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 BEAUMONT 63 as Lord Bardolf,(*) though but nine years of age. He subsequently made proof of his age as cousin and heir of Wilham (Phelip), Lord Bardolf, and was knighted before 2 Sep. 1460. Adhering steadfastly to the House of Lancaster, he was taken prisoner at the battle of Towton, and attainted sX. the subsequent Pari., i Nov. (i46i)('') i Edw. IV, whereby his honours became forfeited, but was restored Nov. 1470 by Henry VI, though again attainted in Apr. 1471, being then in arms against Edward IV. He, with John (de Vere), Earl of Oxford, held St. Michael's Mount for the Lancastrian cause till Dec. 1473, l°"g ^^'^^'" ^^ had been elsewhere aban- doned. He was taken prisoner in 1474, but was again restored honours by Pari., 7 Nov. (1485) i Hen. VII,('=) having been, on 15 Sep. previous, sum. to Pari, as Viscount Beaumont. He m., istly, before 4 Mar. 146 1, Joan, da. of Humphrey (Stafford), ist Duke of Buckingham, by Ann, da. of Ralph (Nevill), ist Earl of Westmorland. This marriage was, however, set aside before 1477. ('') He m., 2ndly, 24 Apr. i486, Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Sir Richard Scrope (yr. s. of Henry, 4th Lord Scrope of Bolton), by Eleanor, da. of Norman Washbourne, of co. Worcester. In 1487 he appears to have lost his reason, when the custody of his land (as in 1495 that of his person) was committed to the Earl of Oxford, in whose house at Wivenhoe, Essex, he d. s.p., 19 Dec. 1507, aged 69. M.I. at Wivenhoe.(°) On his death the Viscountcy and his French honours became extinct, but the Baronies fell into abeyance.(^) His widow m., (as his 2nd (') See vol. i, p. 421, note "d." C") He received a general pardon in consideration of the approach of Christmas, 23 Dec. 1461. (<=) For a list of these restorations see note sub Edward, Earl of Devon [1485- 1509]. {^) The lady w., about that date (as the 2nd of his three wives), Sir William Knyvett, of Buckenham, Norfolk, and was living temp. Richard III. Her husband was living 1491, aged 51. {^) A beautiful coloured engraving of the brass is in Waller's Monumental Brasses, 1864. In the inscription thereon he is styled "Viscount Beaumont and Lord Bardolfe." The coheirs were his great nephews, ^^;'z. (i) Sir Brian Stapleton, s. and h. of Joan (wife of Sir Brian S.), 1st da. of John (Lovel), Lord Lovel, by Joan, only sister of the deceased, and (2) Sir John Norreys, s, and h. of Frideswide, 2nd and yst. da. of the said Lord Lovel by the said Joan, only sister of the deceased. The said Sir John Norreys d. s.p. legit., 6 Eliz., leaving as his br. and h. Henry, who had been attainted in Pari. 28 Hen. VIII. Though Henry Norreys, the s. and h. of the said Henry, was restored in blood and sum. by writ, 14 Eliz., as Lord " Norris de Rycote," the attainder was never reversed. In consequence of this attainder (the issue of the attainted person who represented this moiety of the Barony still continuing), Thomas Stapleton, of Carlton, co. York, sole h. of the other coh. (see pedigree p. 65), having been advised that such attainder had terminated such abeyance, petitioned the Crown in 1789, claiming the Barony as one vested in himself as sole heir. This extraordinary view of the effect of an attainder was naturally enough not adopted by the House, who, on 26 June 1795, adjudged that the Petitioner was not entitled to the dignity.* In consequence thereof, on 26 Apr. 1796, Mr. Stapleton