Beatrice (Stafford) Burley

Born [date unknown] in Staffordshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas (Ros) de Ros — married after 1 Jan 1359 in England

Descendants

Died 13 Apr 1415 in Yorkshire, England

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Biography

Family and Early Life

Beatrice was a daughter of Ralph de Stafford, 2nd Lord Stafford, by his second wife, Margaret de Audley.^[1] Her exact date of birth is unknown. She grew up in a wealthy and well-connected family, along with three brothers, three sisters, and two step-sisters from Lord Stafford's first marriage.^[1] Her father was from an influential (but not very political) family in the west midlands who, as a result of an extremely distinguished military career found himself elevated to the highest ranks of the nobility.^[2] Ralph de Stafford served as Steward of the King's Household (1337-1345), Privy Councillor (1337), Chief Justice of Chester and Flint (1341), and Seneschal of Aquitaine (1352).^[1][3] In 1350/1 he was created Earl of Stafford in right of his (second) wife, who at the death of her father in 1347 inherited the barony of Audley.^[1][4][5][6]

Beatrice's mother, Margaret de Audley, brought to her marriage extensive lands in Essex, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, and Staffordshire. She was the sole heir of Hugh de Audley, earl of Gloucester, and her inheritance was worth more than ten times the amount of Stafford's own holdings.^[2] Stafford is said to have abducted her and married her against her father's wishes.^[2] Audley initially filed legal proceedings against his new son-in-law but King Edward intervened on Stafford's behalf and the lawsuit was eventually dropped.^[2] Her mother died in 1349,^[1] when Beatrice was a young girl.

Marriage to Maurice Fitz Maurice

Beatrice married (first) Maurice Fitz Maurice, 2nd Earl of Desmond, who died shortly before 5 Jun 1358.^[7] They had no issue.

Marriage to Thomas de Roos

She married (second) some time after 1 January 1358/9 (date of marriage license) Thomas de Roos, 4th Lord Roos of Helmsley.^[7][8][9] There were at least six children from this marriage:

• John de Roos,^[10] 5th Lord Roos of Helmsley; born c1366 (aged 18 years when his father died);^[11] married Mary de Percy;^[11][12] died 6 Aug 1393 at Paphos, Isle of Cyprus^[11][13][14]
• William de Roos,^[10] 6th Lord Roos of Helmsley, Lord Treasurer of England; born c1370 (aged 24 in 1394);^[11][15] married after 9 October 1394 Margaret de Arundel;^[11][15] died 1 September 1414^[11][15]
• Thomas de Roos; (in his father's will)^[10][13] settled at Owersby, Lincolnshire^[16]
• Robert de Roos;^[10][11] received one-third of Hunmanby^[13]
• Elizabeth de Roos;^[10] married Thomas Clifford, 6th Lord Clifford;^[11][17] died March 1424^[13]
• Margaret de Roos;^[10] married Reynold Grey, 3rd Lord Grey of Ruthin;^[18][19][20] died before 7 February 1414/5^[21]

Thomas de Roos participated in the king's expedition in Normandy in 1359-60, about a year after his marriage to Beatrice.^[7] He served in Parliament from 1362 to 1383.^[7][8][16] In 1364 he accompanied the king of Cyprus to the Holy Land,^[8][16] and in 1368 was ordered by the king of England to reside at least temporarily on his own lands in Ireland, along with his private band of soldiers, in order to "prevent the loss and destruction of that country."^[7] It is not clear whether Beatrice and the children also moved to Ireland during this time. By 1370 he was once again involved in the French wars.^[8][16] Thomas de Roos, 4th Lord Roos, died 8 June 1384 at Uffington, Lincolnshire, and was buried at Riveaulx Abbey, Yorkshire.^[8][16][22]

Marriage to Richard de Burley

Beatrice married (third) Richard de Burley, KG, before 20 August 1385 (date of pardon for marrying without a license).^[7][23] Richard de Burley died at Villalpando, Spain 23 May 1387.^[7] There were no children from this marriage.^[7]

Death

Beatrice Stafford died 13 or 14 April 1415.^[24] She left a will dated 26 June 1414 in which she made numerous bequests and requested burial in Warter Priory, Yorkshire.^[25] Inquisition post mortems were held in York, Leicester, London, Nottingham, Kent, Suffolk, Norfolk, Buckingham, Essex, Hertford, Lincoln, and Northampton to account for all of the various castles, manors, and other properties which Beatrice held at the time of her death.^[24] These included, among many others, the castle and manor of Chilham and the manors of Hothfield and Wilderton (Kent); the manors of Barkestone and Plungar (Leicester); the manor of Orston (Nottingham); the manor of Rosismaner (Suffolk); the manors of Preston Bissett and Cowley (Buckingham); the manor of Shalford (Essex); the manor of Buckland (Hertford); the manors of Frieston and Godesfeld (Lincoln); the manors of Braunston Bury and Stoke Albany (Northampton); and the manor of Eastbourne in Sussex.^[24] Her heir was her grandson John.^[24]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author (2013), vol. 5, pp. 9-11. STAFFORD 7. Ralph de Stafford.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Rawcliffe, Carole. Stafford, Ralph, first earl of Stafford. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online edition (23 Sep 2004, rev. 25 May 2006), available here by subscription.
3. ↑ Doyle, James. Official Baronage of England. London: Longmans Green and Son (1886), vol 3, pp. 384-385.
4. ↑ Banks, Thomas Christopher. Baronies in Fee. Ripon: William Harrison (1844), p. 408
5. ↑ Beltz, George Frederick. Memorials of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. London: W. Pickering (1841), pp. 33-36
6. ↑ Cooke, William Henry. Collections Towards the History and Antiquities of Hereford. London: John Murray (1882), pp.8-9.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7} Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author (2013), vol.4, pp. 496-498. ROOS 10. Thomas de Roos.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4} Eller, Irvin. The History of Belvoir Castle. London: R. Tyas (1841), pp. 23-24.
9. ↑ Baildon, William Paley. Baildon and the Baildons. London: St Catherine Press (1912), pp. 566.
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5} Blair, C.H. Hunter (ed.). Visitations of the North. Durham: Surtees Society 144 (1930), p. 162
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 11.7} Clutterbuck, Robert. History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford. London: John Bowyer Nichols (1827), vol. 3, p. 393.
12. ↑ Atkinson, John Christopher. Cartularium Abbathiæ de Rievalle. Durham: for the Surtees Society (1889), appendix p. 361 and fn4.
13. ↑ ^{13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3} Clay, John William. Extinct and Dormant Peerages of the Northern Counties of England. London: J. Nisbet & Co. (1913), p. 183.
14. ↑ Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author (2013), vol.4, p.498. ROOS 10. i. John de Roos.
15. ↑ ^{15.0 15.1 15.2} Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author (2013), vol.4, pp. 498-500. ROOS 11. William Roos.
16. ↑ ^{16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4} Brydges, Sir Egerton. Collins's Peerage of England. London: P.C. and J. Rivington, et al. (1812), vol. 6, pp. 489-490.
17. ↑ Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author (2013), vol.4, p.498. ROOS 10. iii. Elizabeth de Roos.
18. ↑ Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author (2013), vol.4, p.498. ROOS 10. iv. Margaret de Roos.
19. ↑ Camden, William. Visitation of the County of Leicester 1619. London (1870), (H.S.P. 2), p. 74-74.
20. ↑ Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Rutland...preserved at Belvoir Castle. London: H.M. Stationery Office (1905), vol. 4, p. 86 (Reynold Grey named as son-in-law of Beatrice)
21. ↑ Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author (2013), vol. 3, pp. 126-130 GREY 11. Reynold Grey.
22. ↑ Transactions of the Shropshire Archaelogical and Natural History Society. Shrewsbury: by the Society (1908), pp. 370-371. (Inquisition Post Mortem, Thomas de Roos)
23. ↑ Calendar of Patent Rolls Edw II 1885-1889. London: H.M. Stationery Office (1971). p. 8.
24. ↑ ^{24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3} Kirby, J.L.. "Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry V, Entries 351-406," in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 20, Henry V, (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1995), 109-123. British History Online, accessed November 26, 2023, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol20/pp109-123.
25. ↑ Raine, James, ed. Testamenta Eboracensia Or Wills Registered at York, Vol 1., Surtees Society, 1836, p. 375. Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/testamentaeborac01york/page/374/mode/2up [accessed 7 October 2020].

See also:

• Banks, Thomas Christopher. Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England. London: J. White (1807), p. 521.

• Birch, W. de G. Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum. London: Longmans & Co. by order of the museum's trustees (1894), vol. 3, p. 448 (Beatrice's seal).

• Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, Chancery... London: H.M. Stationery Office (1962), vol 5, pp. 93, 139, 160-161.

• Dawes, M.C.B, M. R. Devine, H. E. Jones and M. J. Post. "Inquisitions Post Mortem, Richard II, File 33," in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 16, Richard II, (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1974), 1-20. British History Online, accessed November 26, 2023, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol16/pp1-20, #32-52. (Thomas de Roos)

• Gibbons, Alfred W. Early Lincoln Wills. Lincoln: James Williamson (1882), pp. 70-71 (Wills of Thoma de Roos and John de Roos, with bequests to Beatrice).

• Hunt, William. Stafford, Ralph de. DIctionary of National Biography archive edition.

• List of Inquisitions ad Quod Damnum 2. Public Record Office Lists and Indexes 22 (1906), p. 599.

• Nichols, John. History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester. London: S.R. (1971), vol. 2, part 1, appendix pp. 75-76 (Charter of Beatrice, formerly wife of Sir Thomas Lord of Ros of Helmsley, knight, and of Richard de Beurly, knight.)

• Nicolas, Sir Nicholas Harris. Testamenta Vetusta. London: Nichols & Son (1826), vol. 1, pp. 118-120. (Will of Hugh de Stafford, with bequest to Beatrice)

• Notes & Queries. London: Oxford University Press (1849), 4th series 9, pp. 464-465 (Burley).

• Richardson, Douglas.Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd ed. Salt Lake City: the author (2011), vol. 3, pp. 453-455 ROOS 6. Thomas de Roos.

• Weever, John. Ancient Funerall Monuments... London: Thomas Harper (1631), p. 323.

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed for the Magna Carta Project on 4 December 2023 by Jen Hutton.

Beatrice (Stafford) Burley is in a project-approved/badged trail (reviewed January 2015 by a Magna Carta project member) from Gateway Ancestor George Reade to Magna Carta Surety Barons John de Lacy. The Lacy trail branches off into badged trails to Saher de Quincy, Gilbert de Clare and Richard de Clare. These trails are set out in the Magna Carta Trails section of the Gateway's profile.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".