Walter de Beke, Lord of Eresby

Curator error: Eve de Grey was married twice but NOT to Walter Lord of Eresby de Beke. This is confirmed on Medlands [Rootsweb link references the GRANDFATHER of THIS Walter de Beke] http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ann_blomq...

I have therefore detached him from Eve de Grey.

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Wrong Eve de Grey. There were *five or six* of her, and Walter de Beke *did* marry one of them. Medlands is *very very very weak* on the early Grey family, and misses most of them.

Burke, Cokayne, Dugdale, Glover (Somerset Herald 1571-1588 and more conscientious than most), et al, agree that Walter de Bec/Beke married one Eve, niece of Walter (de Grey) Archbishop of York, in 1222. But most sources don't name her parents, and of those who do, no two agree. Between three attributed sisters and several attributed brothers (besides one or two documented ones), it looks as though Walter the Archbishop came from a *large* family.

References

• Banks, T. C. Baronia Anglica Concentrata, 1843.
• Beke, Charles T. "Observations on the Pedigree of the Family of Beke of Eresby in the County of Lincoln," Collectanea Topographica & Genealogica, Vol IV, 1837.
• Burke, Bernard. Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, 1883 edition.
• Cokayne. The Complete Peerage, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant, 1910, reprinted 1987.
• Massingberd, W. O. "An Account of the Family of Bek of Lusby," AASRP [Reports and Papers of the Associated Architectural Societies] 24(1), 1897, p 33-56.

Walter de Beke and his wife had (at least) three sons (John, Lord of Eresby; Anthony, Bishop of Durham; Thomas, Bishop of St. David's) and four daughters.