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Sir John Beauchamp, Knight, of Bletso

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Birthplace: Pottersgate, Lincolnshire, England (United Kingdom)
Death: April 1412 (36-45)
St.Catherine, London, Middlesex, England (United Kingdom)
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Son of Roger de Beauchamp, Knight and Mary Beauchamp
Husband of Margaret Holland and Lady Edith de Stourton
Father of Margaret Beauchamp of Bletso, Lady Welles and John Beauchamp
Half brother of Margaret Beauchamp

Occupation: Knight of the Garter. Admiral of the North, Baron Beauchamp of Bletso, Knight
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  • Sir John de Beauchamp, 3rd Baron Beauchamp of Bletsoe1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16
  • M, #15267, b. circa 1385, d. 13 April 1412
  • Father Sir Roger Beauchamp, 2nd Lord Beauchamp, Sheriff of Buckinghamshire & Bedfordshire17,18,19 b. Sep 1362, d. 3 May 1406
  • Mother Mary17,18,19 d. a 24 Nov 1406
  • Sir John de Beauchamp, 3rd Baron Beauchamp of Bletsoe was born circa 1385 at of Bletsoe & Keysoe, Bedfordshire, England.17 He married Margaret Holand, daughter of Sir John Holand and Margaret, circa 23 January 1406; No issue.17,2,3,10,11 Sir John de Beauchamp, 3rd Baron Beauchamp of Bletsoe married Edith Stourton, daughter of Sir John Stourton, Escheator of Dorsetshire & Somersetshire and Alice, before 1410; They had 1 son (John) and 1 daughter (Margaret, wife of Sir Oliver St. John, of Sir John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, & of Sir Lionel, Lord Welles).17,3,4,5,11,13,14 Sir John de Beauchamp, 3rd Baron Beauchamp of Bletsoe left a will on 21 February 1412.3,11 He died on 13 April 1412.11 His estate was probated on 10 December 1414.3,11
  • Family 1 Margaret Holand b. c 1396, d. b 1410
  • Family 2 Edith Stourton d. 13 Jun 1441
  • Children
    • Margaret Beauchamp+20,21,22,23,24,4,5,6,7,8,9,11,12,13,14,15,16 b. c 1410, d. c 3 Jun 1482
    • John Beauchamp17,11 b. c 1411, d. 20 Jul 1420
  • Citations
  • 1.[S4048] Unknown author, The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. II, p. 45; Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists, p. 85; Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, by David Faris, p. 17; The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, by Ronny O. Bodine, p. 67.
  • 2.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 398.
  • 3.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 473-474.
  • 4.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 221-222.
  • 5.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 305.
  • 6.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 353-354.
  • 7.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 413-414.
  • 8.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 426-427.
  • 9.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 424-425.
  • 10.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 297.
  • 11.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 524-525.
  • 12.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 28-29.
  • 13.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 199-201.
  • 14.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 331-332.
  • 15.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 379-380.
  • 16.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 462.
  • 17.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 626.
  • 18.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 472-473.
  • 19.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 523-524.
  • 20.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 626-627.
  • 21.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 724.
  • 22.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 758-759.
  • 23.[S15] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, p. 875-876.
  • 24.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 473-474.
  • From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p508.htm#i...
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  • John Beauchamp1
  • M, #107328, d. April 1412
  • Last Edited=2 Jun 2008
  • John Beauchamp was the son of Sir Roger Beauchamp and Mary (?).1 He married, firstly, Margaret Holand, daughter of Sir John Holand, in January 1405/6.2 He married, secondly, Edith Stourton, daughter of Sir John Stourton and Lettice (?), after 1406.2 He died in April 1412.3 His will (dated 21 February 1412) was probated on 10 December 1414.3
  • In 1406/7 he had livery of his lands.2 He lived at Bletso, Bedfordshire, England.4
  • Children of John Beauchamp and Edith Stourton
    • 1.Margaret Beauchamp+2 d. 8 Aug 1482
    • 2.John Beauchamp2 b. c 1410
  • Citations
  • 1.[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, 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 44. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
  • 2.[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume II, page 45.
  • 3.[S2] Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 75. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage, Volume XIV.
  • 4.[S8] BP1999 volume 1, page 220. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S8]
  • From: [http://www.thepeerage.com/p10733.htm#i107328
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  • Elizabeth (Edith) STOURTON
  • Born: ABT 1384, Bletneshle, Somersetshire, England
  • Died: 13 Jun 1441
  • Father: John De STOURTON (Sir Knight)
  • Mother: Jane BASSET
  • Married 1: John BEAUCHAMP (Sir Knight) ABT 1409, Stourton, Wiltshire, England
  • Children:
    • 1. Margaret BEAUCHAMP (D. Somerset) (b. 1410 - d. 8 Aug 1482) (m.1 Sir Oliver St. John - m.2 John Beaufort, 1º D. Somerset - m.3 Lionel Welles, B. Welles)
    • 2. John BEAUCHAMP
  • Married 2: Robert SHOTTESBROOKE (Sir Knight) ABT 1425, Woodhay, Berkshire, England
  • Children:
    • 3. Eleanor SHOTTESBROOKE (m. John Cheney)
  • From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/STOURTON.htm#Elizabeth (Edith) STOURTON1
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  • History of the noble house of Stourton, of Stourton, in the county of Wilts; (1899)
  • https://archive.org/details/historyofnobleho01mowb
  • https://archive.org/stream/historyofnobleho01mowb#page/80/mode/1up
  • Pg.80
  • Sir John Stourton, by Catherine, daughter of Henry, Lord Beaumont, had issue an only son and heir : —
    • i. — Sir William Stourton, Lord of the Manor and Advowson of Stourton, held of the Castle of Cary, Co. Somerset, father of Sir John Stourton, created Baron of Stourton, Co. Wilts., and of whom afterwards.
  • Sir John Stourton, by his second wife, Jane or Joan, daughter of Ralph, Lord Basset, had issue : —
    • ii. — John Stourton, of Brimpton and Preston, .... etc.
    • https://archive.org/stream/historyofnobleho01mowb#page/91/mode/1up
    • Pg.91
    • vi. — Edith Stourton, whom the Visitation for Co. Beds, erroneously called daughter and heir of John, Lord Stourton, although the Visitation for Co. York leaves his name in blank, but from an inscription(*) it was recorded, "Hie jacet Editha soror' Will'i Storton, quondam uxor' D'ni Joh'is Beau- champ, militis, et post uxor' D'ni Roberti Shottesbroke, militis, qui obiit xiii. die Junii anno domini 1441(!), cui' a'n'e p'pi'etr Deus." Edmondson
    • https://archive.org/stream/historyofnobleho01mowb#page/92/mode/1up
    • Pg.92
    • erroneously placed her as a child of her father's first marriage, but Haare and Collins both mentioned her as part issue of the second marriage. She and both her husbands were recorded in the Visitation for Co. Beds., and in Harleian MS. 1074, a fuller account is given of her, shewing the inscription to her first husband and that inscribed to her own memory, wherein she was called sister of William Stourton, sometime wife of Sir Thomas Beauchamp, knight, and after wife of Sir Robert Shottesbroke, knight. Under her brother, John Stourton, of Preston, it is seen that the heirs of the body of his sister, Edith, called late wife of Sir Robert Shottesbroke, knight, had the next remainder in certain of his property, contingent on his three daughters dying without issue, which they did not do. She married (1) Sir John Beauchamp, knight, of Bletsho, Co. Bedford, sometimes called Lord Beauchamp, but he was never summoned to Parliament ; he had livery of his lands in 1406-7, and died in 1412, and (2) Sir Robert Shottesbroke(*), who was shewn to be the then husband of Edith, late wife of John Beauchamp, chivalier, in an Inquisition taken at Sherborne, Co. Dorset, on 30th April, 9 Henry V., after the death of her only son, John, son and heir of John Beauchamp, relating to the Manor of Ashmore in that county. It will have been seen that her issue by her first husband. Sir John Beauchamp, of Bletsho, Co. Bedford, was given in the old pedigree set out on page 74, as : —
      • Margaret Beauchamp, only daughter, but she had a brother, John Beauchamp, Lord Beauchamp, only son and heir of his parents, who succeeded his father when two years old, died 20th July, 8 Henry V., seised of the Manor of Ashmore, Co. Dorset, and other estates, leaving the said Margaret, his sister and heir, then aged eleven years and upwards, shewing that William Stourton, then deceased (f), his uncle, had been one of his trustees, and that Edith, his mother, was then late wife of John Beauchamp, Chivalier, and then wife of Sir Robert Shottisbroke(+). It is said by the Peerages that on his death the right to any Barony created by the summons of 1363 would devolve on his sister and next heir:-
      • The said Margaret Beauchamp, who married (1) Sir Oliver St. John, knight, of Bletsho, in the County of Bedford, who died in 1437, having acquired on his marriage the Lordship of Bletsho, Co. Beds.,
      • https://archive.org/stream/historyofnobleho01mowb#page/93/mode/1up
      • Pg.93
      • and Lydiard Tregoze, Co. Wilts., and through her was ancestor of the Lords St. John, of Bletsho, Co. Beds.; the Barons St. John, of Lydiard Tregoze, Co. Wilts., and Battersea, Co. Surrey; Viscounts St. John, and Viscounts Bolingbroke, Co. Lincoln; the Earls of Bolingbroke; and the Baronets of Longthorpe, Co. Northampton; (2) John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, K.G., grandson of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, and titular King of Castille and Leon, fourth son of King Edward III.; his grace died 27th May, 1444, (the pedigree say 1446,) buried in Wimborne Minster, Co. Dorset, aged 39; and (3) Leo, Lord Welles, K.G., who was slain at Towton, 10th Jully, 1460, The Visitations and other records shew she eventually became sole heir of her father, and that she inherited Ashmore Manor, and other premises there, dying seised of same 8th August, 22 Edward IV., leaving John St. John, Esquire, her son, by her first husband, who was her next heir, then aged 40 years and upwards(*), from whom descended the Lords St. John, of Bletsho, Co. Beds., the Earls of Bolingbroke, and the Baronets of Longthorpe, Co. Northampton. By her second husband, John, 1st Duke of Somerset, he had an only daughter: -- .... etc.
    • https://archive.org/stream/historyofnobleho01mowb#page/95/mode/1up
    • Pg.95
    • vii. — .... etc.
  • https://archive.org/stream/historyofnobleho01mowb#page/97/mode/1up
  • Pg.97
    • CHART Pg.97-100
  • Sir John Stourton, Lord of Preston, Co. Somerset. Called John, Lord Stourton in the Visitation of Beds., and Constable of Corfe Castle 1st March, 4 Richard II. Witnessed Robert, Lord Fitz Payne's charter of the Manor and Advowson of Stourton, Co. Wilts, 40 Edward III. Described by his son, John Stourton, of Preston, as sometime Lord of Stourton, Co. Wilts. Sheriff of Counties Dorset and Wilts., 1377. Buried in the Abby of Stavordale, Co. Somerset. = Catherine, daughter of Henry Lord Beaumont, confirmed by Hoare's copy of the College of Arms pedigree and by Edmonson.; ch: (Pg.98 Sir William (m. Elizabeth Moygne) Stourton); = Jane, daughter of Ralph, Lord Basset, confirmed by Hoare's copy of the College of Arms pedigree, by Edmondson, and by Brydes' Collins' Peerage.; ch: (Pg.98 Edith (m. Sir John Beauchamp & Sir Robert Shottesbroke) Stourton.
  • https://archive.org/stream/historyofnobleho01mowb#page/98/mode/1up
  • Pg.98
    • Edith Stourton. Both Hoare and Collins call her part issue by the second wife, but Edmondson alleged she was daughter by the first wife. She married 2ndly Sir Robert Shottesbroke, knight. Died 13th June, 1441. = Sir John Beachamp, knight, of Bletsho, Co. Beds., son and heir of Sir Roger Beauchamp, Chamberlain to Edward III. He was sometimes called Lord Beauchamp, but he was never summoned to Parliament. Had livery of his father's lands in 1406-7 and died in 1412.; ch: Margaret (m. John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset) Beauchamp.
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  • 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.
  • 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. .... etc.
  • From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Beauchamp_of_Bletso
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  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_de_Welles,_6th_Baron_Welles
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Sir John Beauchamp, Knight, of Bletso's Timeline

1371
1371
Birth of Sir John Beauchamp, Knight, of Bletso
Pottersgate, Lincolnshire, England (United Kingdom)
1405
January 1, 1405
Birth of Margaret Beauchamp of Bletso, Lady Welles
Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England (United Kingdom)
1410
1410
Birth of John Beauchamp
Bletso, Bedfordshire, England (United Kingdom)
1412
April 1412
Age 41
Death of Sir John Beauchamp, Knight, of Bletso at St...
St.Catherine, London, Middlesex, England (United Kingdom)
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Bletsoe Bedfordshire And Worcestershire, England
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Bletsoe Bedfordshire And Worcestershire, England
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