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BEAUCHAMP. 277 he was sum. to Pari, as a Baron (LORD BEAUCHAMP DE WARWICK), the writs being directed "Johanni dc Bello Gampo dc Warrcwyk."( h ) He d. unm. 2 Dec. 1360, when his Peerage became extinct.^) He was bur. at St. Paul's cathedral, London. ( d ) M.I. BEAUCHAMP [of Bletsoe]. Barony by /. Rogeu Beauchamf, of Bletsoe, co. Bedford, and Writ. °f Lydiard Tregoz, Wilts, sometimes said to be a yr. s. of Giles B. (living 1342), s. of Walter B. of Powyk, co. Worcester who was a I. 1363. yr. 8. "f William Beauchamp of Elmley, by Isabel DE Mauduit, heiress of the Earls of Warwick. (°) As early as 1346 he served in the French wars ; was made Caitain Of Calais 1354, a post which he still held in 1372. He was sum. to Pari, as a Baron (LORD BEAUCHAMP) from 1 June (13631, 37 Ed. Ill, to 20 Oct. (1379), 3 Ric. II, the writ being directed " Rogero de Bello Campo."( f ) He was Lord Chamberlain of the Household (1376-77), 50 Ed. III. Hi' hi. firstly before 1S4S (in which year the manor of Lydiard Tregoz was confirmed to him and his wife), Sybil, 1st of the four sisters and coheirs of Sir William DE Patshiix, da. of John de Patshull of Bletsoe afsd., by Mabel, da. of William Ghandison of Tregoz. She was bur. at Blackfriars, London. Esch. (1359) 33 Ed. III. He //!. secondly, Margaret. He d. 3 Jan. (1379-80), 3 Ric. II. Will dat, 1!) Jan. 1377-8, directing his burial to be at Blackfriars. His second wife survived him. [il. 1380. Roger (Beauchamp), Lord Beauchamp (but never sum. to Pari.), grandson and h. being s. and h. of Roger R, s. anil h. ap. of the first Baron, who d. v. p. He was aged 17 in 1380 and made proof of his age (13S4), 7 Ric. II, when he had livery of all his lands, Viz Bletsoe, co. Bedford, Bk ixham and Spelsbury. co. Oxford, and Lydiard Tregoz, Wilts. In 1395 he attended the King into Ireland. He m. Johanna Clopton.J [ill. MOO? 3. John (Beauc.ha.mp), Lord Beauchamp (but never sum. to Pari.), s. and h. He had livery of his lands (1406-07), 8 Hen. IV. He m. Edith, da. of Sir John Stourton. He d. about 1412. His widow IK. Sir Robert Shottesbrooke.'J [iY. 1412? J/, John (Beauchamp), Lord Beauchamp, only s. and h. aged two years at his succession. He d. young and num. when the right to any Barony eft by the summons of 1363 would devolve on his sister and sole heir. (8)1 ( b ) It is not improbable that the words "de Warrewyk " (added, doubtless, for the sake of identification) signified (not so much the town or county of Warwick, as) that he was of the family of the " Earls of Warwick." So, also, " de Arundel " signified of the family of the " liarls of Arundel " (see page 156, note " a "), and so, in later times, Evelyn (1660-1669) speaks of the br. of the then Duke of Norfolk as "Mr. Howard of Norfolk." Such, however, cannot be the explanation of " Beauchamp dc Somerset," where the words clearly refer to the county. See also ante, p. 275, note "c." (") His house at Blackfriars, built by himself, was sold at his death to the Crown, and being converted into the office of the 'Master of the Wardrobe, gave the designation of " St. Andrew by the Wardrobe " to the adjoining church. ( d ) His tomb there was very commonly mistaken for that of the " Good Duke Humphrey," i.e. Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, bur. at St. Albans, Herts, 1446. See a curious account thereof in Stow's London, edit. 1 720, book iii, p. 165. ( c ) This Roger is stated in "Dugdale " (who, however, does not give his parentage) to be grandson of the above-mentioned Walter Beauchamp of Alcester. ( f ) There is proof of his sitting in the Rolls of Pari. ^ (6) This was Margaret, wdio, for her second husband, m. John (Beaufort), Duke of Somerset, by whom she was mother of an only child Margaret Beaufort, wife of Edmund (Tudor) Earl of Richmond and mother of Henry VII. MargaretBeauchamp had, however, issue male by her first husband, Sir Oliver St. John, in which family the estates and representation of the family of Beauchamp of Bletsoe remained, till about 1600, when the representation (though not the estates) passed, through the families of Howard and Mordaunt, to that of Gordon, being now (1885) vested in the representatives of the sisters and coheirs of George, 5th Duke of Gordon [S.], who d, s.p. 1836.