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Birth:          BEF 1259 Besford, Worcestershire, England
Death:          BEF 1341 

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Besford, Worcestershire:

The first recorded tenants under the Beauchamps were the Besfords. Vivian de 
Besford paid 20s. forest fine in 1175-6. In 1220-1 Vivian son of Osbert recovered 
seisin of 2 carucates of land in Besford against Walter de Nafford and Denise mother 
of Walter. Walter son of Vivian de Besford granted land in Besford to Abbot Gervaise 
of Pershore (1204-34). Helen, widow of Sir Walter de Besford, granted to Abbot Roger 
of Pershore (1234-50) the right to make assarts in Ramsen Wood in confirmation of an 
agreement made by her son Alexander in 1248-9. Alexander must have been dead 
before 1268, for William Beauchamp directed by his will of 5 January 1268 that the 
wardship and marriage of the heir of Alexander de Besford should be sold and the 
money laid out for the benefit of his own soul. This heir must have been Alexander's 
son, another Alexander. To the subsidy about 1280 Alexander de Besford paid 4s. 6d. 
in Besford. In 1316 he was holding a knight's fee in Besford, and in 1327 he headed 
contributors to the subsidy in Besford with a payment of 3s. Alexander son of 
Alexander de Besford was engaged in a suit against John de Bishopsdon in 1325 and 
1328, and in the latter year dower in Besford was recovered against him and others by 
Parnel, widow of John Thornden. An order was issued in 1338 for the election of a 
verderer for the forest of Feckenham in the place of Alexander de Besford, who was 
so sick and broken by age that he could not perform the duties of his office. He must 
have died before 1341, when John de Besford and Joan his wife were holding the 
manor and madea grant of land to Alexander de Besford, probably their son, and Joan 
his wife. Joan, widow of Robert de Harley, released lands in Besford and elsewhere to 
Alexander de Besford in 1376-7, and in 1398-9 Alexander was dealing with land in 
Pershore. He died without male issue, leaving either two or three daughters: Margaret, 
who married firstly John Dicleston of Dixton in Alderton (co. Glouc.) and secondly 
Thomas de la Hay; Joan, who married Sir William Clopton; and perhaps Agnes, who 
married Thomas Throckmorton of Fladbury, but the third is somewhat doubtful, and 
Margaret and Joan seem to have divided the manor between them, Joan ultimately 
transferring her share to her elder sister for a rent of 30s. out of the manor.

From: 'Parishes: Besford', A History of the County of Worcester: volume 4 (1924), pp. 
19-23. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?
compid=42848&strquery=harley besford Date accessed: 06 May 2013.

Parents
DE BESFORD Alexander (BEF 1227 - BEF 5 Jan 1268)
DE NAUTON Margaret (ABT 1234 - )

Siblings
DE BESFORD Alexander (BEF 1259 - BEF 1341)

Marriage To DE THORNDEN Margery (ABT 1279 - )
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE THORNDEN John (ABT 1251 - BEF 1328)
____ Parnel (ABT 1251 - AFT 1328)

Children by DE THORNDEN Margery ABT 1279 - 
DE BESFORD Alexander (ABT 1310 - )

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