The de Veres and Belchamp Walter

The de Veres and Belchamp Walter

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The de Veres and Belchamp Walter

The de Vere connection to Belchamp Walter is presumably due to the marriage of Geoffrrey de Mandeville (d 1144) to Rohse de Vere

According to Thomas Wright, Alberic de Vere was married to a half-sister of William the Conqueror.

Bishop Odo of Bayeux is well known as William's half-brother. If this is the case then Beatrix de Vere would be Bishop Odo's niece.

The informaiton on the de Vere connection is in addition to what I found in the church guides, originally written by Samuel Philip Raymond.

The Historic England information on Belchamp Hall states that the Belchamp Walter manor "came to John Wentworth" and was then sold to John Raymond I in 1611. This condenses a large period of time to a very short sentence.

What Thomas Wright said:

Under the de Veres it was held by a number of families until in 1539 it came to Sir Roger Wentworth.

Sir Roger's grandson, John Wentworth, commissioned the surveyor Walker to prepare a map of his estate, which was completed in 1605 and showed that the house was surrounded by a garden with an orchard, a rectangular pond, and a dovecote, and was enclosed to west and north by a ditch. John Wentworth sold the manor (still officially held by the de Veres) to John Raymond in c 1611.

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