John de Beaumont, 2nd Baron Beaumont
John de Beaumont, 2nd Baron Beaumont (* 1318 , † April 14, 1342 ) was an English baron in the 14th century. He was a son of Henry de Beaumont, 1st Baron Beaumont († 1340) and the Scottish lady Alice Comyn.
The Beaumont family came from the French nobility and represented the English branch of the House of Brienne . John's father, the son of Louis of Acre , moved to England, was there royal constable and naturalized in the local nobility. In contrast to his father, John de Beaumont did not carry the Scottish title of Earl of Buchan , to which his father had still claimed due to his marriage to Alicia (Alice) Comyn , the niece of John Comyn, who died in 1308 , 7th Earl of Buchan , was.
John de Beaumont was related by marriage to Henry of Grosmont , whose wife was his sister Isabel de Beaumont. John himself had been married to Henry's sister, Eleanor of Lancaster , since November 6, 1330 . Eleanor was a lady-in-waiting of Queen Philippa and together with his wife John accompanied the Queen in 1338 to her Dutch homeland in Ghent . After the death of his father and the birth of his son, he returned to England in 1340 to take his seat in the House of Lords as Baron Beaumont . John de Beaumont died on April 14, 1342 as a result of an injury sustained in a tournament.
His son was Henry de Beaumont, 3rd Baron Beaumont (born April 4, 1340 in Ghent, † June 17, 1369).
His widow Eleanor of Lancaster married Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel in 1344 and died in 1372.
literature
- Bernard Burke: A genealogical history of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited, and extinct peerages of the British empire . Harrison, London 1866 (new edition).
- James Balfour Paul (Ed.): The Scots Peerage . tape 2 . Douglas, Edinburgh 1909, Comyn, Earl of Buchan , p. 250 ff . ( online at www.archive.org [accessed September 1, 2014]).
Web links
- Sir John de Beaumont, 2nd Lord Beaumont on thepeerage.com , accessed September 10, 2016.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Henry de Beaumont |
Baron Beaumont 1340-1342 |
Henry de Beaumont |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beaumont, John de, 2nd Baron Beaumont |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English baron |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1318 |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 1342 |