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Personal data William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick IV 

• Alternative names: 9th Earl of Warwick William de Beauchamp, William de Beauchamp, William de Beauchamp 09th Earl of Warwick, 9th William de Beauchamp
• He was born in the year 1237 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England.Source 8
• Alternative: He was born in the year 1238 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England.Source 2
• He died on June 5, 1298 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England, he was 61 years old.
• Alternative: He died on June 5, 1298 in Elmley, Worcs, England, he was 61 years old.Source 2
• Alternative: He died Bet. 05–09-06-1298 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England, he was 61 years old.Sources 8, 9
• Alternative: He died Bet. 05–09-06-1298 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England, he was 61 years old.Sources 8, 9
• He is buried on June 22, 1298 in Grey Friars, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.
• Alternative: He is buried on June 22, 1298 in Grey Friars, Worcestershire, England.Source 8
• A child of Sir William de Beauchamp, and Isabel fitz Geoffrey de Mauduit,

Household of William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick IV

He is married to Maud FitzJohn.

They got married in the year 1270 at Shere, Surrey, England, he was 33 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Isabel de Beauchamp,  1265-1306 
2. Guy de Beauchamp  1278-1315 

Notes about William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick IV

William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick; born c1240; Hereditary Sheriff of Worcs and Pantler at Coronations, Keeper of Forest of Dean 1270, Captain of Cheshire and Lancs 1276; led an English army which defeated the Welsh at Maes Moydog, Montgomeryshire, 5 March 1294/5; commander in the English army, which defeated the Scots at Dunbar 1296, Constable of Rockingham Castle and Steward of forests between Oxford and Stamford 1297-98; married c1270 Maud (died April 1301), daughter of Sir John fitz Geoffrey and widow of Sir Gerard de Furnivall(e), and died 5 or 9 June 1298. [Burke's Peerage]------------------------------------------------------y Isabel (who died before 1268), only sister of the said Earl William, was said to be aged 26-30 in 1268. He inherited the office of Chamberlain of the Exchequer from the Mauduit family and did homage for the lands of the Earldom of Warwick, 9 February 1267/8. On his father's death, between 7 January and 21 April 1268, he succeeded him at Elmley and also as hereditary Sheriff of Worcestershire and Hereditary Pander at the King's Coronation. He was one of the pledges for Robert Ferrers, late Earl of Derby, in 1269; Keeper of the Forest of Dean, 1270; a Commissioner to treat with Llywelyn concerning incidents on the Welsh border, 16 October 1270 and 14 April 1274; was present at the Council at Westminster, 12 November 1276, which gave judgment against Llywelyn; Captain of cos. Chester and Lancaster, 16 November 1276. He was summoned for service against the Welsh, 1277-94, against the Scots, 1296-98, and beyond seas, 1297, and to the Assembly at Shrewsbury, 1283; was present when Alexander, King of Scotland, did homage to Edward I at Westminster, 29 September 1278; took part in the siege and capture of Dryglwyn, co. Carmarthen, August-September 1282; won a fine victory over the Welsh, under Madog ap Llywelyn, at Maes Moydog, co. Montgomery, 5 March 1294/5; and was one of the leaders of the force which, under the Earl of Surrey, defeated the Scots at Dunbar, 27 April 1296. Constable of Rockingham Castle and Steward of the forest between Oxford and Stamford, 16 July 1297 till his death. During the King's absence in Flanders (August 1297-March 1297/8) he was a member of Prince Edward's Council.ITZJOHN (who died s.p. shortly before 5 August 1297), being 1st daughter of Sir John FITZGEOFFREY, of Shere, Surrey, Fambridge, Essex, &c., Justiciar of Ireland, by Isabel, daughter of Hugh (LE BIGOD), 3rd EARL OF NORFOLK. He died 5 or 9 June 1298 at Elmley and was buried 22 June in the Friars Minor, Worcester. She died 16 or 18 April 1301 and was buried 7 May with him. [Complete Peerage XII/2:368-70, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]s mother the Earldom of Warwick (originally possessed by the Newburghs), and the barony of Hanslape (which had belonged to the Mauduits). This eminent nobleman was a distinguished captain in the Welsh and Scottish wars of King Edward I. "In the 23rd year of which reign (1294-5), being in Wales with the king," as Dugdale relates, "he performed a notable exploit; namely hearing that a great body of the Welsh were got together in a plain betwixt two woods and, to secure themselves, had fastened their pikes to the group, sloping their pikes towards their assailants, he marched thither with a choice company of cross-bowmen and archers, and in the night time encompassing them about, but betwixt every two horsemen on cross-bowman, which cross-bowman killing many of them that held the picks, the horsemen charged in suddenly and made very great slaughter. This was done near Montgomery." His lordship m. Maud, widow of Girard de Furnival, and one of the four daughters and co-heiresses of Richard FitzJohn, son of John Fitz-Geffrey, chief Justice of Ireland, by whom he had surviving issue, Guy, his successor; Isabel, m. to Peter Chaworth; Maud, m. to -- Rithco; Margaret, m. to John Sudley; Anne and Amy, nuns at Shouldham, co. Norfolk, a monastery founded by his lordship's maternal great grandfather. William de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Warwick of that family, d. in 1298, having previous to his mother's death used the style and title of Earl of Warwick, with what legality appears very doubtful, and was s by his eldest son, Guy de Beauchamp. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 30, Beauchamp, Earls of Warwick]

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