Some probate papers spell his name "Lord Seynatamand". He was interred in the Black Friers' Church near Ludgate, within the City of London.