Miles de Beauchamp

Miles de Beauchamp († between 1142 and 1153) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman.

Miles de Beauchamp came from the Beauchamp family , an Anglo-Norman family with possessions mainly in Bedfordshire . He was the eldest son of Robert de Beauchamp , the second son of Hugh de Beauchamp , and is first mentioned around 1130. When his uncle Simon de Beauchamp , his father's older brother, died before 1137 without male heirs, his daughter inherited Bedford Castle and the Honor of Bedford . Miles was appointed guardian of his underage niece and took over the administration of Bedford Castle. Miles felt that he had been left out of the line of succession, and since his niece was married to Hugh Poer , he feared that Bedford Castle would later be removed from him. He therefore promised King Stephen , whose claim to the throne was contested by the so-called Empress Matilda , his support, for which the king should leave him in possession of the castle. However, the king did not tolerate this illegal appropriation of the property. He had the castle besieged around Christmas 1137, so that Miles had to submit to the king in February 1138 and surrender the castle. When there was a war of succession to the throne, the so-called anarchy , between the supporters of Stephen and the supporters of Matilda , Hugh Poer handed the castle over to Miles in 1141, who occupied it in triumph. Miles could not hold the castle forever and had to vacate it. In 1142 he attested to a document from Matilda, after which his further life is unknown. Before 1153 his younger brother Payn de Beauchamp had taken over his inheritance.

Web links

Kathryn Faulkner: Miles de Beauchamp (d. 1142x53). 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. 6.
↑ David Crouch: The reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 . Longman, Harlow 2000, ISBN 0-582-22658-9 , p. 73.
↑ David Crouch: The reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 . Longman, Harlow 2000, ISBN 0-582-22658-9 , p. 168.
^ 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 .
↑ C. Gore Chambers, GH Fowler: The Beauchamps, barons of Bedford. In: The Publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society. 1, 1913, p. 7.

personal data
SURNAME	Beauchamp, Miles de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Anglo-Norman nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH	11th century or 12th century
DATE OF DEATH	between 1142 and 1153

[1] C. Gore Chambers, GH Fowler: The Beauchamps, barons of Bedford. In: The Publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society. 1, 1913, p. 6.

[2] David Crouch: The reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 . Longman, Harlow 2000, ISBN 0-582-22658-9 , p. 73.

[3] David Crouch: The reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 . Longman, Harlow 2000, ISBN 0-582-22658-9 , p. 168.

[4] 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 .

[5] C. Gore Chambers, GH Fowler: The Beauchamps, barons of Bedford. In: The Publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society. 1, 1913, p. 7.