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From: "Douglas Richardson" <>
Subject: Re: Beseby, soke of Wautham
Date: 10 Sep 2006 09:11:19 -0700
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Dear Carolyn ~

The Eve de Champernoun who held the property at Beseby, in the soke of
Waltham, Lincolnshire in 1249 was Eve de Blanchminster, widow
successively of WIlliam de Champernoun (living 1230) and Sir Henry Fitz
Roy (died 1245), an illegitimate son of King John. You can find
additional particulars regarding Sir Henry Fitz Roy and his wife, Eve,
below, which material is taken from Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet
Ancestry (2004). Eve subsequently married (3rd) before 30 June 1252
Giles de Clifford. She died in 1255.

Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah

Website: www. royalancestry. net

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I. HENRY FITZ ROY, Knt., of Waltham, Ashby, Brigsley, Gonerby (in
Hatcliffe), Hawerby, and North Coates, Lincolnshire, and Chilham, Kent.
He was sent as a student to the Prior of Kenilworth in 1207. In 1215
he was granted the lands of Robert Fitz Walter in Cornwall. In 1217 he
and Ralph de Raleigh were granted the manor of Waltham, Lincolnshire
formerly held by Alan Fitz Count to sustain them in royal service. In
1231 he was granted all of the land of Henry de Avaugor, a Norman, in
Waltham, Lincolnshire. He married before 1236 EVE DE BLANCHMINSTER (or
WHITCHURCH), widow of William de Champernoun (living 1230), of
Umberleigh (in Atherington) and High Bickington, Devon, and daughter
and heiress of Reynold de Blanchminster (or Whitchurch) (living 1248),
of Shrivenham and Winterbourne (in Chieveley), Berkshire, and Bolney,
Oxfordshire, by his 1st wife, Alice, daughter and co-heiress of
Nicholas de Bolney. They had no issue. SIR HENRY FITZ ROY died
shortly before 8 April 1245. His widow, Eve, married (3rd) before 30
June 1252 Giles de Clifford (living 1276), of Columbjohn, Everleigh,
Combe-in-Teignhead, and Godford, Devonshire, younger son of Walter de
Clifford, of Clifford, Herefordshire, by Agnes, daughter and heiress of
Roger de Condet. Eve died in 1255.

References:

Cal.Ch.R. 1 (1895): 137 ("Henry the king's brother"). Vivian
Vis. of Devon (1895): 160. Cal.P.R. 1216-1225 (1901): 128, 574
("Henricus filius regis"). Cal.C.R. 1227-1231 (1902): 51.
Cal.P.R. 1225-1232 (1903): 311 ("Henricus frater regis"), 357,
441. Cal.C.R. 1234-1237 (1908): 219 ("Henrico fratri regis").
Cal.P.R. 1232-1247 (1906): 20, 296, 450. Cal.C.R. 1237-1242
(1911): 511 ("Henricum filium regis"). Cal. Liberate Rolls 1
(1916): 35, 105, 137, 143, 172, 242, 304, 347, 425; 2 (1930): 2. Book
of Fees 1 (1920): 362 ("Henricus frater regis"), 617 ("Henricus
filius regis"); 2 (1923): 660, 675, 1021 (instances of "Henricus
filius Regis"). VCH Berkshire 3 (1923): 424; 4 (1924): 63, 513, 533.
Cal.C.R. 1251-1253 (1927): 116. Cam, The Hundred & the Hundred
Rolls (1930): 261. Painter, Reign of King John (1949): 232-233.
C.P. 12(2) (1959): 645 (sub Wilington). Curia Regis Rolls 13 (1959):
138, 215, 283 ("Henricus filius regis John), 290, 364-365, 371,
514, 542; 15 (1972): 83, 449 (styled "Henricum filium le Rey").
Brown, Memoranda Roll for the Tenth Year of the Reign of King John
1207-8 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 31) (1957): 137 (Henry called "our
son" [filio nostro] by King John). Paget, Baronage of England (1957)
133: 4 (sub Clifford). NEHGR 119 (1965): 94-102. Kemp, Reading
Abbey Cartularies 1 (Camden 4th Ser. 31) (1986): 375. Hugh Clifford,
House of Clifford (1987): 29, 238-240. Church, Household Knights of
King John (1999): 127.


CE Wood wrote:
> In his post of 18 Feb 1999, "THE EARLY CHAMPERNOUNS" Ronny Bodine, in
> Generation 3, #5. WILLIAM DE CHAMPERNOUN, says, "On 21 Aug 1249,
> Geoffrey de Grandi Monte was granted all land in Beseby, in the soke of
> Wautham, and with the dower of Eva de Chambernun there if she should
> die in this time (Cal. Patent Rolls, 1247-58, p. 46)."

> CE Wood

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