Beatrice (Lewknor) Kempe (abt. 1335 - abt. 1388)

Born about 1335 in Cuckfield, Sussex, , England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died about 1388 at about age 53 in Kent, , England [uncertain]

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Biography

Merging Notes

All of the original Beatrice Lewknor profiles' original data was from unsourced Ancestry trees. Dozens of these trees have been checked for sources and none have even a single valid source. A great deal of data has been added since the original profiles were loaded. Some sources have been added but none identify key data relating to Beatrice. Her birth year and place, marriage date/s and place/s and death date and place are not verified by any evidence. The identity of her father is also not identified other than he was Sir Thomas Lewknor and as there were many Thomas Lewknors his actual identity is not yet verified.

There are references to a Beatrice Lewknor, daughter of Sir Thomas Lewknor marrying Ralph Roper and then Thomas Kempe.^{[1] [2]} In some other sources the order is changed. Collins has Beatrice as the widow of Kempe when she married Roper.^[3]

The commonality here is the marriage of Beatrice Lewknor to Ralph Roper and a probable marriage to Thomas Kempe. In order to move on and develop the profiles of this family the four Beatrices have now been brought into one. Unsubstantiated information will be progressively removed as documented evidence is found.

There is evidence to connect the Ropers and Kempes in property transactions which is better added after the basics are sorted out.^[4]

Beatrice-4 of Gretworth 1335

• Beatrice Lewknor-4, born 1335 in Gretworth, Northampton to Sir Thomas Lewknor-99, b. say 1310. This Thomas, who fits no other known Thomas' profile, was created to fit the one known fact about Beatrice, based on a 1795 publication, that her father was a Sir Thomas Lewknor. Beatrice was previously shown as also the daughter of Joan D'Oyley-1, b. 1313 who was shown as his daughter in law rather than wife. Joan/1313 may not have existed. Beatrice is married first, say, at age 17 in 1352 to Thomas Kempe and then after his death, in 1359 to Ralph Roper-7, b. 1331 with whom she is mother to Edmund Roper, b. 1360. Beatrice and Thomas Kemp had a son Thomas, who would have been born about 1353, if they were married in 1352.

1359 Second Marriage to Ralph Roper

“The said Thomas Roper has issue Ralph Roper, who, by Beatrix his wife, daughter of Sir Thomas Lewkenor, Knt, and widow of Thomas Kempe, of Wye, had issue Edmund, his son and heir, hereafter mentioned.” ^[5]

Note on Marriage to Ralph Roper

A 1401 Will leaving a bequest to Ralph Roper^[6] shows that he was living at that date, after the death of Beatrice, so that she could not have been his widow when she married Thomas Kempe. If Thomas Kempe died after 1400 and the children of Thomas Kempe and Beatrice were born about 1380, she could not have been Kempe's widow to marry Ralph Roper. Accordingly, Beatrice has been detached as wife of Ralph Roper and her name changed to Kempe.

Sources

1. ↑ Collins, Arthur, and Sir Egerton Brydges. Collins’s Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical. Vol. VII. London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, Otridge and son, 1812, pp.78-9. Google-Books-ID: zvQ6AAAAIAAJ;
2. ↑ Philipot, John, R. Hovenden, and College of Arms (England and Wales). The Visitation of Kent in 1619-21. London: Harleian Society, 1898, p.82.
3. ↑ Collins, Arthur. Peerage of England, Vol. V 1756, p. 136. https://books.google.com.au/books?id=P5lcAAAAcAAJ Google-Books-ID: P5lcAAAAcAAJ.
4. ↑ Great Britain., and Public Record Office. Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office. 2nd Series, Vol. 1, 2nd Series, Vol. 1,. London: H.M.S.O., 1898, eg. pp. 122, 159-60.
5. ↑ Arthur Collins. Peerage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account, etec… London: Third Edition, Volume 5, p. 136, 1795. https://books.google.com/books?id=P5lcAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA134&lpg=RA1-PA134&dq=Dunstan+%22Ralph+Roper%22&source=bl&ots=7whb8cIf-7&sig=iqoksQHZjiXwDmrCAABZ5RJR8oo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ifuTVfnUGsjGsAXl173gCA&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Dunstan%20%22Ralph%20Roper%22&f=false
6. ↑ Nicolas, N. H. Testamenta Vetusta. Vol. I. Parliament Street, London: Nichols and Son, 1826,pp. 155-56. [1]

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Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Lewknor-56 created through the import of Ancestor's that we lost, the Decendants they left behind_2011-08-28_01 (2).ged on Sep 12, 2011 by Willette Bryant.

• Thank you to Jonathon Dale Walter Myers for creating Lewknor-68 on 25 Jul 13.