Matilda de Hertwalle

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• From Gen-Medieval Archives: Beke. ¹⁹³
From: "Peter Sutton" <p.sutton@net.ntl.com>
Subject: RE: de Clare, de Stafford, de Audley, Beke, Swynnerton ekkkkkk!
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 20:26:43 +0100

Robert de Bek evidently served in the campaign of 1318, against the Scots, and was in the retinue of Thomas Earl of Lancaster. In 1324 he was summoned from Staffordshire to attend at Westminster to consult with the King respecting various important and difficult matters. He was married to Matilda de Hertwalle. He died about 1330 and had issue:

Sir Robert de Bek. He was summoned on Christmas Eve 1334 from Roxhurgh to attend there on 2nd February for military service. He was dead by Easter 1346. He was married to Mariota.

Matilda married Robert de Beke, son of Sir Richard de Draycote Knight and Lettice de Beke.¹⁹³ (Robert de Beke was born about 1272 in Tene, Staffordshire, England and died about 1330 in Staffordshire, England.)