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BEAULIEU 59 [John Hussey-Montagu, styled Lord Montagu, only s. and h. ap., was b. 1 8 Jan. 1746/7; M.P. for Windsor from 17720 till his death. He d. unm. and v.p.^ 25 June 1787.] See "Ferrard of Beaulieu, co. Louth," Barony [L] {Tichborne)^ cr. 1 71 5; extinct 1731. See "Montagu of Beaulieu, co. Southampton," Barony {Montagu Douglas Scotty afterwards Douglas Scott Montagu), cr. 188 5. BEAUMARIS I.e. "Lord Bulkeley, Baron of Beaumaris, co. Anglesey," cr. 1784. See "Bulkeley," Viscountcy [1.] {Bulkeley), cr. 1643, under the 7th Viscount. Both Peerages extinct 1822. ■*t)^ BEAUMONT BARONY BY i. Henry Beaumont, yr. s. of Louis de Brienne^") WRIT. styled r)'AcKE, Jure uxoris Vicomte of Beaumont in Maine, T by Agnes, da. and eventually sole h. of Raoul, Vicomte of "■ Beaumont, attended Edward I in the Scottish wars in 1302, from whose successor he obtained large grants of land, chiefly in co. Lincoln, being styled in (1307-08), i Edw. II, " consanguineus Regis, i.e. 2nd cousin.C") He was Joint Warden of Scotland (South of Forth) and a (*) He is bantered in T/ie Abbey of Kilkhampton, by Sir Herbert Croft, on never being in his place in Pari. As a matter of fact he did vote in 2 important divisions, supporting Dunning's motion on the influence of the Crown in 1 780, and the motion of want of confidence in Lord North's Administration in 1782, but it may arouse the envy of some modern M.P.s to learn that that was about the extent of his labours. V.G. (*") See [Genealogist, N.S., vol. iv, p. 114, and notes thereto] the Seize Quartiers of Henry IF, by G. W. Watson, who writes as follows: — "This Louis was younger son of John de Brienne, King of Jerusalem, Emperor of Constantinople, by Berengaria, da. of Alfonso IX, King of Leon, father of Ferdinand III, King of Castile and Leon, the father of Eleanor, first wife of Edward I and mother of Edward II. This explains why the phrase consanguineus Regis is applied to Henry de Beaumont, why his sister Isabel (de Vesci) is called Kinswoman to Queen Eleanor, and also why the arms ofjferusa/em were sometimes quartered with his own. "I am unable to say to whom is originally due the extraordinary statement that Louis and Henry de Beaumont were sons of Louis, eldest son of Charles, King of Sicily and Jerusalem. The arms of that King were those of France, differenced with a label Gules; moreover, his said son Louis died in Cyprus a few days after his birth in 1248, and was buried in the Church of the Dominicans at Nicosia. The origin of the error is sufficiently obvious, for on either hypothesis, the Beaumont brothers are made grandsons of a King of Jerusalem. Charles, King of Sicily, was son of Louis VIII, father of Louis IX, father of Philip, the father of Margaret of France,