Beaumont, Philip (1432 - 1473)

Born / Died

Birth Date: 1432
Death Date: 1473-06-12

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Type: marriage
    Union began: n.d.
    Union ended: n.d.

General Offices Note

Commissions in Devon from 1458

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
JP, Devon 1466 n.d.
MP, Devon 1467 1468
Sheriff, Devon 1467-11-5 1468-11-5
JP, Devon 1467/8 1470
Commissioner of Array, Devon 1470 1472
Constable & Steward, Somerset 1470-5-6 1473-06-12 Held (along with his other estates in Somerset) during the minority of William Herbert, 18th Earl of Pembroke, who had license to enter into his inheritance 4 Oct. 1475
MP, Devon 1470 1471 Possibly held this office
Steward, Devon 1470-5-6 1473-06-12 Held during the minority of William Herbert, 18th Earl of Pembroke, who had license to enter into his inheritance 4 Oct. 1475
JP, Devon 1471 1473

General Lands Note

Succeeded elder brother William (d. 5 Dec. 1454) in the Beaumont lands in 1466 after William's widow failed to prove the legitimacy of her son John Beaumont (1450--1487)

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Heanton Court, Devon
    Patrimony (via brother)
    Acquired: 1466
    Divested: 1473-06-12
  • Combe House, Devon
    Patrimony (via brother)
    Acquired: 1466
    Divested: 1473-06-12

Lands

  • Cornwall
  • Devon
  • Gloucestershire
  • England-Wales border
  • Somerset
  • Wiltshire

Events Naming Patron

Event Date Location Troupe
Performance 1462-1463 Guildhall (1), Barnstaple , Devon Mr Philip Beaumont's Minstrel/s

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Mr Philip Beaumont's Minstrel/s Beaumont, Philip (1432 - 1473) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Venue Type
Combe House Devon Private Residence
Heanton Court Devon Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

Beaumont, Edward T. The Beaumonts in History, A.D. 850–1850. [Oxford?]: npub, [1929?].
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward IV – Henry VI [1467–77]. London: HMSO, 1900.
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward IV [1461–7]. London: HMSO, 1897.
The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982.
List of Sheriffs for England and Wales from the Earliest Times to AD 1831. Public Record Office Lists and Indexes 9. London: HMSO, 1898.
Reichel, Oswald J. The Hundreds of Devon (Supplementary). Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art extra vol. Plymouth: W. Brendon & Sons, 1928–38.
The Visitations of the County of Devon, comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, with additions by Lieut-Col J.L. Vivian. Exeter: For the Author by H.S. Eland, [1895].
Wedgwood, Josiah C., and Anne D. Holt. The History of Parliament: Biographies of the Members of the Commons House 1439–1509. London: HMSO, 1936.