On Wednesday, 24 November 2021 at 12:16:39 UTC+10, taf wrote:
On Tuesday, November 23, 2021 at 4:12:57 PM UTC-8, Charlene wrote:
William Courtenay d. 1512 and Cicely Cheney are recorded with a daughter Joan in the visitation of Devon in 1564.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2524477&view=1up&seq=87&skin=2021
In Vivian's visitations of Devon 1531, 1564, & 1620 with additions, their daughter Joan Courtenay is recorded as the wife of William Beaumont.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002002213917&view=1up&seq=260&skin=2021
There is a William Beaumont d. 1454 who married Joan Courtenay.
Vivian may well be confused here. The 1564 visitation of Devon volume includes a Beamont pedigree that shows William Beaumont marrying Joan, eldest daughter of Sir Philip Courtenay. The pedigree in question may not have been in the original version of
the visitation int he COllege of Arms, as it is taken from a manuscript in the Bodlean, but nonetheless, it looks to me like Vivian's compilation volume has created a chimera of two different Joans.
taf
Based on her husband's death in 1454, that Joan would have to be the eldest daughter of Sir Philip Courtenay d.1463 and Elizabeth Hungerford. If so, there's a good reason why she has been omitted from Courtenay pedigrees.
From A Treatise on the Law of Adulterine Bastardy:
William Beaumont, son and heir apparent of Sir Thomas Beaumont, of Devonshire, married Joan Courtenay, and died without issue in the 32nd Hen. VI., 1454. He had been separated from his wife above two years before his death," he living in London and she
in Devonshire, almost eight score miles asunder;" and it appears that she had an illicit intercourse during that period with Henry Bodrugan, whom she married soon after her husband's decease. The estates of the Beaumont family were inherited by the said
William Beaumont's brothers and half brothers successively, until about the year 1490; but on the death of the last surviving brother, the lands were claimed by his daughter and heiress, and by the issue of a sister of the whole Hen. VII. blood of
William Beaumont. Another claimant, however, presented himself in the person of the son of the above-mentioned Joan Courtenay, who, having been born during her marriage with her first husband, pretended, after a lapse of upwards of thirty-five years, to
be her son by William Beaumont. Sir William Pole says, “the controversy grew into such a height, that it was brought before Parliament,” and that “all the proofs of the case were exhibited; but the Parliament would not assent to change the laws of
England, to make a bastard which was born in wedlock ?.” It was however agreed, that it should be proclaimed throughout the country that “ he was to be named John, the son of Joan Bodrugan, and so to be esteemed a bastard ?.” This decision did not
prevent his obtaining part of the Beaumont property, as an amicable arrangement was made, by which the manor of Giddesham, in the county of Devon, and other lands, were assigned to him. His descendants, if not he, himself, assumed the name of Beaumont;
they were allowed the Arms of that family by the Heralds, without any mark to denote illegitimacy; Beaumont's
From the discovery catalogue:
Thomas Beamont esquire, John Denys, John Reigny and John Incledene with John Beamont esquire
For termination of lawsuits between Thomas Beamont and John Beamont including that whereby John Beamont "was Founde Bastard"
Conveyance to be made to Philip Courtenay knight, Edmond Courtenay, Water (sic) Courtenay, Thomas Lucombe, Richard Flamak and John Pelyn of an estate worth £86 13s 4d from manors and lands in Cornwall, Devon and Somerset for John Beaumont for life
Conveyance to be made to Thomas Calwodeley, Lowes Pollard, Clerk, William Trewynard and Ralf Amron of an estate worth £20 from manors and lands in Somerset for Thomas Beamont for life, Provisions for descent of the Beamont estates in the event of the
prior decease of Thomas Beamont, John Beamont, and of Blanche wife of Bartholemew Selynger and of Isabell wife of John Halewill
Seven statutes staple to be given by Thomas Beamont to Harry Bedrugan, knight under which the estates of the latter and of Jane his wife were put in extent
Dated: 4 August 15 Edward IV (1475)
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/077c0ed5-54c1-4f81-9cfe-48e0035a2999
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