Margaret Beauchamp of Bletso

Margaret Beauchamp, of Bletso, Bedfordshire, Spelsbury, Oxfordshire and Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire (1 January 1405/1406 – 8 August 1482) was the daughter of John Beauchamp, of Bletso and Edith Stourton. She was the maternal grandmother of Henry VII. She firstly married around 1425 to Sir Oliver St John, of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, Spelsbury, Oxfordshire and Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, son of John St John and Elizabeth Paullet, with whom she had two... More

Margaret Beauchamp, of Bletso, Bedfordshire, Spelsbury, Oxfordshire and Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire (1 January 1405/1406 – 8 August 1482) was the daughter of John Beauchamp, of Bletso and Edith Stourton. She was the maternal grandmother of Henry VII. She firstly married around 1425 to Sir Oliver St John, of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, Spelsbury, Oxfordshire and Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, son of John St John and Elizabeth Paullet, with whom she had two sons and four daughters, all of whom survived into adulthood. Following Sir Oliver's death in 1437, she remarried in 1439 to John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset. By this marriage she had her most famous child and became a grandmother of a King. After Somerset's death, she married the Lancastrian Lionel de Welles, 6th Baron Welles on 14 April 1447 who later became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; with Lionel she had a further two children. Her third husband died at the Yorkist victory of the Battle of Towton in March 1461. Margaret never remarried.

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