Walerie; and dying before the 13th (1211-12) of King JOHN's | lordship violently seized upon his person, and after a summary reign, was s. by his son (a minor, whose wardship and marriage Roger de Mortimer and Isabel, his wife, obtained for 3,000 marks),

WALTER DE BEAUCHAMP. This feudal lord was appointed governor of Hanley Castle, co. Worcester, in the 17th King JOHN, and entrusted with the custody of the same shire in that turbulent year. Walter de Beauchamp m. Bertha, dau. of William Lord Braose, by whom he had two sons, Walcheline and James. Of this nobleman we find further, that, being one of the barons-marchers, he gave security to the king for his faithful services (with the other lords-marchers), until peace should be fully settled in the realm; and for the better performance thereof, gave up James, his younger son, as a hostage. He d. in 1235, and was s. by his elder son,

WALCHELINE DE BEAUCHAMP, omitted in Sir H. Nicholas' account of the family, m. Joane, dau. of Roger, Lord Mortimer, and dying in the same year as his father, was s. by an only

son,

WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, feudal Lord of Elmley. This nobleman attended King HENRY III., in the 37th year of his reign (1252-3), into Gascoigne, and in two years afterwards marched under the banner of Robert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, against the Scots. In the 41st of the same reign he had summons (with other illustrious persons) to meet the king at Chester on the feast day of St. Peter de Vincula, well fitted with horse and arms to oppose the incursions of Llewelyn, Prince of Wales. Lord Beauchamp m Isabel, dau. of William Mauduit, of Hanslape, co. Bucks, heritable chamberlain of the exchequer, and sister and heiress of WILLIAM MAUDUIT, Earl OF WARWICK (who inherited that dignity from his cousin, Margery de Newburgh, Countess of Warwick, in the year 1263). His lordship made his will in 1268, the year in which he died. Besides the daus. mentioned above, Lord Beauchamp left four sons, viz.,

WILLIAM. of whom presently.
John, of Holt, co. Worcester.
Walter, of Powyke and Alcester.
Thomas, d. 8. p.

The eldest son,

WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, inherited not only the feudal barony of Elmley from his father, but had previously derived from his mother the EARLDOM OF WARWICK (originally possessed by the Newburghs), and the barony of Hanslape (which had belonged to the Mauduits). This eminent nobleman was a distinguished captain in the Welsh and Scottish wars of King EDWARD I. "In the 23rd year of which reign (1294-5), being in Wales with the king," as Dugdale relates, "he performed a notable exploit; namely, hearing that a great body of the Welsh were got together in a plain, betwixt two woods, and to secure themselves, had fastened their pikes to the ground, sloping towards their assailants, he marched thither with a choice company of cross-bowmen and archers, and in the night time encompassing them about, put betwixt every two horsemen, one cross-bowman, which cross-bowman killing many of them that held the pikes, the horse charged in suddenly, and made a very great slaughter. This was done near Montgomery." His lordship m. Maud, widow of Girard de Furnival, and one of the four daus. and co-heiresses of Richard FitzJohn, son of John Fitz-Geffery, chief justice of Ireland, by whom he had surviving issue,

GUY, his successor.
Isabel, m. to Peter Chaworth.
Maud, m. to- Rithco.

Margaret, m. to John Sudley.

Anne, nuns at Shouldham, co. Norfolk, a monastery founded
Amy, by his lordship's maternal great grandfather.

William de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Warwick of that family,
d. in 1298, having previous to his mother's death used the style
and title of Earl of Warwick, with what legality appears very
doubtful, and was 8. by his eldest son,

GUY DE BEAUCHAMP, 2nd earl, so called in memory of his celebrated predecessor, the Saxon, GUY, EARL OF WARWICK. This nobleman acquired high military renown in the martial reign of EDWARD I., distinguishing himself at the battle of Falkirk, for which he was rewarded with extensive grants of lands in Scotland, at the siege of Caerlaverock, and upon different occasions besides beyond the sea. In the reign of EDWARD I1. he likewise played a very prominent part. In 1310 his lordship was in the commission appointed by parliament to draw up regulations for "the well governing of the kingdom and of the king's household," in consequence of the corrupt influence exercised at that period by Piers Gaveston, in the affairs o. the realm, through the unbounded partiality of the king: and in two years afterwards, when that unhappy favorite fell into the hands of his enemies upon the surrender of Scarborough Castle, his

trial, caused him to be beheaded at Blacklow Hill, near Warwick. The earl's hostility to Gaveston is said to have been much increased by learning that the favourite had nicknamed him "the Black Dog of Ardenne." For this unwarrantable proceeding his lordship, and all others concerned therein, received within two years the royal pardon, but he is supposed to have eventually perished by poison, administered in revenge by the partizans of Gaveston. The earl m. Alice, relict of Thomas de Laybourne, dau. (by Lady Alice de Bohun) of Ralph de Toni, of Flamsted, co. Herts, and sister and heiress of Robert de Toni, by whom he had issue,

THOMAS, his successor, whose sponsors were, Thomas Plan-
tagenet, Earl of Lancaster, and Henry, his brother, and
Thomas de Warrington, prior of Kenilworth.

John, a very eminent person in the reign of EDWARD III.,
being captain of Calais, admiral of the fleet, STANDARD
BEARER at CRESSY, and one of the original knights of the
Garter. He was summoned to parliament as a BARON, but
dying s. p. the dignity EXPIRED.
Maud, m. to Geoffrey, Lord Say.
Emma, m. to Rowland Odingsels.
Isabel, m. to John Clinton.

Elizabeth, m. to Sir Thomas Astley, Knt.
Lucia, m. to Robert or Roger de Napton.

This great Earl of Warwick was, like most of the nobles of his time, a munificent benefactor to the church, having bestowed lands upon several religious houses, and founded a chantry of priests at his manor of Elmley. His will bears date, "at WARWICK CASTLE, on Munday next after the feast of St. James the Apostle, an. 1315," and by it he bequeaths to Alice his wife a proportion of his plate, with a crystal cup, and half his bedding; as also, all the vestments and books belonging to his chapel; the other moiety of his beds, rings, and jewels, he gives to his daus. To his son Thomas, his best coat of mail, helmet, and suit of harness; to his son John, his second suit of mail, &c., appointing that all the rest of his armour, bows, and other warlike provisions, should remain in Warwick Castle for his heir. Alice, widow of the earl, had very extensive estates assigned her in dowry, in the November following the death of her husband, and in the next year she. paid a fine of 500 marks, for license to marry William La Zouche, of Ashby, co. Leicester, to whom she was accordingly married. The earl d. at Warwick Castle, on 12 August, 1315, and was 8. by his eldest son, then but two years of age,

THOMAS DE BEAUCHAMP, 3rd earl, regarding whom we find the king (Edward II.) in two years subsequently soliciting a dispensation from the pope, to enable him to marry his cousin Catherine, dau. of Roger de Mortimer, Lord of Wigmore, under whose guardianship the young earl had been placed; an alliance eventually formed, when his lordship had by special licence from the crown, was allowed to do homage, completed his fifteenth year. In two years, afterwards, the earl, shire, and chamberlain of the exchequer. and to assume his hereditary offices of sheriff of WorcesterThis nobleman sustained in the brilliant reign of EDWARD III. the high military renown of his illustrious progenitor, and became distinguished in arms almost from his boyhood. So early as the third year of that monarch, he commanded the left wing of the king's army at Wyzonfosse, where Edward proposed to give the French battle, and from that period was the constant companion of the king, and his gallant son, in all their splendid campaigns. At Cressy, he had a principal command in the van of the English army, under the Prince of Wales, and at Poictiers, where Dugdale says he fought so long and so stoutly, that his hand was galled with the exercise of his sword and pole-axe; he personally took William de Melleun, archbishop of Sens, prisoner, for whose ransom he obtained 8,000 marks. After these heroic achievements in France, the earl fresh laurels on the plains of Palestine, whence upon his arrayed himself under the banner of the cross, and reaped return he brought home the son of the King of Lithuania, answering for the new convert himself at the baptismal font; whom he had christened at London by the name of Thomas, for his lordship was not more distinguished by his valour than his piety, as his numerous and liberal donations to the church while living, and bequests at his decease, testify. This nobleman rebuilt the walls of Warwick Castle, which had been demolished in the time of the Mauduits; adding strong gates, with fortified gateways, and embattled towers; he likewise founded the choir of the collegiate church of St. Mary, built a

THOMAS, inheritor of the honours.

Reynburne, who left an only dau., Alianore, wife of John
Knight, of Hanslope, in co. Bucks, by whom she left a dau.,
Emma, whom. William Forster, from whom the Forsters of
Hanslope derived.

WILLIAM (Sir), K.G., Lord of Abergavenny.

Mand, m. to Roger de Clifford.

Philippa, m. to Hugh, Earl of Stafford.

Alice, m. to John, Lord Beauchamp, of Hacche, co. Somer

set.

Joane, m. to Ralph, Lord Basset, of Drayton.

Isabel, m. 1st, to John, Lord Strange, of Blackmere, and 2ndly, to William Ufford, Earl Suffolk.

Margaret, m. to Guy de Montford, after whose decease she
took the veil at Shouldham.

Agnes, m. 1st, Cokesay, and afterwards -
Juliana, d. unm.

Bardolf.

Catharine, took the veil at Wroxhall, in Warwickshire.

The earl was one of the original knights of the Garter. His lordship d. 13 November, 1369, of the plague at Calais, where he was then employed in his military capacity, and had just achieved a victory over the French; he was s. by his eldest

son.

THOMAS, 4th earl, K.G., who was appointed by parliament
governor of the young king, RICHARD II., in the third year of
that monarch's reign, but did not long enjoy the office, for we
find him in arms with Thomas, Duke of Gloucester (the king's
uncle), long before the majority of Richard, constraining the
assembling of parliament, for which proceeding, however, in
several years afterwards, he was seized at a feast given to him
by the king-tried and condemned to death-a sentence com-
muted by the king, at the instance of the Earl of Salisbury, to
banishment to the Isle of Man, while his castle and manors of
Warwick, with his other estates, were granted to Thomas Hol-
land, earl of Kent, to whom the custody of his son and heir,
Richard Beauchamp, was also confided. From the Isle of Man,
the earl was brought back to the Tower of London, and im-
prisoned there during the remainder of King RICHARD's reign;
His lordship m.
but upon the accession of HENRY IV. he was released, and re-
instated in all his honours and possessions.
Margaret, dau. of William, Lord Ferrars, of Groby, and had
issue,

RICHARD, his successor, for whom King RICHARD II. and
Richard Scrope, then bishop of Coventry and Lichfield
(afterwards archbishop of York), stood sponsors.
Katherine d. young.

Margaret, nuns.

Katherine,

Elizabeth.

The earl d. in 1401, and was 8. by his son,

RICHARD DE BEAUCHAMP, 5th earl, 6. 28 January, 1381. This nobleman was made a knight of the Bath at the coronation of King HENRY IV., and at the coronation of the Queen in the following year, attained high reputation for the gallantry he had displayed in the lists. In the 4th year of the same monarch (1402-3), he was pre-eminently distinguished against Owen Glendower, whose banner he captured, and put the rebel himself to flight; and about the same time he won fresh laurels in the memorable battle of Shrewsbury, against the Percys, after which, he was made a knight of the most noble order of the Garter. Of his lordship's pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Dugdale gives the following account:-"In the 9th HENRY IV., obtaining license to visit the Holy Land, he fitted himself with all necessaries for that journey, and passed the sea: in which voyage, visiting his cousin, the DUKE OF BARR, he was nobly received and entertained by him for eight days, who thence accompanied him to Paris; where being arrived, the king of France then wearing the crown, in reverence of that holy feast, made him to sit at his table, and

Those ladies' portraitures are curiously drawn, and placed in the windows on the south side of the quire of the collegiate church at Warwick, in the habit of their time. Seven of them were married, and have their paternal armes upon their inner garments; and on their outer mantle their husbands' armes; the picture of Isabel, who married twice, is twice drawn.-Dugdale's Baronage.

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at his departure, sent an herald to conduct him safely through
that realm. Out of which, entering Lumbardy, he was met by
another herald from Sir Pandulph Malacet, with a challenge to
perform certain feats of arms with him at Verona, upon a day
assigned, for the order of the Garter; and in the presence of
Sir Galiot of Mantua; whereunto he gave his assent. And as
soon as he had performed his pilgrimage at Rome, returned to
Verona, where he and his challenger were first to just, next
to fight with axes, afterwards with arming swords, and lastly
with sharp daggers. At the day and place assigned for which
exercises, came great resort of people, Sir Pandulph entering
the lists with nine spears borne before him: but the act of
spears being ended, they fell to it with axes; in which en-
counter Sir Pandulph received a sore wound on the shoulder,
and had been utterly slain, but that Sir Galiot cried peace.

"When he came to Jerusalem, he had much respect shewed
him by the partiarch's deputy, and having performed his offer-
ings at the sepulchre of our Saviour, he set up his arms on the
north side of the temple. While at Jerusalem, a noble person,
called Baltredam (the Soldan's lieutenant), hearing that he was
descended from the famous Sir Guy of Warwick, whose story
they had in books of their own language, invited him to his
palace, and royally feasting him, presented him with three
and gold given to his servants. Where this Baltredam told him
precious stones of great value,' besides divers cloaths of silk
privately, that he faithfully believed as he did, though he
durst not discover himself; and rehearsed the articles of the
creed. But on the morrow he feasted Sir Baltredam's servants,
and gave them scarlet, with other English cloth, which being
shewed to Sir Baltredam, he returned again to him, and said,
upon he gave Sir Baltredam a gown of black peak, furred; and
he would wear his livery, and be marshal of his hall. Where-
had much discourse with him, for he was skilful in sundry
languages." At the coronation of King HENRY V., in whose
the earl was constituted HIGH STEWARD OF ENGLAND for that
service, when Prince of Wales, his lordship had been engaged,
for the king against the Lollards. In the 3rd of HENRY V
solemnity, and in the next year, we find him actively engaged
led him into an encounter with three French knights, the result
(1415-16), he was at Calais, and there his chivalric disposition.
of which Dugdale thus relates :-" which letters (challenges sent
by the earl under fictitious names) were sent to the king's
court at France, where three French knights received them,
and promised their fellows to meet at a day and place assigned:
whereof the first was a knight called Sir Gerard Herbaumes,
who called himself Le Chevalier Rouge; the second, a famous
knight, named Sir Hugh Launey, calling himself Le Chevalier
Blanc; and the third a knight named Sir Collard Fines. Twelf-
day, in Christmas, being appointed for the time that they
should meet, in a land called the Parkhedge of Gynes. On
which day the earl came into the field with his face covered,
a plume of ostrich feathers upon his helm, and his horse
trapped with the Lord of Toney's arms (one of his ancestors),
viz. argent a manch gules: where, first encountering with the
Chevalier Rouge, at the third course he unhorsed him, and so
returned with closed vizor, unknown to his pavilion, whence he
sent to that knight a good courser. The next day he came
into the field with his vizor closed, a chaplet on his helm, and a
plume of ostrich feathers aloft, his horse trapped with the arms
of Hanslap, viz. silver two bars gules, where he met with the
Blanc knight, with whom he encountered, smote off his vizor
victoriously to his pavilion, with all his own habiliments safe,
thrice, broke his besagurs and other harneys, and returned
and as yet not known to any; from whence he sent the Blanc
knight a good courser. But the morrow after, viz., the last day
day before, save that the chaplet was rich with pearls and
of the justs, he came with his face open, and his helmet as the
precious stones; and in his coat of arms, of Guy and Beau-
champ quarterly; having the arms of Toney and Hanslap on
his trappers; and said, 'That as he had, in his own person,
performed the service the two days before, so with God's grace
he would the third.' Whereupon, encountering with Sir Collard
Fines, at every stroke he bore him backward to his horse; in-
somuch, as the Frenchman saying, 'that he himself was bound
to his saddle;' he alighted and presently got up again, but all
being ended, he returned to his pavilion, sent to Sir Collard
Fines a fair courser, feasted all the people, gave to those three
About this time the earl attended the deputation of bishops
knights great rewards, and so rode to Calais with great honor."
and other learned persons from England to the COUNCIL OF
CONSTANCE, and during his stay there slew a great duke in
siege of Caen, and upon the surrender of that piace was
His lordship continued
justing. In the next year, he was with King HENRY at the
actively engaged in military and diplomatic services during
appointed governor of its castle.
the remainder of the reign of King HENRY V., by whose will he