William de Beauchamp (d.1268)

William de Beauchamp (c.1215–1268) was an English baron and hereditary sheriff.

He was born and lived in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire the eldest son of Walter de Beauchamp (judge) and his wife Joan de Mortimer, daughter of Roger Mortimer of Wigmore.

On the death of his father in 1236, he became hereditary Sheriff of Worcestershire, which title he held until his own death. He also gained the title of Baron of Elmley (a feudal barony).[1]

He died in 1268. He had married Isabel de Maudit, the daughter of William de Mauduit, Baron of Hanslope[1] and the sister of William Maudit, 8th Earl of Warwick. They had 8 children, of which his heir was his son, also named William, who inherited the title of Earl of Warwick from his maternal uncle.

References

  1. 1 2 Sir Bernard Burke, C.B. LL.D., A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, new edition (1883; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1978), page 399. Hereinafter cited as Burkes Extinct Peerage.


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