Beatrice (Stuteville) de Colville (bef. 1180)

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Beatrice was the sister of Anselm de Stuteville, inheriting a share of his lands from him, including a manor at Weston Colville, Cambridgeshire^[1] and, according to a jury in 1290, lands in Yorkshire.^[2] Her birth date is not known but her son Roger (by er second husband) was old enough to return to allegiance to the crown in 1217 alongside his father, suggesting it was before 1185.

Beatrice married twice. Her first husband was Bartholomew de Bussei/Bussey.^[2][3]

Her second husband was William de Colville.^[4][1][3] They had at least one child:

• Roger^[1][4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} William Farrer. Honors and Knights' Fees, Vol. III, Manchester University Press, 1925, pp. 405-406, viewable on Familysearch
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} William Farrer and Charles Travis Clay. Early Yorkshire Charters, Vol. IX, the Stuteville Fee, Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1952, reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2013, p. 33
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} William Farrer. Feudal Cambridgeshire, Cambridge University Press, 1920, pp. 116-118, Internet Archive
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Adrienne B Rosen, Susan M Keeling and C A F Meekings, 'Parishes: Weston Colville', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 6 (Victoria County History), ed. A P M Wright (London, 1978), pp. 182-191, British History Online, accessed 6 April 2021