William (Beauchamp) de Beauchamp (abt. 1210 - 1269)

Born about 1210 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England [uncertain]

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Died 1269 at about age 59 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England [uncertain]

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Biography

William de Beauchamp, Sheriff of Worcester, Baron of Elmley

William was the son of Walter de Beauchamp who died in 1235. William's mother was a daughter of Roger de Mortimer.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

William de Beauchamp married Isabel Mauduit.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

Children:

• William de Beauchamp^{[5][6][9][10]} (born c 1238-1242^[11]; buried 22 Jun 1298 Worcester, Friars Minor)
• Walter de Beauchamp of Alcester^[6][7][10]
• John de Beauchamp of Holt^[6][7]
• Joan de Beauchamp^[6][10] (married Bartholomew de Sudeley)
• Isabel de Beauchamp^[6][10]
• Sibilla de Beauchamp^[6][10]
• Sarah de Beauchamp^[6][10] (married Richard Talbot)^[8][12]
• Margaret de Beauchamp (married Herbert Hussey)^[6]
• [uncertain] Alice de Beauchamp (married Bernard de Brus)

On 11 June 1250, Henry III appointed proctors to argue the king's jurisdiction in a cause in the pope's court between William de Bello Campo, Sheriff of Worcester, and certain of the king's bailiffs, on the one hand, and the bishop of Worcester on the other.^[13]

Will and IPM of William Beauchamp 1269

The will of William Beauchamp was dated 7 Jan 1268/1269.^[10][14] His will was to be buried in the Church of the Friars Minors at Worcester.

He referred to:

• his wife Isabel
• his eldest son, William, Earl of Warwick
• [his son/daughter, John/Joane]
• his son Walter
• his daughter Isabel
• his daughter Sibill (unmarried)
• his daughter Sarah (unmarried)

NB Joan or John? According to the later translation^[14] it stated:

"To John, my son, the vest of St. Wulfstan and that book of Lancelot which I have provided for him"

The earlier translation^[10] had referred to the same bequest but indicated it was to Joane, his daughter, rather than to John, his son.

Inquisition Post Mortem:^[15]

"William de Bello Campo, of Elmeleye. Writ (missing). Extent. Saturday after St. Mark, 53 Hen. III." [27 April 1269]

"Gloucester. Wykewauer manor and advowson (extent given), with Schesnecote its member, which the abbot of Bruern holds, held of the king in chief by service of 1/5 knight's fee."

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Dugdale, W. The Baronage of England. Published London, 1675-1676, p 226 Link.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Clutterbuck, R. The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford. Vol 1, 1815, p 358 Beauchamp Pedigree Family Search.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Baker, G. History and Antiquities of The County of Northampton. Vol. II, 1844, pp 218-219 Internet Archive.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Burke, B. A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. Harrison, London, 1866, pp 29-30 Google Books.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} 'Parishes: Elmley Castle', in A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 3 (London, 1913), pp. 338-346. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/worcs/vol3/pp338-346 [accessed 21 November 2023].
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 6.9} Medieval Lands: Beauchamp of Elmley, Worcestershire FMG.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2} The Complete Peerage. Vol. II, 1912, p 44 Internet Archive.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} The Complete Peerage. Vol. XII Part 1. Skelmersdale to Towton. 1953. Talbot pp 606-632 (see p 610) Family Search.
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} Richardson, D. Magna Carta Ancestry. 2011 2nd ed. Vol. I pp 134-135 Beauchamp.
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7} Testamenta Vetusta. Vol. I. 1826. Will of William Beauchamp pp 50-51 Internet Archive.
11. ↑ Inquisition Post Mortem of William Mauduit. Item 679. 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry III, File 35', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 1, Henry III, ed. J E E S Sharp (London, 1904), pp. 208-217. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol1/pp208-217 [accessed 21 November 2023].
12. ↑ Collins’s Peerage of England: Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical. Greatly augmented and continued to the present time, by, Sir Egerton Brydges, K.J. Vol. III, 1812, pp 3-5 HathiTrust.
13. ↑ Assistant Keeper of HM Public Records, ed., Calendar of the Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office, Henry III 1247-1258, (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1908), accessed 10 October 2014, https://archive.org/stream/patentrollsreig00unkngoog#page/n76/mode/2up pp.65.
14. ↑ ^{14.0 14.1} Bund, J W W. Episcopal Registers, Diocese of Worcester. Register of Bishop Godfrey Giffard, Sept. 23rd, 1268 to Aug. 15th, 1301. Part I, 1898, pp 7-9 Internet Archive.
15. ↑ Inquisition Post Mortem of William de Bello Campo. Item 695. 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry III, File 36', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 1, Henry III, ed. J E E S Sharp (London, 1904), pp. 217-225. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol1/pp217-225 [accessed 21 November 2023].

See also:

• ROYAL ANCESTRY by Douglas Richardson Vol. I page 284-5
• http://www.oxforddnb.com/
• Edmondson, Joseph. An Historical and Genealogical Account of The Noble Family of Greville (London, 1766) Page 31.
• [892] Clancy (1971) Civil Pleas of the Wiltshire Eyre 1249, Wiltshire Record Society, Vol. 26, pp. 82, 109-10. [information provided in a private email to the author dated 23 Mar 2012 by Douglas Richardson, who has traced a descent from this couple to Jane Seymour, third wife of King Henry VIII.]
• [893] Inquisitions Post Mortem, Vol. II, Edward I, 549, p. 330.
• [894] Wiltshire & Swindon Archives, Esturmy Family 1300/11, available at <http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=190-13002&cid=1-11&kw=henry%20esturmy%20john%20corney#1-11>.
• [895] Inquisitions Post Mortem, Vol. II, Edward I, 572, p. 339.
• [896] Beauchamp Cartulary, Introduction, p. lviii.

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