Roger Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp of Bletsoe ( 1315 – 3 January 1380) was an English soldier and peer who served both King

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and his wife, Philippa of Hainault.

Family

Roger de Beauchamp, perhaps born about 1315, was the son and heir of Roger de Beauchamp, a younger son of

Walter de Beauchamp (Steward to Edward I) Walter de Beauchamp (died 1303/06), ( Latinised to ''de Bello Campo'') of Beauchamp's Court, Alcester in Warwickshire and of Beauchamp Court, Powick in Worcestershire,Burke was Steward of the Household to King Edward I from 1289 to 1303. He was ...

and Alice de Tosny, daughter of Roger de Tosny of Flamstead,

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Career

Beauchamp was a

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by 24 April 1337, and is described as a bachelor to Philippa of Hainault on 26 October 1340, when she granted him the keepership of

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. He served in the wars in France from as early as 1346, and in 1372 was appointed Captain of Calais. He was summoned to Parliament from 1 June 1363 to 20 October 1379 by writs directed ''Rogero de Bello Campo'', whereby he 'may be held to have become Lord Beauchamp'. He was appointed Lord Chamberlain of the Household to Edward III in 1376–77. He died 3 January 1380. In his will, dated 19 December 1379 and proved 26 February 1380, he requested burial at the Blackfriars, London, beside his first wife.

Marriages and issue

Beauchamp married firstly, before 15 March 1337, Sibyl de Patteshull (d. before 1375), heiress of Bletsoe, one of the four daughters and co-heiresses of Sir John de Pateshull (c.1291–1349) of Bletsoe, by his wife Mabel de Grandison, a daughter of

William de Grandison, 1st Baron Grandison William de Grandison (died 1335), was an English noble, and Deputy Justiciar of North Wales. William was a younger son of Pierre de Grandison and Agnes Neufchâtel. He was the younger brother of key ally and envoy, for King Edward I of Engla ...

, by whom he had two sons and a daughter: *

Sir Roger Beauchamp Sir Roger Beauchamp of Bletsoe was the son and heir presumptive of his father Sir Roger, 1st Baron Beauchamp of Bletsoe who was one of Edward III of England, Edward III’s leading courtiers and had been summoned to Parliament as Roger Beaucham ...

(d. before 15 May 1374), who married Joan de Clopton, widow of Sir Walter de Walcote, and daughter of William de Clopton. Sir Roger had a son—perhaps by an unknown first wifeGeorge Edward Cokayne, edited by Peter W. Hammond (1998). ''The Complete Peerage'' Vol. 14 (Addenda and Corrigenda), p.75— Roger Beauchamp, 2nd Baron Beauchamp of Bletsoe (1362–1406), the grandfather of Margaret Beauchamp of Bletso, grandmother of Henry VII. He also had a daughter, Margaret Beauchamp, who married Robert Mauteby,

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. *Philip de Beauchamp (born c. 1338), Archdeacon of Exeter. He was a godson of Philippa of Hainault. *Margaret de Beauchamp, who married, firstly, Sir John de Blanchminster of

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, and, secondly, Sir Gilbert Talbot of Wadley,

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. He married secondly Margaret de Carew (died c. 2 October 1394), sister of William de Carew, and widow of

Thomas de Grandison, 4th Baron Grandison Thomas de Grandison, 4th Baron Grandison (died 1 November 1375), KG, was an English soldier and nobleman. Biography Thomas was the son of Otes (also seen as Otho) de Grandison (youngest son of William de Grandison, 1st Baron Grandison) and Be ...

(d. 1375), by whom he had no issue.

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External links

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