Whoever she was, the following court case quoted in SC XV page 122, shown that the wife of Nicholas Beke and the mother of Elizabeth Beke, was married to Sir Nicholas by 30 March 1347.
At a plea of Assize taken at Lichfield before Hugh Huls and Roger Horton, with whom was associated Thomas Heuster, Justices assigned, etc., on the Tuesday after the Feast of St. Peter ad Vincula 9 H. IV -
"...............The jury stated that as regarded the manor of Teyne, one Nicholas Beek, chivaler, the grandfather of Matilda the plaintiff, and whose heir she was, viz. father of Elizabeth, mother of the said Matilda, was formerly seised in demesne as of fee of the manor, and by his deed which was given in evidence, and which was dated from Teyne the Friday after the Feast of the Annunciation 21 E.III, had granted it to one John Beek, the parson of Chekeley, and the said John Beek, being so seised of the manor, had reconveyed it to the said Nicholas, and to one Joan, late his wife, and to the heirs of their bodies, and after the deaths of Nicholas and Joan, the said manor of Teyne descended to one Elizabeth, as their daughter and heir ...................."
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