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    Beauchamp, Lady Margaret

    Female Abt 1410 - 1482  (~ 72 years)


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    • Name Beauchamp, Margaret 
      Title Lady 
      Born Abt 1410  Of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Female 
      Died 8 Aug 1482  Wimborne, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Person ID I00228  My Genealogy
      Last Modified 12 Feb 2016 

      Family 1 St. John, knight Oliver,   b. Abt 1398, Of Penmark, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 4 Mar 1437, Rouen, Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 39 years) 
      Married Abt 1425  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Children 
      +1. St. John, Oliver,   b. Abt 1425, Of Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Apr 1497, Fontarabia, Guipauzcoa, Spain Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 72 years)
       2. St. John, Margaret,   b. Abt 1427, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1492, Shaftsbury Abbey, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 65 years)
       3. St. John, Agnes,   b. Abt 1429, England Find all individuals with events at this location
      +4. St. John, Edith,   b. Abt 1432, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1464, Bisham Priory, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 32 years)
       5. St. John, Elizabeth,   b. Abt 1432, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1490-1491, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 59 years)
      +6. St. John, Mary,   b. Abt 1434, England Find all individuals with events at this location
      +7. St. John, John,   b. Abt 1437, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1482  (Age ~ 46 years)
      Family ID F00132  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

      Family 2 Beaufort, John,   b. 25 Mar 1404, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 May 1444, Wimborne, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 40 years) 
      Married Abt 1441  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Children 
      +1. Beaufort, Margaret,   b. 31 May 1443, Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 29 Jun 1509, Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 66 years)
      Family ID F00133  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

      Family 3 Welles, Lionel,   d. 29 Mar 1461, Taunton, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Married 14 Apr 1447  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Children 
       1. Welles, Vicount John,   b. Abt 1450, Of Welle, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 09.02.1498/99, Our Lady Chapel, Westminster, England Find all individuals with events at this location
      Family ID F00134  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Notes 
      • Margaret Beauchamp married secondly to John Beaufort(Duke of Somerset) and via him became the grandmother of King Henry VII. Via her ancestors, she is linked to all the Royal families of Europe

        PRO Document C140/82/7
        Inquisitions Post Mortem Series 1, Edward 1V
        Somerset, Margaret Beauchamp, Duchess of, widow of Sir Oliver St John Beds. Do Oxcon

        Plantagent Ancestry
        6. MARGARET BEAUCHAMP, daughter by her father's 2nd marriage, born about 1410 (aged 11 in 1421). She was heiress in 1421 to her brother, John Beauchamp, of Bletsoe, co. Bedford, by which she inherited the manors of Lydiard Tregoz, co. Wilts, Ashmore, Dorset, and Bletsoe and Keysoe, co. Bedford. She married (1st) OLIVER SAINT JOHN, Knt., of Fonmon and Penmark, co. Glamorgan, and Paulerspury, co. Northampton, Sheriff of Glamorgan, Wales, son and heir of of John Saint John, Knt., of Fonmon, Penmark, Paulerspury, etc., king's knight, Sheriff of Glamorgan, Knight of the Shire for Northamptonshire, by Isabel _____, widow of John Pavley (or Pavely), king's knight, of Paulerspury. He was born about 1398. They had two sons, John, Knt., K.B., and Oliver, Esq., and four daughters, Edith, Mary (wife of Richard Frognall, Knt.), Elizabeth (wife of William la Zouche, 5th Lord Zouche, and John Scrope, 5th Lord Scrope, of Bolton), and Agnes (wife of David Malpas)
        .
        SIR OLIVER SAINT JOHN died in 1437, and was buried at the Church of the Jacobins at Rouen, Normandy. His widow married (2nd) after 2 Aug. 1441 JOHN BEAUFORT, K.G., Duke of Somerset (died 27 May 1444) ... She married (3rd) by settlement dated 20 Apr. 1447 (as his 2nd wife) LIONEL WELLES, K.G., 6th Lord Welles, Privy Councillor, Lieutenant of Ireland (slain at the battle of Towton 29 Mar. 1461). They had one son, John, K.G. [Viscount Welles]. MARGARET BEAUCHAMP, Duchess of Somerset, died shortly before 3 June 1482.

        MARGARET LADY BEAUCHAMP. Margaret Lady Beauchamp. My body to be buried in the Church of the Friars Preachers at Worcester, by the body of my Lord and husband. And I appoint my brother Richard Ferrers, Esquire, executor of this my will. Proved 29th January 1487 *. (* Query 1486-87)