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Nicholas De La Beche
Nicholas de la Beche (died 1345), Seneschal of Gascony, was a 14th-century English noble.Burke, p. 38. Beche was appointed Constable of the Tower of London in October 1335 and was appointed as governor to Edward of Woodstock, heir to King Edward III of England in 1336. During 1339, Beche married Margery Poynings, the widow of Edmund Bacon. The young princesses Isabella and Joanna, daughters of King Edward III and Queen Philippa of Hainault were left in the care of Beche in 1340; however, upon the unexpected return of the king, the living conditions and guarding of the princesses were found to be inadequate and Beche was arrested. During 1342, licenses were issued to Beche permitted him to castellate his houses at La Beche, Watlyington and Beaumys. In 1343, Beche was appointed Seneschal of Gascony and in 1344 he was appointed Governor of Montgomery Castle in Wales. Beche was sent in 1345 as one of the commissioners to treat the betrothal of the English princess Joanna wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldworth
Aldworth is a village and mainly farmland Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the England, English county of Berkshire, near the boundary with Oxfordshire. Orthography and slight change of name Aldworth was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 by scribes whose orthography was heavily geared towards French, lacking k and w, regulated forms for sounds ð and θ and ending many hard consonant words with e, as ''Elleorde'', hinting at El(d)ward, the Old English language, Old English for ''Old Ward'' i.e. ''Old farmed out (let) land''. Scribes in the 12th century rendered it at least once as ''Aldewurda''. Geography Aldworth is in a rural area between Reading, Berkshire, Reading, Newbury, Berkshire, Newbury and Streatley, Berkshire, Streatley. It includes the hamlet (place), hamlet of Westridge Green. It lies on the high ground of the North Wessex Downs AONB, Berkshire Downs, just off the B4009 road between Newbury and Streatley. The Ridgeway, an 87-mile (140 km) pre-Roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
