Hugh I de Beauchamp

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1118

Notes:

"Amongst the most eminent Norman families in the train of the Conqueror was that of Beauchamp, and amongst those that shared most liberally in the spoils of the conquest was Hugh de Beauchamp, the companion in arms of the victorious Norman, who obtained grants to a very great extent from his triumphant chief, as he appears at the general survey to be possessed of large estates in Hertford, Buckingham, and Bedfordshires, was the founder of this illustrious house in England. This Hugh had issue, Simon, who d. s.p.; Payne, ancestor of the Beauchamps of Bedford, that barony having been conferred upon him by William Rufus; Walter, but some doubts have been thrown upon the question of his having been son of Hugh, Sir H. Nicholas stating him to have been 'supposed of the same family'; Milo, of Eaton, co. Bedford; Adeline, m. to Walter le Espec, Lord of Kirkham and Helmesley, co. of York." [Burke's Peerage, and cum grano salis as usual. There's no evidence that the first Hugh de Beauchamp was a "companion in arms" to the Conqueror. For another, at least according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Simon de Beauchamp doesn't seem to have dsp'd.]

Family/Spouse: Maud de Taillebois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Witnessed King Stephen's charter of liberties as royal steward in 1136." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died on the Third Crusade. Keats-Rohan says that his parentage is the subject of contradictory statements in the cartulary of Old Warden, but that he was probably a natural son of Simon de Beauchamp of Bedford, who acquired the barony of Eaton Scoton circa 1155.

Family/Spouse: Philippe de Trailly. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Pagan de Beauchamp.

Family/Spouse: Rohese de Vere. Rohese (daughter of Aubrey de Vere and Alice de Clare) was born about 1110; died in 1166. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alan de Craon. Alan (son of Guy I de Craon and Isabella de Fitz Baldric) was born in of Frieston, Lincolnshire, England; died about 1155. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hugh de Morville. Hugh (son of Richard de Morville) was born in of Morville, Manche, Normandy, France; died in 1162 in Dryburgh Abbey, Roxburghshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William de Malbank. William (son of Hugh de Malbank and Petronilla) was born in of Wich Malbank, Cheshire, England; died in 1176. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1208

Notes:

Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire 1195-98.

Family/Spouse: Isabella. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1188

Family/Spouse: Clarice. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The village of Maulds Meaburn in Cumbria is named for her. According to a plaque in nearby King's Meaburn, dated 2000, the villages originally made up the manor of Meaburn. After her brother Hugh de Morville's support for the rebellion of 1173, his lands were confiscated by Henry II, who kept the part now called King's Meaburn and granted the other part to Maud, thus the name.

Accounts on various local-history sites vary from this. The Wikipedia pages for both Maulds Meaburn and King's Meaburn give a different version, in which Henry II granted Maud and Hugh their respective portions before Hugh rebelled. Other accounts appear to connect the separation of the two portions to Hugh's part in the murder of Becket, which does not seem to have been the case; see the footnote from K. J. Stringer quoted at the entry for Hugh. At any rate, it's clear that the village is named for this Maud de Morville.

Family/Spouse: William de Vipont. William died before 1204. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One of the murderers of Thomas Becket; excommunicated by Alexander III, 25 March 1171. Died without issue.

Not to be confused with Hugh de Morville of Burgh-by-sands, d. 1202, who was this Hugh de Morville's cousin.

"If we take the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as a whole, there are merely two important examples of partition between surviving sons, and each arose in exceptional circumstances rather than from any deep-seated family desire 'to keep English estates distinct from Scottish'. The Brus partition of c. 1138 was followed by the division of the Moreville lands: the former had been precipitated by war, the later was dictated by King Henry II. In the 1140's King David had settled the lordship of north Westmoreland upon his Constable, Hugh de Moreville of Lauderdale and Cunningham (d. 1162). But when the northern shires were surrendered in 1157, Henry II recognized the Moreville title only on the condition that Hugh stood down in favor of his (oldest?) son and namesake, subsequently a member of Henry II's military household, an Angevin royal justice, and one of the assassins of Thomas Becket. King Henry's concern to reassert systematically his powers in the north country was made fully explicit when Hugh II died on pilgrimage to Jerusalem in c. 1173. Most of Westmoreland proper thereupon escheated to the crown, although Hugh was survived by his brother Richard, successor in 1162 to Lauderdale and Cunningham and the Constableship of Scotland, and by his sister Maud, wife of William de Vieuxpont II. Here the royal will made a rare intervention in succession and descent." [Earl David of Huntingdon by K. J. Stringer, Edinburgh University Press, 1985, p. 196. A footnote reads: "It has usually been assumed that the younger Hugh de Moreville's estates escheated for his support of the Scots in 1173-4."]

Family/Spouse: Roger Bertram. Roger (son of William I Bertram and Hawise de Balliol) was born in of Mitford, Morpeth, Northumberland, England; died before 29 Sep 1177. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Hereditary Constable of Scotland.

Family/Spouse: Avice de Lancaster. Avice (daughter of William de Lancaster and Gundred de Warenne) was born in 1155; died in 1191. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]