Margaret Reade

Biography

Margaret Reade was born circa 1466 in Beauchamp Court, Worcestershire, England (United Kingdom). Her parents were Sir Richard Beauchamp, 2nd Baron Beauchamp of Powick and Elizabeth Beauchamp. The third child of Sir Richard and Elizabeth Beauchamp.

Margaret married Richard Reade in 1488 in London, Gloucestershire, England UK. Together they had the following children:

• Richard Reade.

She died on April 27, 1503, in Beauchamp Court, Worcestershire, England (United Kingdom) and was buried in Beauchamp Court, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom.

Origins

On 27 January 1447 in his private chapel at Beauchamp's Court, Alcester, Warwickshire Richard Beauchamp, 2nd Baron Beauchamp married Elizabeth, daughter of Humphrey Stafford of Grafton by special licence.[1] Their children were:

1. Sir John, died young
2. Elizabeth (d.1503), married, Robert Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby de Broke (d. 1521),[2]
3. Anne, married, Richard Lygon, of Madresfield, Worcs[3]
4. Margaret, married, William Rede of Gloucester (father of Richard Rede/Reade).[4]

Beauchamp died on 19 January 1502/1503, at Broomhill[5] when the Barony expired. His three surviving daughters, Elizabeth, Margaret and Anne, became his co-heirs.

References

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Beauchamp,_2nd_Baron_Beauchamp cites
   1. Douglas Richardson: Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition 2011
   2. John Britton: The Beauties of Wiltshire: Volume 3 p.399
   3. Faris, David (1996). Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists (1st ed.). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing. p. 290. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
   4. Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists 2nd Ed. by David Faris
   5. Douglas Richardson: Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition 2011