Roger Beauchamp (abt. 1315 - abt. 1380)

Ancestors

Descendants

Died about 3 Jan 1380 at about age 65 in Black Friars, London, England

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Biography

Roger de Beauchamp, Knt., 1st Lord Beauchamp of Bletsoe^[1]

Name

Roger de Beauchamp, Knt., of Bloxham and Ditchley (in Spelsbury), Oxfordshire, and Broybury (in Little Cainhoe), Bedfordshire.^[1]

Titles

King's yeoman^[1]

Queen's Bachelor^[1]

Keeper of Devizes Castle^[1]

Chamberlain of the Household to King Edward III^[1]

Captain of Calais^[1]

Birth

Roger de Beauchamp, son of Roger and grandson of Walter, was born say 1315.^[1]

1337 First Marriage to Sibyl de Pateshulle

He married (1st) before 15 March 1337 Sibyl De Pateshulle, daughter of John de Pateshulle, Knt, of Patishall, Cold Higham, Grimscote (in Cold Higham ) etc, by Mabel, daughter of William Grandison (or Graunson) Knt, 1st Lord Grandison.^[1]

Sibyl was born about 1319 (aged 40 in 1359).^[1]

1379 Second Marriage to Margaret de Carew

He married (2nd) before 1379 Margaret de Carew (or Carreu), widow of Thomas de Grandison, K. G. 4th lord Grandison (died 1375) and sister of William de Carew. They had no issue.^[1]

Issue

Roger and Sibyl had two sons and one daughter:

• Roger, Knt.^[1]
• [Master] Philip [Archdeacon of Exeter, Warden of Tickhill chapel, Yorkshire], born about 1338-9 (aged 14 in 1353, aged 23 in 1361).^[1]
• Margaret^[1]

1346 French Wars

He served in the French wars as early as 1346.^[1]

1347 Reversion of Manor

Roger and his wife Sibyl, had the reversion of the manor of Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, by the gift of her uncle, Peter de Grandison, Knt, 2nd Lord Grandison in 1347.^[1]

1373 Sons of Charles de Blois removed from Devizes

1373: King Edward III's praecipe directed John Legge and William de Weston, to receive from Roger de Beauchamp, Constable of the castle of Devizes, the two sons of Charles de Blois, and to deliver them to Robert de Morton, Lieutenant of Collard de Aubrichecourt, Constable of Nottingham Castle, there to remain as hostages, till the pretensions to the duchy of Britany should be cleared.^[2]

Death

Sir Roger de Beauchamp, 1st Lord Beauchamp of Bletsoe, died 3 January 1379/80. He left a will dated 19 Dec 1379, proved 26 Feb 1379/80, directing burial at Black Friars, London, by his 1st wife Sibyl.^[1]

Margaret died on or about 2 October 1394.^[1]

Will

Will of "Roger de Beauchampe, knight. Dated London, 19, Dec. 1379.[fo. 192.] To be buried in church of Friars Preachers, London, by Sibil my wife... Roger the son of my son & heir Roger... my son Philip... My dau. Margaret... my wife Margaret... Proved at Lambeth before Simon Archbishop of Canterbury iiij kal. Mar. 1379, and at the old Temple London before John Bishop of Lincoln 2 March 1379."^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), volume IV, page 524 SAINT JOHN 11.
2. ↑ Woodfall's Peerage of England
3. ↑ Alfred Gibbons. Early Lincoln Wills, 1280–1547 (James Williamson, Lincoln, 1888), pages 29-30.

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

Roger Beauchamp appears in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail from Gateway Ancestors Elizabeth, and Thomas Boteler/Butler to Magna Carta Surety Baron Henry de Bohun (vol. I, pages 218-220 BLETSOE). The trail from Elizabeth to Bohun was badged by the Magna Carta Project in September 2019 by Noland-165 and Thomas's in 2020. The trail is outlined in the Magna Carta Trails section of Elizabeth Boteler's profile.

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