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John Beauchamp, son and heir of Robert Beauchamp, of HatchSomerset (a), by Alice, daughter of Reynold de Mohun, ofDunster, in that co., was b. bef 1249. He was summoned to attendthe King at Shrewsbury 28 June 1281 (b) by writ directed'Johanns de Bello Campo.' He m. Cicely, daughter and coheir ofWilliam de Vivonne, by Maud, one of the 7 daughters (coheirs totheir mother) of William (Ferrers), Earl of Derby. He d. atHatch, 24 and was buried 31 Oct 1283, at Stoke under Hamden.Inq.p.m. Dec 1283. His widow d. 10 Jan 1320 at Stoke underHamden. [Complete Peerage]

(a) The arms of this family, 'Vaire, arg, and az', are entirelydifferent from those of the great house of Beauchamp of Warwick,and no connection is shown between the two families.

(b) This writ was treated as originating a peerage in theMowbray case 1877.

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John de Beauchamp, who in the 5th of Edward I (1276-7), was madegovernor of the castles of Kaermerdin and Cardigan. He m.Cicely, dau. and heiress of Maude de Kyme, dau. of WilliamFerrers, Earl of Derby, by her second husband, William deVivonia, which William was son of Hugh de Vivonia, by Mabel, oneof the co-heirs of William Mallet, a great baron, who d. temp.Henry III. This John de Beauchamp, who d. 1283, was s. by hisson, John de Beauchamp. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and ExtinctPeerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 33, Beauchamp,Barons Beauchamp, of Hache, in the co. Somerset]