DE BEAUCHAMP, Hugh

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Biography

Keats-Rohan has an entry for him:[1]

Hugh De Belchamp
Important royal official and major tenant-in-chief in Bedfordshire, of which he was sheriff during William I's reign and early in William II's. He succeeded Ralph Taillebois in the office, having, in all probability, married Ralph's daughter and principal heiress. His fief became the barony of Beauchamp. From Beauchamps, cant. La Haye Pesnel, dépt Machne, in west Normandie, according to Melletier; for other possibilities, Loyd, 20-1, s.v. Broilg. Sanders, 10[2]; G.H. Fowler, "The Beauchamps, barons of Bedford", in Beds. Hist. Rec. Soc. i, 1-24.[3]

Loyd, cited above, was actually setting out a proposal of J.H. Round which Chambers and Fowler call ingenious:[4]

In his introduction to the Bedfordshire Domesday[5] Round points out that three, if not four, under-tenants of Beauchamp of Bedford derived their names from places within the single canton of Tilly-sur-Seulles [...] These facts suggest further that the original home of the Beauchamps is to be sought in Calvados, but of the only two Beauchamps in that department one is a fief in Moyaux, cant. Lisieux, 76 kil. E of Tilly-sur-Seulles, and the other in Vouilly, cant. Isigny, 32 kil. W of it, and it is impossible to draw any sound inference from such evidence.

Hugh had issue:

Simon. d. about 1137. According to Sanders and Rohanhis daughter and heir married Hugh Poer, brother of Walerand Count of Meulan, but she did not inherit the barony of her father. The heir of Simon was instead Miles son of Robert.
Robert, known only with certainty as the father of the generation who succeeded him brother Simon, starting with Payn.

Sanders and Keats-Rohan both estimate that Hugh died about 1114.
Sources

? Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, p.260
? Sanders, English Baronies, p.10
? internet archive link to Chambers and Fowler's article
? Loyd, Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families, p.20
? VCH Beds, p.201

Also see

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Phillips, Weber, Kirk and Staggs Families of the Pacific Northwest, by Jim Weber, rootsweb.com (shows Robert as father)
Domesday Book - a page showing some of the manors held from Hugh as overlord ("de hugone"). (Full list)
Davis, Henry. Regesta Regum Anglo Normannorum, 1066\endash 1154 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1913-1969) Vol. 1, Page 95: #370, 1087-1095. "Notification by William II to Hugh of Beauchamp and all his barons of Bucks."

Hugh married Matilda DE TAILLEBOIS, daughter of Ralf DE TAILLEBOIS Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Azelina DE RIE, before 1070. (Matilda DE TAILLEBOIS was born about 1050 in Taillebois, Orne, Basse-Normandie and died in 1124 in Bedfordshire, England.)