Richard Beauchamp (abt. 1435 - 1503)

Born about 1435 in Worcestershire, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Stafford) Beauchamp — married 27 Jan 1447 in Beauchamp's Court, Alcester, Warwickshire, England

Descendants

Died 19 Jan 1503 at about age 68 in Broomhill, Kent, England

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Biography

Richard Beauchamp, 2nd Lord Beauchamp of Powick, son and heir of John Beauchamp, KG, 1st Lord Beauchamp of Powick, and Margaret Ferrers, was born about 1435 or a little earlier, as he was aged 40 in 1475,^[1][2] at his father's death.^[3]

He inherited lands in Powick, Acton Beauchamp, Bransford, and Laughern (in St. John Bedwardine), Worcestershire; Boddington, Down Hatherly, Heydon, Kemerton, and Longford, Gloucestershire; Bronsil (in Eastnor), Herefordshire; Beckingham, Lincolnshire; Alcester, Warwickshire, etc.^[1]

Marriage and Children

Richard married (by special license) Elizabeth Stafford, daughter of Humphrey Stafford, Knt., of Grafton, Worcestershire, by Eleanor Aylesbury^[4] on 27 January 1446/7 at Alcester, Warwickshire,^[1] at his private chapel at Beauchamps Court.^[3] They had at least three children:

• Elizabeth Beauchamp, wife Robert Willoughby, K.B., 2nd Lord Willoughby of Brook;^[1] with whom she had two sons; Elizabeth died 10 August 1503^[5][6]
• Anne Beauchamp, married Richard Lygon^[1] and had issue; she was born about 1472-1475 and died testate 22 July 1534^[7] (she was held to be 30 and more in a 1504 Inquisition Post Mortem for her father^[8])
• Margaret Beauchamp, married William Reade,^[1] who had been her father's servant and they had one son; Margaret was born about 1477 and predeceased her husband^[9]

A 1504 Inquisition Post Mortem named three daughters - Elizabeth and Anne as above, and Eleanor, age 26 and more, wife of Richard Rede, with no mention of Margaret.^[8]

Note that with marriages arranged to further family alliances, the legal date of marriage may well have been earlier than the marriage was actually consummated.

Timeline

• In 1460 he was granted license to empark various lands in Easnor, Herefordshire, and to build a tower there^[1]
• In 1471 he held Gloucester for King Edward IV against Queen Margaret of Anjou and was knighted at the Battle of Tewksbury that year^[1]
• In 1474, the king granted him the manors of Duntesbourne and Hurscombe, Gloucestershire^[1]
• On 13 April 1475, his father John Beauchamp died^[1]
• In 1478 and in King Richard III's reign, he was confirmed in several stewardships and masterships in counties Gloucester and Worcester^[1]
• He was present at the Coronation of King Richard III^[1] on 6 July 1483^[3]
• In 1484 he was reimbursed for an annuity of 40 marks granted to him by King Edward IV^[1]
• In 1496 Richard, John Godyff, Gent., and William Lamberd, Gent., owed a debt of £50 to William Botry, Citizen and mercer of London^[1]
• In 1497 he sued an action concerning scandalum magnatum, against Sir Richard Croft and another person, claiming that they had slandered him "by suggesting he was a forger of false deeds, and various other things"^[1]
• Treasurer of the King's Household^[1] (unknown dates)

Death

Richard died, according to Cokayne and Richardson, on 19 January 1502/3 at Broomhill, Kent,^[1] without male heirs and the barony became extinct.^[3] Inquisitions Post Mortem at Tewkesbury on 8 June and at Spittlegate by Grantham on 15 October 1512.^[3] One Inquisition Poster Mortem was held on 21 November 1504 (20 Henry VII): this gives his death date as 16 January 1502/3 (18 Henry VII). It describes him as a knight, and names his heirs as his daughter Anne (age 30 and more, wife of Richard Ligon), his daughter Eleanor (age 26 and more, wife of Richard Rede) and his grandson "... Willoghby", son of his daughter Elizabeth, late wife of Robert Willoghby.^[8]

The date of death of his wife is unknown.

Research Notes

Children

The following children were previously linked on WikiTree, but have been disconnected as there is no evidence supporting they were the children of Richard and Elizabeth:

• John Beauchamp
• Pole Beauchamp

Disambiguation

This Richard Beauchamp should not be confused with Richard Beauchamp, Lord St Amand, who was created a Knight of the Bath in 1475.^[10]

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 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013), vol. IV, pages 420-421, POWYS 14, Richard Beauchamp.
2. ↑ Douglas Richardson. 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), vol. III, page 393, POWICK 9, Richard Beauchamp.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4} George Edward Cokayne and Vicary Gibbs ed. Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Vol. II: Bass - Canning, 2nd edition (London, 1912). Online at Archive.org, page 47: Richard Beauchamp.
4. ↑ Richardson, Royal Ancestry, vol. III, pp. 239-240 HASTANG 14, Humphrey Stafford.
5. ↑ Richardson, Royal Ancestry, vol. I, p. 578-579 BROOK 15, Robert Willoughby.
6. ↑ George Edward Cokayne and Geoffrey White ed. Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Vol. XII part 2: Tracton to Zouche, 2nd edition. (London, 1959). Online at FamilySearch, page 687: Willoughby.
7. ↑ Richardson, Royal Ancestry, vol. III, p. 575-576 LIGON 15, Anne Beauchamp.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} Maskelyne and H. C. Maxwell Lyte, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry VII, Entries 851-900', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Series 2, Volume 2, Henry VII (London, 1915), pp. 545-574, British History Online, accessed 23 August 2023
9. ↑ Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd ed., vol. I, p. 223 BODDINGTON 10, Margaret Beauchamp.
10. ↑ W A Shaw. The Knights of England, Vol. 2, Sherratt and Hughes, 1906, p. 1346, Internet Archive

See also:

• Wikipedia: Richard Beauchamp, 2nd Baron Beauchamp
• Allison Nicol. Richard Beauchamp, 2nd Baron of Powick (1435-1502/3). Online at Academia.edu, Richard Beauchamp (has lengthy bibliography)

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Magna Carta Project

Richard Beauchamp appears in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail between Gateway Ancestors Thomas Ligon and William Berkeley and Magna Carta Surety Baron Henry de Bohun (vol. III, pages 22-27 LIGON). The trail to Ligon was badged 15 Dec 2020 and the Berkeley trail was badged 20 Dec 2020. The trails are linked as follows: Ligon and Berkeley.

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