Richard De BEAUCHAMP, Earl Of Warwick

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• Name: 13th Earl Of WARWICK
• _UID: 5237A07C9FB043A79660FF01532C38B43F29

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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]

Richard married Isabel Le DESPENSER, Baroness Burghersh on 26 Nov 1423 in 2ND Husband Same Name. Isabel (daughter of Thomas Le DESPENSER, Earl Of Gloucester, Kg and Constance PLANTAGENET, Princess Of England) was born on 26 Jul 1400 in Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales; died on 27 Dec 1439 in Friars Minoresses, London, Middlesex, England; was buried on 13 Jan 1439-1440 in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 36534DBEC4EE480FA3A94BA1BA3F3A0C149D

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MARGARET, the eldest coheir, was born at Goodrest, in Wedgnock Park, near Warwick, in 1404. She married, 6 September 1425, at Warwick Castle, as 2nd wife, John (TALBOT), EARL OF SHREWSBURY. She and her husband violently resisted the succession of James Berkeley (Lord Berkeley), the heir male, to Berkeley Castle and its apurtenances. They seized and imprisoned him till he signed certain disadvantageous deeds, and later imprisoned his third wife, Isabel, at Gloucester, where she died in 1452. They took as hostage a younger son, who fell at the battle of Chatillon, where John, Earl of Shrewsbury, his captor, was also slain, 17 July 1453. Margaret was reconciled to James, Lord Berkeley, shortly before his death in 1463, but renewed her claims against his son William. She died 14 June 1467, and was buried in Jesus Chapel in St. Paul's. [Complete Peerage VIII:55, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

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Lady Margaret Beauchamp (died 14 June 1467), eldest daughter and coheir of Richard, Earl of Warwick by his 1st wife Elizabeth (only child of 5th Lord (Baron) Berkeley of the 1295 creation, and deemed by later doctrine to have been Baroness Berkeley and Baroness Lisle in her own right, though on her death, they would have fallen into abeyance between her three daughter and coheirs even by the same later doctrine. [Burke's Peerage]

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Note: Margaret's step daughter, Joan Talbot's, husband, James Berkeley's, prior wife, Isabel de Mowbray (daughter of the Duke of Norfolk), died while a prisoner in Margaret's custody [Margaret's husband, John Talbot, was still alive at the time of Isabel's death 27 Sep 1452, but he was off in France, where he eventually died in 1453, so I don't know if he had much to do with it]. There is obviously a story there. Joan Talbot is said by Burke's Peerage to be daughter (not step-daughter) of Margaret.

Note: Isabel de Mowbray died in the custody of Margaret de Beauchamp because of a prolonged feud over the estates of Thomas de Berkeley and Margaret de Lisle. The feud ended 20 March 1469/70 with the Battle of Nibley Green in which James de Berkeley & Isabel de Mowbray's eldest son William 1st/last Marquess de Berkeley killed Margaret de Beauchamp & John Talbot's grandson Sir Thomas Talbot, 2nd/last Viscount Lisle. Margaret & John Talbot's son Sir John, 1st Viscount Lisle, was killed with his father at the Battle of Castillon, pretty much wiping out the male line from Margaret & John. See notes under James de Berkeley & William de Berkeley.

Margaret married Sir John TALBOT, Knight on 6 Sep 1425 in Warwick Castle, Warwick, Warwickshire, England. John (son of Sir Richard TALBOT, VI and Ankaret Baroness Le STRANGE) was born in 1385 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England; died on 17 Jul 1453 in Battle Of Castillon, Bordeaux, France (Killed); was buried on 20 Jul 1453 in St Alkmund's, Whitchurch, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 055FABD8AFE447A8971E8D8B09494209D3FC

Eleanor married in (Her 1St Of 3). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married in (Her 3Rd Of 3). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Thomas DE ROS about 1425. Thomas was born on 26 Sep 1406 in Belvoir, Leicestershire, England; died on 18 Aug 1430. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Duke Edmund De BEAUFORT, King Of Germany in 1430 in France. Edmund (son of Marquess John BEAUFORT, Of Somerset and Margaret De HOLAND) was born in 1406 in Westminster, London, Middlesex, England; died on 22 May 1455 in Slain At Battle Of St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England; was buried in Abbey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married about 1435 in (Her 2ND Of 3). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: B0F994C659E643AB84033236D3461E419776

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Elizabeth Beauchamp, according to later doctrine Baroness Bergavenny or Beauchamp de Bergavenny in her own right. [Burke's Peerage]

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Elizabeth Beauchamp, b. 16 Sep 1415, d. 18 Jun 1448, only daughter of Richard de Beauchamp, KB, Lord Bergavenny, b. by 1397, being 14+ in June 1411, dsp in France 18 Mar 1421/2 (son of William Beauchamp, KG, Lord Bergavenny, and Joan Fitz Alan), and Isabel le Despenser, m. 27 July 1411, (daughter of Thomas le Despenser and Constance, daughter of Edmund, Duke of York). [Magna Charta Sureties]

Note: According to the above citation, Richard de Beauchamp, "dsp" in France 18 Mar 1421/2, but had an "only daughter"!?

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BARONY of ABERGAVENNY (III) 1422

Elizabeth Beauchamp, who unless the Peerage be considered as one incident to the tenure of the Castle, must be considered as Baroness Bergavenny, or Beauchamp de Bergavenny, only daughter and heir of Richard by Isabel le Depsenser; b. at Hanley Castle, co. Worcester, 16 Sep 1415. She m. when very young, before 18 Oct 1424 (in 1426 her husband( as "Dominus de Bourgevenny") had summons to take, with the King himself, the order of Knighthood), Edward Nevill, 11th and youngest son of Ralph, 1st Earl of Westmorland, being 9th son by his 2nd wife, Joan Beaufort, Dowager Lady Ferrers de Wemme, the legitimated daughter of John "of Gaunt", Duke of Lancaster. In 1435 she was found heir to her grandmother [who had held the lands of Abergavenny and others in dower], when she and her husband had livery of the lands of her inheritance, but not of the castle and lands of Abergavenny, to which her right did not accrue until 11 June 1446, even on the most favourable interpretation to the Nevill family of the entail of 1395/6 (a), unless, indeed, that entail is, from some unknown cause, invalid, against her right as heir at law to her grandfather, the maker of the entail. She d. 18 June 1448, aged 32, and was buried at the Carmelites, Covenrty. [Complete Peerage I:27-29, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(a) on 11 June 1446 the male lines of the Beauchamp family, who (under the entail 20 Feb 1395/6, of William Beauchamp, 1st Lord Bergavenny) were entitled to the castle and lands of Abergavenny, became extinct by the death spm. (without male issue) of Henry Beauchamp, Duke and Earl of Warwick.

Elizabeth married Edward 3Rd Baron NEVILLE, Kg, Of Bergavenny, Sir before 18 Oct 1424 in 1st Wife. Edward was born about 1413 in Raby Castle, Raby With Keverstone, Staindrop, Durham, England; died on 18 Oct 1476 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: 14th Earl Of WARWICK
• _UID: AE89B8B6C6B844EC8E29BE5310A4493B53F4

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BARONY OF BURGHERSH (VII, 6) 1439

EARLDOM OF WARWICK (XIV) 1439

DUKEDOM OF WARWICK (I) 1445 to 1446

HENRY (DE BEAUCHAMP), EARL OF WARWICK and COUNT OF AUMALE, also hereditary Sheriff of Worcestershire and Chamberlain of the Exchequer, only son and heir, by 2nd wife, was born 22 March 1424/5 at Hanley Castle, and baptised 24 or 27 March, Henry, Cardinal Beaufort, being a sponsor; apparently styled LORD LE DESPENSER till 1439; succeeded his mother de jure as LORD BURGHERSH, 27 December 1439; and was present in Council, 28 November 1441 and 6 July 1443. In consideration of his father's services he was created, 2 April 1444, PREMIER EARL, with the same precedence, as Earls, for his heirs male, presumably of his body. Constable and Steward of Tutbury, Master Forester of Needwood and Duffield Frith, and Steward and Master of the Game in High Peak, all in the Duchy of Lancaster, 23 October 1444. He was further created, 5 April 1445, DUKE OF WARWICK, with remainder to the heirs male of his body, and with precedence next after the Duke of Norfolk and before that of the Duke of Buckingham. Keeper of West Bere Forest, Hants.

He married, in 1434, Cecily, 2nd daughter of Richard (NEVILLE), EARL OF SALISBURY, by Alice, suo jure COUNTESS OF SALISBURY, daughter and heir of Thomas (MONTAGU), 4th EARL OF SALISBURY. He died s.p.m. 11 June 1446 at his birthplace, Hanley Castle, and was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey afsd., aged 21 when the Dukedom of Warwick became extinct, as also did the titles of Premier Earl and Count of Aumale. His widow married (licence 3 April 1449), as his 1st wife, John (TIPTOFT), 1st EARL OF WORCESTER, who died, being beheaded, 18 October 1470, She, who was Sheriff of Worcestershire from 5 June 1449, died 28 July 1450 and was buried 31 July in the Lady Chapel of Tewkesbury Abbey. [Complete Peerage XII/2:383-4, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

Henry married Cecily De NEVILLE, Countess Of Worcester in 1434 in <, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England>. Cecily (daughter of Richard I NEVILLE, Earl Of Salisbury and Alice MONTAGUE, Countess Of Salisbury) was born about 1426 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England; died on 28 Jul 1450 in Warwick Castle, Warwick, Warwickshire, England; was buried on 31 Jul 1450 in Ladies Chapel, Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: 16th Countess Of WARWICK
• _UID: FD86E2C391B74B709F2B74090064CAAD4DEB

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Anne de Beauchamp, apparently also Countess of Warwick in her own right; born c Sep 1426; married 1434 Richard Neville ("The Kingmaker"), 16th (if in right of his wife) or 1st Earl of Warwick (by the instrument of 2 March 1449/50 creating him and his wife Earl and Countess of Warwick each for his or her life, with remainder after both parties' death to the heirs of Anne's body, then to her half-sister Margaret, Countess of Shrewsbury and the heirs male of her body, then to a vaguely defined body of persons called the "right heirs" of her (Anne's) father Richard, late Earl of Warwick, and dspm just before 20 Sep 1492. [Burke's Peerage]

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He [Richard Neville] married, in 1434, Anne, apparently suo jure COUNTESS OF WARWICK, sister and eventually coheir (sole heir of the whole blood) of Henry (DE BEAUCHAMP), DUKE and EARL OF WARWICK, 4th daughter of Richard, 13th EARL OF WARWICK, being only daughter by his 2nd wife, Isabel. He, who is known in history as "The Kingmaker," appears never to have been attainted and died s.p.m. as above, 14 April 1471, aged 42, being buried, with his brother, at Bisham Abbey, Berks. At his death the Earldom of Warwick [1450] remained (according to the grant in that year) in his widow for her life, while the Earldom of Salisbury reverted to the Crown and the Baronies of Montagu and Monthermer fell into abeyance between his 2 daughters and coheirs. His widow had accompanied Margaret of Anjou to England, April 1471, and, Iearning of her husband's death, took sanctuary at Beaulieu Abbey. From there she later petitioned Edward IV for her lands and dower. Shortly before 3 June 1473 she was removed, probably to Middleham, by her son-in-law Richard, Duke of Gloucester; and in May 1474, by Act of Parliament, her estates were divided between Clarence and Gloucester, "as if the said Countess were now naturally dead." Having survived both her daughters, she was granted by Henry VII, as from Michaelmas 1485, a yearly pension of 500 marks; and she obtained an Act of Parliament, November-December 1487, for the annulment of that of 1474 and her restoration to her family estates. These, however, she at once (presumably by previous arrangement), 13 December 1487, settled on the Crown, saving the manor of Erdington, co. Warwick, which she reserved for herself and her heirs. On 11 December 1490 she was appointed Principal Keeper of the Forest of Wychwood, Oxon., receiving at the same time a large grant for life of some of her former lands in many counties. She, who was born circa September 1426 at Caversham, died shortly before 20 September 1492, aged about 66, and was succeeded in the Earldom of Warwick by Edward Plantagenet, her grandson and heir. [Complete Peerage XII/2:385-93, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

Anne married Richard "Kingmaker" NEVILLE, Earl Of Warwick in 1434. Richard (son of Richard I NEVILLE, Earl Of Salisbury and Alice MONTAGUE, Countess Of Salisbury) was born on 22 Nov 1428 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England; died on 14 Apr 1471 in Battle Of Barnet, Hertfordshire, England (Slain, Dspm); was buried in Bisham Abbey, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: 9FDM-17
• Reference Number: HWS46475
• _UID: 02DC874C9145447F8387B0DC4D0C0464A11D

John married about 1445 in <, Astley, Warwick, England>. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: 9222-BM
• Duchess of Norfolk: , , Norfolkshire, England
• Reference Number: HWS46476
• _UID: D18B138DF4A64E0A8474384CA2C33061600A

Margaret married before 27 Nov 1448 in <, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England>. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: 9GW3-H2
• Alt. Buried: Hexham, Northumberland, England
• _UID: 7B5A8A11F3CD4056882E96474BF86105025C
• Alt. Birth: 9 Sep 1427, Worcester, Worcestershire, England

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• AFN: 9FDL-XQ
• _UID: BD0695D3BAC743C9B623C024B84350662683

Margaret married about May 1462-1464. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: 921S-KR
• _UID: 2979C6D6BFB2460985805C4735FABFF68A69

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• AFN: 921S-M4
• _UID: 5AC95A6934234EF49835F6A1384896585191
• Alt. Birth: Apr 1436, , London, Middlesex, England
• Alt Death: 15 May 1464, , Hexham, Northumberland, England

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?? Line 127243: (New PAF RIN=8465)
1 TITL [DUKE OF SOMERSET]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: 8J57-3C
• _UID: E386DDC7D61F4AD4B941EDBD86D70B305CA1

Margaret married in 1453. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: 921S-S0
• _UID: CAB9028FD65340E8B92FED11F47044B0A363

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• AFN: 921S-JL
• _UID: FD64862DA60D4CA3AD77998C1D807D738CAF

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

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• AFN: 921S-LX
• _UID: B4F5ADEFB83E42A8BF9446CF74C8861463F5
• Alt. Birth: 1435, France

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• _UID: 1155DE333F444A5A964F1A4A033F8EA85F28

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George Neville, Lord Burgavenny (by 1st wife Elizabeth Beauchamp), b. Raby Castle, d. 20 Sep 1492, MP 1482-1492; m. (1) Margaret, d. 28 Sep 1485, daughter of Sir Hugh Fenne. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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BARONY of ABERGAVENNY (IV) 1476

George Nevill, Lord Bergavenny, 2nd but 1st surviving son and heir of Edward by Elizabeth Beachamp, b. at Raby Castle, and baptized at Staindrop, co. Durham. He was knighted at Tewkesbury, by Edward IV, 4 May 1471; was aged 36 and more in 1476. On 12 Jan 1476/7, he had livery of the lands of his parents, but he never had seizin of Abergavenny. He was one of the Barons at the coronation of Richard III. He was summoned to Parliament 15 Nov 1482 to 12 Aug 1492, by writs directed 'Georgio Nevyle de Bergevenny chr.'

He m. 1stly, Margaret, daughter and heir of Sir Hugh Fenne, of Sculton Burdeleys, Norfolk, and of Braintree, Essex, Treasurer of the Household to Henry VI. She d. 28 Sep 1485. He m. 2ndly, as her 4th husband, Elizabeth, widow of John Stokker, of St. George's Eastcheap, who d. Sep 1485 (will dated 23 Sep 1485, probated 12 Sep 1486), and before that, widow of Robert Basett, Lord Mayor of London (1475-6), who d. between 11 May and 27 Jul 1484, and before that widow of Richard Naylor, citizen of London, who was buried at St. Martin's, Outwich, London (will dated 18 July, and probated 22 Aug 1483). He d. 20 Sep 1492, and was buried at Lewes Priory, Sussex. Will dated 1 Jul 1491, probated 1492. She d. 1500, and was buried at St. Martin's Outwich, aforesaid. Will, in which she describes herself as Berghdenne, in the parish of Cartham, Kent, widow, dated 14 Apr 1500, probated 19 June following. [Complete Peerage I:30-31, XIV:6-7]

George married Margaret FENNE in 1st Wife. Margaret was born in 1444 in Scoulton Burdeleys, Wayland, Norfolk, England; died on 28 Sep 1485 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Elizabeth after 1485 in 4th Husband 2ND Wife. Elizabeth was born about 1440 in Berghdenne, Chartham, Kent, England; died in 1500 in St. Martin's Outwich, Londond, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: 15th Countess Of WARWICK
• _UID: 6DBF73EBABA74D10A42AB6AD0B158EEA0259

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BARONY OF BURGHERSH (IX, 7) 1446

EARLDOM OF WARWICK (XV) 1446 to 1449

ANNE, presumably suo jure COUNTESS OF WARWICK and de jure BARONESS BURGHERSH, daughter and heir, was born February 1443/4 at Cardiff. On the death of the Duke of Gloucester, 23 February 1446/7, she succeeded to the lordship of the Channel Islands. She died 3 January 1448/9 at Ewelme, Oxon., and was buried in Reading Abbey, aged nearly 5. At her death the Earldom of Warwick was held to devolve on her only paternal aunt of the whole blood, Anne. [Complete Peerage XII/2:384, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

Anne, suo jure Countess of Warwick, and according to modern doctrine, Baroness Burghersh, only daughter and heir. She died an infant and unmarried 3 January 1448/9, when the Barony of Burghersh fell into abeyance between her aunts [the daughters of Isabel, her grandmother, by her 2 husbands] or their descendants. [Complete Peerage II:428, XIV:428, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

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• _UID: AB1E36FCDA304B4E9CD1968E1006F5C4FE07

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Isabel Neville; b. 5 Sep 1451; m. 11 July 1469 George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, KG (b. 21 Oct 1449; initially joined his father-in-law Warwick ["The Kingmaker"] in the attempt to restore Henry VI and depose his brother Edward IV but deserted the former for the latter at the Battle of Barnet and helped defeat Warwick; created 25 March 1471/2 Earl of Warwick and Earl of Salisbury as a consequence of his marriage; found guilty of high treason and attainted 8 Feb 1477/8, whereupon all his titles were forfeited, and then executed by being drowned in a butt of malmsey wine in the Tower of London 18 Feb 1477/8), and died 22 Dec 1476, having had [Edward Plantagenet (the last legitimate male Plantagenet), 2nd/17th Earl of Warwick, executed (dsp) 28 Nov 1499 on orders of Henry VII; Margaret (the last Plantagenet to survive), beheaded 28 May 1541, m. Sir Richard Pole and had issue] with other issue (d. young). [Burke's Peerage]

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He [George Plantagenet] m. 11 Jul 1469, at Calais, Isabel, 1st daughter and coheir presumptive of Richard Nevill, Earl of Warwick and Salisbury, by Anne, daughter of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. She, who was b. 5 Sep 1451 at Warwick Castle, d. there 22 Dec 1476, and was buried at Tewkesbury. He thereupon proposed to marry Mary, daughter of the Duke of Burgundy, a match which was much opposed by the Queen Consort. He was accused of high treason, found guilty, and attainted 8 Feb 1477/8, whereby all his honours became forfeited. He was executed in the Tower of London 18 Feb following (said to have been drowned in a butt of malmsey), and was buried at Tewkesbury, aged 28. [Complete Peerage III:260-1]

Isabel married George PLANTAGENET, Kg, Kb, Duke Of Clarence on 11 Jul 1469 in Calais, Pas-DE-Calais, France. George was born on 21 Oct 1449 in Dublin Castle, Ireland; died on 18 Feb 1477-1478 in Tower Of London, Middlesex, England (Drowned In Butt Of Malmsey Wine); was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Anne Neville, b. 11 June 1456; m.(?) 1st (?) (There has been some doubt as to whether the marriage took place) Aug 1470 Edward Prince of Wales (dsp & vp, being killed at or in cold blood after the Battle of Tewkesbury (Yorkist Victory) 4 May 1471), only son of Henry VI; m. 2nd(?) 12 July 1472 Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester, proclaimed King as Richard III 26 June 1483 (b. 2 Oct 1452; crowned with Anne 6 July 1483; defeated by Henry VII and killed at Battle of Bosworth (the last engagement of the Wars of the Roses) 22 Aug 1485), and died 16 March 1485, having had issue [Edward Plantagenet, Prince of Wales, dvp 9 April 1484]. [Burke's Peerage]

Anne married Edward PLANTAGENET, Prince Of Wales in Aug 1470 in 1st Husband?. Edward was born on 13 Oct 1453 in Westminster Palace, Middlesex, England; died on 4 May 1471 in Killed After Battle Of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England (Dsp). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Richard III Plantagenet King Of ENGLAND on 12 Jul 1472 in Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England. Richard was born on 2 Oct 1452 in Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire, England; died on 22 Aug 1485 in Battle Of Bosworth Field, Leicestershire, England (Killed); was buried in Leicester, Leicestershire, England (Tomb Destroyed). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Margaret married about 1490 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Catherine married Henry Algernon PERCY before 1502 in France. Henry (son of Henry PERCY and Maud HERBERT) was born on 13 Jan 1477 in Leckonfield, Yorkshire, England; died on 19 May 1527 in France; was buried in Beverley, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: 14th Countess Of SALISBURY
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BARONY OF MONTAGU (X) 1513

EARLDOM OF SALISBURY (XIV, 1) 1513 to 1519

MARGARET PLANTAGENET, daughter of George (PLANTAGENET), DUKE OF CLARENCE, EARL OF SALISBURY, by Isabel, 1st daughter and coheir of Richard (NEVILL), EARL OF WARWICK and EARL OF SALISBURY, was born in August 1473, at Farley Castle, near Bath, Somerset. She married, probably by November 1487, Sir Richard POLE, K.G. (23 April 1499), who died before 20 October 1504, aged circa 45. On the death, 28 November 1499, of her brother, Richard (PLANTAGENET), EARL OF WARWICK, 1st and only surviving son of George, Duke of Clarence, she became sole heir, not only of her father, but of the Earls of Warwick and Earls of Salisbury. She was Lady of the Chamber to Queen Catherine of Aragon, 1509. Henry VIII gave her an annuity of ?100 during pleasure, 31 July 1509, and he granted to her and her heirs for ever the possessions of Richard, late Earl of Salisbury, her grandfather, son and heir of Alice, Countess of Salisbury, and husband of Anne, Countess of Warwick, which came into the King's hands by her brother's attainder, 14 October 1513. She was also, in accordance with her petition, restored "to the dignity of COUNTESS OF SALISBURY" by Act of Parliament [5 Henry VIII c. 12), when her brother's attainder was removed. She took part in the christening of the Princess Mary at Greenwich, 21 February 1515/6; Governess of the Princess from before 13 May 1520 to shortly after 1 October 1533; accompanied her into Wales 1525; slightly implicated in the case of the revelations of Elizabeth Barton, the Nun of Kent, 1533. She returned to Court and the King gave her lands in Yorkshire, 1536. In 1538 Henry VIII struck at the family of Pole, on account both of their descent from Edward IV's brother, George, Duke of Clarence, and of the action of Cardinal Reginald Pole, who hoped that Paul III would publish a Bull of deprivation. Her youngest son, Sir Geoffrey Pole, was sent to the Tower, 29 August 1538, and he was followed, 4 November, by her 1st son, Henry, Lord Montagu. Information was laid against her; she was examined at her house at Warblington, Hants, by William (Fitzwilliam), Earl of Southampton, Lord High Admiral, and Thomas Goodrich, Bishop of Ely, 12 and 13 November 1538, and then removed to the former's house at Cowdray, where she remained until she was transferred to the Tower of London, after 20 March but before 20 May 1539. She was attainted by Act of Parliament (31 Hen. VIII, c. 15) without trial, 12 May 1539, whereby all her honours were forfeited. She was beheaded in the Tower, 28 May 1541[d].

She was the last surviving member of the great royal House of Anjou, now usually known as the Plantagenets. [Complete Peerage XI:399-402, XIV:567, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

[d] Marillac, the French Ambassador, writes to Francis I, 29 May 1541: "The countess of Saalberi, mother of Cardinal Pol and the late lord Montaigue, was yesterday morning, about 7 o'clock, beheaded in a corner of the Tower, in presence of so few people that until evening the truth was still doubted". . . Writing to Queen Mary of Hungary, 10 June 1541, Chapuys speaks of her "very strange and lamentable execution," which took place at the Tower in the presence of the Lord Mayor of London and about 150 persons more." In the absence of the executioner in the North "a wretched and blundering youth was chosen, who literally hacked her head and shoulders to pieces in the most pitiful manner." . . . Lord Herbert of Cherbury relates that he was assured by a person of great quality that she refused to lay her head on the block, saying: "So should Traitors do, and I am none: neither did it serve that the Executioner told her it was the fashion; so turning her gray head every way, shee bid him, if he would have her head, to get it as he could: So that he was, constrained to fetch it off slovenly" (Life and Raigne of King Henry the Eighth, 1649, P. 468).-This reads like a later legend, invented to account for the way in which the execution was bungled.

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BARONY OF MONTAGU (IX) 1485 to 1499

EARLDOM OF WARWICK (XVIII, 17 & 2) 1478 and 1492 to 1499

EDWARD (PLANTAGENET), EARL OF WARWICK, 1st and only surviving son and heir of George (PLANTAGENET), DUKE OF CLARENCE, EARL OF WARWICK [1472] and EARL OF SALISBURY, by Isabel his wife, was born 21 or 25 February 1474/5 at Warwick Castle; styled EARL OF WARWICK from his baptism by order of Edward IV, who was his godfather. Following his mother's death, 22 December 1476, and the attainder, 8 February, and "execution," 18 February 1477/8, of his father, he became heir, in accordance with the Act of Attainder, to his mother's moiety of the Warwick and Salisbury lands, which, not being forfeited, were accordingly taken into the custody of, and held, but only by reason of his minority, by Edward IV, Richard III and Henry VII in succession. This moiety included Warwick Castle and he was clearly considered, though presumably wrongly, to be EARL OF WARWICK from his father's death. On 8 June 1481 his wardship and marriage were granted, as from Michaelmas 1480, to Thomas (Grey), Marquess of Dorset. He was present, as Earl of Warwick, at the Coronation, 6 July 1483, of his uncle, Richard III and with many other nobles was with him in August at Warwick. On 8 September following he was knighted at the investiture at York of Edward, the King's son, as Prince of Wales, shortly after which he was sent to live at Sheriff Hutton. While there, on the Prince's death, 9 April 1484, he is said to have been declared heir apparent to the Crown; and he was a member of the Council of the North before 13 May 1485. By the death s.p.s., 16 March 1484/5, of the Queen Consort, Anne, his mother's only sister, the abeyance of the Baronies of Montagu and Monthermer terminated (according to modern doctrine) in his favour, whereby he became LORD MONTAGU [1299 and 1357] and LORD MONTHERMER [1309]. On the accession of Henry VII he was removed from Sheriff Hutton to the Tower of London, where he remained a close prisoner till his death. By that King he was, however, deemed, on the death of his aunt, the Queen Consort abovenamed, 16 March 1484/5, and of his uncle, Richard III, 22 August 1485, to be heir to the former's moiety of the Warwick and Salisbury lands. The whole of the lands of both Earldoms were thus held by Henry VII in custody for the duration of Edward's minority and it is possible that he was considered (though wrongly) to be Earl of Salisbury as well as Earl of Warwick. During the rebellion in 1487 of Lambert Simnel, who personated him, he was taken one Sunday in procession to St. Paul's to hear Mass, so that he might be seen and recognised. By the death, shortly before 20 September 1492, of his maternal grandmother, Anne, suo jure, Countess of Warwick, to whom he was sole heir, he became EARL OF WARWICK under the remainder of that dignity in the grant thereof in 1450. Seven years later, on a clearly trumped-up charge, he was condemned for conspiring high treason with Perkin Warbeck, a fellow prisoner, 21 November, and beheaded 28 November 1499 [a] on Tower Hill, being buried (with his maternal ancestors) at Bisham Abbey, aged 24 and unmarried. At his death his honours were forfeited and he was subsequently, January 1503/4, attainted by Act of Parliament, which attainder was, however, reversed by another Act (5 Hen. VIII, c. 12) at the instance of his sister Margaret, his sole heir, who was thereby restored (sic) as Countess of Salisbury. Although in this latter Act he is styled Earl of Warwick and Salisbury, such ex postfacto recognition does not in itself afford proof that he really enjoyed the latter Earldom. [Complete Peerage XII/2:394-7, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

Last male Plantagenet

[a] "Earl Edward had to perish in this fashion in order that there should be no surviving male heir to his family." It is at least likely that the real reason for his execution at this date was the King's wish to expedite the marriage of his son Arthur with Catherine of Aragon.

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