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 BEAUCHAMP (of Bletsoe) 45 d. 3 Jan. (1379/80) 3 RIc. II. Will dat. 19 Dec. 1379, reg. at Lincoln, directing his burial to be at the Blackfriars. His 2nd wife survived him. Roger Beauchamp, grandson and h., being s. and h. of Roger B., who d. v.p., s. and h. ap. of the ist Baron. He was never sum. to Pari., nor were any of his descendants. He was aged 17 in 1380, and made proof of his age (1374) 7 Ric. II, when he had livery of all his lands, 'viz. Bletsoe, co. Bedford, Bloxham and Spelsbury, Oxon, and Lydiard Tregoz, Wilts. He was a knight. In 1395 he attended the King into Ireland. He m. Joan Clopton. He d. 3 May 1406. John Beauchamp, s. and h. He had livery of his lands (1406-07) 8 Hen. IV. In Jan. 1405/6, hew., or was about to w., Margaret, da. of Sir John Holand.(^) He m., later, Edith, da. of Sir John Stourton. He d. about 1412. His widow m. Sir Robert Shottesbrooke, and d. 13 June 1441. John Beauchamp, only s. and h., aged two years at his father's death. He d. young and unm.,('') when the right to any Barony cr. by the summons of 1363 would (according to modern doctrine) have devolved on his sister and sole heir.('') BEAUCHAMP OF KIDDERMINSTER BARONY. I. John Beauchamp, s. and h. of Richard B.,(<^) of ,~,, r Holt, CO. Worcester, by Eustache, sue. his father in h P «• t 1327, before 17 Dec, when the writ for Richard's Inq. ^ '' p. m. is dated, being then eight years old. He was in (*) Lie, for lOOi^. paid to the King by John s. of Roger Beauchamp kt., for the said Roger to enfeoff him, and Margaret, da. of John de Holand, of the county of Northampton, Chivaler, and the heirs of the bodies, of the manor of Bloxham, co. Oxford. [Patent Roll, 23 Jan. 1 405/6). V.G. C') A certain Piers Beauchamp m. Katherine, da. of Sir John Maningham. She remarried WilHam St. George [d. 1 1 Edw. IV), who in her right is said to have held the manor of Lydiard Tregoz. See Cal. Patent Rolls, 1444, p. 32. V.G. {^) This was Margaret, who, for her 2nd husband, m. John (Beaufort), Duke of Somerset, by whom she was mother of an only child, Margaret Beaufort, wife of Edmund (Tudor), Earl of Richmond, and mother of Henry VII. Margaret Beauchamp had, however, issue male by her ist husband, Sir Oliver St. John, in which family the estates and representation of the family of Beauchamp of Bletsoe remained, till about 1600, when the representation (though not the estates), passed through the families of Howard and Mordaunt, to that of Gordon, being now (1910) vested in the representatives of the sisters and coheirs of George, 5 th Duke of Gordon [S.], who^. s.p. 1836. ('') This Richard (according to Dugdale) d. 1327, being s. and h. of John B., of Holt (living 1297), who was a yr. s. of William B., of Elmley, by Isabel Mauduit. See also under Beauchamp (of Bletsoe) on previous page.