Margaret Beauchamp, Duchess of Somerset
Margaret Beauchamp (* around 1410 ; † 1482 ) was an English noblewoman. By marriage she was at times Duchess of Somerset and Baroness Welles .
Life
Margaret Beauchamp was the daughter of Sir John Beauchamp († April 1412), squire of Bletsoe in Bedfordshire , and his second wife, Edith Stourton († 13 June 1441), the daughter of Sir John Stourton, squire of Stourton in Wiltshire .
In 1421 at the latest, she inherited her only brother, John Beauchamp, who died young and unmarried. From him she inherited the estates Lydiard Tregoze in Wiltshire, Ashmore in Dorset , and Bletsoe and Keysoe in Bedfordshire.
She married three times. After her death in 1482, she was buried next to her second husband at Wimborne Minster in Dorset.
Marriages and offspring
Her first marriage was Sir Oliver St John († 1437), the son and heir of Sir John St John and Isabel Paveley, the daughter and heiress of Sir John Paveley. With him she had two sons and five daughters:
- Sir John St John († 1513/14) of Bletsoe, ⚭ Alice Bradshagh, daughter of Sir Thomas Bradshagh, of Haigh in Lancashire
- Oliver St John († 1497) of Lydiard Tregoze, ⚭ Elizabeth Scrope, 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, ⚭ Geoffrey Pole
- Mary St John, ⚭ Sir Richard Frogenall
- Elizabeth St John († before July 3, 1494), ⚭ I) William la Zouche, 5th Baron Zouche of Harringworth († December 25, 1462); ⚭ II) John Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton († August 17, 1498)
- Agnes St John, ⚭ David Malpas
- Margaret St John, Abbess of Shaftesbury
In her second marriage, at the latest in 1442 she married John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset († 1444), with whom she had a daughter:
- Margaret Beaufort (1443–1509), ⚭ I) Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond († 1456), the two are the parents of King Henry VII ; ⚭ II) Henry Stafford († 1471), son of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham ; ⚭ III) Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby († 1504)
In her third marriage in 1447 she married Lionel de Welles, 6th Baron Welles , with whom she had a son:
- John Welles, 1st Viscount Welles († February 9, 1498), ⚭ Cecily of York , daughter of King Edward IV (1469–1507)
Web links
- Margaret Beauchamp on thepeerage.com
- Margaret Beauchamp's grave, St. Cuthberga Churchyard, Wimborne Minster at www.findagrave.com
literature
- Douglas Richardson: Magna Carta Ancestry. A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Volume III, Salt Lake City 2011, ISBN 1449966381 .
- Douglas Richardson: Magna Carta Ancestry. A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Volume IV, Salt Lake City 2011, ISBN 1460992709 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Richardson, Volume III, p. 473
- ↑ a b c d e Richardson, Volume III, p. 475
- ^ Richardson, Volume III, p. 478
- ↑ Richardson, Volume III, p. 476
- ^ Richardson, Volume III, p. 477
- ^ Edmund Lodge: The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage Edmund Lodge . Saunders and Otley / Reprint Franklin Classics (2018), 1838, ISBN 978-0-341-80533-5 , pp. 56 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ a b Richardson, Volume IV, p. 305
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Beauchamp, Margaret, Duchess of Somerset |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beauchamp, Margaret; Lady St John; Welles, Margaret, Baroness Welles; Beaufort, Margaret, Duchess of Somerset; Somerset, Margaret Beauchamp Duchess of |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English nobles |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1410 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1482 |