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Bernard de Brus

Male - Abt 1266


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  • Name Bernard de Brus 
    Born of Conington, Huntingdonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died Abt Aug 1266 
    Person ID I6265  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Alice de Beauchamp,   b. of Elmley, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2727  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “BERNARD DE BRUS, of Conington, Huntingdonshire, Exton, Rutland, Buecesford, Donington, and Golksby, Lincolnshire, etc., younger son. He married (1st) ALICE DE BEAUCHAMP, daughter of William de Beauchamp, of Elmley and Salwarpe, Worcestershire, hereditary Sheriff of Worcestershire, by Isabel, daughter of William Mauduit, hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer [see BEAUCHAMP 8 for her ancestry]. They had two sons, Bernard, Knt., and John. He received robes, gifts, and expenses from King Henry III between 1247 and 1257. Sometime before 1268 he and his wife, Alice, were granted lands and rents in Cottesmore and Greetham, Rutland by her uncle, William Mauduit, Earl of Warwick. He forfeited his lands by taking part against the king in the Barons' War. He married (2nd) CONSTANCE DE MERSTON, widow of John de Morteyn (living 1254, died about 1265), of Marston (in Marston Moretaine), Bedfordshire, and daughter of Ralph de Merston, of Marston, Bedfordshire. BERNARD DE BRUS died shortly before August 1266. In 1274-5 his widow, Constance, arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Radulph son of Richard de Marston touching common of pasture in Marston, Bedfordshire. In 1276 she disputed with the Abbot of St. Albans regarding the presentation of the church of Turville, Buckinghamshire. In 1278-9 she sued William Fitz Henry in a novel disseisin plea regarding meadow in Conington, Huntingdonshire. She married (3rd) before 8 May 1281 (date of presentation) ROBERT DE WOTTON (or DE WYTTON), in right of his wife, of Marston (in Marston Moretaine), Bedfordshire. In 1280-1 Robert de Brus, senior, arraigned an assize of darrein presentment against Robert and his wife, Constance, and Bernard de Brus touching the church of Conington, Huntingdonshire. He and his wife, Constance, presented Master Walter de Wotton as rector of the church of Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire in 1281. Later a dispute ensued in the king's court between Robert and his wife, Constance, and Richard d'Argentine concerning the right of presentation to the dependant chapel of Roxhill, Bedfordshire; the court subsequently ruled in favor of Robert and Constance. In 1282 and the said Walter was re-instituted to the church of Marston Moretaine, this time with the addition of the chapel of Roxhill. In 1281 Adam del Cokedaek [or Crokedaek] had a plea against Constance, wife of Robert Wotton. In 1283 she granted the manor of Turville, Buckinghamshire to her son, Eustace de Morteyn, in tail-male. Constance died about 1293.
      Wright Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland (1684): 51 (Brus ped.). Burke Gen. Hist. of the Dormant, Abeyant, Foreited & Extinct Peerages (1866): 80-81 (sub Bruce). Riley Chronica Monasterii S. Albani; Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albam; a Thoma Walsingham, Regnante Ricardo Secundo 1 (1867): 431. Herald & Genealogist 8 (1874): 325-348. Misc. Gen. et Heraldica (1874): 337-340. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 180; 50 (1889): 61. Scots Peerage 2 (1905): 430-432 (sub Bruce, Earl of Carrick). Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 330. Rutland Mag. & County Hist. Rec. 3 (1908): 97-106, 130-137. VCH Bedford 3 (1912): 309. Cal. 14 Misc. 1(1916): 239, 262. NEHGR 79 (1925): 135. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 102. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 128 (Brus arms: Azure a saltire and a chief or). VCH Huntingdon 3 (1936): 144-151. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): 140. DeWindt Royal Justice & Medieval English Countgside 2 (1981): 580, 627. Sutton Rolls & Reg. of Bishop Oliver Sutton, 1280-1299 8 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 76) (1986): 94. Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britain (2001): (sub Scottish Royal Lineage). Blakely "Scottish Bruses and the English Crown" (13th Cent. England 9) (2003): 101-113.”

      2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “ISABEL MAUDUIT, married c.1236-40 (date of charter) WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., of Elmley and Salwarpe, Worcestershire, hereditary Sheriff of Worcestershire, son and heir of Walter de Beauchamp, of Elmley, Holt, and Salwarpe, Worcestershire, hereditary Sheriff of Worcester, by his 1st wife, Joan, daughter of Roger de Mortimer. He was born in 1215. Her maritagium included a share of the manor of Letcombe Basset, Berkshire. They had four sons, William [Earl of Warwick], Walter, Knt., John, Knt., and James, and six daughters, Alice, Joan, Isabel, Margaret (or Margery), Sibyl, and Sarah. In 1249 William and his wife, Isabel, gave her share of the manor of Letcombe Bassett, Berkshire for a term of years to Isabel de Mortimer. In 1252 they granted two parts of the manor to Alice de Scothot for life. He fought in Gascony in 1253 and in Wales in 1257, 1258, 1260, 1263. In 1254 he was granted a weekly market and a yearly fair at his manor of Elmley, Worcestershire. His wife, Isabel, died before 30 Jan. 1268, and was buried in Cokehill Nunnery, Worcestershire. WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP died shortly before 25 April 1269. He left a will dated 7 Jan. 1268/9, requesting burial at Friars Minor, Worcester.
      Edmondson Hist. & Genealogical Acount of the Noble Fam. of Greville (1766): 26-56. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiq. of the County of Hertford 1 (1815): 353-360. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 414 (Mellent-Newburgh ped.); 2 (1836-41): 129 (Mauduit ped.), 218-219 (Beauchamp ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 736 ("Tanner, however, observes .... there is the abstract of a deed of William Beauchamp earl of Warwick, confirming to the Nuns of Cokehill the gift which Isabel the countess his mother, William the earl her brother, and Waleran the earl her grandfather, who died 6 Joan. as Dugd. Baron. tom. i. p 71, made unto them, viz. the Church of Netelton."). Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 1 (1826): 50-51 (will of William de Beauchamp). Archaeologia 21(1827): 199-200. Coll. Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 256. Banks Baronies in Fees 1 (1844): 310-311 (sub Mauduit). Sheahan Hist. & Topog. of Buckinghamshire (1862): 539-540. Herald & Genealogist 7 (1873): 385-394. Tegg Willls of their Own (1876): 4-5 (will of William de Beauchamp). Bund Inqs. Post Mortem for the County of Worcester 1 (1894): vii-ix (Warwick ped.), 59-65; 2 (1909): xxii. Ratcliff Hist. & Antiqs. of the Newport Pagnell Hundreds (1900): 108-112. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 72. C.P.R. 1247-1258 (1908): 272. D.N.B. 13 (1909): 83-84 (biog. of William Mauduit, Earl of Warwick). VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 217-222 (Beauchamp arms: Gules a fesse between six crosslets or.). VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 134-138, 170-175. C.P. 12(1) (1953): 610. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 39:2-3. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 51. Clanchy Civil Pleas of the Wiltshire Eyre 1249 (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 26) (1971): 82, 109-110, 154. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): lviij (Beauchamp ped.), lix (Mauduit ped.), 142 (charter of William Mauduit dated c.1236-40). Hoskin English Episcopal Acta 13 (1997): 52-53.
      Children of Isabel Mauduit, by William de Beauchamp, Knt.:
      i. WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., Earl of Warwick [see next].
      ii. WALTER DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., of Alcester, Warwickshire, married ALICE DE TONY [see POWICK 9].
      iii. JOHN DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., of Holt, Worcestershire, married [see HOLT 9].
      iv. ALICE DE BEAUCHAMP, married BERNARD DE BRUS, of Conington, Huntingdonshire and Exton, Rutland [see CONINGTON 6].
      v. JOAN DE BEAUCHAMP, married BARTHOLOMEW DE SUDELEY, Knt., of Sudeky, Gloucestershire [see SUDELEY 9].
      vi. MARGARET (or MARGERY) DE BEAUCHAMP, married HUBERT HUSSEY, Knt., of Figheldean and Stapleford, Wiltshire [see ESTURMY 9].
      vii. SARAH DE BEAUCHAMP, married RICHARD TALBOT, of Eccleswall (in Linton), Herefordshire [see TALBOT 9].”