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- “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“BEATRICE DE BEAUCHAMP, married (1st) before 1264 THOMAS FITZ OTES, Knt., of Mendlesham, Suffolk, Belchamp Otton, Gestingthorpe, and Gosfield, Essex, Dursley and Woodmancote, Gloucestershire, Hamerton, Huntingdonshire, etc., hereditary coiner of the Mint in the Tower of London and City of Canterbury, younger son of Otes Fitz William, of Bekhamp Otton, Gestingthorpe, and Gosfield, Essex, etc., and Lislestone (in Marylebone), Middlesex, hereditary coiner of the Mint. He was born about 1231 (aged 30 in 1261). He was heir in 1261 to his older brother, William Fitz Otes. They had one son, Otes, and three daughters, Joan (wife of Guy Ferre), Maud, and Beatrice. His wife, Beatrice, was co-heiress c.1266-7 to her niece, Joan, daughter of Simon de Beauchamp, Knt., by which she inherited a one-third share in the barony of Bedford, Bedfordshire, consisting of the manors of Astwick, Bromham, Cardington, Dilwick (in Stagsden), etc., Bedfordshire, Linslade and Southcott, Buckinghamshire, Belchamp William, Essex, and Shelsley Beauchamp, Worcestershire. The same year Thomas was given the scrap iron from the broken dies, as his father and ancestors had had. SIR THOMAS FITZ OTES died shortly before 23 March 1274. In June 1275 the king granted custody of the lands and heirs of Thomas Fitz Otes to the king's kinsman, Maurice de Craon, to hold during the minority of the heirs, together with the marriage of the heirs, saving to Hugh Fitz Otes, brother of the said Thomas, land or rent to the value of £40 a year to hold during the said custody. She married (2nd) before 26 June 1278 (probably as his 2nd wife) 'WILLIAM DE MUNCHENSY (or MONTCHESNEY, Knt., of Edwardstone, Lindsey, and Theberton, Suffolk, and, in right of his wife, of Linslade, Buckinghamshire, Shelsley Beauchamp, Worcestershire, etc., son and heir of William de Munchensy, of Edwardstone and Lindsey, Suffolk, by Joan, daughter and heiress of Geoffrey de Creke, Knt. He was born about 1230 (aged 24 in 1254). They had one son, William, and two daughters. He was heir in 1254 to his cousin, Ralph de la Haye, by which he inherited the manors of Layer de la Haye, Quendon, and Rettendon, Essex. In 1274-5 Master Alexander de Lolling arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against him and others touching a tenement in Bradwell-near-Tillingham, Essex. In 1275-6 Denise de Munchensy, of Holedon, arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against him touching possessions in Holton, Stratford, Monk's Eleigh, Chellesworth, and Lindsey, Suffolk. In 1276-7 he was granted letters of protection, he then going in the king's suite to the parts of Wales. He fought in Wales in 1277,1282, and 1283. About 1279 he conveyed 20 acres of arable land in Eldepak field in Finchingfield, Essex to Thomas de Spain. In 1279-80 Thomas de Spain arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against William de Munchensy, of Edwardstone, and others touching a tenement in Finchingfield, Essex. In the same period, Richard de Spain arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against William de Munchensy, of Edwardstone, and Thomas de Spain touching possessions in Finchingfield, Essex. In 1280-1 Andrew du Pont arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against William de Munchensy regarding a tenement in Laxfield, Suffolk. In the same year Hamo Pecche arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against William de Munchensy, of Edwardstone, and others regarding a tenement in Lindsey, Suffolk. In 1280-1 Hamo Pecche likewise arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against him touching a tenement in Groton, Aldham, and Haclleigh, Suffolk. The same year Philippe daughter of Richard de Spayne arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against William de Munchensy regarding a tenement in Finchingfield, Essex. In 1283 his kinsman, John de Munchensy granted him the manor of Scales (in Haslingfield), Cambridgeshire. Sometime before 1283 he enfeoffed Roger de Pridinton with the manor of Coddenham, Suffolk. His wife, Beatrice, died before 30 Sept. 1285. In 1285 he was tried and condemned for having sent four men of his household to murder Hugh Bukky at Castle Hedingham, Essex, and for harboring one of the murderers. In 1286 he received pardon on condition that he go to the Holy Land and remain there in God's service for ever. An allowance of 100 marks yearly from the revenues and his lands was made to him, but he was still a prisoner at London in 1290. He appears to have gone to the Holy Land in 1292, and in 1297, he had leave to return to the realm with restoration of his lands. SIR WILLIAM DE MUNCHENSY died shortly before 14 May 1302.
Roberts Excerpta è rotulis finium in Turri Londonnensi asservatis, Henrico Tertio rege, AD 1216-1272 2 (1836): 353, 355. Palgrave Docs. & Recs. Ill. the Hist. of Scotland I. (1837): 219 ("Will's de Monte Caniso" included on list of people owing military service in 1300). Gentleman's Mag. (1855): 159. Harvey Hist. & Antiqs. of the Hundred of Willey (1872-8): opp. 4 (Beauchamp ped.). Reliquary 17 (1876-7): 211. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 39, 78, 104; 45 (1885): 154, 205; 46 (1886): 261; 49 (1888): 67; 50 (1889): 87-88, 101, 136, 138, 219, 251. Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Arch. Soc. 11 (1886-7): 233-242. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 108. Price Handbook of London Bankers (1890-91): 125. C.C.R. 1272-1279 (1900): 467. C.P.R. 1272-1281 (1901): 93. Madge Abs. of IPM for Gloucestershire 4 (Index Lib. 30) (1903): 89-90 , 98. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 122. VCH Bedford 2 (1908): 203; 3 (1912): 9-15, 44, 46, 214-218, 235. Cal. IPM 4 (1913): 64-65. Chambers Beauchamps (Bedfordshire Hist Rec. Soc. 1) (1913): 1-25. VCH Worcester 4 (1924): 331-334. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 387-391. Moor Knights of Edward I 1 (H.S.P. 80) (1929): 122-123 Fitz Otes arms: Bendy of six, a canton). Richardson & Sayles Rotuli Parl. Anglie Hactenus Inediti 1274-1373 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 51) (1935): 22-23. C.P. 9 (1936): 416 417 (sub Munchensy). VCH Huntingdon 3 (1936): 67. Fowler Cal. IPM 2 (Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 19) (1937): 150-151. Misc. Gen. et Heraldica 5th Ser. 10 (1938): 1-10. Gibbs Early Charters of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 58) (1939): 136, footnote 1. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 37: 1-8 (sub Beauchamp); 396: 2-3 (sub Munchensi). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 10-12. VCH Cambridge 5 (1973): 230. Gervers Cartulary of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England 1 (Recs. of Soc. & Econ. Hist. n.s. 6) (1982): 40-41 (charter of William de Munchensy dated probably c.1280). Brown Sibton Abbey Cartularies & Charters 2 (Suffolk Charters 8) (1986): 19-20. Waugh Lordship of England (1988): 213. TAG 65 (1990): 24-32. Thompson Hundreds, Manors, Parishes & the Church (Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 69) (1990): 8,10. Brault Rolls of Arms Edward 12 (1997): 314 (arms of William de Munchensy: Argent, six bars argent). National Archives, C 47/14/4/10 (Scire facias dated 1283 to the sheriff of Suffolk concerning manor of Codham [Coddenham] - William de Monte Caniso v Joan de Colevile [widow of Roger de Pridinton] to be heard in next parliament) (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
Child of Beatrice de Beauchamp, by Thomas Fitz Otes, Knt:
i. MAUD FITZ THOMAS [see next].
Child of Beatrice de Beauchamp, by William de Munchensy, Knt.:
i. WILLIAM DE MUNCHENSY, of Edwardstone, Suffolk, married ALICE [see WALDEGRAVE 8].”
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1285 - 1318 (32 years)
