Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester

Arms of Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester (died 1422): Gules, a fesse between six crosses crosslet or a crescent sable for difference. These are the Beauchamp arms differenced by a crescent for a second son, to distinguish them from those of the senior line, the Earls of Warwick ^[1]

Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester, KCB (c. 1394 – c. 18 March 1421/1422) was an English peer.

The only son of William de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny, he succeeded as 2nd Baron Bergavenny at the death of his father on 8 May 1411.^[2]

On 27 July 1411, he married Lady Isabel le Despenser, daughter of Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester, and great-granddaughter of Edward III. They had one child, Lady Elizabeth de Beauchamp, later 3rd Baroness Bergavenny, who married Sir Edward Neville, later 1st Baron Bergavenny. He was joint Warden of the Welsh Marches in 1415, and a captain of lances and archers in Normandy in 1418. In February 1420/1, he was created Earl of Worcester.^[3]

Worcester was mortally wounded on 18 March 1421/2 at the Siege of Meaux and died soon after. His body was taken back to England and he was buried on 25 April 1422 at Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. His daughter inherited his estates and his barony of Bergavenny, although the castle and honour of Abergavenny were still held by her grandmother in dower.^[3]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester

16. William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick

8. Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick

17. Maud FitzJohn

4. Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick

18. Ralph VII de Toeni, Lord Toeni of Flamsted

9. Alice de Toeni

19. Mary ??

2. William de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny

20. Edmund Mortimer, 2nd Baron Mortimer

10. Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March

21. Margaret de Fiennes

5. Katherine Mortimer

22. Sir Piers de Genevelle

11. Joan de Geneville, 2nd Baroness Geneville

23. Jeanne of Lusignan

1. Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester

24. Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel

12. Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel

25. Alice de Warenne

6. Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel

26. Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster

13. Eleanor of Lancaster

27. Maud Chaworth

3. Joan FitzAlan

28. Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford

14. William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton

29. Elizabeth of Rhuddlan

7. Elizabeth de Bohun

30. Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere

15. Elizabeth de Badlesmere

31. Margaret de Clare

References

↑ Source: As per his seal ("Beauchamp with crescent on the fesse & Despencer quarterly") affixed to Cardiff Inspeximus 20 April 1421, published as Clark, G.T. (1910). "Charter no.MCXVI". Cartae et Alia Munimenta Quae ad Dominium de Glamorgancia Pertinent. Charters DCCCCLII-MCXCIV. 4. Cardiff. pp. 1486–88.
↑ Carpenter, Christine. "Beauchamp, William (V), first Baron Bergavenny (c. 1343–1411)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/50236. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
1 2 Cokayne, George E. (1910). Gibbs, Vicary, ed. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. I, Ab-Adam to Basing. London: St. Catherine Press. pp. 26–27.

Peerage of England
Preceded by New Creation	Earl of Worcester 1421–1422	Succeeded by Extinct
Preceded by William de Beauchamp	Baron Bergavenny 1411–1422	Succeeded by Elizabeth Nevill

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[1] Source: As per his seal ("Beauchamp with crescent on the fesse & Despencer quarterly") affixed to Cardiff Inspeximus 20 April 1421, published as Clark, G.T. (1910). "Charter no.MCXVI". Cartae et Alia Munimenta Quae ad Dominium de Glamorgancia Pertinent. Charters DCCCCLII-MCXCIV. 4. Cardiff. pp. 1486–88.

[2] Carpenter, Christine. "Beauchamp, William (V), first Baron Bergavenny (c. 1343–1411)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/50236. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[cokayne-3] 1 2 Cokayne, George E. (1910). Gibbs, Vicary, ed. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. I, Ab-Adam to Basing. London: St. Catherine Press. pp. 26–27.