General Notes

Name Prefix:<NPFX> Lord Sir
John Beauchamp, son and heir of Robert Beauchamp, of Hatc
h Somerset (a), by Alice, daughter of Reynold de Mohun, o
f Dunster, in that co., was b. bef 1249. He was summoned t
o attend the King at Shrewsbury 28 June 1281 (b) by writ di
rected "Johanns de Bello Campo." He m. Cicely, daughter an
d coheir of William de Vivonne, by Maud, one of the 7 daugh
ters (coheirs to their mother) of William (Ferrers), Earl o
f Derby. He d. at Hatch, 24 and was buried 31 Oct 1283, a
t Stoke under Hamden. Inq.p.m. Dec 1283. His widow d. 10 Ja
n 1320 at Stoke under Hamden. [Complete Peerage]
(a) The arms of this family, "Vaire, arg, and az", are enti
rely different from those of the great house of Beauchamp o
f Warwick, and no connection is shown between the two famil
ies.
(b) This writ was treated as originating a peerage in the M
owbray case 1877.
John de Beauchamp, who in the 5th of Edward I (1276-7), wa
s made governor of the castles of Kaermerdin and Cardigan
. He m. Cicely, dau. and heiress of Maude de Kyme, dau. o
f William Ferrers, Earl of Derby, by her second husband, Wi
lliam de Vivonia, which William was son of Hugh de Vivonia
, by Mabel, one of the co-heirs of William Mallet, a grea
t baron, who d. temp. Henry III. This John de Beauchamp, wh
o d. 1283, was s. by his son, John de Beauchamp. [Sir Berna
rd Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Lt
d., London, 1883, p. 33, Beauchamp, Barons Beauchamp, of Ha
che, in the co. Somerset