Alexander de Besford

• Preferred Name: Alexander de Besford
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: BEF 12 JAN 1268 in Besford, Worcester, England at LATI: N2.108 LONG: E2.1281
  
• Birth: 1227 in Besford, Worcestershire, England at LATI: N2.108 LONG: E2.1281 with note: duplicate
  
• Burial: BEF 19 JAN 1268 in England with note: Date
  
• FSID: GHXV-8DL
  
• Notes:

  === Alexander de Besford must have been dead ===
  Alexander de Besford must have been dead before January 12, 1268, for on that date Guy de Bello Campo (Beauchamp) in his will orders that "The wardship and marriage of Henry Alexander (sic) Besford may be sold, so that the heir be not disparaged and the money laid out for the benefit of my soul." This William de Beauchamp was sheriff of Worcestershire. This heir, Alexander de Besford, about 1280 paid 4s. 6d. subsidy in Besford. (Lay Subsidy R. Worc. 1280 [Worc. Hist. Soc.], 107.)
  
  Alexander de Besford and his wife, Margaret, in 1300 instituted John de Besford acolyte to the church of Flyford Flavel (Reg. G. Gifford [Worc. Hist. Soc.], 541); they also presented in 1302 (Sede Vac. Reg. [Worc. Hist. Soc.], 67). The advowson was claimed in 1330 by a grandson of Avice de Nauton(*) (who had presented to the church in 1290) Thomas de Nauton (De Banco, R. 283, m. 185). Thomas, however, failed to make good his claim against Alexander de Besford, who stated that Avice had given the advowson, apparently also the manor to her son, Robert, and Robert had given it to Alexander and his wife, Margaret. Robert de Nauton was holding Flavel in 1297-8. (De Banco add ms. 28024, vol. 148.) The manor then descended with Besford. (Thomas de Nauton was still dealing with land in Flyford Flavel in 1341. (Sir T. Phillips Index to Worcester Fines.)
  
  (*) Adam de Nauton in 1274-5 narrowed the King's way in the vill of Nauton. In 1276 he
  was assessed at 2s. under Severn Stoke, in 1315 Alice (Avice?) de Nauton was returned, as
  holder of a quarter of a fee in Nauton under Robert Clifford. As a manor, Black Nauton
  first appears in the 15th century in the possession of John Throckmorton who enfeoffed
  John Cade and others to make an estate for one Thomas Greet [Throckmorton Family pp 37-38]

1. Alexander de Besford, b. ABT 1260 in Besford, Worcester, England     d. 1328 in Besford, Worcestershire, England