Alda de Beauchamp

Events

Date of Birth: about 1155.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Farrer (p. 16) states that Alda was aged 30 in 1185.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Hugh de Beauchamp.

This relationship is given by Farrer (p. 16).

Mother: Philippa de Trailly.

This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 15).

Spouse: William Malbank.

This relationship is given by Farrer (p. 16).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from the Staffordshire VCH.)

Philippa Malbank (born about 1169) married Thomas Basset of Headington.

Aenora Malbank married Robert Bardolf.

Alda Malbank married Warin de Vernon.

Evidence

From Grimaldi Rotulus IIII (p. 16):

Hundredum de Bereford

Alda que est filia Hugonis de Bello-campo, et fuit uxor Willelmi Maubanc, est de donatione Domini Regis, et est xxx annorum; et habet iiij filias, quarum primogenita est xvj annorum, et in custodia Hugonis de Bello-campo. Cokesdune, quod est maritagium ejus, valet annuatim ix libris; et cum iij carrucis, et c ovibus, et v vaccis, et j tauro, v suibus, et j verre, valeret xij libris.

References

Farrer, William. Honors and Knights’ Fees volume 2 (1925).

Grimaldi, Stacey (ed.). Rotuli de dominabus et pueris et puellis de donatione regis in XII comitatibus: Lincolnscir, Norhamtonsire, Bedefordsire, Bukinghamsire, Roteland, Huntedonsire, Norffolk, Sudfolk, Hertfordesire, Essex, Cantebrigesire, Midelsex, de itinere Hugonis de Morewich, Radulfi Murdac, Willelmi Vavassur et Magistri Thome de Hesseburn; Anno 31 Regis Henrici II. 1185. (London: Gulielmus Pickering, 1830)

A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 7: Leek and the Moorland (Victoria County Histories, 1996).

HUGH de Beauchamp, in Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Keats-Rohan, Katherine. “Domesday People Revisited” in Foundations (2012) 4:3-20.