Elizabeth (Berkeley) Beauchamp (abt. 1386 - 1422)

Born about Apr 1386 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales

Ancestors

Wife of Richard Beauchamp KG — married 5 Oct 1397 (to 28 Dec 1422) in Monmouthshire, Wales

Descendants

Died 28 Dec 1422 at about age 36 in Kingswood Abbey, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England

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Biography

Father Sir Thomas 'the Magnificent' Berkeley, 5th Lord Berkeley, Admiral of the South & West^[1] b. 5 Jan 1353, d. 13 Jul 1417

Mother Margaret Lisle^[2] b. c 1360, d. 20 Mar 1392

Elizabeth Berkeley was born in 1386; Age under 7 in 1392; age 26 or 30 in 1417.^[3]

A contract for the marriage of Elizabeth Berkeley and Sir Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl Warwick, Earl of Albemarle & Worcester, Lord Abergavenny, Sheriff of Worcestershire was signed in September 1392.^[4]

Elizabeth Berkeley married Sir Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl Warwick, Earl of Albemarle & Worcester, Lord Abergavenny, Sheriff of Worcestershire, son of Sir Thomas Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick, Admiral of the North Fleet, Sheriff of Worcestershire and Margaret Ferrers, before 5 October 1397; They had 3 daughters (Margaret, wife of Sir John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury; Eleanor, wife of Sir Thomas, 8th Lord Roos, of Sir Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, & of Walter Rokesley; & Elizabeth, wife of Sir George Neville, 1st Lord Latimer & of Thomas Wake, Esq.).^[5]

Elizabeth Berkeley died on 28 December 1422; Buried at Kingswood Abbey, Gloucestershire.

Family

• Sir Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl Warwick, Earl of Albemarle & Worcester, Lord Abergavenny, Sheriff of Worcestershire b. 25 Jan 1382 or 28 Jan 1382, d. 30 Apr 1439

Children

• Margaret, wife of Sir John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury
• Eleanor, wife of Sir Thomas, 8th Lord Roos, of Sir Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, & of Walter Rokesley
• Elizabeth, wife of Sir George Neville, 1st Lord Latimer & of Thomas Wake, Esq.

Sources

1. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 72-75
2. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 99.
3. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 147
4. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 297-298
5. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 121-122.

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Note: Richard Beauchamp, K.G., K.B. was the 2nd husband of Isabel le Despenser. Richard Beauchamp (Earl of Worcester, 2nd Lord Abergavenny) was her 1st husband (d. 1422), by whom she had:

• Elizabeth Beauchamp m. Edward Neville

• (from Burke's A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire p 7)
• Wikipedia contributors, "Baron Lisle," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baron_Lisle&oldid=1172658753 (accessed November 1, 2023).