Beatrix de Vesci explained

Beatrix de Vesci
Baroness of Alnwick Castle
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Spouse:Eustace Fitz John (1089 - 1157)
Spouse-Type:Husband
Father:Ivo de Vesci (c. 1045 – c. 1100)
Birth Place:Alnwick Castle, Northumberland
Death Date:c. 1125
Death Place:Knaresborough, Yorkshire

Beatrix de Vesci of Alnwick Castle, was an eleventh-century medieval noble lady of house de Vesci.[1]

Life

Daughter and sole heir of Ivo de Vesci,[2] Builder and first Baron and his wife, Alda,[3] [4] Beatrix de Vesci was one of the richest heiresses of her time.[5] She was the first wife of Eustace Fitz John, also known as Eustacius fitz John de Burgo, Constable of Chestershire and Knaresborough.[6]

According to Dugdale, Beatrix had two sons, William and Geoffrey.[7] However, it is most often said that she died during childbirth of her first and only son, William de Vesci.[8] William de Vesci took his mother’s surname and would become the ancestor of the de Vesci baronial house.[9] [10] William served as Sheriff of Northumberland from 1157 to 1170,[11] and Sheriff of Lancashire from 1166 to 1170.[12]

Upon the death of Eustace Fitz John, his lands passed to his son William by consent of King Henry II.[13]

Beatrix de Vesci's grandson, Eustace de Vesci, was one of the Surety Barons of Magna Carta.[14]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Geldard, Ed. Northumberland strongholds. 2009. Frances Lincoln. London. 9780711229853. 49.
  2. Book: Wurts, John. Magna Carta. 1945. Brookfield Publishing Company. Philadelphia. 72, 135.
  3. Book: Hull, Lisa. Understanding the Castle Ruins of England and Wales: How to Interpret the History and Meaning of Masonry and Earthworks. 2008. McFarland & Co. 978-0-7864-3457-2. 195.
  4. Book: Burke, John. A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British empire. 1837. Henry Colburn. London. 352.
  5. Book: Grainge, William. The history and topography of Harrogate, and the forest of Knaresborough. 1871. J.R. Smith. London. 51.
  6. Book: Browning, Charles Henry. Magna charta barons and their descendants; with the story of the great charter of King John. 1969. Genealogical Pub. Co.. Baltimore. 129.
  7. Book: Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage Vol. XII/2. 1959. The St. Catherine Press, Ltd. London. 276. 2nd. G.H. White . R.S. Lea.
  8. [George Tate (topographer)|Tate, George]
  9. Book: Burke, John Bernard. Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. 1883. Harrison. London. 555.
  10. Book: Tout, T. F. . Dalton, Paul . Eustace Fitz John: Justice and Baron. 2004. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  11. Book: Chalmers, George. Caledonia: Or, an Account, Historical and Topographic, of North Britain; From the Most Ancient to the Present Times. Vol. I.. 1807. T. Cadell, and W. Davies, Strand; and A. Constable Co., at Edinburgh. London. 532.
  12. Web site: High Sheriff of Lancashire. Geni.com. 16 October 2012.
  13. Dalton. Paul. Eustace Fitz John and the Politics of Anglo-Norman England: The Rise and Survival of a Twelfth-Century Royal Servant. Speculum. 71. 2. 1996. Speculum (Medieval Academy of America). 380. 2865417. 10.2307/2865417. 155189020.
  14. Web site: Magna Carta Surety Barons. The Magna Carta. Runnymede Borough Council. 16 October 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120830055333/http://www.runnymede.gov.uk/portal/site/magnacarta/menuitem.89e5cacaf582502edf7a8e7c9f8ca028/. 30 August 2012. dead.

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