John Beke, 1st Baron Beke

He was the eldest son and heir of Walter II Beke, of Eresby, by his wife Eve de Grey, a niece of Walter de Gray (d.1255), Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor. Walter II was a son of Henry Beke, "weak of understanding",Duchess of Cleveland who nevertheless "found a well born and richly dowered bride",Beke, T Alice de Multon, sister of Thomas de Multon. Henry Beke was a son of Walter I Beke (fl.12th.c), a prominent Anglo-FlemishBeke, T landholder, by his wife Agnes FitzPinco, daughter and heiress of Hugh FitzPinco, lord of the manor of Eresby.

John Beke died in 1303/04, "when any Barony created by the writ of 1295 would be held, by modern doctrine, to have fallen into abeyance."[https://archive.org/details/completepeerageo02coka/page/88/mode/2up Complete Peerage, 2nd edition, Volume 2, page 89]

• {{cite book| last=Cokayne| first=G. E.| year=1910| title=The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant (Ab-Adam to Basing) |volume=1 |edition=2nd|place=London| publisher=The St Catherine Press|page=89}}
• Beke, T., FSA, [https://archive.org/stream/collectaneatopog04londuoft/collectaneatopog04londuoft_djvu.txt Observations on the Pedigree of the Family of Beke of Eresby, in the County of Lincoln], published in Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, Vol.4, pp. 331–345

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