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Complete Peerage 2 (1912): 45 (sub Beauchamp) includes an account of Sir Roger Beauchamp, of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, who died in 1406. Sir Roger Beauchamp is of some historical interest, as he is in the ancestry of the Tudor and subsequent monarchs of Great Britain.
Regarding his marriage and death, the following limited information is provided:
"He married Joan Clopton. He died 3 May 1406." END OF QUOTE
Here is the documentation provided for this information: NOTHING.
In Complete Peerage, 14 (1996): 75 some corrections and additions are offered to the account for Sir Roger Beauchamp who died died 1406. Joan Clopton is shown to have been the 2nd wife of Sir Roger Beauchamp's father, the elder Sir Roger Beauchamp, who died in 1374. The account of the younger Sir Roger Beauchamp (died 1406) is further amended to read as follows:
"He married Mary(_____). He died 13 May 1406, will dated 1406, PCC 11 March." END OF QUOTE.
No sources are provided. Also no further particulars are provided regarding Sir Roger's wife, Mary. As for Sir Roger's will, a brief abstract of his will is published in Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta 1 (1826): 168. The abstract may be viewed at the following weblink:
https://books.google.com/books?id=IybOaH69SgwC&pg=PA168
Sir Roger's will is dated 24 April 1406, proved 12 July 1406 (P.C.C. 11 Marche), in which he requests burial in the church of the Friars Preachers in Fisherton, Wiltshire. Unfortunately the will doesn't mention either a wife or children.
However, an inquisition post mortem has survived for Sir Roger Beauchamp, an abstract of which has been published in Cal. IPM 19 (1992): 13-27. The inquisition may be viewed at the following weblink:
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol19/pp13-27
Several inquests were taken as part of the inquisition in various counties. All of the inquests state that Sir Roger Beauchamp died 13 May 1406, not 3 May 1406 as originally stated by Complete Peerage.
The Bedfordshire inquest further reveals that Sir Roger's son and heir was John Beauchamp, who was aged 21 on 1 August 1405. This indicates that John Beauchamp was born 1 August 1384, which date is missing from his own Complete Peerage account.
No wife is mentioned in the inquisition post mortem. However, the following information was collected by the Bedfordshire inquest taken 26 June 1406:
"Long before his death by his charter dated at Salisbury on 4 April 1406 he gave to William Westbury, Roger Kempston and John Peterych the manor and advowson of Bletsoe, the manor of Keysoe and a place called ‘le Hulme’ in Bletsoe to hold to them and their heirs and assigns without conditions. They have held them since and taken the profits." END OF QUOTE
As for evidence that Sir Roger Beauchamp was survived by a wife, Mary, the following record is found in Cal. of Fine Rolls, 13 (1933): 57:
"Date: 24 November 1406. "Order to the escheator in the county of Wilts to cause John Beauchamp, son and heir of Roger Beauchamp, 'chivaler,' to have full seisin of all the lands which the said Roger held of the king in chief in his demesne as of fee or was seised of in his demesne as of fee on the day of his death, as the king has taken his homage and fealty; saving to Mary late the wife of the said Roger her reasonable dower thereof. Order in like terms to the escheator in the country of Kent. By writ etc." END OF QUOTE.
We see here that Mary, widow of Sir Roger Beauchamp, was living 24 November 1406.
With respect to to Mary, widow of Roger Beauchamp, my research indicates that in Easter term 1411 Mary sued William Westbury and John Petrych in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a trespass [vi et armis] at Bletsoe, Bedfordshire. Reference: Court of Common Pleas, CP40/601, image 926d (available at http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT2/H4/CP40no601/bCP40no601dorses/IMG_0926.htm).
The defendants in this lawsuit were William Westbury and John Petrych who are named as feoffees of Mary's late husband in Sir Roger's 1406 inquisition regarding an earlier settlement of the manor and advowson of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, together with other lands.
As to Mary Beauchamp's date of death, my research further finds that in Trinity term 1415 Thomas Lounde, of Shefford, Bedfordshire, executor of the will of Mary, widow of Roger Beauchamp, Knt., sued Roger Shakestaf, of Lydiard, Wiltshire, husbandman, in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a debt of £20. Court of Common Pleas, CP40/618, image 476f (available at http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H5/CP40no618/aCP40no618fronts/IMG_0476.htm).
Thus it would appear that Mary, widow of Sir Roger Beauchamp, was living in Easter term 1411, and died testate before Trinity term 1415. I haven't made an effort to find Mary Beauchamp's will.
Reviewing the above, I find that Sir Roger Beauchamp died 13 May 1406, not 3 May 1406. He left a will dated 24 April 1406, proved 12 July 1406 (P.C.C. 11 Marche), requesting burial in the church of the Friars Preachers in Fisherton, Wiltshire. He was survived by a wife, Mary, who was living Easter term 1411, and died testate before Trinity term 1415. He was also survived by a son and heir, John Beauchamp, born 1 August 1384.
I've copied below my file account of Sir Roger Beauchamp (died 1406) and his wife, Mary. It provides further particulars of Sir Roger's life not mentioned by Complete Peerage.
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ROGER BEAUCHAMP, Knt., de jure 2nd Lord Beauchamp of Bletsoe, of Bletsoe and Keysoe, Bedfordshire, Bloxham and Ditchley (in Spelsbury), Oxfordshire, Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, and Ashmore, Dorset, Knight of the Shire for Bedfordshire, 1399, Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 1401–2, son and heir by his father’s 1st marriage, born at Bletsoe, Bedfordshire 14 August 1362 (aged 13 in Nov. 1375 and c.Feb. 1376, 17 or 18 in 1380, 20 in Feb. 1384). He was co-heir in 1375 to his cousin, Thomas de Grandison, Knt., 4th Lord Grandison, by which he inherited an interest in the manor of Grandisons (in Lambourn), Berkshire. He was a legatee in the 1379 will of his grandfather, Roger de Beauchamp, Knt. He married MARY _____. They had two sons, John, Knt., and Peter, Esq., and one daughter, Katherine. He was never summoned to Parliament, nor were any of his descendants. He presented to the churches of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, 1385, and Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, 1387, 1398. In 1385 Thomas Newton and two others gave bond in 1,000 marks to pay 500 marks in several portions at certain days in the church of St. Botolph, Aldgate to Roger de Beauchamp, Esq., of Bedfordshire, and his step-grandmother, Margaret, widow of Thomas Grandison, Knt.; the said Roger and Margaret acknowledged satisfaction in 1387. He attended King Richard II in the retinue of Thomas, Duke of Gloucester, into Ireland in 1395. He supported the Lords Appellant in their opposition to King Richard II’s ministers in 1388, for which he received a royal pardon in 1398. SIR ROGER BEAUCHAMP died 13 May 1406. He left a will dated 24 April 1406, proved 12 July 1406 (P.C.C. 11 Marche), requesting burial in the church of the Friars Preachers in Fisherton, Wiltshire. In Easter term 1411 his widow, Mary, sued William Westbury and John Petrych in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a trespass [vi et armis] at Bletsoe, Bedfordshire. In Trinity term 1415 Thomas Lounde, of Shefford, Bedfordshire, executor of the will of Mary, widow of Roger Beauchamp, Knt., sued Roger Shakestaf, of Lydiard, Wiltshire, husbandman, in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a debt of £20.
References:
Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta 1 (1826): 168 (will of Roger Beauchamp, Knt.), 178 (will of John Beauchamp). Banks, Baronies in Fee 2 (1843): 136–137 (sub Steyngreve). Minutes of Evidence ... [re.] The Petition of Sir Henry Paston Bedingfield of Oxborough (1854): 189–194. Nicolas & Courthope, Hist. Peerage of England (1857): 218–219 (sub Grandison). Arch. Cantiana 2 (1859): 34–35. Burke, Gen. Hist. of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1866): 32–33 (sub Beauchamp). Wiltshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Mag. 18 (1879): 170. Harvey et al., Vis. of Bedfordshire 1566, 1582, 1634 & 1669 (H.S.P. 19) (1884): 51–54 (Saint John ped.). Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 173. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 2. Notes & Queries for Somerset & Dorset 9 (1905): 247. Wrottesley, Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 151. VCH Bedford 3 (1912): 41, 136–137. C.P. 2 (1912): 45 (sub Beauchamp); 6 (1926): 66–68 (sub Grandison). VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 251–266. Thomas, Cal. Select Pleas & Memoranda of the City of London 1381–1412 (1932): 84, 101–102. C.F.R. 13 (1933): 3, 42–43, 57. Fowler, Recs. of Harrold Priory (Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 17) (1935): 170. Bassett, Knights of the Shire for Bedfordshire (Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 29) (1949): 14 (biog. of Sir Roger Beauchamp). Cal. IPM 14 (1952): 129–143; 15 (1970): 77–93, 368–386; 19 (1992): 13–27. Paget, Baronage of England (1957) 45: 1–4 (sub Beauchamp of Bletsoe). VCH Oxford 9 (1969): 59–60. VCH Wiltshire 9 (1970): 78–79. Roskell House of Commons 1386–1421 2 (1992): 154–156 (biog. of Sir Roger Beauchamp). TG 13 (1999): 255. Court of Common Pleas, CP40/601, image 926d (available at http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT2/H4/CP40no601/bCP40no601dorses/IMG_0926.htm). Court of Common Pleas, CP40/618, image 476f (available at http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H5/CP40no618/aCP40no618fronts/IMG_0476.htm). Friends of Lydiard Tregoz, Report No. 38.
Complete Peerage 2 (1912): 45 (sub Beauchamp) includes an account of Sir Roger Beauchamp, of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, who died in 1406. Sir Roger Beauchamp is of some historical interest, as he is in the ancestry of the Tudor and subsequent monarchs of Great Britain.
Regarding his marriage and death, the following limited information is provided:
"He married Joan Clopton. He died 3 May 1406." END OF QUOTE
Here is the documentation provided for this information: NOTHING.
In Complete Peerage, 14 (1996): 75 some corrections and additions are offered to the account for Sir Roger Beauchamp who died died 1406. Joan Clopton is shown to have been the 2nd wife of Sir Roger Beauchamp's father, the elder Sir Roger Beauchamp, who died in 1374. The account of the younger Sir Roger Beauchamp (died 1406) is further amended to read as follows:
"He married Mary(_____). He died 13 May 1406, will dated 1406, PCC 11 March." END OF QUOTE.
No sources are provided. Also no further particulars are provided regarding Sir Roger's wife, Mary. As for Sir Roger's will, a brief abstract of his will is published in Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta 1 (1826): 168. The abstract may be viewed at the following weblink:
https://books.google.com/books?id=IybOaH69SgwC&pg=PA168
Sir Roger's will is dated 24 April 1406, proved 12 July 1406 (P.C.C. 11 Marche), in which he requests burial in the church of the Friars Preachers in Fisherton, Wiltshire. Unfortunately the will doesn't mention either a wife or children.
However, an inquisition post mortem has survived for Sir Roger Beauchamp, an abstract of which has been published in Cal. IPM 19 (1992): 13-27. The inquisition may be viewed at the following weblink:
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol19/pp13-27
Several inquests were taken as part of the inquisition in various counties. All of the inquests state that Sir Roger Beauchamp died 13 May 1406, not 3 May 1406 as originally stated by Complete Peerage.
The Bedfordshire inquest further reveals that Sir Roger's son and heir was John Beauchamp, who was aged 21 on 1 August 1405. This indicates that John Beauchamp was born 1 August 1384, which date is missing from his own Complete Peerage account.
No wife is mentioned in the inquisition post mortem. However, the following information was collected by the Bedfordshire inquest taken 26 June 1406:
"Long before his death by his charter dated at Salisbury on 4 April 1406 he gave to William Westbury, Roger Kempston and John Peterych the manor and advowson of Bletsoe, the manor of Keysoe and a place called ‘le Hulme’ in Bletsoe to hold to them and their heirs and assigns without conditions. They have held them since and taken the profits." END OF QUOTE
As for evidence that Sir Roger Beauchamp was survived by a wife, Mary, the following record is found in Cal. of Fine Rolls, 13 (1933): 57:
"Date: 24 November 1406. "Order to the escheator in the county of Wilts to cause John Beauchamp, son and heir of Roger Beauchamp, 'chivaler,' to have full seisin of all the lands which the said Roger held of the king in chief in his demesne as of fee or was seised of in his demesne as of fee on the day of his death, as the king has taken his homage and fealty; saving to Mary late the wife of the said Roger her reasonable dower thereof. Order in like terms to the escheator in the country of Kent. By writ etc." END OF QUOTE.
We see here that Mary, widow of Sir Roger Beauchamp, was living 24 November 1406.
With respect to to Mary, widow of Roger Beauchamp, my research indicates that in Easter term 1411 Mary sued William Westbury and John Petrych in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a trespass [vi et armis] at Bletsoe, Bedfordshire. Reference: Court of Common Pleas, CP40/601, image 926d (available at http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT2/H4/CP40no601/bCP40no601dorses/IMG_0926.htm).
The defendants in this lawsuit were William Westbury and John Petrych who are named as feoffees of Mary's late husband in Sir Roger's 1406 inquisition regarding an earlier settlement of the manor and advowson of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, together with other lands.
As to Mary Beauchamp's date of death, my research further finds that in Trinity term 1415 Thomas Lounde, of Shefford, Bedfordshire, executor of the will of Mary, widow of Roger Beauchamp, Knt., sued Roger Shakestaf, of Lydiard, Wiltshire, husbandman, in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a debt of £20. Court of Common Pleas, CP40/618, image 476f (available at http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H5/CP40no618/aCP40no618fronts/IMG_0476.htm).
Thus it would appear that Mary, widow of Sir Roger Beauchamp, was living in Easter term 1411, and died testate before Trinity term 1415. I haven't made an effort to find Mary Beauchamp's will.
Reviewing the above, I find that Sir Roger Beauchamp died 13 May 1406, not 3 May 1406. He left a will dated 24 April 1406, proved 12 July 1406 (P.C.C. 11 Marche), requesting burial in the church of the Friars Preachers in Fisherton, Wiltshire. He was survived by a wife, Mary, who was living Easter term 1411, and died testate before Trinity term 1415. He was also survived by a son and heir, John Beauchamp, born 1 August 1384.
I've copied below my file account of Sir Roger Beauchamp (died 1406) and his wife, Mary. It provides further particulars of Sir Roger's life not mentioned by Complete Peerage.
+ + + + + + + + + +
ROGER BEAUCHAMP, Knt., de jure 2nd Lord Beauchamp of Bletsoe, of Bletsoe and Keysoe, Bedfordshire, Bloxham and Ditchley (in Spelsbury), Oxfordshire, Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, and Ashmore, Dorset, Knight of the Shire for Bedfordshire, 1399, Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 1401–2, son and heir by his father’s 1st marriage, born at Bletsoe, Bedfordshire 14 August 1362 (aged 13 in Nov. 1375 and c.Feb. 1376, 17 or 18 in 1380, 20 in Feb. 1384). He was co-heir in 1375 to his cousin, Thomas de Grandison, Knt., 4th Lord Grandison, by which he inherited an interest in the manor of Grandisons (in Lambourn), Berkshire. He was a legatee in the 1379 will of his grandfather, Roger de Beauchamp, Knt. He married MARY _____. They had two sons, John, Knt., and Peter, Esq., and one daughter, Katherine. He was never summoned to Parliament, nor were any of his descendants. He presented to the churches of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, 1385, and Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, 1387, 1398. In 1385 Thomas Newton and two others gave bond in 1,000 marks to pay 500 marks in several portions at certain days in the church of St. Botolph, Aldgate to Roger de Beauchamp, Esq., of Bedfordshire, and his step-grandmother, Margaret, widow of Thomas Grandison, Knt.; the said Roger and Margaret acknowledged satisfaction in 1387. He attended King Richard II in the retinue of Thomas, Duke of Gloucester, into Ireland in 1395. He supported the Lords Appellant in their opposition to King Richard II’s ministers in 1388, for which he received a royal pardon in 1398. SIR ROGER BEAUCHAMP died 13 May 1406. He left a will dated 24 April 1406, proved 12 July 1406 (P.C.C. 11 Marche), requesting burial in the church of the Friars Preachers in Fisherton, Wiltshire. In Easter term 1411 his widow, Mary, sued William Westbury and John Petrych in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a trespass [vi et armis] at Bletsoe, Bedfordshire. In Trinity term 1415 Thomas Lounde, of Shefford, Bedfordshire, executor of the will of Mary, widow of Roger Beauchamp, Knt., sued Roger Shakestaf, of Lydiard, Wiltshire, husbandman, in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a debt of £20.
References:
Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta 1 (1826): 168 (will of Roger Beauchamp, Knt.), 178 (will of John Beauchamp). Banks, Baronies in Fee 2 (1843): 136–137 (sub Steyngreve). Minutes of Evidence ... [re.] The Petition of Sir Henry Paston Bedingfield of Oxborough (1854): 189–194. Nicolas & Courthope, Hist. Peerage of England (1857): 218–219 (sub Grandison). Arch. Cantiana 2 (1859): 34–35. Burke, Gen. Hist. of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1866): 32–33 (sub Beauchamp). Wiltshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Mag. 18 (1879): 170. Harvey et al., Vis. of Bedfordshire 1566, 1582, 1634 & 1669 (H.S.P. 19) (1884): 51–54 (Saint John ped.). Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 173. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 2. Notes & Queries for Somerset & Dorset 9 (1905): 247. Wrottesley, Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 151. VCH Bedford 3 (1912): 41, 136–137. C.P. 2 (1912): 45 (sub Beauchamp); 6 (1926): 66–68 (sub Grandison). VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 251–266. Thomas, Cal. Select Pleas & Memoranda of the City of London 1381–1412 (1932): 84, 101–102. C.F.R. 13 (1933): 3, 42–43, 57. Fowler, Recs. of Harrold Priory (Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 17) (1935): 170. Bassett, Knights of the Shire for Bedfordshire (Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 29) (1949): 14 (biog. of Sir Roger Beauchamp). Cal. IPM 14 (1952): 129–143; 15 (1970): 77–93, 368–386; 19 (1992): 13–27. Paget, Baronage of England (1957) 45: 1–4 (sub Beauchamp of Bletsoe). VCH Oxford 9 (1969): 59–60. VCH Wiltshire 9 (1970): 78–79. Roskell House of Commons 1386–1421 2 (1992): 154–156 (biog. of Sir Roger Beauchamp). TG 13 (1999): 255. Court of Common Pleas, CP40/601, image 926d (available at http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT2/H4/CP40no601/bCP40no601dorses/IMG_0926.htm). Court of Common Pleas, CP40/618, image 476f (available at http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H5/CP40no618/aCP40no618fronts/IMG_0476.htm). Friends of Lydiard Tregoz, Report No. 38.
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