Katherine is listed in Richardson's Royal Ancestry as a daughter of Thomas and Katherine (Mortimer) de Beauchamp, "nun at Shouldham".[1]
Cawley does not list her as their daughter, but as the daughter of their son Guy, citing their 1369 wills that name "Katherine the daughter of my son Guy a nun at Shouldham".[2]
Cawley also notes that she is named in Guy's 1359 will:
KATHERINE de Beauchamp ([1352/53]-after 1 Apr 1400). The will of "Guy de Beauchamp Knt", dated 26 Sep 1359, bequeathed property to "the Earl my father...the Countess my mother, Philippa my wife...Katherine my daughter a nun at Shouldham",...[2][3]
And in the will of Thomas (son of Thomas and Katherine):
The will of "Thomas Beauchamp Earl of Warwick", dated 1 Apr 1400, bequeathed property to "Richard my son and heir...my daughter Beauchamp...my brother of Bergavenny...my sisters of Suffolk and Clifford and...my niece Katherine Beauchamp the nun at Shouldham"...[2]
Sources
↑ Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), volume I, page 293 BEAUCHAMP 11.
↑ Cawley places information he is unsure of in brackets.
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