Simon de Valletort, II

WHAT PROVES:
(A) the reason for Simon "II" without associating him with a Simon "I" was; (B) His marriage; (C) his parentage?

Book

• Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. 1849. Proceedings during the Year 1890. Vol. 36. London: Longmans green Reader, and Dyer. Archive.org
  • ”It is indeed very questionable whether Robert (II) left any son. According to one of the Harleian pedigrees (No.1095), he married a daughter of Valletort, and had a son and heir, Simon. But according to the records there is the strongest presumption that he left only a daughter, who became the wife of Simon de Valletort, the issue of the marriage being Robert (III), who adhered to his mother's name of Beauchamp, but sometimes called himself " Robert Fitz Simon;" and in one charter we find the father referred to as Simon de Beauchamp. Robert (II) probably died shortly before 7th Richard I (A.D. 1196), as in the Pipe Roll for that year, among the escheats, are included Stoke, Merston, and Gary [Babcary], lands of Robert Beauchamp; and in the same roll, under Somerset, Muriel Beauchamp fines in ten marcs for the King's benevolence ; from which it may “fairly be inferred that Robert had forfeited his lands for some breach of his allegiance, perhaps by aiding” John, the King's brother, in his treasonable attempt to supplant him, and that soon after his death they were restored to Muriel, as his daughter and heiress.
  • “At the same time, it is quite possible that previous to the marriage of Simon there had been some alliance between the Beauchamps and the Valletorts, which the compiler of the Harleian pedigree had traced, and the two families were certainly connected by ties of tenure, if not of affinity. It has already appeared that Hugh de Valletort held seven knight's fees of Robert (II); and his son, " Simon de Valletort," held the Beauchamp manor of Babcary as part of them, for by charter (not dated) he bestowed on the monks of Monacute Priory a virgate of land in Babcary, in return for their receiving his brother Nicholas as a monk, and offering their prayers for the salvation of himself and his wife, and Robert Beauchamp, his lord, and his wife ; which gift Robert Beauchamp confirmed by a contemporary charter.^^ Simon died before 1st John, leaving his son Robert (III) a minor.
  • “Hubert de Burgh was soon called on to sustain the rights of his ward. 1st John he commenced an action against Robert Fitzwilliam for erecting a mill at Merston (Marston Magna), to the injury of his ward, Robert Beauchamp ; a cross action respecting the same mill being brought by Fitzwilliam against "the heirs of Simon de Valletort" [Vatorp, by clerical error in the record]." This proceeding is an important piece of evidence of the relationship of Simon to Robert (III) ; but the facts of the case come out more fully in the course of a long litigation respecting the manor of Shepperton, Middlesex, a manor originally belonging to the Abbey of Westminster, but, about A.D. 1150, granted by Gervase the Abbot, to Adelaide, kinswoman of Robert [de Sigillo], Bishop of London, from whom it came to Valletort.”

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• NOTE: MyHertiage Tree data might be correct, but without buttressing support, it's without merit.

Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Aug 3 2021, 21:37:35 UTC