Agnes DANVERS

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      Sex: F

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Individual Information

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     Birth Date: Abt 1408 - Banbury, Hertfordshire, England
    Christening: 
          Death: Jun 1478 - Adderbury, Oxfordshire, England ( aged about 70)
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: 

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Parents

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         Father: Sir John DANVERS MP (Abt 1390-1449) 
         Mother: Alice VERNEY (      -1429) 

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Spouses and Children

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1. *John DANVERS (Abt 1390 - 1449)
       Marriage: After 22 Aug 1435 - England
         Status: 

2. Sir John FRAY (Bef 1397 - 3 Jul 1461)
       Marriage: After 22 Aug 1435 - England
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Katherine FRAY (1447-1482)

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Notes

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Research:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Danvers-2

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Sir John DANVERS MP

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      Sex: M

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Individual Information

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     Birth Date: Abt 1390 - Cothorp, Oxfordshire, England
    Christening: 
          Death: 1449 - Oxfordshire, England ( aged about 59)
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: 

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Spouses and Children

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1. *Alice VERNEY (Unknown - 1429)
       Marriage: 1399 - England
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Agnes DANVERS (Abt 1408-1478)

2. Joanne BRULEY (Abt 1396 - After 1469)
       Marriage: Abt 1440
         Status: 

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Notes

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General:

Biography

William Bruley, knight of the shire for Oxfordshire in 1395, outlived his wife and their son John, who had married Maud Quatremain, sister and coheiress of Richard Quatremain of Rycote. Before 1423, however, he had enfeoffed his granddaughter Joan and her husband John Danvers, of Epwell in Swalcliffe and later of Colthorpe in Banbury, with Waterstock manor. Danvers, who represented the county in three parliaments, and built up a large landed estate, was returned as lord in 1428 and appears to have died shortly after 1448. His widow Joan married as her second husband Sir Walter Mauntell of Nether Heyford (Northants.) and they presented to Waterstock church in 1467 and 1469. Much of John Danvers's property went to his sons by his first wife, but Thomas, his eldest son by Joan Bruley, succeeded to his mother's lands. He married twice, first a daughter of James Fiennes, Lord Saye and Sele, and secondly Sybil Fowler, member of a family with whom the Danvers family was already connected by marriage.

From his Parliamentary biography

Family and Education
s. and h. of Richard Danvers of Epwell by Agnes, da. and h. of John Brancaster of Banbury. m. (1) bef. Mich. 1399, Alice, da. and h. of William Verney of Byfield, Northants., 3s. inc. Robert† and Richard†, 1da.; (2) c.1420, Joan, da. and h. of John Bruley (d.v.p. s. of William Bruley*) of Waterstock, Oxon., by Maud, da. of Thomas Quatermayn of Rycote, 5s. inc. Thomas† and William†, 4da.1

Offices Held
Tax collector, Oxon. Dec. 1407, Northants. June 1410.

Escheator, Oxon. and Berks. 6 Nov. 1424-24 Jan. 1426.

Commr. to assess a tax, Oxon. Apr. 1431; of inquiry June 1435 (escapes of felons); to distribute tax rebate Jan. 1436; of array Jan. 1436.


John Danvers's inheritance from his father, who died in or after 1409, was of small worth, comprising as it did not much more than the manor of Little Bourton in Cropredy and a few acres of land nearby. The manor of Epwell, which had been in the family since the 12th century, had fallen quite recently into the hands of William Wilcotes*, a leading Oxfordshire lawyer. However, through his mother he inherited the Brancaster property in Calthorpe and Wickham, and these holdings formed the basis for a notable expansion of territory, which proved to be Danvers's principal achievement.

Both of Danvers's marriages proved advantageous: his first wife brought him land in Northamptonshire, and his second the manor of Waterstock, of which he had possession by 1423 under a settlement made by his wife's grandfather William Bruley, the former shire knight.

Danvers is last recorded in February 1449, as completing financial arrangements for the marriage of one of his daughters, but he died shortly afterwards, for the abbot of Eynsham later gave a receipt to his executors, regarding his farm of the abbey's demesnes in Calthorpe, for the period beginning that Lady Day. His widow married Sir Walter Mauntell.7 Over the years Danvers had done much to promote the interests of his many children. Agnes, his daughter by his first wife, had been married to John Fray*, the chief baron of the Exchequer, and at least four of his sons \emdash (Sir) Robert (d. 1467) Richard (d.1489) and their half-brothers (Sir) Thomas (d.1502) and (Sir) William (d.1504) \emdash had been encouraged to enter the legal profession. Indeed, Robert, who had been recorder of London since 1442, was to be made a j.c.p. in 1450 (the year after his father's death), and William was to be promoted j.KB under Henry VII. The estates John Danvers had accumulated were divided between his sons.8

Burial

1448 Banbury Church, Oxfordshire, England
Age: 57-58

The Inquisition Post Mortem for John Danvers is unavailable, recorded, as it was, within the period of the Wars of the Roses and Yorkist Kings, from 1447 to 1485, the IPMs of which are as yet unpublished:

The gap in the calendars from 1447 to 1485, covering Wars of the Roses and Yorkist kings, is especially missed and is unlikely to change in the near future given current funding in the UK.

Research:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Danvers-5
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Sources

? Parishes: Waterstock', A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 7: Dorchester and Thame hundreds (1962), pp. 220-230.
? DANVERS, John (d.1449), of Calthorpe in Banbury and Prescote in Cropredy, Oxon.. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993
? ed. Gordon McKelvie & Michael Hicks., (17 April 2021)., Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other Analogous Documents preserved in The National Archives XXXV: 1 Edward V to Richard III (1483\endash 1485)., (Introduction summary). Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from cambridge core (Here;) Accessed 6 Jul 2023.

Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry (2013) Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol IV, page 394, Bone Danvers.

Also see

For this line see 'The Danvers Memorials' by MacNamara, cited in N.E. Hist .Gen. Register, 139:230. Available online, and contains pedigree: https://books.google.be/books?id=NkAIAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA102
Lee, Frederick George. The History, Description, and Antiquities of the Prebendal Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Thame (Mitchell and Hughes, London, 1883) Page 293.
Visitation of Oxfordshire Page 187: Danvers of Waterstock

History of Parliament online 1386-1421: DANVERS, John (d.1449), of Calthorpe in Banbury and Prescote in Cropredy, Oxon

Beesley, Alfred, (1842)., The History of Banbury: Including Copious Historical and Antiquarian Notices of the Neighbourhood. Nichols and Son ... Pickering ... and Rodd, Banbury: Oxfordshire. Retrieved from Google e-Books (Here;) Accessed 7 Jul 2023.

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John DANVERS

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      Sex: M

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Individual Information

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     Birth Date: Abt 1390 - Cothorp, Oxfordshire, England
    Christening: 
          Death: 1449 - Oxfordshire, England ( aged about 59)
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: 

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Spouses and Children

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1. *Agnes DANVERS (Abt 1408 - Jun 1478)
       Marriage: After 22 Aug 1435 - England
         Status: 

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Notes

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Research:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fray-2

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Constance D'ARLES

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      Sex: F

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Individual Information

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     Birth Date: Abt 986 - France
    Christening: 
          Death: 22 Jul 1034 - Melun, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France ( aged about 48)
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: 

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Spouses and Children

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1. *Robert CAPET King of France (27 Mar 972 - 20 Jul 1031)
       Marriage: Bef 25 Aug 1003
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Adèle CAPET Comtesse de Flandre (Abt 1009-1079)

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Notes

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Research:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Arles-8
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Disambiguation: there is a great deal of confusion in public trees about her parentage, caused by the similarity of her parents' names and titles to those of William III Taillefer de Toulouse and his wife Arsinde d'Anjou. Constance's parents were William II Liberator d'Arles, son of Boson, and Adelais d'Anjou, son of Fulk II.

Biography

Constance was the daughter of Guillaume, known as the "libérateur" and Adelais d'Anjou. Her birth year is uncertain but may have been in the second half of the 980s.[1][2]

Between September 1001 and late August 1003 Constance became the third wife of Robert II of France.[3] They had least six children:

Hedwige,[3] called by the Latin name Advisa in the Henry Project, which regards her parentage as not entirely certain[1]
Hugues[1][3]
Henri, who became Henry I of France[1][3]
Robert[1][3]
Eudes[1][3]
Adèle[1][3]

There is no good source for the suggestion that Constance and Robert II were parents of Constance de Dammartin[3]

In about 1008 Robert II attempted to separate from Constance and take back his second wife Berthe, and visited Rome to try and secure papal agreement.[3]

In 1022 there was trial for heresy of some clergy, including a former confessor of Constance called Stephen. Robert II asked Constance to stand at the door to help prevent violence from a crowd that had gathered. As Stephen left, with other priests who had been condemned, Constance is said to have struck out his eye with a staff.[1][4]

In 1027 Constance unsuccessfully tried to persuade her husband to nominate their third son Robert as associate king, rather than their second son Henri, who was in the event chosen.[3] Fulbert, Bishop of Chartres, wrote in a letter that Constance wished him evil because of his support for making Robert associate king[5] and that this led to him staying away from Henri's coronation.[1]

In the late 1020s, Robert's surviving sons rebelled against their father, and it is said in some accounts that Constance encouraged them.[6]

Robert II died in 1031.[3] His and Constance's son Henri succeeded him, but opposition from Constance forced Henri to go to Normandy, where he gained the support of Duke Robert II of Normandy, who helped him establish himself as king.[7]

Constance died in late July 1034 at Melun[1] and was buried beside her husband in the Basilica of St Denis, Paris.[1][2]
Research Notes
Death Date

Douglas Richardson[8] and Medlands,[2] following other sources, have Constance's death date as 25 July 1032. According to a discussion in Constance's entry in the Henry Project, this is a misreading of a statement in the Histories of Robert Glaber, and the true year is 1034, and the date is 22 July, with 25 July being the day she was buried.[1]
Sources

? 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 The Henry Project, entry for Constance d'Arles
? 2.0 2.1 2.2 Charles Cawley. Constance d'Arles, entry in "Medieval Lands" database (accessed 7 September 2021)
? 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 Charles Cawley, "Medieval Lands", entry for Robert de France
? Wikipedia: Constance of Arles, citing Penelope Ann Adair, 'Constance of Arles: A study in Duty and Frustration', in Capetian Women, ed. Kathleen Nolan (New York;, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), p. 15
? Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Genéalogique et Chronologique des Rois de France, 1726-1733, Vol. 1, p. 72, Gallica website
? Genealogics: entry for Robert II 'le Pieux', King of France 996-1031
? Charles Cawley, "Medieval Lands", entry for Henri de France
? Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. III, pp. 20-21, FRANCE 2

The Henry Project, entry for Constance d'Arles
Frederick Lewis Weis. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, pp. 62 (line 53.21), 105 (line 101.21), 109 (lines 107.20 and 108.21), 125 (line 128.21), 134 (line 141.21) and 135 (line 141A.21)
Wikipedia: Constance of Arles

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John DARSET

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      Sex: M

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Individual Information

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     Birth Date: Abt 1300
    Christening: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: 

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Spouses and Children

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1. *Elizabeth PHELIPP (Abt 1310 -       )
       Marriage: 
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Juliana DARSET (1341-1414)

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Notes

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Research:

Allegedly from Richardson:

* Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 140-141.
* Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 89.

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Juliana DARSET

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      Sex: F

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Individual Information

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     Birth Date: 1341 ? - Essex, England
    Christening: 
          Death: 22 Jul 1414 -  ( at age 73)
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: 

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Parents

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         Father: John DARSET (Abt 1300-      ) 
         Mother: Elizabeth PHELIPP (Abt 1310-      ) 

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Spouses and Children

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1. *Sir Robert BELKNAP (Abt 1330 - 19 Jan 1401)
       Marriage: unknwn
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Joanna BELKNAP (Abt 1356-1420)

Joan DAUBENEY

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      Sex: F

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Individual Information

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     Birth Date: Abt 1368 - South Ingleby, Lincolnshire, England
    Christening: 
          Death: After 1414
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: 

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Spouses and Children

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1. *Sir Laurence PABENHAM (Abt 1334 - 10 Jun 1399)
       Marriage: Bef 1390 - England
         Status: 

Godeheut DE BARCELONA

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      Sex: F

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Individual Information

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     Birth Date: Abt 1000 - Tosny or Conches, Eure, Normandy
    Christening: 
          Death: After 1077 - Normandie, France
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: 

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Spouses and Children

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1. *Richard D'EVREUX (Abt 986 - 13 Dec 1067)
       Marriage: 1038
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Agnes D'EVREUX (1041-Abt 1087)

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Notes

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General:

Godeheut (Godehilde) d'Evreux formerly Barcelona

Research:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Barcelona-100
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Biography

Godeheut was the daughter of Raymond de Barcelona and Ermensinde Carcassonne.

She married firstly Roger de Toeni.[1]

After the death of her first husband, she married Richard d'Evreux.[1]
Research Notes

This profile corresponds to this article by Stewart Baldwin. He states:

"Count Richard of Évreux was married to the widow of Roger de Tosny, who had previously been married to Estefania, daughter of count Ramon Borrell of Barcelona [Adémar Chab., iii, 55 (p. 178); Chr. S. Petri Vivi Senonensis, RHF 10: 223]. The careless identification of the two wives of Roger de Tosny as one person has sometimes resulted in the false attribution of Godehilde as a daughter of Ramon Borrell. [see, e.g. Keats-Rohan (1993), 35]."

Sources

? 1.0 1.1 Cokayne, George Edward, "The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom", London: William Pollard & Co, 1953, Ed. 2 Vol XII Part 1, FamilySearch p. 757

See also:

Keats-Rohan (1993), 35

Wikidata: Item Q52153867

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Hugh DE BEAUCHAMP

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      Sex: M

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Individual Information

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     Birth Date: Unknown - Normandie
    Christening: 
          Death: Abt 1114 - Bedford, Bedfordshire, England
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: 

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Spouses and Children

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1. *Matilda DE TAILLEBOIS (Abt 1050 - 1124)
       Marriage: Bef 1070
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Robert DE BEAUCHAMP (1080-      )

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Notes

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Research:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Beauchamp-115
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Biography

Keats-Rohan has an entry for him:[1]

Hugh De Belchamp
Important royal official and major tenant-in-chief in Bedfordshire, of which he was sheriff during William I's reign and early in William II's. He succeeded Ralph Taillebois in the office, having, in all probability, married Ralph's daughter and principal heiress. His fief became the barony of Beauchamp. From Beauchamps, cant. La Haye Pesnel, dépt Machne, in west Normandie, according to Melletier; for other possibilities, Loyd, 20-1, s.v. Broilg. Sanders, 10[2]; G.H. Fowler, "The Beauchamps, barons of Bedford", in Beds. Hist. Rec. Soc. i, 1-24.[3]

Loyd, cited above, was actually setting out a proposal of J.H. Round which Chambers and Fowler call ingenious:[4]

In his introduction to the Bedfordshire Domesday[5] Round points out that three, if not four, under-tenants of Beauchamp of Bedford derived their names from places within the single canton of Tilly-sur-Seulles [...] These facts suggest further that the original home of the Beauchamps is to be sought in Calvados, but of the only two Beauchamps in that department one is a fief in Moyaux, cant. Lisieux, 76 kil. E of Tilly-sur-Seulles, and the other in Vouilly, cant. Isigny, 32 kil. W of it, and it is impossible to draw any sound inference from such evidence.

Hugh had issue:

Simon. d. about 1137. According to Sanders and Rohanhis daughter and heir married Hugh Poer, brother of Walerand Count of Meulan, but she did not inherit the barony of her father. The heir of Simon was instead Miles son of Robert.
Robert, known only with certainty as the father of the generation who succeeded him brother Simon, starting with Payn.

Sanders and Keats-Rohan both estimate that Hugh died about 1114.
Sources

? Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, p.260
? Sanders, English Baronies, p.10
? internet archive link to Chambers and Fowler's article
? Loyd, Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families, p.20
? VCH Beds, p.201

Also see

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Phillips, Weber, Kirk and Staggs Families of the Pacific Northwest, by Jim Weber, rootsweb.com (shows Robert as father)
Domesday Book - a page showing some of the manors held from Hugh as overlord ("de hugone"). (Full list)
Davis, Henry. Regesta Regum Anglo Normannorum, 1066\endash 1154 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1913-1969) Vol. 1, Page 95: #370, 1087-1095. "Notification by William II to Hugh of Beauchamp and all his barons of Bucks."

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Pagan DE BEAUCHAMP

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      Sex: M

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Individual Information

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     Birth Date: Abt 1109
    Christening: 
          Death: Bef 1165
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: 

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Parents

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         Father: Robert DE BEAUCHAMP (1080-      ) 
         Mother: 

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Spouses and Children

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1. *Rohese DE VERE (Abt 1110 - After 1166)
       Marriage: After 1144
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Simon DE BEAUCHAMP (Abt 1147-1207)

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Notes

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Research:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Beauchamp-113
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Biography

Keats-Rohan has an entry for him:[1]

de Bellocampo, Pagan
Son of Robert de Beauchamp, younger son of Hugh I. Succeeded his brother Milo c. 1142 as head of the barony. Married Roesia de Ver, daughter of Alberic II and widow of Geoffrey de Mandeville, first earl of Essex, whom he had issue his successor Simon I. He was dead by the end of 1156.

Sources

? Keats-Rohan, Domesday Descendants, p.312

Also see

Royal Ancestry 2013 Vol. IV p. 561
Farrer, William & Brownbill, J. The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster (Archibald Constable and Co. Limited, London, 1906) Vol. 1, Page 300
Essex 15, vol 1, p. 511
Baker's Nrthmp, vol 1, p. 544 (GS #Q942.55 H2ba)
Plantagenet Ancestry p. 101 (GS #Q940 D2t)
Morant's Essex, vol 2, 229 (GS #Q942.67 H2m)
Dict. of Nat'l Biog., vol 39 p. 169 (GS # Ref 920.042 D561n)
Powlett, Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina. The Battle Abbey Roll with some Account of the Norman Lineages (London: John Murray, 1889) Vol 2, p. 243, 244 (GS #942 D2bb)
Peerages of the British Isles 1883 p. 29 (GS #942 D22bug)
http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3.htm#PaynBeauchampdied1156