BEKE 89 BEKE BARONY BY i. John Beke, s. and h. of Walter B., of Eresby, co. WRIT. Lincoln, by Eve, niece of Walter de Grey, Archbishop I i2QC('^' of York, ^. before 1230, had (1275-76) 4 Edw. I, lie. /^■^ ^ ' to crenellate his manor house of Eresby, and was sum. to Pari., 24 June, i Oct. and 2 Nov. (1295) 23 Edw. I, and ■^ ■*■■ 26 Aug. (1296) 24 Edw. I, by writs directed Johanni Bek, whereby he may be held to have become LORD BEKE.C") By his will dat. 18 July 1301, he directs his burial to be in the Abbey of Kirkstede.(°) He d. s.p.m.s.,(^) 1303-04, when any Barony cr. by the writ of 1295 would be held, by modern doctrine, to have fallen into abeyance.(') BELAN See " Aldborough of Belan, co. Kildare," Viscountcy [I.] (^StratforJ), cr. 1776; extinct 1875. BELASYSE OF WORLABY BARONY. I . The Hon. John Belasyse, of Worlaby, co. Lincoln, 2nd y f- s. of Thomas, ist Viscount Fauconberg, by Barbara, da. of ^• Sir Henry Cholmeley, of Whitby, co. York, was b. at New- borough, 24 June, and i>ap. 24 July 16 14, at Coxwold, co. York, and ed. at Cambridge Univ. M. P. for Thirsk 1640-42. Having raised 6 regiments (') See as to this writ of 1295 the remarks in Courthope^ p. xxv. (*") As to how far these early writs of summons did in fact create any Peerage title, see Appendix A in the last volume. V.G. {^) Of his two brothers (i) Thomas was Bishop of St. David's, 1280, but d. v.f., 20 Apr. 1293, and (2) Anthony (the survivor) was Bishop of Durham, 1283, Patriarch of Jerusalem, 1305, Founder of the Collegiate Church at Chester, ^c. He was one of the greatest warriors of the day, and d. 3 Mar. 1310/1, seized of vast possessions in divers counties. (<*) Walter Bek and Joan his wife, apparently da. of Matthew Fitzjohn, were living Oct. 1287. Isoult de Bek held lands in Norfolk in 1316. {Feudal Aids). For some discussion on medijeval English names see vol. iii, Appendix C. V.G. {^) His only s. and h. ap., Walter Beke, was living I Aug. 1 30 1, but d. v. p. and s.p. soon after. See Coll. Top. et Gen., vol. iv, pp. 331-345, where is an elaborate account of this family. The coheirs were his [i.e. John's) daughters (l) Alice, who m. Sir William Willoughby, and was mother of Robert Willoughby, of Eresby, ium. to Pari. 26 July 1313. Her representative Robert (Bertie), Earl of Lindsey, temp. James II and Anne, as also his grandson, Peregrine, Duke of Ancaster, temp. George II, styled themselves respectively [inter alia) " Baron of Willoughby, Beke et Eresby." (2) Margaret, or Milisent, who m. Richard Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt, Oxon, her representation soon devolving on the family of Astley, of Pateshull, co. Stafford, and (3) Mary, who d. unm, 13
