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From: Reedpcgen< >
Subject: Re: Constance Blount
Date: 21 Jan 1999 08:32:03 GMT


I think I may have posted some on this a while back. Here's a very brief
sketch. For other details, see John Batten, "The Barony of Beauchamp of
Somerset," _Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society's Proceedings_
(1890) 36:20-59, available on microfilm through the FHL. See also, "Two
Beauchamp Registers," _Somerset Record Society_ 35, Sanders' _English Baronies_
51, CP 2:48-50, etc.

I. Robert the Constable, or Robert Fitz Ivo, a principal tenant of Robert,
Count of Mortain, held Stoke-under-Hamden and Hatch, at Domesday. He was
succeeded by:

II. Robert [I] "de Beauchamp" (fl. 1092-1113). He was succeeded by:

III. Robert [II] de Beauchamp (fl. 1158), who was succeeded by:

IV. Robert [III] de Beauchamp (d. 1195). It was a daughter of this Robert who
married:

V. [daughter] = Simon de Vautort/Valletort (d. by 1199), son of Hugh fitz
Richard de Vautort.

VI. Robert [IV] de Beauchamp, b. abt. 1190 (of majority 13 John), d. by 1251,
went by his mother's surname, m. Juliana, dau. of the widow Alice de Colville.

VII. Robert [V] de Beauchamp, d. by 25 Oct. 1263, m. abt. 1245 Alice Mohun,
widow of William de Clinton and dau. of Reynold [II] Mohun by Hawise fitz
Piers.

VIII. John [I] de Beauchamp, of Hatch, co. Somerset, d. 1283, m. Cecily de
Vivonne/Vivonia, dau. and coh. of William de Vivonne by Maud de Ferrers (one of
seven daughters and coheirs of William, Earl of Derby), by whom important
inheritance came into this family (see my last article in TAG Oct. 1998).

IX. John [II] de Beauchamp, b. 25 July 1274, d. 1336, m. Joan [said to be
Chendiut, but of this I've seen no factual evidence], d. 9 Feb. 1327. This
John is considered 1st Lord Beauchamp [barony by writ].

X. John [III] de Beauchamp, 2nd Lord, m. Margaret de St. John, dau. of John,
Lord St. John, by his wife Isabel de Courtenay [for this, see my arguments and
explanation in TAG Oct. 1998].

XI. John [IV] de Beauchamp, 3rd Lord Beauchamp of Somerset [Hatch], died
without issue, when his two sisters Cecily and Eleanor de Beauchamp were his
heirs and the lands divided between Cecily and her nephew John de Meriet [only
child of Eleanor]. Note, there is no third sister, or lands which ended up in
the hands of any Blount, as lands would have if a Blount had married into this
inheritance. The lands are thoroughly accounted for.

Hope this clarifies things a little.

pcr

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