Inquisitions after a writ dated 28 Jun "10 Edw I" following the death of "Thomas son of Otto” name “his three daughters Joan aged 14, Maud aged 11 and Beatrice age 8, are his next heirs”. A writ dated 4 Oct "23 Edw I", after the death of "Isabel late the wife of Simon de Bello Campo" refers to "Wottone, the manor…held in dower, by the assignment of the said Simon with the consent of William de Bello Campo his father, of the heirs of the barony of Bedford", and names as her surviving heirs "…with the heirs of the body of Beatrice sometime sister of the said Simon", adding that Beatrice had married "first to Thomas son of Otto, who had by her a son named Otto now deceased, and a daughter named Maud now aged 26 years and the wife of John Botetourte…". 1
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...Maud was co-heiress in 1283 to her brother, Otes Fitz Thomas, and sole heiress in 1285 to her sister, Joan, wife of Guy Ferre, by which she inherited the hereditary office of coiner of the Mint, together with the manors of Mendlesham, Suffolk, Belchamp Otton, Gestingthorpe, and Gosfield, Essex, Woodmancote, Gloucestershire, Hamerton, Huntingdonshire, Shelsley Beauchamp, Worcestershire, and one-third share of the barony of Bedford, Bedfordshire... Sometime in the period 1292 - 1302, Maud was heiress to her cousin, Joan, daughter of Hugh Fitz Otes, Knt., by which she inherited the manor of Isemhampstead (in Chesham), Buckinghamshire....
In 1325 [John's widow,] Maud, sued Andrew de Bures, Robert de Bures and his wife, Hillary, and John de Wysham and his wife, Hawise, for one third part of the manor of Little Ellingham, Norfolk, which she claimed as her dower. In 1327 she likewise sued Robert son of John Botetourt, John de Wynchestre and others regarding unspecified land in Suffolk. 2
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8 Jan 1326, Hoxne
Licence for Maud late the wife of John Boutetourt, to grant in fee tail to John son of John Butetourt an acre of land in Belchamp Otes and the advowson of the church of that town, held in chief as of the honor of Boulogne, as appears by inquisition made by John de Blomvill, escheator in the counties of Essex, &c. with successive remainders in tail to Otes and Robert the brothers of the said John, and reversion to Maud and her heirs.
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw. II., vol. 5, p. 207
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12 Nov 1328, Wallingford
Licence for Matilda, late the wife of John Botetourt, to grant to William le Latymer and Elizabeth, his wife, in fee tail, her manors of Dilwyk, Wotton, Kerdyngton, Rouhale and Broham, and twenty knights' fees in Scharnebrok, Pavenham, Hynewyk, Thornecote, Carleton, Turveye, Stacheden, Wotton, Bromham, Bydenham, Hoghton Conquest, Hocleve, Eversholt, Podesgrave, Chikesond, Stotfold, Stondon, Henlowe, Southyeuele, Stanford, Wardon, Kerdyngton, Coupole, Wyliton, Harewedon, Wrastlingworth, Tadelawe, Wyboldeston, Bereford, Rouhale, Ravenesden, Goldyngton, Risle, Bolnehurst, Caysho, Aspele and Estwyk, co. Bedford, held in chief; with remainder to the right heirs of the said Elizabeth.
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw. III., vol. 1, p. 337
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23 May 1329, Canterbury
[Pardon] for William le Latymer for acquiring, in fee simple, from Matilda late the wife of John de Botetourt, the office of graver and worker of the dies in the Tower of London and the city of Canterbury, which is held in chief, and entering thereon without licence; and licence for him to retain the same.
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw. III., vol. 1, p. 391
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