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Personal data Richard de Beauchamp , KB, Earl of Worcester 

• Also known as 3rd\1st Earl of /Worcester/, Richard de Beauchamp.
• He was born before 1397 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales.Sources 2, 3
• He died on March 18, 1421/1422 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France (dvp &, dspm).Sources 2, 3
• He is buried on April 25, 1422 in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire, England.
• A child of William 1st Baron Beauchamp and Joan FitzAlan
• This information was last updated on March 25, 2023.

Household of Richard de Beauchamp , KB, Earl of Worcester

He is married to Isabel le Despenser.

They got married on July 27, 1411 at Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire (1st husband).Sources 2, 3

Child(ren):

1. Elizabeth Beauchamp  1415-1448 

Notes about Richard de Beauchamp , KB, Earl of Worcester

Sir Richard Beauchamp, de jure 2nd Lord Bergavenny and 1st and last Earlof Worcester, KB (1413); b by 1397; Jt Warden Welsh Marches 1415, Captlancers and archers Normandy 1418, created Feb 1420/1 Earl of Worcester;m 27 July 1411 Lady Isabel le Despenser (b posthumously 26 July 1400; onher brother Richard's death became according to later doctrine BaronessBurghersh in her own right; m 2nd c 26 Nov 1423, as his 2nd wife, herhusband's cousin Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, who s. Nov 1435to Abergavenny Castle and its demesne lands as male heir under the entaildrawn up Feb 1395/6; she d 27 Dec 1439), daughter of 1st and last Earl ofGloucester of the 1397 creation, and (Richard Beauchamp) dspm 18 March1421/2 of wounds received at Siege of Meaux (successfully concludedagainst French by Henry V 10 May 1422), where-upon the earldom ofWorcester became extinct or reverted to the Crown (with in effect thesame result), while the barony of Bergavenny or Beauchamp de Bergavenny,unless looked on as one by tenure, passed according to later doctrine tohis only daughter. [Burke's Peerage]

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Richard de Beauchamp, KB, Lord Bergavenny, b. by 1397, being 14+ in June1411, dsp in France 18 Mar 1421/2 (son of William Beauchamp, KG, LordBergavenny, and Joan Fitz Alan), and Isabel le Despenser, m. 27 July1411, (daughter of Thomas le Despenser and Constance, daughter of Edmund,Duke of York). [Magna Charta Sureties]

Note: According to the above citation, Richard de Beauchamp, "dsp" inFrance 18 Mar 1421/2, but had an "only daughter" (Elizabeth)!?

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EARLDOM OF WORCESTER (III, 1) 1421 to 1422

BARONY of ABERGAVENNY (II) 1411

Richard Beauchamp, who, unless the Peerage be considered as one incidentto the tenure of the Castle (which he never possessed), must beconsidered as Lord Bergavenny, or Beauchamp of Bergavenny, son and heirof William by Joan FitzAlan, b. in or before 1397, being 14 years old andupwards in June 1411. KB 8 Apr 1413. Joint Warden of the Welsh Marches1415. Capt. of Lancers and Archers in Normandy 1418. He does not appearamong the fourteen Barons in the Parliament of 16 Nov 1417, nor among thethirteen Barons in that of 16 Oct 1419, but (in his 23rd or 24th year),viz. in Feb 1420/1, was created Earl of Worcester.

He m. 27 Jul 1411, at Tewkesbury, Isabel, sister and eventually (1414)sole heir of Richard le Despenser, apparently de jure Lord Burghersh,being daughter of Thomas, the attainted Earl of Gloucester (Lord leDespenser), by Constance, daughter of Edmund, Duke of York. He dspm.(being mortally wounded at the siege of Meaux in France, 18 Mar 1421/2),and was buried 25 Apr 1422 in Tewkesbury Abbey. At his death, his vastestates and the representation of his Barony devolved on his onlydaughter and heir, but the Earldom of Worcester apparently reverted tothe Crown. His widow, (who was b. (posthumous) 26 Jul 1400 at Cardiff,and who was apparently suo jure Baroness Burghersh) m. (by papldispensation) 26 Nov 1423, at Hanley Castle, co. Worcester, as 2nd wife,her husband's cousin, Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, who d. 30Apr, and was buried 4 Oct 1439, at Warwick. M.I. Will dated 8 Aug1435. She d. 27 Dec 1439, at the Friars Minoresses, London, and wasburied 13 Jan 1439/40, in Tewkesbury Abbey. M.I. WIll dated 1 Dec 1439,probated 4 Feb 1439/40. Inq.p.m. at Abingdon, June 1441. [CompletePeerage I:26-27, XIV:6]

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