Elizabeth (Beauchamp) Neville (1415 - 1448)

Born 16 Sep 1415 in Hanley Castle, Worcestershire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Edward Neville — married after 28 Aug 1428 in England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 18 Jun 1448 at age 32 in Warwickshire, England

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Biography

Daughter of the Earl of Worcester

Elizabeth Beauchamp was born September 16, 1415, at Hanley Castle, Worcestershire (see note below). She was the only child of Isabel le Despenser and her first husband, Richard de Beauchamp, who was created Earl of Worcester in February 1420/1 and killed at the Siege of Meaux in France on March 18, 1421/2.^[1][2] Elizabeth was considered Baroness Bergavenny.^[3]

Wife of Edward Neville

Elizabeth Beauchamp (born 1415), daughter of Richard, 1st Earl of Worcester, married Edward Neville (born aft. 1402),^[4] son of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmoreland.^[1] They were married by dispensation, "they being related in the 4th and 3rd degree of kindred", dated August 28, 1428 (see note below).^[1] Edward was the youngest son of Ralph^[5][6] by his wife Joan Beaufort.^[1]

Children

Edward and Elizabeth (Beauchamp) Neville had four children:^[1]

• Richard Neville^[1]
• George Neville, Knt., (Lord Bergavenny) baptized about 1440, aged 36 in 1476, married first Margaret Fenne,^[7] and second to Elizabeth (unknown) before February 29, 1488/9.^[1][8]
• Elizabeth Neville, wife of Thomas Grey, Knt.^[1][9]
• Katherine Neville, wife of Sir John Iwardby KB^[1]

Death

Elizabeth (Beauchamp) Neville died June 18, 1448^[10] and was buried at the Carmelites, Coventry, Warwickshire.^[1]

Elizabeth's husband, Edward, remarried to Katherine Howard by dispensation dated 15 October 1448 and they had five children.^[1] Sir Edward Neville died 18 October 1476.^[1]

Research Notes

Birth and Marriage Dates

Richardson, 2nd Edition, 2011, has "born at Hanley Castle, Worcestershire 16 Sept. 1415 (aged 18 in 1436)." - if born 1415, she'd be aged 21 in 1436.

Normally when Richardson includes a reference such as that, it ties to a date in the entry (e.g, a parent's death date), but the only other 1436 was when Edward Neville was first "presented to the church." However, this profile included a marriage date of October 15, 1436. Given her age, it would seem that the dispensation, dated August 28, 1428, was for a marriage contract and they actually married in 1436. The last reference noted for Elizabeth's entry in Richardson includes an even earlier date, citing a "receipt dated 9 Sept. 1424 for the aid to the marriage of Edward Neville and Elizabeth Beauchamp". Whether born in 1415 or 18 by 1436, she was quite young when her father died and her mother remarried (in 1423). It appears her step-father wasted no time in arranging a marriage for the pre-teen Elizabeth.

George, the second son (first surviving) of Edward and Elizabeth, was born about 1440. 1436 was most likely when the marriage was consummated.

The Cousins Elizabeth Beauchamp

NOTE: Her mother, Isabel Despenser, married two men named Richard de Beauchamp, who were first cousins.

1. Richard, 2nd Lord Abergavenny, Earl of Worcester (died 1422), they had one child:
   1. Elizabeth Beauchamp of Worcester married Edward Neville^[11]
2. Richard, the Earl of Warwick (d. 1439), married first Elizabeth Berkley and had Elizabeth Beauchamp of Warwick (3rd daughter)^[12] — she married George Neville, brother of Edward Neville.^[13]
   
   Isabel Despenser and Richard of Warwick were the parents of:
   1. Henry Beauchamp, Duke of Warwick married Cecille Neville
      1. Anne Beauchamp, 15th Countess Warwick
   2. Anne Beauchamp, 16th Countess Warwick, married Richard Neville
      1. Anne Neville (became Queen of England)

NOTE: Elizabeth Beauchamp of Warwick and Elizabeth Beauchamp of Worcester are 2nd cousins.

Elizabeth of Warwick (Beauchamp-1154) is the daughter of Richard I of Warwick (Beauchamp-134).

Richard I of Warwick is the son of Thomas (Beauchamp-814).

Thomas is the son of Thomas (Beauchamp-74), great grandfather of Elizabeth of Warwick (Beauchamp-1154).

Elizabeth (Beauchamp-78) is the daughter of Richard of Worcester (Beauchamp-674).

Richard of Worcester is the son of William Warwick (Beauchamp-62).

William is the son of Thomas Beauchamp-74, great grandfather of Elizabeth of Worcester (Beauchamp-78).

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11} Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), Volume 1, pages 166-168, BERGAVENNY #8 Richard Beauchamp; #9 Elizabeth Beauchamp; #10 George Neville.
2. ↑ Richard's widow married his cousin, Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, in 1423; that Richard's daughter Elizabeth had been born in 1410 to his previous wife, Elizabeth Berkeley. These two Elizabeth Beauchamps, daughters of cousins named Richard, were not sisters by blood but they married brothers: The Earl of Warwick's daughter Elizabeth married George Neville, brother to Edward Neville, who married this Elizabeth (Beauchamp-78), the daughter of the Earl of Worcester.
3. ↑ G.E. Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, volume1, pages 26-27 (accessed 16 January 2020).
4. ↑ James William Edmund Doyle Longmans, The Official Baronage of England: Showing the Succession, Dignities, and Offices of Every Peer from 1066 1885, with Sixteen Hundred Illustrations, Volume 1 pp. 3-4. (Green, 1886), Google eBook accessed Apr 2015.
5. ↑ History of Parliament Online: Sir Henry Neville (entry for a descendant), calls him 11th son.
6. ↑ Wikipedia: Edward Neville, 3rd Baron Bergavenny calls him the seventh son of Ralph.
7. ↑ Their only daughter, Elizabeth Neville, married (1) Thomas Berkeley, Esq. of Avon and (2) Richard Covert; George and Margaret's son George Neville married (1) Joan Arundel (2) Margaret Brent (3) Mary Stafford (4) Mary Brooke (otherwise Cobham) per Richardson (MCA1).
8. ↑ She had been "widow successively of Richard Naylor, Robert Bassett, and John Stokker." per MCA1
9. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol 1, p 320. BERGAVENNY #14.
10. ↑ Lee, Sidney, ed. Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. XIV, Myllar - Owen. (London, England: Smith, Elder & Co., 1908), online at Archive.org, page 249, citing "Doyle; Swallow, p 231"
11. ↑ Burke, John. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. (London: Henry Colburn, 1839), page 7 retrieved 15 Jan 2020.
12. ↑ Burke, page 34.
13. ↑ Burke, https://books.google.com/books?id=aB0IAAAAQAAJ&vq=Neville&pg=PA387#v=onepage&q&f=false page 387].

• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011). See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.
• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013). See also WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry.

See also:

• Michael Hicks, Warwick the Kingmaker (at GoogleBooks.com), page 27.
• G.E. Cokayne, et al, ed., The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., (London: St. Catherine Press, 1912), volume II, page 131, online at Archive.org, see footnotes.
• From Comment posted January 2017:
  • Elizabeth's Wikipedia entry (with several warnings on the page about a lack of sources, but from a cursory look, the info given [18 Dec 2017] seems OK)

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was reviewed/approved on 15 Jan 2020 by Thiessen-117.

Elizabeth (Beauchamp) Neville apprears in badged trails from Gateway Ancestor John Fisher to Magna Carta Surety Barons Robert de Vere and Henry de Bohun that were badged in 2015 and re-reviewed in April 2020. The profiles on these trails can be viewed here: Fisher Trails.

The Magna Carta trail from Elizabeth to surety barons Hugh Bigod and Roger Bigod (through her mother Isabel le Despenser) has not yet been developed.

See Base Camp for information about Magna Carta trails. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".