Eleanor BEAUFORT

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Eleanor married Robert SPENCER about 1470 in France. Robert was born in 1450 in Spencercombe, Devonshire, England; died in 1510. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John SPENCER and died.
2. Margaret SPENCER was born in 1466 in France; and died.
3. Henry SPENCER was born about 1471 in Somerset, Somersetshire, England; and died.
4. Eleanor SPENCER was born about 1473; and died.
5. Catherine SPENCER was born in 1477; died in Oct 1542; was buried on 19 Oct 1542 in Beverley, Yorkshire, England.

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• Fact 3: Duke Of Somerset 1444 , Regent Of France.
• Fact 8: Militarily Inept.
• Fact 9: Lieutenant General Of France, Normandy & Guienne.
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Led Faction Against The Duke Of York For Power Over The Weak King Henry Vi.
He & His Party Were Rapacious & Poor Administrators Of The Realm.
Held responsible by many for losing English France (Normandy & Gascony).
King of Germany.

DUKEDOM OF SOMERSET
II. 1. EDMUND (BEAUFORT), MARQUESS OF DORSET [1443], EARL OF SOMERSET (1397], and EARL OF DORSET [1442], also COUNT OF MORTAIN in Normandy [1427], brother and heir male, born about 1406; styled EARL OF DORSET, 1438-41. He was taken prisoner with his elder brother John at the battle of Baug?, 22 March 1420/1. Constable of Nottingham Castle and Keeper of Sherwood Forest, 20 January 1424/5; knighted before 25 February 1426/7. He was granted the County of Mortain (Manche), 22 April 1427. He and Robert, Lord Willoughby, had a licence to accompany the Cardinal of England (his uncle Henry Beaufort) on his crusade against the heretic Bohemians, 17 June 1429. He was one of the commanders of the army which besieged and took Louviers (Eure), May to 25 October 1431; present, as Count of Mortain, at Henry VI's Coronation Banquet in Paris, 16 December 1431. He was appointed Constable of Carmarthen Castle during pleasure, 8 August 1433; Ambassador to the King of Scotland, August 1433; Commissioner to raise a loan, Surrey, 26 February 1433/4; Ambassador to the General Council at Basle, 3 June 1434; Ambassador to the Congress of Arras, June 1435; Constable of Aberystwith Castle, 9 December 1435; nominated K.G. before 5 May 1436. In 1438 he crossed to France. Constable of Windsor Castle for life, 21 July 1438. In 1440 he distinguished himself by the siege and capture of Harfleur, April-October. He was created, 28 August 1442, at Kennington Manor, Surrey, EARL OF DORSET, and on the same day he was granted ?20 per annum for life of the issues or farms of co. Dorset for the style and title of his earldom. He was created, 24 June 1443, by authority of Parliament, MARQUESS OF DORSET, and the Sheriff of Dorset was ordered, 1 February 1443/4, to pay him ?35 per annum for life of the issues and farms of the county with arrears from 24 June 1443, when the King granted the annuity to him and his heirs. On 24 October 1444 the mayor and escheator of London were ordered to give him seisin of ?500 a year of the petty custom of London, and the issues and arrears thereof since the death of his brother John [27 May 1444], saving the dower of Margaret, John's widow. He was summoned to Parliament from 13 January 1444/5 to 20 January 1452/3. He met the French Ambassadors outside London, 14 July 1445, and escorted them to the King's presence at Westminster next day; summoned to the special meeting of Council to consider a convention with the King of France, 6 October 1446. In the autumn of 1447 he was appointed Lieutenant and Governor General of France and of the Duchies of Normandy and Guienne; the King ordered the Treasurer and Chamberlains of the Exchequer to pay him 4,000 marks, 20 December 1447. He was granted, with the assent of Council, ?2,375, in payment of ?2,275 for the wages of archers and ?100 paid by him to the Count of Blossenville, 13 March 1447/8. He was created, 31 March 1448, DUKE OF SOMERSET. Commissioner to treat with the Commissioners of Charles VII, 18 August 1448. His loan of 2500 marks for the defence of England was to be repaid in instalments, 28 May 1449. When King Charles of France declared war in July 1449 Somerset retired to Rouen, which he surrendered under a treaty, ratified by Charles, 29-31 October 1449, by which he was to pay 50,000 salus as ransom for himself, Shrewsbury and their company within one year. He and his wife and children were to have a safe-conduct. He retired to Caen, but, after the defeat of the English at Formigny, 15 April 1450, he surrendered the town to Charles, 24 June 1450, and withdrew to Calais. In spite of his failure he retained the King's favour; Commissioner to summon the King's lieges to go against all traitors and rebels, Kent and counties adjacent, 8 September 1450; Constable of England 11 September 1450. He was, however, arrested at Blackfriars, 1 December 1450. He was appointed Captain of Calais, April 1451; Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer touching treasons, lollardries, &c., Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Southampton, Wilts, 20 May 1451; Lieutenant of the Marches of Picardy, Flanders and Artois, December 1451; Farmer of the subsidy and alnager of cloths for sale in Suffolk and Essex, and in certain towns, 18 December 1451. He and Richard, Duke of York, each entered into a recognisance for ?20,000 to abide the award of the arbitrators (William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester, &c.) touching all actions, plaints, debates, &c., between them, 13 March 1451/2. The King granted to him and his heirs a yearly fair at Woking, Surrey, on Tuesday after Whitsunday, 20 May 1452; Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer touching treasons, lollardries, &c., 11 counties and Bristol, 6 July 1452, and Wales, 30 July 1452; granted in tail male the Isle and Lordship of Wight, the Castle and Lordship of Carisbrooke, with manors in Somerset and Dorset, 6 September 1452; justice in Eyre, Steward and Chief Warden for life of all the King's forests this side Trent, and, "for good service on both sides the sea," Master of the Game, 2 July 1453. He was committed to the Tower, with the assent of Parliament, by the Duke of York, as Protector during the King's illness, about Christmas 1453, but was released, 4 March 1454/5. He married, before 1436, Eleanor, widow of Thomas (DE ROS), 8th LORD ROS (died 18 August 1430), 2nd daughter of Richard (BEAUCHAMP), EARL OF WARWICK, by his 1st wife, Elizabeth (of whom she was one of the coheirs), according to modern doctrine, suo jure BARONESS LiSLE of Kingston Lisle, BARONESS TEYES, and BARONESS BERKELEY, daughter and heir of Thomas (BERKELEY), LORD BERKELEY. He died 22 May 1455, being slain, on the Lancastrian side, at the 1st battle of St. Albans, and was buried in the chapel of the Blessed Virgin in the Abbey Church.(d) His widow, who was born in 1407 at Wedgenock, co. Warwick, is said to have married, 3rdly, Walter ROKESLEY, who was buried at Croyland, co. Lincoln. She, who was granted ?222-4-6 per annum for life by Edward IV, 30 March 1463, and a yearly rent of ?100 for life, 11 May 1465, died 6 March 1466/7. [CP 12[1]:49-53]

Edmund married Eleanor De BEAUCHAMP, Lady in 1430 in France. Eleanor (daughter of Richard De BEAUCHAMP, Earl Of Warwick and Elizabeth De BERKELEY, Ctss Warwick) was born in Sep 1407 in Walthamstow, Essex, England; died on 6 Mar 1467 in Baynard's Castle, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John married Margaret De HOLAND. Margaret was born about 1381; died in 1429. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: 13th Earl Of WARWICK
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Richard de Beauchamp (son of Thomas de Beauchamp and Margaret Ferrers), 13th Earl of Warwick, KG (1403); knighted 1399; fought against Owen Glendower in Wales 1403, Capt Calais Feb 1413/4, took charge of prisoners en route to Calais Sep-Oct 1415, hence (pace Shakespeare) absent at time of Agincourt; participated, however, in successful sea Battle of Harfleur 1416; also at Sieges of Caen 1417, Caudebec 1418 and Rouen Jan 1418/9, created 19 May 1419 Count of Aumale (part of Henry V's policy of creating English nobles with French titles and fiefs in English-occupied France); undertook further Sieges of Melun 1420 and Meaux 1421, also Gamaches 1422 and St Valery-sur-Somme; Capt Rouen by end of Jan 1422/3; took Pontorson, Brittany 1427; beaten by French at Battle of Montargis Sep 1427; victor over French at Beauvais 1431; appointed by Henry VI Lt and Governor of France and Normandy 1437; married 1st by 5 Oct 1397 Elizabeth (dspm 28 Dec 1422), Baroness Berkeley, Lisle and Teyes in her own right, only daughter of 5th Lord (Baron) Berkeley, and had [Margaret, Eleanor, & Elizabeth]. The 13th Earl married 2nd 26 Nov 1423 Isabel, Baroness Burghersh in her own right, widow of his cousin Richard de Beuachamp, Earl of Worcester, and sister and heir of Richard le Despenser, de jure Lord (Baron) Burghersh, and died 30 April 1439 (his tomb at Warwick being justly famous for its beauty and splendour), leaving by her [Henry, 14th Earl of Warwick, and 1st/last Duke of Warwick, dsps 11 June 1464; and Anne]. [Burke's Peerage]

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EARLDOM of WARWICK (XIII) 1401

RICHARD (DE BEAUCHAMP), EARL OF WARWICK, also hereditary Sheriff of Worcestershire and Chamberlain of the Exchequer, son and heir, was born 25 or 28 January 1381/2 at Salwarpe, co. Worcester, his sponsors being Richard II and Richard le Scrope, afterwards Archbishop of York. He was knighted, 11 October 1399, at the Coronation of Henry IV; served in Wales against Owen Glendower in 1402; had livery of his lands, 13 February 1402/3; took part in the battle of Shrewsbury, 21 July 1403, and was nominated K.G., probably on the following day. He was made Joint Keeper, with Lord Audley, of Brecknock Castle, 24 October 1403-19, February 1403-4; was with the Prince of Wales at Worcester, June 1404; a Commissioner for the trial of Archbishop Scrope and the Earl Marshal, June 1405, receiving a grant for life of Swansea Castle and the lordship of Gower, forfeited by the Earl Marshal, 29 August following; and was at the siegre of Aberystwyth, September 1407. Under licence of 5 April 1408 he travelled abroad for 2 years, making pilgrimages to Rome and to the Holy Land and performing notable feats of arms at Verona and elsewhere. On his return he was appointed a member of the Council, 9 May 1410, being present therein, 16 June following; a Commissioner to treat with the Scots, 23 May 1411; Steward of England for the Coronation of Henry V, appointed 2 April 1413, and Deputy Steward (for the Duke of Clarence) at that of Queen Katherine, 23 February 1420/1; Commissioner to treat with Burgundy and France, 14 July 1413; Captain of Calais and Governor of the Marches of Picardy, 3 February 1413/4; joint Ambassador to the Council of Constance and to the Emperor, 20 October 1414, and Chief Commissioner to treat with Burgundy, 7 August 1415; Chief Warden of the Marches of Wales adjoining cos. Hereford and Gloucester, 16 June 1415. Though present at the siege of Harfleur, August-September 1415, he is said to have gone to Calais, with the Duke of Clarence, in charge of prisoners after its capture, 22 September, and (despite Shakespeare) he did not fight at Agincourt, 24 October 1415. The following year he received the Emperor Sigismund at Calais, April, and took part in the naval victory off Harfleur, 15 August 1416; Commissioner to treat with Burgundy, 5 August, and with the French Ambassadors at Calais, 31 August 1416. Accompanying Henry V to France, July 1417, he was at the siege of Caen, August-September following, and himself besieged and captured Domfront, Apr.-July, and Caudebec, September 1418, before returning to the siege of Rouen, for whose surrender, 19 January 1418/9, he was appointed Chief Commissioner. He was made Captain of Beauvais, 2 February 1418/9, and forced La Roche Guyon to capitulate after a 2 months' siege, 1 May following. On 19 May 1419, while the King was at Vernon, he received a grant of the comt? of Aumale, with remainder to the heirs male of his body, whereby he became COUNT OF AUMALE, in Normandy. For the next year he was continually employed in the negotiations for a truce which led to the treaty of Troyes, 21 May, and the marriage of Henry V to Katherine of France, 2 June 1420. Later he took part in the sieges of Melun, July-November 1420, and Meaux, October 1421, for whose surrender, 10 May 1422, he was a Commissioner. Keeper for life of Moulton Park, co. Northampton, 20 December 1421. He himself besieged and forced the surrender of Gamaches, 12 June 1422, and St. Val?ry-sur-Somme, 4 September following, and he was present at the death-bed of Henry V, 30-31 August 1422, to whom he was an executor. Under Henry VI he was present in Council, 5 November, and was made a Councillor of Regency, 9 December 1422; Captain of Rouen, before 31 January 1422/3, and again of Calais, 10 July (as from 4 February) 1423 and 1 March 1424/5; joint Guardian of the truce with Scotland, 28 March 1424, and again in 1426 and 1430. As Captain and Lieutenant General of the King and the Regent in the field, 1426-27, he besieged and captured Pontorson, in Brittany, January-May 1427, but, with the Earl of Suffolk) was completely defeated by the Bastard of Orleans before Montargis, 5 September following. From 1 June 1428 till 19 May 1436 he was Tutor and Governor to the young King, whom he bore to Westminster Abbey for his Coronation, 6 November 1429, and whom he accompanied to France, April, for his Coronation in Notre Dame, Paris, 16 December 1430. Captain of Meaux before 1 November 1430. He defeated the French in a notable skirmish near Beauvais 11 August 1431; was Lieutenant in the field in the absence of the Regent, 1435; and accompanied the Duke of Gloucester in his foray into Flanders from Calais, August 1436. Ranger of Wychwood Forest, 21 November 1433; Constable of Bristol, 11 July 1437. He was, 16 July 1437, made Lieutenant General and Governor of France and Normandy, setting sail thereto, 29 August, where, within 2 years' time, he died, his position being one of great peril and anxiety.

He married, 1stly (covenant September 1392), before 5 October 1397, Elizabeth, de jure suo jure (according to modern doctrine) BARONESS BERKELEY, also BARONESS LISLE (of Kingston Lisle) and BARONESS TEYES, only daughter and heir of Thomas (DE BERKELEY), 5th LORD BERKELEY, by Margaret, de jure suo jure (according to modern doctrine) BARONESS LISLE (of Kingston Lisle) and BARONESS TEYES, only daughter and heir of Warin (DE LISLE), 2nd LORD LISLE (of Kingston Lisle) and LORD TEYES. She, who was under 7 in 1392, died s.p.m. 18 December 1422 and was buried in Kingswood Abbey, co. Gloucester. M.I. On her death the Baronies of Berkeley, Lisle and Teyes fell, according to modern doctrine, into abeyance between her 3 daughters and coheirs. He married, 2ndly, 26 November 1423, at Hanley Castle, co. Worcester, Isabel, de jure suo jure (according to modern doctrine) BARONESS BURGHERSH, widow of his cousin Richard (DE BEAUCHAMP), EARL OF WORCESTER (who died s.p.m. March 1422), sister and heir of Richard (LE DESPENSER), de jure LORD BURGHERSH (who died s.p. 7 October 1414), posthumous daughter and eventually sole heir of Thomas (LE DESPENSER), EARL OF GLOUCESTER and LORD LE DESPENSER (who was beheaded, January 1399/1400, and afterwards attainted] by Constance, daughter of Edmund, "of Langley," DUKE OF YORK, 5th son of EDWARD III. He died 30 April 1439 at Rouen, aged 57, and was buried 4 October in St. Mary's, Warwick, being afterwards removed to the Lady Chapel (built by his executors), where is a superb monument to him. His widow, who was born 26 July 1400 at Cardiff, died 27 December 1439 at the Friars Minoresses, London, and was buried 13 January 1439/40 in Tewkesbury Abbey, aged 39. M.I. [Complete Peerage XII/2:378-82, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

Richard married Elizabeth De BERKELEY, Ctss Warwick before 5 Oct 1397 in 1st Wife. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas De BERKELEY, 5th Lord and Margaret De L'ISLE) was born about 1385 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, England; died on 28 Dec 1422. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John married Catherine De ROET in 13 Jan in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. Catherine was born in 1350 in Of Picardy, Somme, France; died on 10 May 1403 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Thomas de Beauchamp [2nd son, eldest son Guy dspm & vp 28 April 1360], 12th Earl of Warwick, KG (1373); born by 16 March 1338/9; Hereditary Sheriff of Worcs and Pantler at Coronations, knighted 1355, Admiral of the Fleet towards the North 1377, Guardian of Richard II c Feb 1379/80, one of the Lords Appellant who overthrew Richard II's advisers 1387-89, arrested on a charge of high treason against Richard II 1397, following which his estates and honours were forfeited, but restored on accession of Henry IV; married by April 1381 Margaret, daughter of 3rd Lord (Baron) Ferrers (of Groby), and died 8 April 1401. [Burke's Peerage]

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EARLDOM OF WARWICK (XII) 1369

THOMAS (DE BEAUCHAMP), defacto EARL OF WARWICK, also hereditary Sheriff of Worcestershire and Chamberlain of the Exchequer, 2nd but 1st surviving son and heir male, was born before 16 March 1338/9; knighted, with his brother Guy, July 1355; was granted for his good service a pension of 100 marks, 26 November following; was going to Prussia, with his brother William, November 1367, and to Brittany, May 1368; and had seisin of his inheritance as heir male of entail, 7 February 1369/70. He was sent with the Earl of Suffolk to Cherbourg, July 1370, to escort the King of Navarre to England; sailed with the King's unsuccessful expedition for the relief of Rochelle and Thouars, August 1372; nominated K.G. 1373; took part in John of Gaunt's historic but fruitless march from Calais to Bordeaux, August-December 1373, and in the descent on Brittany, 1375; Chief Commissioner to enforce the truce with Scotland, 29 January and 29 July 1375, and a Commissioner for the same, 6 September 1380. In the "Good Parliament" of 1376 and in those of February and October 1377 he was a Commissioner appointed by the Lords to act with the Commons for reform. At the Coronation of Richard II, 16 July 1377, he carried the third sword and exercised his hereditary office of Pantler. He was appointed Admiral of the fleet towards the North, 5 December 1377; Guardian of the King communi sententia, circa Februaty 1379/80; a Commissioner of retrenchment, 2 March following; and he was going to Ireland with the Earl of March April 1380. During the Peasants' Revolt, June 1381, he was with the King in the Tower and was later sent, with Sir Thomas Percy, to protect St. Albans Abbey. In 1385 he accompanied Richard II on his only expedition into Scotland. On 14 November 1387 the Earls of Gloucester, Warwick and Arundel, having taken up arms, "appealed" of treason the King's advisers, the Duke of Ireland (de Vere) and the Earl of Suffolk; and, with the Earl of Derby, they trapped and defeated de Vere at Radcot Bridge, 20 December following. In the "Merciless Parliament" that followed, February 1387/8, these Lords Appellant, including Warwick, impeached de Vere and Suffolk and other leaders of the King's party, some of whom were executed. They further obtained a grant of ?20,000 for themselves, 2 June 1388, and, having introduced some reforms, remained in power till May 1389. After some years of retirement and as a result of a law-suit in 1396, he was compelled to hand over Gower and Swansea Castle to the Earl of Nottingham, 1 June 1397. Possibly as a result of this he may have joined in the alleged plot of Gloucester and Arundel (which was betrayed to Richard Il by Nottingham), for which he was arrested in the house of the Bishop of Exeter at Temple Bar on a charge of high treason and committed, 12 July 1397, to the Tower of London and afterwards to Tintagel Castle, Cornwall. At his trial in Parliament, 28 September following, he confessed his treason and pleaded guilty, whereby accordingly his honours and estates were forfeited and he himself banished to the Isle of Man under guard of William (le Scrope), Earl of Wiltshire, who treated him harshly. Being liberated on the accession of Henry IV, at whose Coronation, 13 October 1399, he bore the third sword, he was restored in Parliament, 19 November following. He became a member of the Council, before 4 December 1399, accompanied the King against the rebel Earls, January 1399/1400, and was at Shrewsbury, with the Archbishop of Canterbury and Duke of York, 15 October 1400.

He married, before April 1381, Margaret, daughter of William (FERRERS), 3rd LORD FERRERS (of Groby), by his 1st wife, Margaret, sister and (in her issue) coheir of William, 2nd EARL OF SUFFOLK, 3rd daughter of Robert (DE UFFORD), 1st EARL OF SUFFOLK. He died 8 April 1401, aged over 62, and was buried in St. Mary's, Warwick. M.I. She died 22 January 1406/7 and was buried with him. M.I. [Complete Peerage XII/2:375-8, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

Thomas married Margaret FERRERS before Apr 1381. Margaret and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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OCCUPATION: Lord Berkeley; member Parliment 1381-1415; served in the wars in France, Spain, Brittany and Scotland. Married (age 15), Nov 1367OCCUPATION: Lord Berkeley

Thomas married Margaret De L'ISLE in Nov 1367 in Wingrave, Buckingham, Eng (Him Age 15). Margaret (daughter of Warin De L'ISLE, Lord and Margaret PYPARD) was born in in Of King Lisle, Berk, ENG; died on 20 Mar 1391-1392. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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