Individual Details
Margaret Beauchamp
(Abt 1410 - Bef 3 Jun 1482)
}
==Biography==
===Name and Titles===
:Duchess of Somerset, :Countess of KendaleDouglas Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families],'' Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), Vol III, pp 473-478, SAINT JOHN, #9 John Beauchamp; #10 Margaret Beauchamp
Margaret, :de jure suo jure (according to modern doctrine) BARONESS BEAUCHAMP OF BLETSOE, :widow of John (BEAUFORT), 1st DUKE OF SOMERSET (who died s.p.m. 27 May 1444),
:and before that of Sir Oliver ST. JOHN, :sister and heir of John BEAUCHAMP, daughter of John BEAUCHAMP, of Bletsoe (according to modern doctrine 4th and 3rd LORDS BEAUCHAMP OF BLETOE), by Edith, daughter of Sir John STOURTON.
===1410 Birth and Parentage===
Margaret Beauchamp, daughter of her father's second mariage, was born about 1410 (aged 11 in 1421). Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Volume IV, pages 528-530
:''father'' John Beauchamp, Knt. son and heir of Richard and Mary Beauchamp (c1385-1412)[http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p508.htm#i15263 Margaret Beauchamp], "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" (website, compiled by Mr. Marlyn Lewis, Portland, OR; accessed December 18, 2015)
:''mother'' Edith Strourton, daughter of John Stourton, Knt., of Stourton, Wiltshire, Escheater of Somerset and Dorset, presumably by his second wife Alice
Margaret Beauchamp of Bletso (1 January 1405/6 - 8 August 1482) was the daughter of a John Beauchamp of Bletso. }
Margaret was the daughter of the John Beauchamp, of Bletso, by Edith, daughter of Sir John Stourton, and widow of Sir Oliver St John. Burke's Peerage
CP & Burke's have Margaret as daughter of 2nd wife, Edith Stourton; while MCS and AR have her (probably, but not certain) as daughter of 1st wife. Margaret's birth date of c 1412 is the same as her father's death date, yet he married a 2nd wife after Margaret Holand; if Margaret was daughter of Margaret Holand, it doesn't give Sir John much time to get married again and then die. I am going with the 2nd wife.
===1420 Heiress===
In 1420 at the age of 10 Margaret inherited from her brother, John Beauchamp, the manors of Bletsoe and Keysoe, Bedfordshire, as well as Ashmore in Dorset and Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire.
===First marriage to Oliver St. John===
Margaret's first marriage was to Oliver St John, Knt. (c1398-1437), of Fonmon and Penmark, Glamorgan, Wales, and Paulerspury, Northamptonshire, son and heir of John St John, Knt., by Isabel, daughter and heiress of John Paveley, Knt.
Sir Oliver St. John of Bletneshoe in com. Bedfordshire. Knight, sonne and heire. Oliver married Margaret, daughter of John Beaufford Duke of Somerset 2 husband. He was father of Sir John St. John of Bletneshoe in com. Bedfordshire, Knight, sonne & heire who married Alice, dau of Sir Thomas Bradshawe in Hawe, com. Lancashire, Knight. Frederick Augustus Blayden, Ed. St. John of Bletsoe; The Visitations of Bedfordshire, 1566, 1582, 1634. London, 1884. Pages 52-55https://archive.org/stream/visitationsofbed1921harv#page/n23/mode/2up. Accessed Dec 16, 2015.
Margaret died 1482;
Margaret m. (1) Sir Oliver de St John, d. 1437, of Penmark, co. Gloucester;
Margaret m. (2) John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset. Richardson, Magna Charta Sureties
===1441 Second Marriage to John Beaufort===
Margaret de Beauchamp (probably by (1) Margaret Holand, but not certain), b. c 1412, d. 1482; m. (1) Sir Oliver de St John, d. 1437, of Penmark, co. Gloucester; m. (2) John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset. Richardson, Magna Charta Sureties
John Beaufort (c1404-May 27, 1444), K.G., Duke of Somerset, married after 2 August 1441
===1447 Third Marriage to Lionel Welles===
Lionel (or Leo) Welles (c1406-1461), K.G., 6th Lord Welles, married by 20 April 1447 (license dated 14 April 1447)
===1482 Death===
Margaret died shortly before 3 June 1482.:Margaret died on 8 August 1482. She was buried in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England.[[#Peerage|The Peerage]]
His [Lionel de Welles'] widow died, apparently shortly before 3 June 1482, certainly on or before 20 July following. Complete Peerage XII/2:443-4, transcribed by Dave Utzinger
==Issue==
:'''Children''':dates from [[#Peerage|The Peerage]]; wives/husbands from [[#Richardson|Richardson]] (except Cecily Welles)
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir Oliver St John===
two sons and five daughters
#[[St John-118|John St John]], K.B. (d. a 1488), married (1) Alice Bradshagh, (2) Elizabeth ferch William Mathew Fawr #[[Saint John-129|Oliver (Saint John) de St John, Esq.]] (b. b 1437, d. b 10 Apr 1497), married Elizabeth Scrope
#[[St John-312|Edith St John]] married Geoffrey Pole, Esq.#[[St John-313|Mary St John]], married Richard Frogenale (or Frogenall), Knt.#[[St John-315|Elizabeth St John]] m. le Scrope (b. 1437), married (1) William Zouche, Knt., 5th Lord Zouche of Harringworth, (2) John Scrope, K.G., 5th Lord Scrope of Bolton
#[[St John-314|Agnes St John]], married David Malpas
#[[St John-310|Margaret St John]], Abbess of Shaftesbury
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir John Beaufort===
#[[Beaufort-52|Margaret Beaufort]] m. Tudor (b. 31 May 1443, d. 29 Jun 1504), Countess of Richmond, married (1) Edmund Tudor, Knt., (2) Henry Stafford, Knt., (3) Thomas Stanley, K.G. Lady Margaret Beaufort and Edmund Tudor were the parents of Henry VII.Entered by Richard Ragland.
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir Lionel Welles===
#[[Welles-194|John Welles (d. 9 Feb 1499), K.G., Viscount Welles, 10th Lord Welles, Cecily Plantagenet#Cecily Welles, married Sir Robert Willoughby, son of Sir Thomas Willoughby and Joan Arundell[http://thepeerage.com/p2624.htm#i26239 Cecily Welles], The Peerage ([[#Peerage]], but no source citations for daughter Cecily)
===Grandmother of King Henry VII===
Margaret Beauchamp was the grandmother of [[Tudor-18|Henry VII]]:
:1. [[Tudor-18|King Henry VII]]
:2 [[Tudor-41|Edmund Tudor]]
:3 [[Beaufort-52|Margaret Beaufort]]
:4 [[Tudor-19|Owen Tudor]]
:5 [[Valois-28|Catherine de Valois]]
:6 [[Beaufort-23|John Beaufort KG]]
:7 [[Beauchamp-82|Margaret Beauchamp]]
== Sources ==
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==Biography==
===Name and Titles===
:Duchess of Somerset, :Countess of KendaleDouglas Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families],'' Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), Vol III, pp 473-478, SAINT JOHN, #9 John Beauchamp; #10 Margaret Beauchamp
Margaret, :de jure suo jure (according to modern doctrine) BARONESS BEAUCHAMP OF BLETSOE, :widow of John (BEAUFORT), 1st DUKE OF SOMERSET (who died s.p.m. 27 May 1444),
:and before that of Sir Oliver ST. JOHN, :sister and heir of John BEAUCHAMP, daughter of John BEAUCHAMP, of Bletsoe (according to modern doctrine 4th and 3rd LORDS BEAUCHAMP OF BLETOE), by Edith, daughter of Sir John STOURTON. Complete Peerage XII/2:443-4, transcribed by Dave Utzinger
===1410 Birth and Parentage===
Margaret Beauchamp, daughter of her father John Beucahmp's second mariage to Edith Stourton, was born about 1410 (aged 11 in 1421). Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Volume IV, pages 528-530
:''father'' John Beauchamp, Knt. son and heir of Richard and Mary Beauchamp (c1385-1412)[http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p508.htm#i15263 Margaret Beauchamp], "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" (website, compiled by Mr. Marlyn Lewis, Portland, OR; accessed December 18, 2015)
:''mother'' Edith Strourton, daughter of John Stourton, Knt., of Stourton, Wiltshire, Escheater of Somerset and Dorset, presumably by his second wife Alice
===1420 Heiress===
In 1420 at the age of 10 Margaret inherited from her deceased brother, John Beauchamp, the manors of Bletsoe and Keysoe, Bedfordshire, as well as Ashmore in Dorset and Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire.
===First marriage to Oliver St. John===
Margaret's first marriage was to Oliver St John, Knt. (c1398-1437), of Fonmon and Penmark, Glamorgan, Wales, and Paulerspury, Northamptonshire, son and heir of John St John, Knt., by Isabel, daughter and heiress of John Paveley, Knt.
Sir Oliver St. John of Bletneshoe in com. Bedfordshire. Knight, sonne and heire. Oliver married Margaret, daughter of John Beaufford Duke of Somerset 2 husband. He was father of Sir John St. John of Bletneshoe in com. Bedfordshire, Knight, sonne & heire who married Alice, dau of Sir Thomas Bradshawe in Hawe, com. Lancashire, Knight. Frederick Augustus Blayden, Ed. St. John of Bletsoe; The Visitations of Bedfordshire, 1566, 1582, 1634. London, 1884. Pages 52-55https://archive.org/stream/visitationsofbed1921harv#page/n23/mode/2up. Accessed Dec 16, 2015.
===1441 Second Marriage to John Beaufort===
Margaret married (2nd) after 2 August 1441 John Beaufort, K. G., Duke of Somerset (died 27 May 1444). They had one daughter, Margaret.
===1447 Third Marriage to Lionel Welles===
Margaret married (3rd), by license dated 14 April 1447, and settlement dated 20 April 1447, as his second wife, Lionel (or Leo) Welles, K. G., 6th Lord WellesLionel (or Leo) Welles (c1406-1461), K.G., 6th Lord Welles, Privy Councillor, 1434, Lieutenant of Ireland, 1438-42, Privy Councillor of Ireland, 1438, son and heir of Eudes (or Ives) Welles, by Maud, daughter of Ralph Greystoke, Knt, 3rd Lord Greystoke. He was born about 1406 (aged 15 in 1421).
Welles was the object of lawsuits by tenants and legal actions against the Duke of Orleans, the Counts of Angouleme and Dunois, and other French lords.
He was engaged in battles at Calais in 1457.
"A firm Lancastrian, he was taken prisoner by the Yorkists at the Battle of Blore Heath, 23 Sept 1457. He was with Queen Margaret's army which won the 2nd Battle of St. Albans 17 Feb 1460/1. He was slain at the Battle of Towton 29 March 1461, and was buried with his first wife at Methley, Yorkshire. He left a will dated 7 October 1457."
===1482 Death===
In 1471 Margaret was residing at Maxey, Northamptgonshire, at the home of her son, Oliver St. John, Esq.
Margaret, Duchess of Somerset, Contess of Kendale, died shortly before 3 June, 1482.
She was buried in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England.[[#Peerage|The Peerage]]
(Royal Tombs of Medieval England) Margaret Beauchamp has a joint tomb with her husband John Beaufort south of the Wimborne Minster high altar featuring a Purbeck marble tomb-chest and alabaster effigies of them both. But the single-tier tomb-chest is not large enough to contain two coffins, and there is no record that Margaret Beauchamp was actually buried at Wimborne Minster. In 1495 Margaret's family founded a chantry for her at Shaftesbury where a half-sister was abbess, but there is no record of her burial at Shaftesbury either. In the 19th century it was claimed that she was buried in St. Mary's Church in the former Beauchamp manor of Lydiard Tregoze in Wiltshire, the burial place of members of the St. John family. The tombs at Lydiard Tregoze were apparently demolished in the 17th century.
==Issue==
'''Children'''dates from [[#Peerage|The Peerage]]; wives/husbands from [[#Richardson|Richardson]] (except Cecily Welles)
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir Oliver St John===
two sons and five daughters
#[[St John-118|John St John]], K.B. (d. a 1488), married (1) Alice Bradshagh, (2) Elizabeth ferch William Mathew Fawr #[[Saint John-129|Oliver (Saint John) de St John, Esq.]] (b. b 1437, d. b 10 Apr 1497), married Elizabeth Scrope
#[[St John-312|Edith St John]] married Geoffrey Pole, Esq.#[[St John-313|Mary St John]], married Richard Frogenale (or Frogenall), Knt.#[[St John-315|Elizabeth St John]] m. le Scrope (b. 1437), married (1) William Zouche, Knt., 5th Lord Zouche of Harringworth, (2) John Scrope, K.G., 5th Lord Scrope of Bolton
#[[St John-314|Agnes St John]], married David Malpas
#[[St John-310|Margaret St John]], Abbess of Shaftesbury
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir John Beaufort===
#[[Beaufort-52|Margaret Beaufort]] m. Tudor (b. 31 May 1443, d. 29 Jun 1504), Countess of Richmond, married (1) Edmund Tudor, Knt., (2) Henry Stafford, Knt., (3) Thomas Stanley, K.G. Lady Margaret Beaufort and Edmund Tudor were the parents of Henry VII.Entered by Richard Ragland.
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir Lionel Welles===
#[[Welles-194|John Welles (d. 9 Feb 1499), K.G., Viscount Welles, 10th Lord Welles, Cecily Plantagenet#Cecily Welles, married Sir Robert Willoughby, son of Sir Thomas Willoughby and Joan Arundell[http://thepeerage.com/p2624.htm#i26239 Cecily Welles], The Peerage ([[#Peerage]], but no source citations for daughter Cecily)
===Grandmother of King Henry VII===
Margaret Beauchamp was the grandmother of [[Tudor-18|Henry VII]] as seen in the following ahnentafel:
:1. [[Tudor-18|King Henry VII]]
:2 [[Tudor-41|Edmund Tudor]]
:3 [[Beaufort-52|Margaret Beaufort]]
:4 [[Tudor-19|Owen Tudor]]
:5 [[Valois-28|Catherine de Valois]]
:6 [[Beaufort-23|John Beaufort KG]]
:7 [[Beauchamp-82|Margaret Beauchamp]]
== Sources ==
*Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. V p. 200-203
*Royal Tombs of Medieval England M. Duffy p. 229-233
}
==Biography==
===Name and Titles===
:Duchess of Somerset, :Countess of KendaleDouglas Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families],'' Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), Vol III, pp 473-478, SAINT JOHN, #9 John Beauchamp; #10 Margaret Beauchamp
Margaret, :de jure suo jure (according to modern doctrine) BARONESS BEAUCHAMP OF BLETSOE, :widow of John (BEAUFORT), 1st DUKE OF SOMERSET (who died s.p.m. 27 May 1444),
:and before that of Sir Oliver ST. JOHN, :sister and heir of John BEAUCHAMP, daughter of John BEAUCHAMP, of Bletsoe (according to modern doctrine 4th and 3rd LORDS BEAUCHAMP OF BLETOE), by Edith, daughter of Sir John STOURTON. Complete Peerage XII/2:443-4, transcribed by Dave Utzinger
===1410 Birth and Parentage===
Margaret Beauchamp, daughter of her father John Beucahmp's second mariage to Edith Stourton, was born about 1410 (aged 11 in 1421). Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Volume IV, pages 528-530
:''father'' John Beauchamp, Knt. son and heir of Richard and Mary Beauchamp (c1385-1412)[http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p508.htm#i15263 Margaret Beauchamp], "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" (website, compiled by Mr. Marlyn Lewis, Portland, OR; accessed December 18, 2015)
:''mother'' Edith Strourton, daughter of John Stourton, Knt., of Stourton, Wiltshire, Escheater of Somerset and Dorset, presumably by his second wife Alice
===1420 Heiress===
In 1420 at the age of 10 Margaret inherited from her deceased brother, John Beauchamp, the manors of Bletsoe and Keysoe, Bedfordshire, as well as Ashmore in Dorset and Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire.
===First marriage to Oliver St. John===
Margaret's first marriage was to Oliver St John, Knt. (c1398-1437), of Fonmon and Penmark, Glamorgan, Wales, and Paulerspury, Northamptonshire, son and heir of John St John, Knt., by Isabel, daughter and heiress of John Paveley, Knt.
Sir Oliver St. John of Bletneshoe in com. Bedfordshire. Knight, sonne and heire. Oliver married Margaret, daughter of John Beaufford Duke of Somerset 2 husband. He was father of Sir John St. John of Bletneshoe in com. Bedfordshire, Knight, sonne & heire who married Alice, dau of Sir Thomas Bradshawe in Hawe, com. Lancashire, Knight. Frederick Augustus Blayden, Ed. St. John of Bletsoe; The Visitations of Bedfordshire, 1566, 1582, 1634. London, 1884. Pages 52-55https://archive.org/stream/visitationsofbed1921harv#page/n23/mode/2up. Accessed Dec 16, 2015.
===1441 Second Marriage to John Beaufort===
Margaret married (2nd) after 2 August 1441 John Beaufort, K. G., Duke of Somerset (died 27 May 1444). They had one daughter, Margaret.
===1447 Third Marriage to Lionel Welles===
Margaret married (3rd), by license dated 14 April 1447, and settlement dated 20 April 1447, as his second wife, Lionel (or Leo) Welles, K. G., 6th Lord WellesLionel (or Leo) Welles (c1406-1461), K.G., 6th Lord Welles, Privy Councillor, 1434, Lieutenant of Ireland, 1438-42, Privy Councillor of Ireland, 1438, son and heir of Eudes (or Ives) Welles, by Maud, daughter of Ralph Greystoke, Knt, 3rd Lord Greystoke. He was born about 1406 (aged 15 in 1421).
Welles was the object of lawsuits by tenants and legal actions against the Duke of Orleans, the Counts of Angouleme and Dunois, and other French lords.
He was engaged in battles at Calais in 1457.
"A firm Lancastrian, he was taken prisoner by the Yorkists at the Battle of Blore Heath, 23 Sept 1457. He was with Queen Margaret's army which won the 2nd Battle of St. Albans 17 Feb 1460/1. He was slain at the Battle of Towton 29 March 1461, and was buried with his first wife at Methley, Yorkshire. He left a will dated 7 October 1457."
===1482 Death===
In 1471 Margaret was residing at Maxey, Northamptgonshire, at the home of her son, Oliver St. John, Esq.
Margaret, Duchess of Somerset, Contess of Kendale, died shortly before 3 June, 1482.
She was buried in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England.[[#Peerage|The Peerage]]
(Royal Tombs of Medieval England) Margaret Beauchamp has a joint tomb with her husband John Beaufort south of the Wimborne Minster high altar featuring a Purbeck marble tomb-chest and alabaster effigies of them both. But the single-tier tomb-chest is not large enough to contain two coffins, and there is no record that Margaret Beauchamp was actually buried at Wimborne Minster. In 1495 Margaret's family founded a chantry for her at Shaftesbury where a half-sister was abbess, but there is no record of her burial at Shaftesbury either. In the 19th century it was claimed that she was buried in St. Mary's Church in the former Beauchamp manor of Lydiard Tregoze in Wiltshire, the burial place of members of the St. John family. The tombs at Lydiard Tregoze were apparently demolished in the 17th century.
==Issue==
'''Children'''dates from [[#Peerage|The Peerage]]; wives/husbands from [[#Richardson|Richardson]] (except Cecily Welles)
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir Oliver St John===
two sons and five daughters
#[[St John-118|John St John]], K.B. (d. a 1488), married (1) Alice Bradshagh, (2) Elizabeth ferch William Mathew Fawr #[[Saint John-129|Oliver (Saint John) de St John, Esq.]] (b. b 1437, d. b 10 Apr 1497), married Elizabeth Scrope
#[[St John-312|Edith St John]] married Geoffrey Pole, Esq.#[[St John-313|Mary St John]], married Richard Frogenale (or Frogenall), Knt.#[[St John-315|Elizabeth St John]] m. le Scrope (b. 1437), married (1) William Zouche, Knt., 5th Lord Zouche of Harringworth, (2) John Scrope, K.G., 5th Lord Scrope of Bolton
#[[St John-314|Agnes St John]], married David Malpas
#[[St John-310|Margaret St John]], Abbess of Shaftesbury
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir John Beaufort===
#[[Beaufort-52|Margaret Beaufort]] m. Tudor (b. 31 May 1443, d. 29 Jun 1504), Countess of Richmond, married (1) Edmund Tudor, Knt., (2) Henry Stafford, Knt., (3) Thomas Stanley, K.G. Lady Margaret Beaufort and Edmund Tudor were the parents of Henry VII.Entered by Richard Ragland.
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir Lionel Welles===
#[[Welles-194|John Welles (d. 9 Feb 1499), K.G., Viscount Welles, 10th Lord Welles, Cecily Plantagenet#Cecily Welles, married Sir Robert Willoughby, son of Sir Thomas Willoughby and Joan Arundell[http://thepeerage.com/p2624.htm#i26239 Cecily Welles], The Peerage ([[#Peerage]], but no source citations for daughter Cecily)
===Grandmother of King Henry VII===
Margaret Beauchamp was the grandmother of [[Tudor-18|Henry VII]] as seen in the following ahnentafel:
:1. [[Tudor-18|King Henry VII]]
:2 [[Tudor-41|Edmund Tudor]]
:3 [[Beaufort-52|Margaret Beaufort]]
:4 [[Tudor-19|Owen Tudor]]
:5 [[Valois-28|Catherine de Valois]]
:6 [[Beaufort-23|John Beaufort KG]]
:7 [[Beauchamp-82|Margaret Beauchamp]]
== Sources ==
*Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. V p. 200-203
*Royal Tombs of Medieval England M. Duffy p. 229-233
==Biography==
===Name and Titles===
:Duchess of Somerset, :Countess of KendaleDouglas Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families],'' Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), Vol III, pp 473-478, SAINT JOHN, #9 John Beauchamp; #10 Margaret Beauchamp
Margaret, :de jure suo jure (according to modern doctrine) BARONESS BEAUCHAMP OF BLETSOE, :widow of John (BEAUFORT), 1st DUKE OF SOMERSET (who died s.p.m. 27 May 1444),
:and before that of Sir Oliver ST. JOHN, :sister and heir of John BEAUCHAMP, daughter of John BEAUCHAMP, of Bletsoe (according to modern doctrine 4th and 3rd LORDS BEAUCHAMP OF BLETOE), by Edith, daughter of Sir John STOURTON. Complete Peerage XII/2:443-4, transcribed by Dave Utzinger
===1410 Birth and Parentage===
Margaret Beauchamp, daughter of her father John Beucahmp's second mariage to Edith Stourton, was born about 1410 (aged 11 in 1421). Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Volume IV, pages 528-530
:''father'' John Beauchamp, Knt. son and heir of Richard and Mary Beauchamp (c1385-1412)[http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p508.htm#i15263 Margaret Beauchamp], "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" (website, compiled by Mr. Marlyn Lewis, Portland, OR; accessed December 18, 2015)
:''mother'' Edith Strourton, daughter of John Stourton, Knt., of Stourton, Wiltshire, Escheater of Somerset and Dorset, presumably by his second wife Alice
===1420 Heiress===
In 1420 at the age of 10 Margaret inherited from her deceased brother, John Beauchamp, the manors of Bletsoe and Keysoe, Bedfordshire, as well as Ashmore in Dorset and Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire.
===First marriage to Oliver St. John===
Margaret's first marriage was to Oliver St John, Knt. (c1398-1437), of Fonmon and Penmark, Glamorgan, Wales, and Paulerspury, Northamptonshire, son and heir of John St John, Knt., by Isabel, daughter and heiress of John Paveley, Knt.
Sir Oliver St. John of Bletneshoe in com. Bedfordshire. Knight, sonne and heire. Oliver married Margaret, daughter of John Beaufford Duke of Somerset 2 husband. He was father of Sir John St. John of Bletneshoe in com. Bedfordshire, Knight, sonne & heire who married Alice, dau of Sir Thomas Bradshawe in Hawe, com. Lancashire, Knight. Frederick Augustus Blayden, Ed. St. John of Bletsoe; The Visitations of Bedfordshire, 1566, 1582, 1634. London, 1884. Pages 52-55https://archive.org/stream/visitationsofbed1921harv#page/n23/mode/2up. Accessed Dec 16, 2015.
===1441 Second Marriage to John Beaufort===
Margaret married (2nd) after 2 August 1441 John Beaufort, K. G., Duke of Somerset (died 27 May 1444). They had one daughter, Margaret.
===1447 Third Marriage to Lionel Welles===
Margaret married (3rd), by license dated 14 April 1447, and settlement dated 20 April 1447, as his second wife, Lionel (or Leo) Welles, K. G., 6th Lord WellesLionel (or Leo) Welles (c1406-1461), K.G., 6th Lord Welles, Privy Councillor, 1434, Lieutenant of Ireland, 1438-42, Privy Councillor of Ireland, 1438, son and heir of Eudes (or Ives) Welles, by Maud, daughter of Ralph Greystoke, Knt, 3rd Lord Greystoke. He was born about 1406 (aged 15 in 1421).
Welles was the object of lawsuits by tenants and legal actions against the Duke of Orleans, the Counts of Angouleme and Dunois, and other French lords.
He was engaged in battles at Calais in 1457.
"A firm Lancastrian, he was taken prisoner by the Yorkists at the Battle of Blore Heath, 23 Sept 1457. He was with Queen Margaret's army which won the 2nd Battle of St. Albans 17 Feb 1460/1. He was slain at the Battle of Towton 29 March 1461, and was buried with his first wife at Methley, Yorkshire. He left a will dated 7 October 1457."
===1482 Death===
In 1471 Margaret was residing at Maxey, Northamptgonshire, at the home of her son, Oliver St. John, Esq.
Margaret, Duchess of Somerset, Contess of Kendale, died shortly before 3 June, 1482.
She was buried in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England.[[#Peerage|The Peerage]]
(Royal Tombs of Medieval England) Margaret Beauchamp has a joint tomb with her husband John Beaufort south of the Wimborne Minster high altar featuring a Purbeck marble tomb-chest and alabaster effigies of them both. But the single-tier tomb-chest is not large enough to contain two coffins, and there is no record that Margaret Beauchamp was actually buried at Wimborne Minster. In 1495 Margaret's family founded a chantry for her at Shaftesbury where a half-sister was abbess, but there is no record of her burial at Shaftesbury either. In the 19th century it was claimed that she was buried in St. Mary's Church in the former Beauchamp manor of Lydiard Tregoze in Wiltshire, the burial place of members of the St. John family. The tombs at Lydiard Tregoze were apparently demolished in the 17th century.
==Issue==
'''Children'''dates from [[#Peerage|The Peerage]]; wives/husbands from [[#Richardson|Richardson]] (except Cecily Welles)
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir Oliver St John===
two sons and five daughters
#[[St John-118|John St John]], K.B. (d. a 1488), married (1) Alice Bradshagh, (2) Elizabeth ferch William Mathew Fawr #[[Saint John-129|Oliver (Saint John) de St John, Esq.]] (b. b 1437, d. b 10 Apr 1497), married Elizabeth Scrope
#[[St John-312|Edith St John]] married Geoffrey Pole, Esq.#[[St John-313|Mary St John]], married Richard Frogenale (or Frogenall), Knt.#[[St John-315|Elizabeth St John]] m. le Scrope (b. 1437), married (1) William Zouche, Knt., 5th Lord Zouche of Harringworth, (2) John Scrope, K.G., 5th Lord Scrope of Bolton
#[[St John-314|Agnes St John]], married David Malpas
#[[St John-310|Margaret St John]], Abbess of Shaftesbury
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir John Beaufort===
#[[Beaufort-52|Margaret Beaufort]] m. Tudor (b. 31 May 1443, d. 29 Jun 1504), Countess of Richmond, married (1) Edmund Tudor, Knt., (2) Henry Stafford, Knt., (3) Thomas Stanley, K.G. Lady Margaret Beaufort and Edmund Tudor were the parents of Henry VII.Entered by Richard Ragland.
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir Lionel Welles===
#[[Welles-194|John Welles (d. 9 Feb 1499), K.G., Viscount Welles, 10th Lord Welles, Cecily Plantagenet#Cecily Welles, married Sir Robert Willoughby, son of Sir Thomas Willoughby and Joan Arundell[http://thepeerage.com/p2624.htm#i26239 Cecily Welles], The Peerage ([[#Peerage]], but no source citations for daughter Cecily)
===Grandmother of King Henry VII===
Margaret Beauchamp was the grandmother of [[Tudor-18|Henry VII]] as seen in the following ahnentafel:
:1. [[Tudor-18|King Henry VII]]
:2 [[Tudor-41|Edmund Tudor]]
:3 [[Beaufort-52|Margaret Beaufort]]
:4 [[Tudor-19|Owen Tudor]]
:5 [[Valois-28|Catherine de Valois]]
:6 [[Beaufort-23|John Beaufort KG]]
:7 [[Beauchamp-82|Margaret Beauchamp]]
== Sources ==
*Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. V p. 200-203
*Royal Tombs of Medieval England M. Duffy p. 229-233
-- MERGED NOTE ------------
}
==Biography==
===Name and Titles===
:Duchess of Somerset, :Countess of KendaleDouglas Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families],'' Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), Vol III, pp 473-478, SAINT JOHN, #9 John Beauchamp; #10 Margaret Beauchamp
Margaret, :de jure suo jure (according to modern doctrine) BARONESS BEAUCHAMP OF BLETSOE, :widow of John (BEAUFORT), 1st DUKE OF SOMERSET (who died s.p.m. 27 May 1444),
:and before that of Sir Oliver ST. JOHN, :sister and heir of John BEAUCHAMP, daughter of John BEAUCHAMP, of Bletsoe (according to modern doctrine 4th and 3rd LORDS BEAUCHAMP OF BLETOE), by Edith, daughter of Sir John STOURTON. Complete Peerage XII/2:443-4, transcribed by Dave Utzinger
===1410 Birth and Parentage===
Margaret Beauchamp, daughter of her father John Beucahmp's second mariage to Edith Stourton, was born about 1410 (aged 11 in 1421). Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Volume IV, pages 528-530
:''father'' John Beauchamp, Knt. son and heir of Richard and Mary Beauchamp (c1385-1412)[http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p508.htm#i15263 Margaret Beauchamp], "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" (website, compiled by Mr. Marlyn Lewis, Portland, OR; accessed December 18, 2015)
:''mother'' Edith Strourton, daughter of John Stourton, Knt., of Stourton, Wiltshire, Escheater of Somerset and Dorset, presumably by his second wife Alice
===1420 Heiress===
In 1420 at the age of 10 Margaret inherited from her deceased brother, John Beauchamp, the manors of Bletsoe and Keysoe, Bedfordshire, as well as Ashmore in Dorset and Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire.
===First marriage to Oliver St. John===
Margaret's first marriage was to Oliver St John, Knt. (c1398-1437), of Fonmon and Penmark, Glamorgan, Wales, and Paulerspury, Northamptonshire, son and heir of John St John, Knt., by Isabel, daughter and heiress of John Paveley, Knt.
Sir Oliver St. John of Bletneshoe in com. Bedfordshire. Knight, sonne and heire. Oliver married Margaret, daughter of John Beaufford Duke of Somerset 2 husband. He was father of Sir John St. John of Bletneshoe in com. Bedfordshire, Knight, sonne & heire who married Alice, dau of Sir Thomas Bradshawe in Hawe, com. Lancashire, Knight. Frederick Augustus Blayden, Ed. St. John of Bletsoe; The Visitations of Bedfordshire, 1566, 1582, 1634. London, 1884. Pages 52-55https://archive.org/stream/visitationsofbed1921harv#page/n23/mode/2up. Accessed Dec 16, 2015.
===1441 Second Marriage to John Beaufort===
Margaret married (2nd) after 2 August 1441 John Beaufort, K. G., Duke of Somerset (died 27 May 1444). They had one daughter, Margaret.
===1447 Third Marriage to Lionel Welles===
Margaret married (3rd), by license dated 14 April 1447, and settlement dated 20 April 1447, as his second wife, Lionel (or Leo) Welles, K. G., 6th Lord WellesLionel (or Leo) Welles (c1406-1461), K.G., 6th Lord Welles, Privy Councillor, 1434, Lieutenant of Ireland, 1438-42, Privy Councillor of Ireland, 1438, son and heir of Eudes (or Ives) Welles, by Maud, daughter of Ralph Greystoke, Knt, 3rd Lord Greystoke. He was born about 1406 (aged 15 in 1421).
Welles was the object of lawsuits by tenants and legal actions against the Duke of Orleans, the Counts of Angouleme and Dunois, and other French lords.
He was engaged in battles at Calais in 1457.
"A firm Lancastrian, he was taken prisoner by the Yorkists at the Battle of Blore Heath, 23 Sept 1457. He was with Queen Margaret's army which won the 2nd Battle of St. Albans 17 Feb 1460/1. He was slain at the Battle of Towton 29 March 1461, and was buried with his first wife at Methley, Yorkshire. He left a will dated 7 October 1457."
===1482 Death===
In 1471 Margaret was residing at Maxey, Northamptgonshire, at the home of her son, Oliver St. John, Esq.
Margaret, Duchess of Somerset, Contess of Kendale, died shortly before 3 June, 1482.
She was buried in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England.[[#Peerage|The Peerage]]
(Royal Tombs of Medieval England) Margaret Beauchamp has a joint tomb with her husband John Beaufort south of the Wimborne Minster high altar featuring a Purbeck marble tomb-chest and alabaster effigies of them both. But the single-tier tomb-chest is not large enough to contain two coffins, and there is no record that Margaret Beauchamp was actually buried at Wimborne Minster. In 1495 Margaret's family founded a chantry for her at Shaftesbury where a half-sister was abbess, but there is no record of her burial at Shaftesbury either. In the 19th century it was claimed that she was buried in St. Mary's Church in the former Beauchamp manor of Lydiard Tregoze in Wiltshire, the burial place of members of the St. John family. The tombs at Lydiard Tregoze were apparently demolished in the 17th century.
==Issue==
'''Children'''dates from [[#Peerage|The Peerage]]; wives/husbands from [[#Richardson|Richardson]] (except Cecily Welles)
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir Oliver St John===
two sons and five daughters
#[[St John-118|John St John]], K.B. (d. a 1488), married (1) Alice Bradshagh, (2) Elizabeth ferch William Mathew Fawr #[[Saint John-129|Oliver (Saint John) de St John, Esq.]] (b. b 1437, d. b 10 Apr 1497), married Elizabeth Scrope
#[[St John-312|Edith St John]] married Geoffrey Pole, Esq.#[[St John-313|Mary St John]], married Richard Frogenale (or Frogenall), Knt.#[[St John-315|Elizabeth St John]] m. le Scrope (b. 1437), married (1) William Zouche, Knt., 5th Lord Zouche of Harringworth, (2) John Scrope, K.G., 5th Lord Scrope of Bolton
#[[St John-314|Agnes St John]], married David Malpas
#[[St John-310|Margaret St John]], Abbess of Shaftesbury
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir John Beaufort===
#[[Beaufort-52|Margaret Beaufort]] m. Tudor (b. 31 May 1443, d. 29 Jun 1504), Countess of Richmond, married (1) Edmund Tudor, Knt., (2) Henry Stafford, Knt., (3) Thomas Stanley, K.G. Lady Margaret Beaufort and Edmund Tudor were the parents of Henry VII.Entered by Richard Ragland.
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir Lionel Welles===
#[[Welles-194|John Welles (d. 9 Feb 1499), K.G., Viscount Welles, 10th Lord Welles, Cecily Plantagenet#Cecily Welles, married Sir Robert Willoughby, son of Sir Thomas Willoughby and Joan Arundell[http://thepeerage.com/p2624.htm#i26239 Cecily Welles], The Peerage ([[#Peerage]], but no source citations for daughter Cecily)
===Grandmother of King Henry VII===
Margaret Beauchamp was the grandmother of [[Tudor-18|Henry VII]] as seen in the following ahnentafel:
:1. [[Tudor-18|King Henry VII]]
:2 [[Tudor-41|Edmund Tudor]]
:3 [[Beaufort-52|Margaret Beaufort]]
:4 [[Tudor-19|Owen Tudor]]
:5 [[Valois-28|Catherine de Valois]]
:6 [[Beaufort-23|John Beaufort KG]]
:7 [[Beauchamp-82|Margaret Beauchamp]]
== Sources ==
* '''Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. V p. 200-203'''
* '''Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. V. page 333'''
* '''Royal Tombs of Medieval England M. Duffy p. 229-233'''
==Biography==
===Name and Titles===
:Duchess of Somerset, :Countess of KendaleDouglas Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families],'' Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), Vol III, pp 473-478, SAINT JOHN, #9 John Beauchamp; #10 Margaret Beauchamp
Margaret, :de jure suo jure (according to modern doctrine) BARONESS BEAUCHAMP OF BLETSOE, :widow of John (BEAUFORT), 1st DUKE OF SOMERSET (who died s.p.m. 27 May 1444),
:and before that of Sir Oliver ST. JOHN, :sister and heir of John BEAUCHAMP, daughter of John BEAUCHAMP, of Bletsoe (according to modern doctrine 4th and 3rd LORDS BEAUCHAMP OF BLETOE), by Edith, daughter of Sir John STOURTON.
===1410 Birth and Parentage===
Margaret Beauchamp, daughter of her father's second mariage, was born about 1410 (aged 11 in 1421). Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Volume IV, pages 528-530
:''father'' John Beauchamp, Knt. son and heir of Richard and Mary Beauchamp (c1385-1412)[http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p508.htm#i15263 Margaret Beauchamp], "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" (website, compiled by Mr. Marlyn Lewis, Portland, OR; accessed December 18, 2015)
:''mother'' Edith Strourton, daughter of John Stourton, Knt., of Stourton, Wiltshire, Escheater of Somerset and Dorset, presumably by his second wife Alice
Margaret Beauchamp of Bletso (1 January 1405/6 - 8 August 1482) was the daughter of a John Beauchamp of Bletso. }
Margaret was the daughter of the John Beauchamp, of Bletso, by Edith, daughter of Sir John Stourton, and widow of Sir Oliver St John. Burke's Peerage
CP & Burke's have Margaret as daughter of 2nd wife, Edith Stourton; while MCS and AR have her (probably, but not certain) as daughter of 1st wife. Margaret's birth date of c 1412 is the same as her father's death date, yet he married a 2nd wife after Margaret Holand; if Margaret was daughter of Margaret Holand, it doesn't give Sir John much time to get married again and then die. I am going with the 2nd wife.
===1420 Heiress===
In 1420 at the age of 10 Margaret inherited from her brother, John Beauchamp, the manors of Bletsoe and Keysoe, Bedfordshire, as well as Ashmore in Dorset and Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire.
===First marriage to Oliver St. John===
Margaret's first marriage was to Oliver St John, Knt. (c1398-1437), of Fonmon and Penmark, Glamorgan, Wales, and Paulerspury, Northamptonshire, son and heir of John St John, Knt., by Isabel, daughter and heiress of John Paveley, Knt.
Sir Oliver St. John of Bletneshoe in com. Bedfordshire. Knight, sonne and heire. Oliver married Margaret, daughter of John Beaufford Duke of Somerset 2 husband. He was father of Sir John St. John of Bletneshoe in com. Bedfordshire, Knight, sonne & heire who married Alice, dau of Sir Thomas Bradshawe in Hawe, com. Lancashire, Knight. Frederick Augustus Blayden, Ed. St. John of Bletsoe; The Visitations of Bedfordshire, 1566, 1582, 1634. London, 1884. Pages 52-55https://archive.org/stream/visitationsofbed1921harv#page/n23/mode/2up. Accessed Dec 16, 2015.
Margaret died 1482;
Margaret m. (1) Sir Oliver de St John, d. 1437, of Penmark, co. Gloucester;
Margaret m. (2) John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset. Richardson, Magna Charta Sureties
===1441 Second Marriage to John Beaufort===
Margaret de Beauchamp (probably by (1) Margaret Holand, but not certain), b. c 1412, d. 1482; m. (1) Sir Oliver de St John, d. 1437, of Penmark, co. Gloucester; m. (2) John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset. Richardson, Magna Charta Sureties
John Beaufort (c1404-May 27, 1444), K.G., Duke of Somerset, married after 2 August 1441
===1447 Third Marriage to Lionel Welles===
Lionel (or Leo) Welles (c1406-1461), K.G., 6th Lord Welles, married by 20 April 1447 (license dated 14 April 1447)
===1482 Death===
Margaret died shortly before 3 June 1482.:Margaret died on 8 August 1482. She was buried in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England.[[#Peerage|The Peerage]]
His [Lionel de Welles'] widow died, apparently shortly before 3 June 1482, certainly on or before 20 July following. Complete Peerage XII/2:443-4, transcribed by Dave Utzinger
==Issue==
:'''Children''':dates from [[#Peerage|The Peerage]]; wives/husbands from [[#Richardson|Richardson]] (except Cecily Welles)
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir Oliver St John===
two sons and five daughters
#[[St John-118|John St John]], K.B. (d. a 1488), married (1) Alice Bradshagh, (2) Elizabeth ferch William Mathew Fawr #[[Saint John-129|Oliver (Saint John) de St John, Esq.]] (b. b 1437, d. b 10 Apr 1497), married Elizabeth Scrope
#[[St John-312|Edith St John]] married Geoffrey Pole, Esq.#[[St John-313|Mary St John]], married Richard Frogenale (or Frogenall), Knt.#[[St John-315|Elizabeth St John]] m. le Scrope (b. 1437), married (1) William Zouche, Knt., 5th Lord Zouche of Harringworth, (2) John Scrope, K.G., 5th Lord Scrope of Bolton
#[[St John-314|Agnes St John]], married David Malpas
#[[St John-310|Margaret St John]], Abbess of Shaftesbury
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir John Beaufort===
#[[Beaufort-52|Margaret Beaufort]] m. Tudor (b. 31 May 1443, d. 29 Jun 1504), Countess of Richmond, married (1) Edmund Tudor, Knt., (2) Henry Stafford, Knt., (3) Thomas Stanley, K.G. Lady Margaret Beaufort and Edmund Tudor were the parents of Henry VII.Entered by Richard Ragland.
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir Lionel Welles===
#[[Welles-194|John Welles (d. 9 Feb 1499), K.G., Viscount Welles, 10th Lord Welles, Cecily Plantagenet#Cecily Welles, married Sir Robert Willoughby, son of Sir Thomas Willoughby and Joan Arundell[http://thepeerage.com/p2624.htm#i26239 Cecily Welles], The Peerage ([[#Peerage]], but no source citations for daughter Cecily)
===Grandmother of King Henry VII===
Margaret Beauchamp was the grandmother of [[Tudor-18|Henry VII]]:
:1. [[Tudor-18|King Henry VII]]
:2 [[Tudor-41|Edmund Tudor]]
:3 [[Beaufort-52|Margaret Beaufort]]
:4 [[Tudor-19|Owen Tudor]]
:5 [[Valois-28|Catherine de Valois]]
:6 [[Beaufort-23|John Beaufort KG]]
:7 [[Beauchamp-82|Margaret Beauchamp]]
== Sources ==
}
==Biography==
===Name and Titles===
:Duchess of Somerset, :Countess of KendaleDouglas Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families],'' Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), Vol III, pp 473-478, SAINT JOHN, #9 John Beauchamp; #10 Margaret Beauchamp
Margaret, :de jure suo jure (according to modern doctrine) BARONESS BEAUCHAMP OF BLETSOE, :widow of John (BEAUFORT), 1st DUKE OF SOMERSET (who died s.p.m. 27 May 1444),
:and before that of Sir Oliver ST. JOHN, :sister and heir of John BEAUCHAMP, daughter of John BEAUCHAMP, of Bletsoe (according to modern doctrine 4th and 3rd LORDS BEAUCHAMP OF BLETOE), by Edith, daughter of Sir John STOURTON. Complete Peerage XII/2:443-4, transcribed by Dave Utzinger
===1410 Birth and Parentage===
Margaret Beauchamp, daughter of her father John Beucahmp's second mariage to Edith Stourton, was born about 1410 (aged 11 in 1421). Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Volume IV, pages 528-530
:''father'' John Beauchamp, Knt. son and heir of Richard and Mary Beauchamp (c1385-1412)[http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p508.htm#i15263 Margaret Beauchamp], "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" (website, compiled by Mr. Marlyn Lewis, Portland, OR; accessed December 18, 2015)
:''mother'' Edith Strourton, daughter of John Stourton, Knt., of Stourton, Wiltshire, Escheater of Somerset and Dorset, presumably by his second wife Alice
===1420 Heiress===
In 1420 at the age of 10 Margaret inherited from her deceased brother, John Beauchamp, the manors of Bletsoe and Keysoe, Bedfordshire, as well as Ashmore in Dorset and Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire.
===First marriage to Oliver St. John===
Margaret's first marriage was to Oliver St John, Knt. (c1398-1437), of Fonmon and Penmark, Glamorgan, Wales, and Paulerspury, Northamptonshire, son and heir of John St John, Knt., by Isabel, daughter and heiress of John Paveley, Knt.
Sir Oliver St. John of Bletneshoe in com. Bedfordshire. Knight, sonne and heire. Oliver married Margaret, daughter of John Beaufford Duke of Somerset 2 husband. He was father of Sir John St. John of Bletneshoe in com. Bedfordshire, Knight, sonne & heire who married Alice, dau of Sir Thomas Bradshawe in Hawe, com. Lancashire, Knight. Frederick Augustus Blayden, Ed. St. John of Bletsoe; The Visitations of Bedfordshire, 1566, 1582, 1634. London, 1884. Pages 52-55https://archive.org/stream/visitationsofbed1921harv#page/n23/mode/2up. Accessed Dec 16, 2015.
===1441 Second Marriage to John Beaufort===
Margaret married (2nd) after 2 August 1441 John Beaufort, K. G., Duke of Somerset (died 27 May 1444). They had one daughter, Margaret.
===1447 Third Marriage to Lionel Welles===
Margaret married (3rd), by license dated 14 April 1447, and settlement dated 20 April 1447, as his second wife, Lionel (or Leo) Welles, K. G., 6th Lord WellesLionel (or Leo) Welles (c1406-1461), K.G., 6th Lord Welles, Privy Councillor, 1434, Lieutenant of Ireland, 1438-42, Privy Councillor of Ireland, 1438, son and heir of Eudes (or Ives) Welles, by Maud, daughter of Ralph Greystoke, Knt, 3rd Lord Greystoke. He was born about 1406 (aged 15 in 1421).
Welles was the object of lawsuits by tenants and legal actions against the Duke of Orleans, the Counts of Angouleme and Dunois, and other French lords.
He was engaged in battles at Calais in 1457.
"A firm Lancastrian, he was taken prisoner by the Yorkists at the Battle of Blore Heath, 23 Sept 1457. He was with Queen Margaret's army which won the 2nd Battle of St. Albans 17 Feb 1460/1. He was slain at the Battle of Towton 29 March 1461, and was buried with his first wife at Methley, Yorkshire. He left a will dated 7 October 1457."
===1482 Death===
In 1471 Margaret was residing at Maxey, Northamptgonshire, at the home of her son, Oliver St. John, Esq.
Margaret, Duchess of Somerset, Contess of Kendale, died shortly before 3 June, 1482.
She was buried in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England.[[#Peerage|The Peerage]]
(Royal Tombs of Medieval England) Margaret Beauchamp has a joint tomb with her husband John Beaufort south of the Wimborne Minster high altar featuring a Purbeck marble tomb-chest and alabaster effigies of them both. But the single-tier tomb-chest is not large enough to contain two coffins, and there is no record that Margaret Beauchamp was actually buried at Wimborne Minster. In 1495 Margaret's family founded a chantry for her at Shaftesbury where a half-sister was abbess, but there is no record of her burial at Shaftesbury either. In the 19th century it was claimed that she was buried in St. Mary's Church in the former Beauchamp manor of Lydiard Tregoze in Wiltshire, the burial place of members of the St. John family. The tombs at Lydiard Tregoze were apparently demolished in the 17th century.
==Issue==
'''Children'''dates from [[#Peerage|The Peerage]]; wives/husbands from [[#Richardson|Richardson]] (except Cecily Welles)
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir Oliver St John===
two sons and five daughters
#[[St John-118|John St John]], K.B. (d. a 1488), married (1) Alice Bradshagh, (2) Elizabeth ferch William Mathew Fawr #[[Saint John-129|Oliver (Saint John) de St John, Esq.]] (b. b 1437, d. b 10 Apr 1497), married Elizabeth Scrope
#[[St John-312|Edith St John]] married Geoffrey Pole, Esq.#[[St John-313|Mary St John]], married Richard Frogenale (or Frogenall), Knt.#[[St John-315|Elizabeth St John]] m. le Scrope (b. 1437), married (1) William Zouche, Knt., 5th Lord Zouche of Harringworth, (2) John Scrope, K.G., 5th Lord Scrope of Bolton
#[[St John-314|Agnes St John]], married David Malpas
#[[St John-310|Margaret St John]], Abbess of Shaftesbury
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir John Beaufort===
#[[Beaufort-52|Margaret Beaufort]] m. Tudor (b. 31 May 1443, d. 29 Jun 1504), Countess of Richmond, married (1) Edmund Tudor, Knt., (2) Henry Stafford, Knt., (3) Thomas Stanley, K.G. Lady Margaret Beaufort and Edmund Tudor were the parents of Henry VII.Entered by Richard Ragland.
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir Lionel Welles===
#[[Welles-194|John Welles (d. 9 Feb 1499), K.G., Viscount Welles, 10th Lord Welles, Cecily Plantagenet#Cecily Welles, married Sir Robert Willoughby, son of Sir Thomas Willoughby and Joan Arundell[http://thepeerage.com/p2624.htm#i26239 Cecily Welles], The Peerage ([[#Peerage]], but no source citations for daughter Cecily)
===Grandmother of King Henry VII===
Margaret Beauchamp was the grandmother of [[Tudor-18|Henry VII]] as seen in the following ahnentafel:
:1. [[Tudor-18|King Henry VII]]
:2 [[Tudor-41|Edmund Tudor]]
:3 [[Beaufort-52|Margaret Beaufort]]
:4 [[Tudor-19|Owen Tudor]]
:5 [[Valois-28|Catherine de Valois]]
:6 [[Beaufort-23|John Beaufort KG]]
:7 [[Beauchamp-82|Margaret Beauchamp]]
== Sources ==
*Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. V p. 200-203
*Royal Tombs of Medieval England M. Duffy p. 229-233
}
==Biography==
===Name and Titles===
:Duchess of Somerset, :Countess of KendaleDouglas Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families],'' Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), Vol III, pp 473-478, SAINT JOHN, #9 John Beauchamp; #10 Margaret Beauchamp
Margaret, :de jure suo jure (according to modern doctrine) BARONESS BEAUCHAMP OF BLETSOE, :widow of John (BEAUFORT), 1st DUKE OF SOMERSET (who died s.p.m. 27 May 1444),
:and before that of Sir Oliver ST. JOHN, :sister and heir of John BEAUCHAMP, daughter of John BEAUCHAMP, of Bletsoe (according to modern doctrine 4th and 3rd LORDS BEAUCHAMP OF BLETOE), by Edith, daughter of Sir John STOURTON. Complete Peerage XII/2:443-4, transcribed by Dave Utzinger
===1410 Birth and Parentage===
Margaret Beauchamp, daughter of her father John Beucahmp's second mariage to Edith Stourton, was born about 1410 (aged 11 in 1421). Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Volume IV, pages 528-530
:''father'' John Beauchamp, Knt. son and heir of Richard and Mary Beauchamp (c1385-1412)[http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p508.htm#i15263 Margaret Beauchamp], "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" (website, compiled by Mr. Marlyn Lewis, Portland, OR; accessed December 18, 2015)
:''mother'' Edith Strourton, daughter of John Stourton, Knt., of Stourton, Wiltshire, Escheater of Somerset and Dorset, presumably by his second wife Alice
===1420 Heiress===
In 1420 at the age of 10 Margaret inherited from her deceased brother, John Beauchamp, the manors of Bletsoe and Keysoe, Bedfordshire, as well as Ashmore in Dorset and Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire.
===First marriage to Oliver St. John===
Margaret's first marriage was to Oliver St John, Knt. (c1398-1437), of Fonmon and Penmark, Glamorgan, Wales, and Paulerspury, Northamptonshire, son and heir of John St John, Knt., by Isabel, daughter and heiress of John Paveley, Knt.
Sir Oliver St. John of Bletneshoe in com. Bedfordshire. Knight, sonne and heire. Oliver married Margaret, daughter of John Beaufford Duke of Somerset 2 husband. He was father of Sir John St. John of Bletneshoe in com. Bedfordshire, Knight, sonne & heire who married Alice, dau of Sir Thomas Bradshawe in Hawe, com. Lancashire, Knight. Frederick Augustus Blayden, Ed. St. John of Bletsoe; The Visitations of Bedfordshire, 1566, 1582, 1634. London, 1884. Pages 52-55https://archive.org/stream/visitationsofbed1921harv#page/n23/mode/2up. Accessed Dec 16, 2015.
===1441 Second Marriage to John Beaufort===
Margaret married (2nd) after 2 August 1441 John Beaufort, K. G., Duke of Somerset (died 27 May 1444). They had one daughter, Margaret.
===1447 Third Marriage to Lionel Welles===
Margaret married (3rd), by license dated 14 April 1447, and settlement dated 20 April 1447, as his second wife, Lionel (or Leo) Welles, K. G., 6th Lord WellesLionel (or Leo) Welles (c1406-1461), K.G., 6th Lord Welles, Privy Councillor, 1434, Lieutenant of Ireland, 1438-42, Privy Councillor of Ireland, 1438, son and heir of Eudes (or Ives) Welles, by Maud, daughter of Ralph Greystoke, Knt, 3rd Lord Greystoke. He was born about 1406 (aged 15 in 1421).
Welles was the object of lawsuits by tenants and legal actions against the Duke of Orleans, the Counts of Angouleme and Dunois, and other French lords.
He was engaged in battles at Calais in 1457.
"A firm Lancastrian, he was taken prisoner by the Yorkists at the Battle of Blore Heath, 23 Sept 1457. He was with Queen Margaret's army which won the 2nd Battle of St. Albans 17 Feb 1460/1. He was slain at the Battle of Towton 29 March 1461, and was buried with his first wife at Methley, Yorkshire. He left a will dated 7 October 1457."
===1482 Death===
In 1471 Margaret was residing at Maxey, Northamptgonshire, at the home of her son, Oliver St. John, Esq.
Margaret, Duchess of Somerset, Contess of Kendale, died shortly before 3 June, 1482.
She was buried in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England.[[#Peerage|The Peerage]]
(Royal Tombs of Medieval England) Margaret Beauchamp has a joint tomb with her husband John Beaufort south of the Wimborne Minster high altar featuring a Purbeck marble tomb-chest and alabaster effigies of them both. But the single-tier tomb-chest is not large enough to contain two coffins, and there is no record that Margaret Beauchamp was actually buried at Wimborne Minster. In 1495 Margaret's family founded a chantry for her at Shaftesbury where a half-sister was abbess, but there is no record of her burial at Shaftesbury either. In the 19th century it was claimed that she was buried in St. Mary's Church in the former Beauchamp manor of Lydiard Tregoze in Wiltshire, the burial place of members of the St. John family. The tombs at Lydiard Tregoze were apparently demolished in the 17th century.
==Issue==
'''Children'''dates from [[#Peerage|The Peerage]]; wives/husbands from [[#Richardson|Richardson]] (except Cecily Welles)
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir Oliver St John===
two sons and five daughters
#[[St John-118|John St John]], K.B. (d. a 1488), married (1) Alice Bradshagh, (2) Elizabeth ferch William Mathew Fawr #[[Saint John-129|Oliver (Saint John) de St John, Esq.]] (b. b 1437, d. b 10 Apr 1497), married Elizabeth Scrope
#[[St John-312|Edith St John]] married Geoffrey Pole, Esq.#[[St John-313|Mary St John]], married Richard Frogenale (or Frogenall), Knt.#[[St John-315|Elizabeth St John]] m. le Scrope (b. 1437), married (1) William Zouche, Knt., 5th Lord Zouche of Harringworth, (2) John Scrope, K.G., 5th Lord Scrope of Bolton
#[[St John-314|Agnes St John]], married David Malpas
#[[St John-310|Margaret St John]], Abbess of Shaftesbury
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir John Beaufort===
#[[Beaufort-52|Margaret Beaufort]] m. Tudor (b. 31 May 1443, d. 29 Jun 1504), Countess of Richmond, married (1) Edmund Tudor, Knt., (2) Henry Stafford, Knt., (3) Thomas Stanley, K.G. Lady Margaret Beaufort and Edmund Tudor were the parents of Henry VII.Entered by Richard Ragland.
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir Lionel Welles===
#[[Welles-194|John Welles (d. 9 Feb 1499), K.G., Viscount Welles, 10th Lord Welles, Cecily Plantagenet#Cecily Welles, married Sir Robert Willoughby, son of Sir Thomas Willoughby and Joan Arundell[http://thepeerage.com/p2624.htm#i26239 Cecily Welles], The Peerage ([[#Peerage]], but no source citations for daughter Cecily)
===Grandmother of King Henry VII===
Margaret Beauchamp was the grandmother of [[Tudor-18|Henry VII]] as seen in the following ahnentafel:
:1. [[Tudor-18|King Henry VII]]
:2 [[Tudor-41|Edmund Tudor]]
:3 [[Beaufort-52|Margaret Beaufort]]
:4 [[Tudor-19|Owen Tudor]]
:5 [[Valois-28|Catherine de Valois]]
:6 [[Beaufort-23|John Beaufort KG]]
:7 [[Beauchamp-82|Margaret Beauchamp]]
== Sources ==
*Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. V p. 200-203
*Royal Tombs of Medieval England M. Duffy p. 229-233
==Biography==
===Name and Titles===
:Duchess of Somerset, :Countess of KendaleDouglas Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families],'' Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), Vol III, pp 473-478, SAINT JOHN, #9 John Beauchamp; #10 Margaret Beauchamp
Margaret, :de jure suo jure (according to modern doctrine) BARONESS BEAUCHAMP OF BLETSOE, :widow of John (BEAUFORT), 1st DUKE OF SOMERSET (who died s.p.m. 27 May 1444),
:and before that of Sir Oliver ST. JOHN, :sister and heir of John BEAUCHAMP, daughter of John BEAUCHAMP, of Bletsoe (according to modern doctrine 4th and 3rd LORDS BEAUCHAMP OF BLETOE), by Edith, daughter of Sir John STOURTON. Complete Peerage XII/2:443-4, transcribed by Dave Utzinger
===1410 Birth and Parentage===
Margaret Beauchamp, daughter of her father John Beucahmp's second mariage to Edith Stourton, was born about 1410 (aged 11 in 1421). Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Volume IV, pages 528-530
:''father'' John Beauchamp, Knt. son and heir of Richard and Mary Beauchamp (c1385-1412)[http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p508.htm#i15263 Margaret Beauchamp], "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" (website, compiled by Mr. Marlyn Lewis, Portland, OR; accessed December 18, 2015)
:''mother'' Edith Strourton, daughter of John Stourton, Knt., of Stourton, Wiltshire, Escheater of Somerset and Dorset, presumably by his second wife Alice
===1420 Heiress===
In 1420 at the age of 10 Margaret inherited from her deceased brother, John Beauchamp, the manors of Bletsoe and Keysoe, Bedfordshire, as well as Ashmore in Dorset and Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire.
===First marriage to Oliver St. John===
Margaret's first marriage was to Oliver St John, Knt. (c1398-1437), of Fonmon and Penmark, Glamorgan, Wales, and Paulerspury, Northamptonshire, son and heir of John St John, Knt., by Isabel, daughter and heiress of John Paveley, Knt.
Sir Oliver St. John of Bletneshoe in com. Bedfordshire. Knight, sonne and heire. Oliver married Margaret, daughter of John Beaufford Duke of Somerset 2 husband. He was father of Sir John St. John of Bletneshoe in com. Bedfordshire, Knight, sonne & heire who married Alice, dau of Sir Thomas Bradshawe in Hawe, com. Lancashire, Knight. Frederick Augustus Blayden, Ed. St. John of Bletsoe; The Visitations of Bedfordshire, 1566, 1582, 1634. London, 1884. Pages 52-55https://archive.org/stream/visitationsofbed1921harv#page/n23/mode/2up. Accessed Dec 16, 2015.
===1441 Second Marriage to John Beaufort===
Margaret married (2nd) after 2 August 1441 John Beaufort, K. G., Duke of Somerset (died 27 May 1444). They had one daughter, Margaret.
===1447 Third Marriage to Lionel Welles===
Margaret married (3rd), by license dated 14 April 1447, and settlement dated 20 April 1447, as his second wife, Lionel (or Leo) Welles, K. G., 6th Lord WellesLionel (or Leo) Welles (c1406-1461), K.G., 6th Lord Welles, Privy Councillor, 1434, Lieutenant of Ireland, 1438-42, Privy Councillor of Ireland, 1438, son and heir of Eudes (or Ives) Welles, by Maud, daughter of Ralph Greystoke, Knt, 3rd Lord Greystoke. He was born about 1406 (aged 15 in 1421).
Welles was the object of lawsuits by tenants and legal actions against the Duke of Orleans, the Counts of Angouleme and Dunois, and other French lords.
He was engaged in battles at Calais in 1457.
"A firm Lancastrian, he was taken prisoner by the Yorkists at the Battle of Blore Heath, 23 Sept 1457. He was with Queen Margaret's army which won the 2nd Battle of St. Albans 17 Feb 1460/1. He was slain at the Battle of Towton 29 March 1461, and was buried with his first wife at Methley, Yorkshire. He left a will dated 7 October 1457."
===1482 Death===
In 1471 Margaret was residing at Maxey, Northamptgonshire, at the home of her son, Oliver St. John, Esq.
Margaret, Duchess of Somerset, Contess of Kendale, died shortly before 3 June, 1482.
She was buried in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England.[[#Peerage|The Peerage]]
(Royal Tombs of Medieval England) Margaret Beauchamp has a joint tomb with her husband John Beaufort south of the Wimborne Minster high altar featuring a Purbeck marble tomb-chest and alabaster effigies of them both. But the single-tier tomb-chest is not large enough to contain two coffins, and there is no record that Margaret Beauchamp was actually buried at Wimborne Minster. In 1495 Margaret's family founded a chantry for her at Shaftesbury where a half-sister was abbess, but there is no record of her burial at Shaftesbury either. In the 19th century it was claimed that she was buried in St. Mary's Church in the former Beauchamp manor of Lydiard Tregoze in Wiltshire, the burial place of members of the St. John family. The tombs at Lydiard Tregoze were apparently demolished in the 17th century.
==Issue==
'''Children'''dates from [[#Peerage|The Peerage]]; wives/husbands from [[#Richardson|Richardson]] (except Cecily Welles)
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir Oliver St John===
two sons and five daughters
#[[St John-118|John St John]], K.B. (d. a 1488), married (1) Alice Bradshagh, (2) Elizabeth ferch William Mathew Fawr #[[Saint John-129|Oliver (Saint John) de St John, Esq.]] (b. b 1437, d. b 10 Apr 1497), married Elizabeth Scrope
#[[St John-312|Edith St John]] married Geoffrey Pole, Esq.#[[St John-313|Mary St John]], married Richard Frogenale (or Frogenall), Knt.#[[St John-315|Elizabeth St John]] m. le Scrope (b. 1437), married (1) William Zouche, Knt., 5th Lord Zouche of Harringworth, (2) John Scrope, K.G., 5th Lord Scrope of Bolton
#[[St John-314|Agnes St John]], married David Malpas
#[[St John-310|Margaret St John]], Abbess of Shaftesbury
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir John Beaufort===
#[[Beaufort-52|Margaret Beaufort]] m. Tudor (b. 31 May 1443, d. 29 Jun 1504), Countess of Richmond, married (1) Edmund Tudor, Knt., (2) Henry Stafford, Knt., (3) Thomas Stanley, K.G. Lady Margaret Beaufort and Edmund Tudor were the parents of Henry VII.Entered by Richard Ragland.
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir Lionel Welles===
#[[Welles-194|John Welles (d. 9 Feb 1499), K.G., Viscount Welles, 10th Lord Welles, Cecily Plantagenet#Cecily Welles, married Sir Robert Willoughby, son of Sir Thomas Willoughby and Joan Arundell[http://thepeerage.com/p2624.htm#i26239 Cecily Welles], The Peerage ([[#Peerage]], but no source citations for daughter Cecily)
===Grandmother of King Henry VII===
Margaret Beauchamp was the grandmother of [[Tudor-18|Henry VII]] as seen in the following ahnentafel:
:1. [[Tudor-18|King Henry VII]]
:2 [[Tudor-41|Edmund Tudor]]
:3 [[Beaufort-52|Margaret Beaufort]]
:4 [[Tudor-19|Owen Tudor]]
:5 [[Valois-28|Catherine de Valois]]
:6 [[Beaufort-23|John Beaufort KG]]
:7 [[Beauchamp-82|Margaret Beauchamp]]
== Sources ==
*Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. V p. 200-203
*Royal Tombs of Medieval England M. Duffy p. 229-233
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==Biography==
===Name and Titles===
:Duchess of Somerset, :Countess of KendaleDouglas Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families],'' Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), Vol III, pp 473-478, SAINT JOHN, #9 John Beauchamp; #10 Margaret Beauchamp
Margaret, :de jure suo jure (according to modern doctrine) BARONESS BEAUCHAMP OF BLETSOE, :widow of John (BEAUFORT), 1st DUKE OF SOMERSET (who died s.p.m. 27 May 1444),
:and before that of Sir Oliver ST. JOHN, :sister and heir of John BEAUCHAMP, daughter of John BEAUCHAMP, of Bletsoe (according to modern doctrine 4th and 3rd LORDS BEAUCHAMP OF BLETOE), by Edith, daughter of Sir John STOURTON. Complete Peerage XII/2:443-4, transcribed by Dave Utzinger
===1410 Birth and Parentage===
Margaret Beauchamp, daughter of her father John Beucahmp's second mariage to Edith Stourton, was born about 1410 (aged 11 in 1421). Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Volume IV, pages 528-530
:''father'' John Beauchamp, Knt. son and heir of Richard and Mary Beauchamp (c1385-1412)[http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p508.htm#i15263 Margaret Beauchamp], "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" (website, compiled by Mr. Marlyn Lewis, Portland, OR; accessed December 18, 2015)
:''mother'' Edith Strourton, daughter of John Stourton, Knt., of Stourton, Wiltshire, Escheater of Somerset and Dorset, presumably by his second wife Alice
===1420 Heiress===
In 1420 at the age of 10 Margaret inherited from her deceased brother, John Beauchamp, the manors of Bletsoe and Keysoe, Bedfordshire, as well as Ashmore in Dorset and Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire.
===First marriage to Oliver St. John===
Margaret's first marriage was to Oliver St John, Knt. (c1398-1437), of Fonmon and Penmark, Glamorgan, Wales, and Paulerspury, Northamptonshire, son and heir of John St John, Knt., by Isabel, daughter and heiress of John Paveley, Knt.
Sir Oliver St. John of Bletneshoe in com. Bedfordshire. Knight, sonne and heire. Oliver married Margaret, daughter of John Beaufford Duke of Somerset 2 husband. He was father of Sir John St. John of Bletneshoe in com. Bedfordshire, Knight, sonne & heire who married Alice, dau of Sir Thomas Bradshawe in Hawe, com. Lancashire, Knight. Frederick Augustus Blayden, Ed. St. John of Bletsoe; The Visitations of Bedfordshire, 1566, 1582, 1634. London, 1884. Pages 52-55https://archive.org/stream/visitationsofbed1921harv#page/n23/mode/2up. Accessed Dec 16, 2015.
===1441 Second Marriage to John Beaufort===
Margaret married (2nd) after 2 August 1441 John Beaufort, K. G., Duke of Somerset (died 27 May 1444). They had one daughter, Margaret.
===1447 Third Marriage to Lionel Welles===
Margaret married (3rd), by license dated 14 April 1447, and settlement dated 20 April 1447, as his second wife, Lionel (or Leo) Welles, K. G., 6th Lord WellesLionel (or Leo) Welles (c1406-1461), K.G., 6th Lord Welles, Privy Councillor, 1434, Lieutenant of Ireland, 1438-42, Privy Councillor of Ireland, 1438, son and heir of Eudes (or Ives) Welles, by Maud, daughter of Ralph Greystoke, Knt, 3rd Lord Greystoke. He was born about 1406 (aged 15 in 1421).
Welles was the object of lawsuits by tenants and legal actions against the Duke of Orleans, the Counts of Angouleme and Dunois, and other French lords.
He was engaged in battles at Calais in 1457.
"A firm Lancastrian, he was taken prisoner by the Yorkists at the Battle of Blore Heath, 23 Sept 1457. He was with Queen Margaret's army which won the 2nd Battle of St. Albans 17 Feb 1460/1. He was slain at the Battle of Towton 29 March 1461, and was buried with his first wife at Methley, Yorkshire. He left a will dated 7 October 1457."
===1482 Death===
In 1471 Margaret was residing at Maxey, Northamptgonshire, at the home of her son, Oliver St. John, Esq.
Margaret, Duchess of Somerset, Contess of Kendale, died shortly before 3 June, 1482.
She was buried in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England.[[#Peerage|The Peerage]]
(Royal Tombs of Medieval England) Margaret Beauchamp has a joint tomb with her husband John Beaufort south of the Wimborne Minster high altar featuring a Purbeck marble tomb-chest and alabaster effigies of them both. But the single-tier tomb-chest is not large enough to contain two coffins, and there is no record that Margaret Beauchamp was actually buried at Wimborne Minster. In 1495 Margaret's family founded a chantry for her at Shaftesbury where a half-sister was abbess, but there is no record of her burial at Shaftesbury either. In the 19th century it was claimed that she was buried in St. Mary's Church in the former Beauchamp manor of Lydiard Tregoze in Wiltshire, the burial place of members of the St. John family. The tombs at Lydiard Tregoze were apparently demolished in the 17th century.
==Issue==
'''Children'''dates from [[#Peerage|The Peerage]]; wives/husbands from [[#Richardson|Richardson]] (except Cecily Welles)
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir Oliver St John===
two sons and five daughters
#[[St John-118|John St John]], K.B. (d. a 1488), married (1) Alice Bradshagh, (2) Elizabeth ferch William Mathew Fawr #[[Saint John-129|Oliver (Saint John) de St John, Esq.]] (b. b 1437, d. b 10 Apr 1497), married Elizabeth Scrope
#[[St John-312|Edith St John]] married Geoffrey Pole, Esq.#[[St John-313|Mary St John]], married Richard Frogenale (or Frogenall), Knt.#[[St John-315|Elizabeth St John]] m. le Scrope (b. 1437), married (1) William Zouche, Knt., 5th Lord Zouche of Harringworth, (2) John Scrope, K.G., 5th Lord Scrope of Bolton
#[[St John-314|Agnes St John]], married David Malpas
#[[St John-310|Margaret St John]], Abbess of Shaftesbury
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir John Beaufort===
#[[Beaufort-52|Margaret Beaufort]] m. Tudor (b. 31 May 1443, d. 29 Jun 1504), Countess of Richmond, married (1) Edmund Tudor, Knt., (2) Henry Stafford, Knt., (3) Thomas Stanley, K.G. Lady Margaret Beaufort and Edmund Tudor were the parents of Henry VII.Entered by Richard Ragland.
===Children of Margaret Beauchamp and Sir Lionel Welles===
#[[Welles-194|John Welles (d. 9 Feb 1499), K.G., Viscount Welles, 10th Lord Welles, Cecily Plantagenet#Cecily Welles, married Sir Robert Willoughby, son of Sir Thomas Willoughby and Joan Arundell[http://thepeerage.com/p2624.htm#i26239 Cecily Welles], The Peerage ([[#Peerage]], but no source citations for daughter Cecily)
===Grandmother of King Henry VII===
Margaret Beauchamp was the grandmother of [[Tudor-18|Henry VII]] as seen in the following ahnentafel:
:1. [[Tudor-18|King Henry VII]]
:2 [[Tudor-41|Edmund Tudor]]
:3 [[Beaufort-52|Margaret Beaufort]]
:4 [[Tudor-19|Owen Tudor]]
:5 [[Valois-28|Catherine de Valois]]
:6 [[Beaufort-23|John Beaufort KG]]
:7 [[Beauchamp-82|Margaret Beauchamp]]
== Sources ==
* '''Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. V p. 200-203'''
* '''Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. V. page 333'''
* '''Royal Tombs of Medieval England M. Duffy p. 229-233'''
Events
| Birth | Abt 1410 | Bletsoe, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England | |||
| Birth | Abt 1410 | ||||
| Birth | Abt 1416 | Bletsoe, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England | |||
| Marriage | 1437 | Oliver St John | |||
| Marriage | 2 Aug 1441 | Sir John "1st Duke of Somerset, Earl of Kendal" Beaufort KG | |||
| Death | Bef 3 Jun 1482 | England | |||
| Death | Bef 3 Jun 1482 | ||||
| Death | 8 Aug 1482 | Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England | |||
| Alt name | Margaret "Duchess of Somerset, Countess of Kendale" Beauchamp | ||||
| Alt name | Saint John Beaufort | ||||
| Reference No | 414944 | ||||
| Reference No | 430989 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Spouse | Oliver St John (1400 - 1440) |
| Child | John St John Esq (1426 - 1488) |
| Child | Oliver Saint John (1428 - 1497) |
| Child | Edith St John (1430 - ) |
| Child | Elizabeth St John (1432 - 1494) |
| Child | Mary St John (1434 - ) |
| Child | Margaret St John (1436 - 1492) |
| Child | Sir Oliver St John (1428 - 1497) |
| Child | Agnes St John (1438 - ) |
| Spouse | Sir John "1st Duke of Somerset, Earl of Kendal" Beaufort KG (1404 - 1444) |
| Father | John Beauchamp (1385 - 1412) |
| Mother | Edith Stourton (1390 - 1441) |
| Sibling | John Beauchamp (1412 - ) |
| Father | Sir John Beauchamp (1384 - 1412) |
| Mother | Edith Stourton (1390 - 1441) |
| Sibling | John Beauchamp (1412 - ) |