Constance BEAUMONT

Family/Spouse: John MITTON, Esq.. John was born about 1470; died on 16 Feb 1532/3. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Joyce MITTON was born about 1487; died about 1558.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: 1471, Sheriff of Staffordshire

Notes:

Name:
Henry Beaumont, Knt., of Wednesbury, co. Stafford, Sheriff of Staffordshire, son and heir was born about 1440. He wwas married to eleanor Sutton. They had two sons and one daughter. He was knighted by King Edward IV at Tewkesbury after the battle of 3 May 1471.

Henry married Eleanor SUTTON. Eleanor (daughter of John SUTTON, K.G. and Elizabeth DE BERKELEY) died about 1513. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Joan HERONVILLE about 1439. Joan was born about 1402; died after 1460. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Dau. of Henry Heronville, of Wednesbury, co. Stafford

Notes:

Name:
On 27 Oct 1452, while hearing mass in the chapel at Thorpe, Joan was seized by Edward Lancaster, Gent., of Skipton in Craven, and his men, placed on horseback and taken to an unknown church where a priest performed a marriage ceremony enforced by Lancaster against her protests. Her son, Henry Beaumont, and her husband Charles Nowell, petitioned Parliament for redress. She was living (apparently at the manor of Thorpe, after her son Henry came of age) in 1460.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: John Dudley
• Fact: 1428-1430, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
• Fact 1: 1435, Constable of Clun Castle
• Fact: 1440, Crowned 1st Lord Dudley
• Fact 4: Bef 1459, Knight of Garter
• Fact 2: 1459, Constable of Wigmore Castle
• Fact 5: 1459, Wounded at Bloreheath
• Fact 2: 1440-1487, Member of Parliament

Notes:

Name:
As Lord Steward in 1422 he brought home the body of King Henry V to England, and was chief mourner and carried the Standard of King Henry V at his funeral. He fought throughout the wars with France and was a firm supporter of the House of Lancaster in the Wars of the Roses. He was summoned to Parliament from 15 Feb 1439/40 by writes directed 'Johanni de Sutton de Duddeley militi', whereby he is held to have become Lord Dudley. he was the first of his family to adopt the surname of Dudley as an alias for Sutton. He was taken prisoner with King Henry VI on 23 May 1455 at the first Battle of St. Albans, and was wounded at Blore Health on 23 Sep 1459.

John married Elizabeth DE BERKELEY after 14 Mar 1420/1. Elizabeth (daughter of Sir John DE BERKELEY and Elizabeth BETTESHORNE) died before 8 Dec 1478. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]