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From the Beckwith book I have:
"Sir Hercules de Malebisse, in 1226, married LADY DAME BECKWITH BRUCE, dau of Sir William Bruce, Lord of Uglebarby, which lordship and other lands he had inherited from his ancestor, Sir Robert Bruce, of Skelton Castle, the progenitor of the Royal Bruces of Scotland. It is from this marriage that we derive our name. Lady Beckwith Bruce possessed, by inheritance, an estate or manor of land, called "Beckwith", in the old Anglo-Saxon "Beckworth" from "Beck" a brook and "Worth" an estate. With a view, evidently, to the perpetuation of the name required her husband by a marriage contract dated 1226, to assume the name of BECKWITH."
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