Sir Simon Beauchamp Lord of Bedford

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 122A:28-29 Ida Longespee, daughter of Ela the Countess of Salisbury and William Longspee (the Natural son of Henry II), married, as her first husband, Ralph de Somery, and married as her second husband, William de Beauchamp. William Beauchamp held the Barony of Bedford, co Bedfordshire, Baron of the Exchequer, and Sheriff of Bedord and Buks, son of Simon de Beauchamp by his wife, Isabella. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Living. ¹⁹⁷
Simon was he son of Pagan (Payne) the first baron of Bedford, and was living in 8 King John or 1207.

• Background Information. ¹²⁰⁰
Simon de Beauchamp, son of Payne de Beauchamp by Rohese widow of the notorious Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, [Harl. MS. 3656; Rot. Cur. Reg. (Rec. Com.), ii, 252; J. H. Round, op. cit. 392\endash 3.] was under age, and his lands valued at £40 farmed by the sheriff of the county. [Hunter, Great Roll of the Pipe, 22]

In 1160\endash 1 Simon was still under the guardianship of his mother Rohese [Pipe R. 7 Hen. II (Pipe Roll Soc.)] ; he is mentioned as one of the knights of Ramsey Abbey in 1184, [Cart. Mon. de Rames. (Rolls Ser.), iii, 48] and between 1194 and 1199 his name appears in various suits against the Abbot of Ramsey, the Prior of Leighton and others. [Rot. Cu. Reg. (Rec. Com.), i, 111; ii, 7, 12, 89, &c] By 1210 he had been succeeded by his son William, who was then declared to hold forty-five knights' fees. [Red Bk. of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 538]

~V.C.H., A History of the County of Bedford, Vol. III, pp 9-15

Simon married Isabella.¹⁶⁰