Person Page - 1831

     Adeline de Beauchamp married Walter le Espec Lord of Kirkham and Helmesley, co. York.¹

     GAV-25 EDV-25.

     Maud de Beauchamp married (?) Rithco.¹

     Margaret de Beauchamp married John Sudley.¹

      ; nun at Shouldham, co. Norfolk, a monastery founded by his lordship's maternal great grandfather.¹

      ; nun at Shouldham, co. Norfolk, a monastery founded by his lordship's maternal great grandfather.¹

      ; nun at Shouldham, in Norfolk.¹

     Alianore de Beauchamp married John Knight of Hanslope, co. Bucks.¹

      ; an only dau.¹

     Emma Knight married William Forster.¹

     Hierom de Beauchamp died; died unmarried.¹

     Katherine de Beauchamp died; died young.¹

      ; a nun.¹

      ; a nun.¹

     Robert de Beauchamp died in 1228.¹
     EDV-23 GKJ-23.

; The first of this Somersetshire family of whom mention is made by Dugdale, is Robert de Beauchamp, who, in the 3rd of Henry II. (1156-7), accounted the king £6 for a mark of gold, and in the 9th of the same monarch, was sheriff of the cos. Somerset and Dorset. In three years afterwards, this Robert, upon the assessment of the aid for marrying the king's dau., the levied, certified his knight's fees, "veteri feoffamento," to amount in number to seventeen, for which, in the 14th of Henry II., he paid £7 1s. 8d., that is 8s. 4d. for each knight's fee. In the 22nd of the same Henry, he again enjoyed the sheriffalty for the same cos., and continued in office for five years, and one half of the sixth year following. This feudal lord d. in 1228, having in minority, and in war to Hubert de Burgh, his son and heir, Robert de Beauchamp..."¹

     Margaret de Beauchamp married Thomas Challons.¹

     Eleanor de Beauchamp married John de Meriet Knt., of Merriott, Somerset.^1,2

     John de Meriet Knt., of Merriott, Somerset married Eleanor de Beauchamp, daughter of John de Beauchamp 2nd Lord Beauchamp of Hatch and Margaret St. John.^1,2

     Sir John de Meriet Knt., of Merriott, Somerset was born on 24 March 1346.² He married Elizabeth/Alice Fitz Alan, daughter of Sir Edmund Arundel Knt., of Bignor, Sussex and Lady Sibyl de Montagu, circa 29 September 1373
; her 2nd husband.^1,4,2
Sir John de Meriet Knt., of Merriott, Somerset died on 26 July 1391 at age 45.^1,2
     Sir John de Meriet Knt., of Merriott, Somerset was also known as John Meriet.³

     Elizabeth Meriet married (?) Seymour.¹

      ; "Eleanor, m. to -- Meriet, and left a son, John Meriet, whose dau. and heiress, Elizabeth, m. a Seymour."¹

     John Pauncefort married Margaret Beauchamp, daughter of Sir John Beauchamp Knt., 2nd (last) Lord Beauchamp of Kidderminster and Isabel Ferrers, before 1420
; her 1st husband.^1,3,2
John Pauncefort died in 1420.²

     Walter de Beauchamp Lord of Alcester died in 1328; dsp.¹
      ; "Walter de Beauchamp, succeeded his father in 1306, and was the next year in the expedition against the Scots. In 1317, soon after the death of Guy, Earl of Warwick, his kinsman, he had custody of all the lands belonging to Warwick Castle, together with the castle itself, during eh minority of the young earl. In 1327 he had a special commission to execute the office of constable of England in a particular case; and dying in the following year, s. p., was s. by his brother, William."¹

     William de Beauchamp Lord of Alcester died; dsp.¹
      ; "William de Beauchamp, a military office of high reputation, who attended Edward I. in several of expeditions into Flanders and Scotland. In the 10th of that monarch he acted as sheriff of Worcestershire, which office was granted to him during the minority of the heir of his kinsman, Guy, Earl of Warwick. In the 14th of Edward II. he was appointed governor of Briavel Castle, co. Gloucester, and of the Forest of Dean, and was constituted, in the year following, one of the king's commissioners for the safe custody of the city of Worcester. Dying, however, without issue, his estates devolved upon his brother, Giles."¹