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Birth:          ABT 1228 Dunster, Williton, Somersetshire, England
Death:          BEF 1284 Hatch Beauchamp, Taunton, Somersetshire, Emgland

Notes
familysearch.org
says her mother is Hawise fitz Geoffrey
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I05708
Alice de Mohun, living 1282, dead 1284; m. (1) as young child, William de Clinton, the 
younger, d. by 1237; m. (2) by 1246 Robert IV de Beauchamp, adult 1244, living 1262
-3, dead 1265-6, Lord of Hatch, Somerset, Justice of Eyre for the Western Counties, 
son of Robert III de Beauchamp (styled Fitz Simon), Lord of Hatch, somerset, by 
probably wife, Juliana (Brett?). [Ancestral Roots, line 246b-29]

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John de Beauchamp, s. and h. of Robert de Beauchamp, of Hatch, Somerset, by 
Alice, da. of Reynold de Mohun, of Dunster, in that co., was b. before 1249. 
[Complete Peerage, II:48]

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Manor of ASTON CLINTON,

Before the Norman Conquest, the manor of ASTON CLINTON was held by Wlwen, a 
'man' of King Edward. Wlwen is a woman's name, and she seems to have been the 
predecessor of Edward de Salisbury, the Domesday tenant, in all his lands in 
Buckinghamshire. He was the standard-bearer of Henry I at the battle of Brenville in 
1100, and was made Earl of Salisbury. Whether he alienated it during his lifetime or 
whether it descended to his heir Walter de Salisbury does not appear, but at the end 
of the 12th century it belonged to the family of Clinton, who held it by grand serjeanty. 
In 1193 and 1194 William de Clinton rendered account of 10 marks for having seisin of 
his land at Aston until the king's return to England, so that he was probably waiting to 
do homage to the king for lands of inheritance. In this case they had been held 
presumably by his father Jordan de Clinton. William died before 1196, and the sheriff 
of the county rendered account for his lands in Aston. In 1200 King John granted to 
Hugh de Haversham the custody of his lands and heir and the marriage of the heir, but 
the next year this was cancelled, since Isabella de Clinton gave 300 marks for the 
same privileges. She answered for Aston for several years, and was probably the 
widow of William de Clinton. His heir was his son, another William de Clinton, who is 
mentioned in a list of tenants in chief in 1210-12. In 1216, however, the manor was in 
the hands of the king, although Isabella was still alive, and while William de Clinton 
was still a minor. The manor of Aston was granted in that year by King John to 
Walerand Teutonicus for the support of the castle of Berkhampstead. Before 1219 
William de Clinton appears to have come of age and obtained possession of Aston. 
His name appears for the last time in 1228, and the next tenant of the manor seems to 
have been Nicia de Clinton, who was holding it in 1240-1. Her relationship to William 
de Clinton does not appear; but it seems probable that she was his widow, and having 
been jointly seised with him, held the whole manor for her life. She died in or before 
1246, when she was succeeded by her son William de Clinton, more usually called de 
Paris, who did homage for the manor in 1247. About 1252 he alienated the manor of 
Aston Clinton to William de Montagu for his homage and service....

The manor of Aston Clinton was held by grand serjeanty, but the exact service is 
differently described at different times. In 1210-12 William de Clinton held it by the 
serjeanty of the larderer. Some years later, however, Nicia de Clinton was bound to 
provide a serjeant, with horse and arms to serve in the king's army at her own cost for 
forty days. The different lords of the manor, however, and especially the elder William 
de Clinton, had alienated part of the serjeanty without the king's consent. This 
appears to have passed unnoticed, until many of the services due from the serjeanties 
in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire were commuted by Robert Passelewe, probably 
between 1246 and 1255. William de Paris received over £15 a year for the alienated 
land, but under the pressure of the royal officials an agreement was made as between 
William and his tenants. The latter were to answer to him for the third part of the value 
of his tenement, and to pay 111s. a year, which he paid to the king. His own service, 
for the land that remained in his own hands, was changed from serjeanty to the military 
service due from one knight's fee. The rent from the tenants was paid through all the 
changes of the lords of the manor. It is mentioned in a rental, made in the reign of 
Edward III, and again when the manor of Aston Chiverey (q.v.) was in the hands of 
Henry VI. The rent was finally purchased in 1671 from the trustees for the sale of the 
fee-farm rents payable to the Crown by Sir Francis Gerrard, who then held the manor. 
The rents, however, had then been settled or were about to be settled on the queen 
for her life as part of her jointure, and therefore she was entitled to take the rents 
during her life, the reversion being vested in Sir Francis.

At the end of the 12th century William de Clinton alienated 40 librates of land, which 
afterwards formed the manor of ASTON CHIVEREY, to Reginald de Mohun in frank-
marriage with Alice, probably the daughter of William de Clinton. After the death of 
Reginald, Alice held the manor herself, but before 1215 she married Robert de 
Beauchamp, and they held the manor jointly. Between 1247 and 1261-2 the manor of 
Chiverey was granted "at ferm" to James de Audley, who afterwards became 
possessed of the fee-simple. Alice de Audley, the widow of James de Audley, or his 
son of the same name, held the manor of Aston Chiverey in the 14th century. She died 
in 1342, and was succeeded by William de Audley, the grandson of James de Audley. 
He claimed to hold it by descent from the original feoffees of William de Clinton. 
William de Audley settled the manor of Chiverey on himself, his wife Joan, and their 
heirs. He died in 1367, and his widow held it till 1382, when it passed to Elizabeth the 
niece of William de Audley and daughter of Thomas de Audley. Elizabeth married John 
Rose, an esquire of Richard II. She seems to have predeceased her husband, who 
held the manor for life, according to a settlement made in 1387, and by agreement 
with Philip St. Clair, who seems to have been the heir of Elizabeth Rose. His only 
relationship to Elizabeth was apparently through the mother of William de Audley, who 
was one of the sisters and co-heiresses of Edmund de Bereford. Another sister married 
John St. Clair the grandfather of Philip. Philip St. Clair never was in seisin of the 
manor, since John Rose outlived him. The latter died in 1410, and Aston Chiverey was 
seized into the king's hands during the minority of John son and heir of Philip. John 
died before coming of age, and the manor passed to his brother Thomas, who twice in 
a very short time tried to evade the rights of wardship of the king. In 1424 he was 
fined £200 for having married Margaret Hoo without the king's consent, while he was 
still a ward of Henry V, and in 1425 he made a settlement of the manor of Aston 
Chiverey with the intent to defraud the king of the wardship of his heirs, and was fined 
£60. He died in 1435, leaving three daughters, the eldest of whom was then thirteen 
years old. In the partition of his lands the manor was assigned to Eleanor, the second 
daughter, who married John Gage. They held it jointly till the death of Eleanor, and 
then John held it for life. He died in 1476, and was succeeded by his son William 
Gage and grandson Sir John Gage. The latter, together with his wife Philippa and 
Edmund and John Gage, sold the manor of Aston Chiverey in 1532 to Margaret, 
Countess of Salisbury, Reginald Pole, clerk, and others, and from this time it was held 
with the manor of Aston Clinton (q.v.). From: 'The parishes of Aylesbury hundred: 
Aston Clinton', A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 2 (1908), pp. 312-319. 
URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=62779&strquery=bereford 
parishes Date accessed: 01 April 2012.

NOTE: The above account does not agree with several sources concerning the m. of 
Alice dau. of William de Clinton to (1) Reginald de Mohun & (2) Robert de Beauchamp; 
it was actually Alice dau. of Reynold de Mohun m. (1) William de Clinton & (2) Robert 
de Beauchamp. ALSO, according to other articles in VCH, the only sister of Edmund 
de Bereford involved in the above discussion was Margaret de Bereford, the mother of 
William de Audley & wife of James de Audley, who had an un-named daughter (based 
on World Connect named Alice de Audley) marrying John St. Clair, grandfather of 
Phillip St Clair; when the heirs of James & Margaret de Audley's two sons (William & 
Thomas) died without issue, Aston Chiverey went to the heir of their daughter (Alice, 
wife of John St. Clair), which at that time (1410) was Thomas St. Clair.

Parents
DE MOHUN Reginald (ABT 1206 - 20 Jan 1257)
DE FERRERS Isabel (1208 - 1260)

Siblings
DE MOHUN Lucy (ABT 1227 - )
DE MOHUN Alice (ABT 1228 - BEF 1284)

Marriage To DE BEAUCHAMP Robert V (ABT 1220 - BEF 25 Oct 1263)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE BEAUCHAMP Robert IV (ABT 1190 - BEF 1251)
DE DOURTON Juliane (ABT 1200 - )

Children by DE BEAUCHAMP Robert V ABT 1220 - BEF 25 Oct 1263
DE BEAUCHAMP Alina (Alice) (ABT 1245 - BEF 1273)
DE BEAUCHAMP John (BEF 1249 - 24 Oct 1283)
DE BEAUCHAMP Humphrey (BEF Mar 1253 - 18 Jul 1317)

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