John Beke, 1st Baron Beke (d.1303/4) of Eresby in the parish of

Spilsby Spilsby is a market town, civil parish and electoral ward in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The town is adjacent to the main A16, east of the county town of Lincoln, north-east of Boston and north-west of Skegness. It ...

, Lincolnshire, was a

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.Cokayne, ''Complete Peerage'', new edition, Vol.1, p.89, "Beke"

Origins

He was the eldest son and heir of Walter II Beke, of Eresby, by his wife Eve de Grey, a niece of

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(d.1255),

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and

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. Walter II was a son of Henry Beke, "weak of understanding", who nevertheless "found a well born and richly dowered bride", Alice de Multon, sister of Thomas de Multon. Henry Beke was a son of Walter I Beke (fl.12th.c), a prominent Anglo-Flemish landholder, by his wife Agnes FitzPinco, daughter and heiress of Hugh FitzPinco,

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of Eresby. John Beke died in 1303/04, "when any Barony created by the writ of 1295 would be held, by modern doctrine, to have fallen into abeyance."Complete Peerage, 2nd edition, Volume 2, page 89
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Sources

* *Beke, T., FSA,
Observations on the Pedigree of the Family of Beke of Eresby, in the County of Lincoln
', published in ''

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'', Vol.4, pp. 331–345

References

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