Beaupre (surname)
Beaupre (originally Beaupré) (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell) is a surname found mostly in Canada, the United States and parts of England.
In England and Wales
Beaupré was a prominent family in Norfolk, who built Beaupré Hall, Outwell. Christian, daughter and coheir of Thomas de St Omer, married John, the great-great-grandson of one Synulph, who lived during the reign of King Henry II, and had issue: John dicte quoque Beaupré,<ref>"Also called Beaupré".</ref> who lived during the reign of King Edward II, and married Katherine, daughter of Osbert Mountfort. Their son Thomas Beaupré would be raised by his grandmother Christian (last St Omer in this line) after the death of both of his parents. Thomas was knighted by King Edward III, and married Joan Holbeache, and died during the reign of King Richard II.<ref name=":132">Template:Cite book</ref>
Nicholas Beaupré married Margaret Fotheringhay,<ref name="Hussey2">Hussey, C., "Beaupré Hall Wisbech, Coventry" Homes and Gardens Old & New, (Country Life), 1923</ref> one of the three daughters and heiresses of Thomas Fotheringhay (son of Gerrard Fotheringhay) by his wife Elizabeth Doreward, sister and heiress of John Doreward and daughter of William Doreward of Bocking, Essex. One of Margaret's sisters was Christiana Fotheringhay, wife of John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford (1482–1540), KG, Lord Great Chamberlain.<ref name="archive.org">See pedigree of Fodringhay, Heraldic Visitation of Essex, 1558, p.52</ref> The other was Helen or Ellen Fotheringhay, who married Henry Thursby<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> of Ashwicken and Burg's Hall in Hillington (1476–1506), the nephew of Thomas Thursby (d.1510), merchant, thrice Mayor of King's Lynn and the founder and benefactor of Thoresby College.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite journal</ref>
The son of Nicholas Beaupré and Margaret Fotheringhay, Edmund Beaupré,<ref name=":13">Template:Cite book</ref> married Margaret, the daughter of Sir John Wiseman, servant to the 15th Earl of Oxford. His second wife, Katherine Wynter (widow of John Wynter of Great Yarmouth)<ref name="Bell">Bell, R. R.L., Tudor Bell's Sound Out, pb., 2006. p. 175-6-7</ref> was the daughter of Phillip Bedingfeld<ref name=":13" /> of Ditchingham Hall. After Edmund Beaupré's death in 1567 leaving no male heirs, the hall succeeded to Sir Robert Bell, by virtue of marriage to Edmund's daughter Dorothy in 1559; whereby his Beaupré line became extinct.<ref name="Hussey">Hussey, C., "Beaupré Hall Wisbech, Coventry" Homes and Gardens Old & New, (Country Life), 1923</ref> In 1529, together with his cousin Thomas Thursby of Hillington, Norfolk, as heirs of John Doreward, of Great Yeldham, Essex, Edmund Beaupré released the manor of Coggeshall to Richard Sowthwell, esquire.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> This was the same manor that the same Richard Southwell would later give King Henry VIII as part of his fine for the murder of Sir William Pennington .<ref>Template:Cite ODNB</ref> In 1541 Edmund Beaupré got the wardship and marriage of his relative Edward Thursby of Doreward's Hall in Bocking, Essex.<ref name=":223">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He married him to the sister of his second wife, Mary Bedingfeild.<ref name=":133">Template:Cite book</ref>
Notable people
- Arthur M. Beaupre (1853–1919), American diplomat
- Benjamin Beaupré (1780–1842), Canadian businessman and politician
- Charles-François Beautemps-Beaupré (1766-1854), French hydrographer, hydrographic engineer and cartographer
- Don Beaupre (born 1961), Canadian ice hockey player
- Édouard Beaupré (1881–1904), Canadian circus and freak show giant, wrestler and strongman
- Gabriel Beaupré (born 1992), Canadian ice hockey player
- Pascal Beaupré (born 1983), Canadian politician
References
Sources
- The Visitations of Norfolk, 1563, 1589, and 1613, Harl. 1552.