Family
Married/ Related to: N.N. Child: 1.  Thomas FitzOtto 1) 4) 5)Died ± Mar 1273/74 6) 5) Notes: Following Thomas's death, his son Otto was his first heir. Otto subsequently died in 1282 and Thomas's daughters then became co-heirs. Held the manors of: Belchamp, Essex Gestingthorp, Essex Gosfeud, Essex Hamerton, Huntingdonshire Delewik, Bedfordshire Lincelade, Buckinghamshire (wife's inheritance) Sceldesleye Beucamp, Worcestershire (wife's inheritance) Held land at: Wodmonecote, Gloucestershire | |||
Sources
1) Source: Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Edward I "Isabel, late the wife of Simon de Bello Campo (Beauchamp)...Wottone. The manor (extent given) held in dower, by the assignment of the said Simon with the consent of William de Bello Campo his father, of the heirs of the barony of Bedford.As for the heirs of the said barony, Roger, aged 30 and more, son of Maud de Moubray sister of the said Simon, Joan the wife of Ralph Paynel, aged 30, daughter of Ela sister of the said Simon, Isabel the wife of Simon de Pateshulle, aged 24, daughter of Ida daughter of the same Ela, and Elizabeth the wife of John de Horbur’, aged 34, daughter of the same Ela, are parceners of the inheritance with the heirs of the body of Beatrice sometime sister of the said Simon. This Beatrice was married first to Thomas son of Otto, who had by her a son named Otto, now deceased, and a daughter named Maud now aged 26 years and the wife of John Botetourte: after the death of the said Thomas she was married to Sir William de Montecanyso of Edwardestone who had by her a son named William, who if he survives, as the jury believe, is 12 years of age and more. And because the aforesaid Otto survived his mother Beatrice,"Dated: 1294. External Linkhttps://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol3/pp183-196. Reference: C 133/73/5 (Data from direct source)
2) Source: Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Henry III "Otto alias Ottho son of William. Essex...Belchamp (Bello campo), 1½ carucate land held of the king in chief of the fee of the honour of Boulogne by service of ½ knight's fee."Dated: 1257 Indirect evidence - the passage of the three manors held by Otto.. External Link
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol1/pp100-104. Reference: C 132/19/14 (Data from secondary evidence)
3) Source: Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Henry III "Otto alias Ottho son of William. Essex...Belchamp (Bello campo), 1½ carucate land held of the king in chief of the fee of the honour of Boulogne by service of ½ knight's fee."Dated: 1257. External Link
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol1/pp100-104. Reference: C 132/19/14 (Data from secondary evidence)
4) Source: Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Edward I "Thomas son of Otto...His three daughters, Joan aged 14, Maud aged 11, and Beatrice aged 8, are his next heirs.". External Link
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol2/pp245-252. Reference: C 133/30/2 (Data from direct source)
5) Source: English Baronies: a Study of Their Origin and Descent, 1086-1327. Reference: Pages 10-12: Bedford (Questionable reliability of evidence)
6) Source: Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Edward I "Thomas son of Otto...Otto his son, aged 10 at the feast of St. Michael, 2 Edw. I, is his heir...Writ of plenius certiorari, on the complaint of Beatrice late the wife of the said Thomas, that the escheator had taken into the king's hand certain lands which are of her inheritance."Dated: 1273/74. External Link
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol2/pp31-43. Reference: C 133/4/16 (Data from secondary evidence)