Berefords of Langley and Wishaw, Warwickshire (ping Hap Sutc

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Berefords of Langley and Wishaw, Warwickshire (ping Hap Sutc

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Sir William Bereford, Justice of the Common Pleas under the first
three Edwards and Chief Justice from 1309, is ancestral to the St
Georges of Hatley St George, and thus of HRH The Countess of Wessex.

A tentative stemma follows. In presenting it I would like to
ackowledge with thanks the excellent work that Chris Phillips has
already published at http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk on the life of Agnes
Bereford, second wife of the first John Argentein; details of any
statement made below in relation to her are taken from Chris's
account, where they are sourced and cited fully.


1. Walter de Bereford the elder, dealt with lands at Wishaw with his
son, 1257 (VCH Warwickshire, sub Wishaw). Issue:

2. Walter de Bereford the younger, of a family probably originally
settled at Barford, Warwickshire, and then at Langley in Sutton
Coldfield, where they held of the Earls of Warwick (ODNB); left issue:

3a. Osbert de Bereford, sometime sheriff of Warwickshire and
Leicestershire; ff 1287 (ODNB); no surviving issue.

3b. Sir William de Bereford, received property at Wishaw,
Warwickshire, from his elder brother, 1287; heir to his brother
sometime afterwards; pleader in the Court of Common Pleas by 1285;
justice of the Common Pleas from 1292; justice in eyre, 1292-3;
knighted by 1302; chief justice of the common pleas from 15 March
1309; sat in parliament as a judge (ODNB); an executor of Edmund, Earl
of Cornwall, 1302 (Knights of Edward I) and of Piers Gaveston (ODNB);
held Brightwell, Oxon, and had a grant of a market and fair at
Measham, Derbyshire, 1311; had a grant of wardship of the estates of
his son-in-law, John Argentein, January 1319 (Cal. Close Rolls); held
manors of Sutton, Derbyshire; Langley, Wysawe, Bykemers, Schothiswell,
Greneborow and Derset, Warwickshire; Clopton, Cambs; Stene, Northants,
Senkewerth, Berks, and Takkele and Nywenham, Oxon (Knights of Edward
I); died 1326; married Margaret de Plessy, daughter of Hugh de Plessy;
brought her husband an estate at Wittenham, Berks (ODNB); granted
royal protection for one year, 24 January 1332 (Cal. Pat. Rolls).
Issue:

4a. Sir William de Bereford, ff 1313; dead without surviving issue by
1326; possibly married Joan, named as widow of Sir William de
Bereford, 1338 (Knights of Edward I)

4b. Edmund de Bereford, born circa 1298; heir to his father, 1326;
inherited property in eight counties; king's clerk; given licence to
crenellate his house at Langley, 1327 (ODNB); presented as prebendary
to the church of Shipton, Lincs, 18 September 1328 (Cal. Pat. Rolls);
granted the prebend of Aylesbury at Lincoln, 11 February 1329;
regrant, 11 July 1342 (Cal. Patent Rolls); administered the
temporalities of the see of Ely during the Bishop's absence in
Aquitaine, 1337 (Cal. Patent Rolls, 25 March 1337); died 1354 (VCH
Warwickshire, sub Long Itchington); left illegitimate issue:

5a. Sir Baldwin de Bereford, died 1405; married Elizabeth, died 1422
(VCH Warwickshire, sub Wishaw). Issue:

6. Maud de Bereford, married John Barrough (VCH Warwickshire)

5b. John de Bereford, second son (VCH Warwickshire, sub Long
Itchington); died in Gascony, 1356 (VCH Warwickshire, sub Wishaw);
married Eve, had dower at Long Itchington

4c. Agnes de Bereford, coheir to her brother, 1354; had dower of the
manors of Great and Little Wymondley and Melbourn, and lands at
Throcking, Colney, and Halesworth from her first husband; as a widow
of a tenant in chief, had at her father's suit a licence from the King
to marry as she wished, 26 February 1321 (Cal. Pat. Rolls); had dower
at Wissett, Suffolk, and Tharston and Shotesham, Norfolk from her
second husband; died 1375 (Cal. IPMs, vol 14, #180); buried at
Greyfriars, London, where her monument was recorded as relating to
"Agnes, Lady Matrevers" (Greyfriars of London: Titulus de Monumentis);
left will:

"Dated 18 February 1374, in the parish of St John Zachary, London; to
be buried in the church of Lychett Matravers, near the grave of her
husband, if she die in the counties of Dorset or Wilts, or in
Wylmundle Priory if she die in Cambridgeshire; no cloth of gold to be
out on her corpse, and not any more than five tapers, each of five
pounds weight, to stand about it; to the fabric of Lytchett Matravers
church, 40 shillings; to her son John a dozer of green, powdered with
dolphins and swans, with four cousters of the same suit, her great cup
with cover, one dragenall, six dishes, six pottengers, six saucers,
two pitchers and two pottels, all of silver; after his decease, to
remain all to the priory of Wymondley; and to Margaret his wife a
tablet of espicerie" (Dugdale's Baronage, sub Maltravers; register of
Archbishop Sudbury, ff 87r-79r)

her three marriages outlined in the Patent Rolls, 17 November 1331 and
1 March 1338:
married (1) as his second wife by April 1317 John, 2nd Lord Argentein,
succeeded his father, 1308, then aged at least 30; died 1318;
married (2) John de Nerford, died without issue, 5 February 1329; IPM,
Suffolk, 3 Edward III (PRO C 135/15/6);
married (3) John, 1st Lord Mautravers, born circa 1290; knighted 1306;
MP for Dorset, 1319; implicated in the murder of Edward II, 1327;
keeper of Corfe Castle from 1329; created Baron by writ of summons,
1330; fled to Flanders, 1330; Keeper of the Channel Isles from 1348;
rehabilitated, 1351; died 16 February 1364; buried at Lychett
Matravers (ODNB).

Issue by her first marriage: John, 3rd Lord Argentein (1318-1382)

4d. Joan de Bereford, coheir to her brother Edmund; living 1361;
married Gilbert de Ellesfield (Cal. Patent Rolls, 12 February 1361)

4e. Margaret de Bereford, coheir to her brother Edmund; living 1361;
married James de Audley (Cal. Patent Rolls, 12 February 1361)


Arms: - argent, crusilly, three fleurs de lis sable (Knights of Edward
I)

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