Matilda de Limesi

• Preferred Name: Matilda de Limesi
  
• Gender: F
  
• Birth: ABT 1134 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N2.0646 LONG: E2.0251
  
• FSID: LRPM-Z8V
  
• Death: 18 APR 1201 in Welford, Berkshire, England at LATI: N1.4553 LONG: E1.4124 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Matilda Limesi
  d/o Geoffrey Limesi &
  b-
  m- Ralph Beauchamp of West County
  d-
  heir of sister Beatrice , after death of her grandson William Courtenay d- 1100-1216 - Worle, Somerset, England
  
  1220 - Somersetshire - Veil Engaine & Roger Gernet -sued - ELIAS Beauchamp (s/o Matilda) for 1/2 of land in Worle, as their right
  They claimed Richard FitzUrse, their Ancestor, held that land & had a son Reginald & 2 daughters Margery & Mabel - Reginald who suceeded to Worle, who had a daughter Matilda, who had a son William Courtenay, who died reign of King John, no issue, it descended to said Margery , grandmother of said Veil & Mabel mother of Roger ---- They say that Elias Beauchamp only had entry to the said land by William Cantilupe, who had entered the land during the civil war ;
  ELIAS Beauchamp come & defends his right : he says that a Certain GEOFFREY Limesi hald the land as his wight & he had a son Walter & 2 daughters Beatrice & MATILDA - GEOFFREY granted that land to Beatrice in Marriage with Reginald FitzUrse,on condition that if she dies without heirs, the land would revert to said MATILDA & her heirs The land descended to her son ELIAS Beauchamp he was asked who was the heir of said GEOFFREY Limesi ; Elias said Walter Beauchamp, who is in Normandy, & he doesn't know if he has any son or not;
  VEIL & ROGER say that Reginald inherited that land from Richard his father & Moreover, ELIAS can;t have to claim, because he has an older brother ANDREW Beauchamp, who had heirs;
  ELIAS recognised that his mother MATILDA had several older sons, WILLIAM the Eldest, John & ANDREW, but because Elias was the youngest son without land, they granted Him thier claim to Worle

• m. BEF 1153 in Shere, Surrey, England

1. Andrew de Beauchamp, b. ABT 1160 in Standlake, Oxfordshire, England     d. AFT 1214 in Standlake, Oxfordshire, England