de Beauchamp, Lady Margaret

1410 - 1482  (72 years)

• Name	de Beauchamp, Margaret  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Title	Lady
  Birth	10 Jan 1410	Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8]
  Christening	Aft 10 Jan 1410	Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, England   [2, 3, 4, 6]
  Gender	Female
  Appointments / Titles	Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England   [2, 3, 4, 6]
  	Baroness of Bletso
  Appointments / Titles	Kendal, Westmorland, England   [2, 3, 4, 6]
  	Countess of Kendal
  Appointments / Titles	Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England   [2, 3, 4, 6]
  	Countess of Shrewsbury
  Appointments / Titles	Clarence Park, Somerset, England   [2, 3, 4, 6]
  	Duchess of Clarence
  Appointments / Titles	Somerset, England   [2, 3, 4, 6]
  	Duchess of Somerset
  FSID	KN68-3XC
  Death	17 Aug 1482	Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8]
  Burial	Aft 17 Aug 1482	St Cuthberga Churchyard, Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England   [1, 2, 3, 4, 6]
  Person ID	I25701	The Thoma Family
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	de Beauchamp, John,   b. 1385, Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England d. Apr 1412, Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England (Age 27 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Stourton, Edith Elizabeth,   b. 1384, Yeovil, Somerset, England d. 13 Jun 1441, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, England (Age 57 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F10709	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	St John, Sir Oliver,   b. 1400, Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England d. 3 Apr 1437, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France (Age 37 years)
  Marriage	1425	Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England   [2, 3, 4, 6]
  Children	1. St John, Sir John,   b. 6 Feb 1426, Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England d. 8 Dec 1489, Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England (Age 63 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F9445	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 10 Jan 1410 - Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England Christening - Aft 10 Jan 1410 - Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, England Appointments / Titles - Baroness of Bletso - - Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England Appointments / Titles - Countess of Kendal - - Kendal, Westmorland, England Appointments / Titles - Countess of Shrewsbury - - Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England Appointments / Titles - Duchess of Clarence - - Clarence Park, Somerset, England Appointments / Titles - Duchess of Somerset - - Somerset, England Marriage - 1425 - Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England Death - 17 Aug 1482 - Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England Burial - Aft 17 Aug 1482 - St Cuthberga Churchyard, Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  The town of Bletso is now Bletsoe. Margaret Beauchamp (c. 1410 – before 3 June 1482) was the daughter of Sir John Beauchamp, de jure 3rd Baron Beauchamp of Bletsoe, and his second wife, Edith Stourton. She was the maternal grandmother of Henry VII. Margaret Beauchamp, born about 1410, was the daughter of Sir John Beauchamp, de jure 3rd Baron Beauchamp (d. 1412-1414) of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and his second wife, Edith Stourton (d. 13 June 1441), daughter of Sir John Stourton of Stourton, Wiltshire. In 1421 she was heiress to her only brother, John Beauchamp, who died young and unmarried, from whom she inherited the manors of Lydiard Tregoze in Wiltshire, Ashmore in Dorset, and Bletsoe and Keysoe in Bedfordshire, and, according to modern doctrine, the right to any barony of Beauchamp created by summons to Parliament directed to her great-great-grandfather, Roger Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp (d. 3 January 1380) of Bletsoe. She married firstly Sir Oliver St John (d. 1437), son and heir of Sir John St John and Isabel Paveley, daughter and heiress of Sir John Paveley, by whom she had two sons and five daughters: Sir John St John (d. 1513/14) of Bletsoe, who married Alice Bradshagh, daughter of Sir Thomas Bradshagh, of Haigh, Lancashire. Oliver St John (d. 1497), esquire, of Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, who married Elizabeth Scrope, widow successively of Sir John Bigod (d. 1461) of Settrington, Yorkshire, and Henry Rochford (d. 25 October 1470), esquire, of Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire, and daughter of Henry Scrope, 4th Baron Scrope of Bolton, and Elizabeth le Scrope, daughter of John Scrope, 4th Baron Scrope of Masham. Edith St John, who married Geoffrey Pole, esquire. Mary St John, who married Sir Richard Frogenall. Elizabeth St John (d. before 3 July 1494) who married firstly, before 2 April 1450, as his second wife, William la Zouche, 5th Baron Zouche (d. 25 December 1462) of Harringworth, and secondly, before 10 December 1471, as his second wife, John Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton (d. 17 August 1498). Agnes St John, who married David Malpas. Margaret St John, Abbess of Shaftesbury. She married secondly, after 2 August 1441, John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, by whom she had one daughter: Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, who married Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, by whom she was the mother of Henry VII. She married thirdly, by licence dated 14 April 1447, as his second wife, Lionel de Welles, 6th Baron Welles, by whom she had one son: John Welles, 1st Viscount Welles, who married Cecily of York, the daughter of Edward IV of England

  
  

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