Elizabeth BEKE 
Elizabeth was born about 1350 in Eresby, Lincolnshire, ENGLAND. Elizabeth's father was (Sir) Nicholas BEKE and her mother was Jane DE STAFFORD. She was an only child. She died before 1373.General Notes
ALIA: Elizabeth/ BECK
NOTE:
Elizabeth Beke married Sir Robert Swynnerton, son of Thomas de Swynnerton and Matilda, daughter of Sir Robert Holland and Maud Zouch.
References: Swynnerton, Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. Pub., Vol. 7, part 2, pp. 1-24. Burke's Dor. and Ext., p. 524. Harleian Soc. Pub., Vol. 18, pp. 201and 203.
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He [Robert de Swynnerton] married, 1stly, in or before 1356 (i), Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir Nicholas BECK. [Complete Peerage XII/1:588, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
(i) When a settlement on the marriage was concluded. This marriage cause much litigation, on the ground that it was within the prohibited degrees (of consanguinity - ie. cousins]; but it now appears that the parties in 1364 obtained the necessary papal dispensation, and that Maud, their daughter and heir, was not born until later. The proceedings were confirmed on 21 July 1405. Elizabeth apparently d. in or before 1373.
Details of Elizabeth's family with (Baron) Robert DE SWYNNERTON
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