'Beke1'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Beke of Eresby, Beke of Haddenham, Beke of Whiteknights

                               
Walter de Bec
m. Agnes FitzHugh (dau of Hugh, a 1167, son of Pinco, lord of Tatshull)
1. Henry de Bec of Eresby
m. Alice/Hawyse (sister of Thomas de Muleton)
  A. Walter Beke of Eresby
  m. (1222) Eva (niece of Walter de Grey, Archbishop of York)
  i. John Beke, Lord Beke of Eresby (b before 1230, d c1303)
  m. Sarah (dau of Thomas, Lord Furnival) name given by BP1934 but not by TCP
  a. Walter Beke, Lord of Eresby (dsp)
  BP1934 reports that Walter "survived his father but a few years" but TCP ('Beke') reports that Walter died soon after 01.08.1301 and that his father dspms.
  m. Joan (dau of Matthew Fitzjohn)
  b. Alice Beke, heiress of Eresby
  m. William de Willoughby (d 1306)
  c. Margaret Beke
  m. Sir Richard de Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt (d 1293)
  d. Mary Beke (d unm)
  ii. Anthony Beke of Eresby, Bishop of Durham, Partiarch of Jerusalem (d 02/3.03.1310/1)
  iii. Thomas Beke, Bishop of St. David's (d 20.04.1293)
  iv.+ 2 daughters

 

 

John Beke of Erlegh Whiteknights, Berkshire (a 1412)
1. Thomas Beke of Whiteknights (a 1446, 1477, MP)
  m. Isabell Mitchell (dau/coheir of _ Mitchell of Wiltshire)
  A. Marmaduke Beke of Whiteknights
  m. Margaret
  i. Thomas Beke of Whiteknight (d 1547)
  m. Joan Thorpe (dau of Nicholas Thorpe of Sunting)
  a. Richard Beke of Whiteknigth, 1st of Haddenham (a 1532, 1596, "Chief Equerry to Queen Elizabeth")
  m. Elizabeth (aunt of Thomas Reade of Barton)
  (1) Richard Beke
The Richard who married Coluberry Lovelace is shown by Lipscomb as son of Richard son of Richard (with no earlier ancestors) and as having died on 06.01.1627 aged 31. T&G shows that Richard as alive in 1634 with his eldest son being the Richard who b 1596, d 08.01.1627-80 (and notes that that son Richard was omitted by Visitation (Berkshire, 1634)). Provisionally, having noted that (according to T&G) Thomas above d 1547 and Chief Equerry Richard was alive in 1532 & 1596, we presume that they are both wrong (!) as we suspect that there was an intervening generation between Chief Equerry Richard and the Richard who married Coluberry Lovelace.
  (A) Richard Beke of Whiteknight (a 1634)
  m. Colubery Lovelace (dau of Sir Richard Lovelace, sister of Lord Lovelace)
  Lipscomb shows only one child of Richard & Colubery, Sarah. She was the last of the 1st section originally shown on BZmisc22.
  (i) Henry Beake of Haddenham Sheriff of Buckinghamshire (bur 01.03.1653-4, 2nd son)
Henry was the first of the 2nd section originally shown on BZmisc22. Lipscomb shows him alongside but not connected to Sarah. T&G shows them as siblings (with others, as shown below).
  m. Frances Billiard 'of York' (a 02.1655-6, dau of John Billiard from Nottinghamshrie)
  (a) Sir Richard Beke of Haddenham (bpt 08.09.1630, d 29.11.1707, Colonel, MP, DL)
  Lipscomb shows Sir Richard as father of Colonel Richard by Levina Whetstone. T&G shows as follows.
  m1. (07.02.1655) Levina Whetstone (a 1656, dsp, dau of Roger Whetstone of the Netherlands)
  m2. (28.07.1662) Elizabeth Lee (d 30.05.1737, dau of Sir Thomas Lee of Hartwell, Bart, by Anne, dau of Sir John Davis of Pangbourne)
((1)) Anne Beke (b 04.05.1685, bur 20.03.1752)
  m. Mark Antonie of Bloomsbury, Middlesex
  ((A))+ issue - John of Bloomsbury (d unm bur 25.05.1760), Richard of Colworth (bur 07.12.1771)
  ((2)) Elizabeth Beke (bpt 28.01.1686, bur 08.06.1696)
  ((3)) Mary Beke (bpt 29.09.1687)
  m. John Baynes (serjeant-at-law) ## but see here ##
  ((A)) Lucy Baynes (a 1748)
  m. Francis Lee
  (b) Henry Beke (a 1634)
  (c) Margaret Beke
  m. (by 1649) Robert Lilburne (Colonel, son of Richard of Thickley-Punchardon (judge))
  ((1))+ issue - Richard (b 1650), others
  (ii) Marmaduke Beke of Dinton 
  Lipscomb mentions this Marmaduke but does not connect him to the rest of the family. We ignored him when we first considered this family for BZmisc22.
  m. (28.07.1628) Elizabeth Slater (or Salter) of Haddenham
  (a) Coluberry Beke (bpt 04.03.1629)
  m. (before 165) George Franklin of Haddenham
  (b) Elizabeth Beke (a 1634)
  (iii) William Beke of Cuddington, Berkshire
  m. Anne Emes (dau of H. Emes of Wkinley)
  (a) Henry Beke
  m. (before 1669) Elizabeth
(b)+ other issue (a 1669) - Simon, Richard, Marmaduke, William
  (iv) Elizabeth Beke
  m1. Thomas Dovor
  m2. Nicholas Luke
  (v) Sarah Beke (b 1600, d 1667)
  m. (08.09.1624) Alexander Croke of Studley
  (vi)+ other issue - Richard (b c1596, dvp bur 06.01.1627), James + possiby Henry (d 1670, Rector of Easton Hastings)
  (2) daughter possibly fits here
  m. Edward Welden of Braye
  b.+ other issue - Marmaduke, Hugh, Francis, Isabel
  ii.+ other issue - Richard, John, Anne
  One of these sons may have been father of the following Henry who is shown by T&G in the same generation as Richard et al above but is not actually connected to the above.
  a. Henry Beke of Hartley Court, Shinfield, Berkshire (d 02.05.1580)
  m. Jane Lewkenor (dau of Sir Roger Lewknor)
  (1) Elizabeth Speke
  m. Hugh Speke (d by 1627)
  (A) George Speke (a 1627)

Main source(s):
(1) For the upper section (originally uploaded to BZmisc02 (uploaded by 15.06.03) : BP1934 ('Ancaster', line of Willoughby)
(2) For the lower section (parts originally uploaded to BZmisc22 on 13.08.15 using Lipscomb) : T&G (vol 3, 1858, 'Beke of Erlegh Whiteknights, in co. Berks, and of Haddenham, in co. Bucks', p175+) with some support from Lipscomb (Bucks, vol 2, 'Pedigree of Beke, Lee, and Antonie', p309)
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