Beckwith Bruce (abt. 1200)

Born about 1200 in Ugglebarnby, Yorkshire, England

Descendants

Although her very existence has been disputed, she was said to have been the daughter of Sir William Bruce, Lord of Uglebarby and to have married Hercules de Malebisse.

“Be it known to all Nobles, where this present writing shall come, be seen, or heard; whereas Hamon Beckwith, son and heir of Nicholas Beckwith, was named by the Earl Marshall of England, by a process that was dated from the aforesaid Marshals Manor of Reayssing Castle, in the Connty of Norfolk, Jan. 18th, in the tenth year of our Sovereign Lord, the King, in the year of our Lord, 1339. That the said Hamon Beckwith, should usurp and take unto him a coat of arms, which was appertaining unto John Lord de Malebisse, for which better use by virtue of this process, we charge you, that you will appear at the new Mansion House of Saymore, before us and bring with you all such evidence and records of arms, that we may allow, grant, and set our hands to your teste and posterity forever, and also that your appearence will be the 14th day of October, next coming, in the aforesaid year above written. And the said Orator did appear at the said day appointed, and did bring with him such evidence, whereof one piece dated from the 10th year of Henry the 3rd., which was in the year of our Lord 1226, from one Hercules de Malbie, the son of Simon de Malbie, Knight, who married the Lady Dame Beckwith Bruce, one of the daughters of Sir William Bruce, Lord of Uglebarby, and certain other lands in Pickering, that the said Hercules de Malbie, should change his name, or else his coat, and his posterity forever; and so it was what the said Hercules de Malbie changed his name from de Malbie to Beckwith, and did hold his coat, whereof I the said Earl Marshall Peter Mawlam, Lord od de Luke, Lord Chamberlain to our Sovereing Lord, King Edward 3rd, and Henry Lord Percy, Sir Robert Boynton, Knt., and Sir William Acton, did see and allow it in proof, and the said coat to be his own lineally descended, whereof we have our hands and seals, to the aforesaid teste, the day and year above written, in the presence of many.”

Biography

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Sources

• An illuminated parchment scroll.

• Thoresby's Ducatus, Wotton's Baronets 1741, Kimber & Johnson, Burke's Extinct Baronets, Foster etc.

• Ancestry family trees.

See also:

• Foster, J. (1874). Pedigrees of the county families of Yorkshire. London: W. Wilfred Head, Vol. II, p 23.
• The Beckwiths, Paul Edmund Beckwith, 1891, pp 21-22.
• A Genealogical & Heraldic History of the Extinct & Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, & Scotland, John Burke & Sir Bernanrd Burke, 1844, p 50.
• findagrave.com.
• Stirnet.com