On 10/06/2017 5:10 AM, Jan Wolfe wrote: > One of the sources cited by Mason was B. M. Cotton MS. Vesp. E. ix, fo. 2v. Do we know what this source says? > > While the suit cited by Mason may imply that the widow of William (II) de Beauchamp may have been named Amicia, I didn't see a statement that implied that Amicia was the mother of his sons, as claimed by Mason. I posted too soon - see http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/worcs/vol2/pp148-151, citing Cott. MS. Vespas, E. ix. f. 2d: "Alicia, the lady of Salwarpe, gave the nuns half a yardland in Boicot for the good estate of her own soul and of her children and for the souls of her husband William Beauchamp and her son William, the grant being confirmed by Walter Beauchamp". Peter Stewart