English duchess
Margaret Beauchamp
(
c.
1410
? before 3 June 1482) was the oldest daughter of
Sir John Beauchamp
of
Bletsoe
, and his second wife, Edith Stourton. She was the maternal grandmother of
Henry VII
.
Biography
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Margaret Beauchamp, born about 1410, was the daughter of Sir John Beauchamp of
Bletsoe
,
Bedfordshire
, and his second wife, Edith Stourton (d. 13 June 1441), daughter of Sir John Stourton of
Stourton, Wiltshire
.
In 1421, she became heiress to her only brother, John Beauchamp, who died young and unmarried, from whom she inherited the manors of Lydiard Tregoze in Wiltshire, Ashmore in Dorset, and Bletsoe and Keysoe in Bedfordshire, and, according to modern doctrine, the right to any barony of Beauchamp created by summons to Parliament directed to her great-great-grandfather,
Roger Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp
(d. 3 January 1380) of Bletsoe.
Marriages and children
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She married firstly Sir Oliver St John (d. 1437), son and heir of Sir John St John and Isabel Paveley, daughter and heiress of Sir John Paveley, by whom she had two sons and five daughters:
- Sir John St John (d. 1513/14) of
Bletsoe
, who married Alice Bradshagh, daughter of Sir Thomas Bradshagh, of
Haigh
,
Lancashire
.
They were great-grandparents of
Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare
and also George Boleyn's wife,
Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford
; her mother was their granddaughter, Alice, daughter of John St John and Sybil Verch Morgan.
- Oliver St John (d. 1497), esquire, of
Lydiard Tregoze
,
Wiltshire
, who married Elizabeth Scrope, widow successively of Sir John Bigod (d. 1461) of
Settrington
,
Yorkshire
, and Henry Rochford (d. 25 October 1470), esquire, of
Stoke Rochford
,
Lincolnshire
, and daughter of
Henry Scrope
,
4th Baron Scrope of Bolton
, and Elizabeth le Scrope, daughter of
John Scrope, 4th Baron Scrope of Masham
.
- Edith St John, who married Geoffrey Pole esquire.
Their son,
Richard Pole
, was an ardent supporter of his maternal first cousin
Henry VII of England
. He was created a
Knight of the Garter
and was married to
Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury
, a member of the
House of Plantagenet
, which helped to reinforce the
Tudor
alliance between the houses of
Lancaster
and
York
.
- Mary St John, who married Sir Richard Frogenall.
- Elizabeth St John (d. before 3 July 1494) who married firstly, before 2 April 1450, as his second wife, William la Zouche,
5th Baron Zouche
(d. 25 December 1462) of
Harringworth
, and secondly, before 10 December 1471, as his second wife,
John Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton
(d. 17 August 1498).
- Agnes St John, who married David Malpas.
- Margaret St John, Abbess of
Shaftesbury
.
She married secondly, in 1439,
John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset
, by whom she had one daughter:
She married thirdly, by licence dated 14 April 1447, as his second wife,
Lionel de Welles, 6th Baron Welles
, by whom she had one son:
She is buried with her second husband at
Wimborne Minster
in Dorset.
Fictional portrayals
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Margaret Beauchamp figures prominently in the 2010
Philippa Gregory
novel
The Red Queen
, and was played by
Frances Tomelty
in the 2013 television adaptation
The White Queen
. Gregory also includes Beauchamp in her 2011 prequel novel
The Lady of the Rivers
.
Notes
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References
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- Cokayne, George Edward (1912).
The Complete Peerage, edited by Vicary Gibbs
. Vol. II. London: St. Catherine Press. pp. 44?5.
- Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.).
Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families
. Vol. III (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City.
ISBN
978-1449966386
.
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- Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.).
Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families
. Vol. IV (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City.
ISBN
978-1460992708
.
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