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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vm. OCT. 19, 1907.

Earl of Warwick, who (according to Burke, ' Dormant Peerages,' 1866, p. 30) was married to John Sudley ? John, 2nd Lord Beauchamp, left a son and heir John, and had also three daughters, Cecilia, Margaret, and Eleanor.

John de Beauchamp, 3rd Baron, born about 1330, married Alice, daughter of Thomas de Beauchamp, 3rd Earl of Warwick, and died 35 Edw. III. (1360-61) without issue, when the barony fell into abeyance. His widow afterwards married Mathew de Gurney or Gourney, and died in 1383. In a pedigree (taken from the De Meriet pedigree in the Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeo- logical Society, 1882) in Weaver (p. 122) the name of the last Baron is given as " Willmus Beauchamp, Baro de Hach, ob. 35 Ed. III. (1361)," and two brothers " John and Edward, s.p." are named j but this would seem to be an error.

Of his sisters, Cecilia was first married to Sir Roger St. Maur or Seymour, and after- wards to Richard Turberville, of Bere Regis, Dorset. From her first marriage descended the celebrated Protector Somerset, the first Duke of Somerset, who was beheaded in 1552 ; also Lady Jane Seymour (third wife of King Henry VIII.), King Edward VI., the Dukes of Somerset, and the Marquises of Hertford.

Margaret was married to Thomas Challons, and appears to have died before her brother.

Eleanor, the third sister, who also died before her brother, the last Baron, was married, c. 1345, to Sir John Meriet or Meriett, Kt., whose granddaughter Margaret was the wife of Sir William Bonvile, Lord Bon vile of Chewton, beheaded 19 Feb., 1460/61 (10 S. vi. 143, 195). From them, again, descended the family of Grey, Marquis of Dorset, and Duke of Suffolk, and the unfortunate Lady Jane Grey, executed in 1554.

Isabel, " only daughter and heiress of Lord Beauchamp of Hache," was married first to Henry Lovet, Lord Lovet, from whom the family of Lovett, of Lipscombe House, Bucks, is descended. She was married secondly to Sir William le Blount, of Sod- dington, Worcestershire, whose father, Sir John Blount, lived t. Henry III. (Betham, ' Baronetage,' i. 1801, p. 500 ; iv. 1804, pp. 87-8). The date would make her about contemporary with the 1st Lord Beauchamp of Hache. Was she his daughter, or the daughter of John de Beauchamp who died in 1283 ? In either case she had a brother. How could she then be described as " heiress " ?

Burke says Sir William Blount married

Isabel, supposed to be a daughter of William Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick (' Landed Gentry,' 1837, i. pp. 355-6; 'History of the Commoners,' i. 1836, pp. 355-6). But here again there is a difficulty ; for this Isabel, daughter of the 1st Earl of Warwick, was married to Peter Chaworth (Burke, ' Dormant Peerages,' 1866, p. 30), or Sir Patrick Chaworth, Knt. (id., 432), or Patrick de Chaworth, who died in 1382 (id., Ill), or Patric Chaworth, who died in 1282 (Duchess of Cleveland, ' Battle Abbey Roll,' 1889, i. 230). On p. 432, further, Burke tells us that this Isabel was married secondly to Hugh le Despenser. But Burke is so careless that he does not trouble to reconcile his own statements one with another, and it is difficult to know how much confidence to place in him. Whether we have here one Isabel or two Isabels, therefore, is a puzzle.

Beatrix, daughter of " John, Lord Beau- champ of Hache," was married first to Peter, 2nd Baron Corbet of Caus, who died 26 May, 1322, s.p. ; and secondly to Sir John de Leybourne, who survived her. She died in 1347 (Betham, ' Baronetage,' v. 1805, Appendix, p. 6 ; Burke, ' Dormant Peerages,' 1866, p. 136 ; Duchess of Cleveland, u.s., i. 221). Was she a daughter of the 1st Lord Beauchamp of Hache ?

Still another daughter of " John Beau- champ of Hache " Eleanor was married, after 1347 (as second wife), to Sir John Blount, the Elder, of Soddington (grandson of the before-mentioned Sir William le Blount), his first wife being Isolda, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas de Mountjoy. He died 1358 (Burke, ' Landed Gentry,' 1837, i. 355-6). From them descended Blount, Lord Mountjoy, and the Blounts of Iver and Maple Durham. Was this Eleanor the sister of the last Baron Beauchamp of Hache, who had been married to Sir John Meriet ? If not, where is she to be placed ?

Can the relationship of the following with the family be traced ?

Lodovic de Bello Campo, living c. 1284 (v. Historical Manuscripts Commission Report on the Manuscripts of Wells Cathedral, 1885, p. 19).

John de Beauchamp, of West Stoke, in Stoke-sub-Hamdon, Somerset, who died 1304 (Weaver, 'Visitations of Somerset, 1531 and 1573,' 1885, p. 4).

Roger de Bello Campo, mil., patron of the rectory of St. Laurentii, Cucklington, Somerset, 1353 (Weaver, ' Somerset In- cumbents,' 1889, p. 78). Was he son of Thomas de Beauchamp, 3rd Earl of Warwick?