William (Beauchamp) de Beauchamp of Elmley (1105 - 1170)

Born 1105 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England

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Died 1170 at about age 65 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England

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Biography

William de Beauchamp, who, for all his zeal in the cause of the Empress Maud, was dispossessed of the castle of Worcester by King Stephen, to which, and all his other honours and estates, however, he was restored by King Henry II; and in that monarch's reign, besides the sheriffalty of Worcestershire, which he enjoyed by inheritance, he was sheriff of Warwickshire (2nd Henry II), sheriff of Gloucestershire (from 3rd to the 9th Henry II), sheriff of Herefordshire (from the 8th to the 16th Henry II, 1167-70, inclusive). Upon the levy of the assessment towards the marriage portion of one of King Henry's daus., this powerful feudal lord certified his knight's fees to amount to fifteen. He m. Maud, dau. of William Lord Braose, of Gower, and was s. at his decease by his son, William de Beauchamp. [Ref: Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 29, Beauchamp, Earls of Warwick]

Per Project Medlands, he had six children: William, Robert, Peter, John, Walter, Emma.

Research notes

Concerning his wife's name, see the SGM 2010 post of John Ravilious:^[1]

A reference was lately noted in the VCH for Worcester to a grant of land in 'Boicot' to the priory of Westwood by 'Alicia, the lady of Salwarpe', which grant was made 'for the good estate of her own soul and of her children and for the souls of her husband William Beauchamp and her son William, the grant being confirmed by Walter Beauchamp.' [VCH Worcester II:148.]. The text of this charter (unfortunately minus certain details, incl. names of the witnesses) was then found in the section of Monasticon Anglicanum for the priory. The VCH version agrees with the Latin text and designated title, with one important exception: while the title given is ' Carta Aliciae de Salewarp..', the text of the charter identifies the grantor as "ego Avicia domina de Salewarp' [Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum VI(2):1004]. Her name therefore appears to have been Avicia, or Hawise, with the error by the editor of the Monasticon volume calling her 'Alicia' then being carried to the VCH text.

The discussion also demonstrated that the Beauchamp connection to the Braose family happened in the next generation, not this one, when William I's son, William II Beauchamp, married Bertha de Braose.

Sources

1. ↑ https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/g-Z_12VnIxw/m/Ul7pMbcjKSEJ

See also:

• Cawley, C. (2006). "William de Beauchamp (d. 1170)." Medieval Lands. Fmg.ac. Web.[1]

1. Clutterbuck's Hist of Hrtfrd, vol 1 p. 358 (GS #Q942.58 H2c)

2. Nash's Hist of Wrcstr, vol 2 p. 263 (GS #Q942.47H2n)

3. Wurts' Magna Charta vol 1-2 p. 204 (GS #942 D22w)

4. Dugdale's Baronage p. 226 (GS #Q942 D22dw)

5. Hist and Gen Acc't of Fam of Greeville 1766, p. 27-28 (GS #929.242 G869e)

6. The Battle Abbey Roll vol 1 p. 129 (GS #942 D2bb)

7. Peerage of the British Isles 1883 p. 129 (GS #942 D22bug)

8. Plantagenet Ancestry p. 117 (GS #Q940 D2t)

9. Baker's Hist of Nrthmp, vol 2, 218-219 (GS #Q942.55 H2ba)

10. The Heraldry of Wrcstr, vol 1 p. 37-38 (GS #942.47 D24g)

11. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999, pp 222-28

12. http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3.htm#WilliamBeauchampdied1197A

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