Hugh de Beauchamp

Hugh de Beauchamp ( bl. 1080 – around 1118) was a Norman nobleman. He is considered to be the progenitor of the Beauchamp family from Bedford .

Hugh de Beauchamp was probably from Normandy . In 1080 he testified to the founding of the Lessay monastery in Normandy, but he probably came to England after the Norman conquest . Through his marriage to Matilda around 1080 he acquired extensive property there. Matilda was the heir, probably the daughter of Ralf Tallebosc , the Norman castellan of Bedford and sheriff of Bedfordshire , and his wife Azelina . Her mother owned estates in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire in her own right . In the Domesday Book of 1086, Beauchamp is mentioned as the owner of over forty estates. He served as almsman at the coronation of Wilhelm II . Little is known about his subsequent life.

He had at least two sons:

Simon de Beauchamp († 1136 or 1137)
Robert de Beauchamp

His heir became his eldest son, Simon de Beauchamp.

Web links

Kathryn Faulkner: Hugh de Beauchamp (fl. 1080 – c. 1118). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004

Individual evidence

↑ C. Gore Chambers, GH Fowler: The Beauchamps, barons of Bedford . In: The Publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society , 1 (1913), p. 1
^ The borough of Bedford: Castle and barony. In: William Page (Ed.): A History of the County of Bedford: Volume 3, London 1912, pp. 9-15 (British History Online). Accessed August 31, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Beauchamp, Hugh de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	norman nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1080
DATE OF DEATH	around 1118

[1] C. Gore Chambers, GH Fowler: The Beauchamps, barons of Bedford . In: The Publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society , 1 (1913), p. 1

[2] The borough of Bedford: Castle and barony. In: William Page (Ed.): A History of the County of Bedford: Volume 3, London 1912, pp. 9-15 (British History Online). Accessed August 31, 2018 .