Webmaster Notes
I can find no connection between Walter de Tey and Belchamp Walter other than an entry in P.H. Reaney's "The Place Names of Essex".
My current suspicion is that Reaney misinterpreted Morant.
This page has a photo of the Walter Belchamp Parochial Fees for the church.
I can see why my pages are difficult to follow as I need to be clearer on the connection to some of my research. For example, the Tithe Map and Apportionment from EASH is transcribed on my page on the Belchamps".
Walter de Tey - b. circa 1250 - 1270
It is not clear why the name Belchamp Walter is what is what it is. This page discusses the "Walter" part. Historically the village has had the name Belchamp William, Belchamp Simon and finally Walter Belchamp.
Walter de Tey is a name associated with the Medieval history of Belchamp Walter and possibly the reason for the Walter in village name Belchamp Walter.
This association was made in the history of the village that was recounted on the Village Hall Website. In fact the reference to belcham is not borne out in my copy of Domesday, a translation (edited) by John Morris and published by Phillimore.
(page 35 of the Little Domesday edition).
In addition, I cannot find a reference Walter de Tey being a descendant of William de Beuchamp. The village of
Belchamp Walter was known up until the the 19th Century as Belchamp William, and the notion that it could just as
easily have been called Belchamp Simon, a known descendant of William de Beuchamp, is possible.
de Steyngreve and de Teye
Thomas Wright records that Isabel de Steyngreve was married to
Simon de Pateshull
of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire.
Dorothy Audham (Aldham) is cited as the Wife of Walter de Tey on geni.com.
Isabel de Steyngreve was a second marriage to Walter de Tey .
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Thomas Wright:
Roger de Mowbray, the son of Maud de Mowbray (daughter of William
de Beauchamp),
held lands here in 1281, of the earl of Oxford; his successor was his son John (de Mowbray)
and John de Steyngreve, on his death in 1295, also had
possessions here.
Isabel, his only daughter, was married to Simon de Pateshull,
who, in her right, held these lands at the time of his death, in 1296.
He left a son named John, and Isabel, his widow, was married to Walter de Tey (Walter was born between
circa 1250 and circa 1270).
In 1286, William de Montchensy died, holding this manor and other
estates, of the inheritance of his wife Beatrix, deceased, formerly wife of
Thomas Fitz-Otho.
His son William was his heir.
This page is part of an on-going research project on the history of Belchamp Walter and
the manor of Belchamp Walter.
If you have found it making a web search looking for geneological or other information on the village then please bookmark this page and return
often as I am likely to make regular updates. If you delve deeper into this website you will find many other pages similar
to this one.
Isabel (de Steyngreve)'s 2nd marriage was to Walter de Tey.
About Walter de Tey - from geni.com
"
Summoned to Parliament, 1299. Probably son of Simon de Tey and husband of Dorothy Audham or Aldham; (oldest)
son Richard inherited.
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The naming of Belchamp Walter based on the marriage of Isabel de Steyngreve is further called into question as
geni.com don't even confirm that Walter de Tey was married to Isabel.
Background to this page
Having seen this page found by those making an Internet search I have decided to add
a bit more context.
