 Abt 1105 - 1170 (65 years)
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| Name |
BEAUCHAMP William |
| Birth |
Abt 1105 |
Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
1170 |
Worcestershire, England |
| Notes |
- William de Beauchamp, died 1170
William was a son of Walter de Beauchamp.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] His mother was a daughter of Urso d'Abitot.[2][3][4][7][8]
His year of birth is unknown and is estimated as c 1105.
Marriage and Children
The name of his wife is uncertain. Baker[3], Burke[4] and Keats-Rohan[7] indicated he married Berta de Braose. Cawley states:[8] "according to Domesday Descendants, the wife of William de Beauchamp was Bertha, daughter of William de Braose. The primary source which confirms her parentage and marriage has not yet been identified..." However, there is some doubt about this and it has been suggested Bertha de Braose may have married his son, also named William (see Research Notes).[9]
Possible children:
William de Beauchamp[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
Robert de Beauchamp[8]
Peter de Beauchamp[8]
John de Beauchamp[8]
Walter de Beauchamp[8]
Emma de Beauchamp (married Ralph de Sudley)[3][8]
Career
Henry I King of England confirmed the inheritance by "Willelmo filio Walteri de Bello Campo, dispensario meo" of "terram totam patris sui" by charter dated to [1130/May 1133].[7][8] Granted the shrievality in 1139 and the office hereditarily in 1141.[7]
Charter of William de Beauchamp in which he confirmed a grant of a virgate of land given to Worcester priory by his father, 'which Elfred, chaplain of my grandfather Urso de Abbetot, held'.[9][10][11]
The Annals of Tewkesbury record that “Willelmus de Bello Campo” was captured by “Radulpho de Mandeville” in 1151.[8]
William de Beauchamp, who, for all his zeal in the cause of the Empress Maud, was dispossessed of the castle of Worcester by King Stephen, to which, and all his other honours and estates, however, he was restored by King Henry II; and in that monarch's reign, besides the sheriffalty of Worcestershire, which he enjoyed by inheritance, he was sheriff of Warwickshire (2nd Henry II), sheriff of Gloucestershire (from 3rd to the 9th Henry II), sheriff of Herefordshire (from the 8th to the 16th Henry II, 1167-70, inclusive). Upon the levy of the assessment towards the marriage portion of one of King Henry's daus., this powerful feudal lord certified his knight's fees to amount to fifteen.[4][12]
Death
The Annals of Worcester recorded the death in 1170 of "Willelmus de Bello Campo" and his burial "ad ostium capituli Wigorniæ".[8][13]
Research notes
Regarding a Beauchamp/Braose marriage, one theory is that the manor of Tetbury, Gloucestershire, came into the possession of the Braose family shortly after the death of Bernard de St. Valery in 1097. A William de Braose subsequently granted a "rent" from Tetbury to William de Bello Campo and his wife Berta, daughter of William de Braose. The William de Bello Campo is presumed to have been the William Beauchamp who died 1197 and not the William Beauchamp who died 1170.[9] The relevant sources are:
Tetbury, Gloucestershire: "The estate later called the manor of Upton originated as the portion settled by William de Breuse (d. 1211) on the marriage of his daughter Bertha to William Beauchamp, lord of Elmley Castle (Worcs.)".[14]
An Inquisition of 1305 recorded that a William de Breouse "gave the said rent, a hundred and sixty more years past, to William de Bello Campo, great grandfather of the said Earl [William de Bello Campo, Earl of Warwick], and Berta, daughter of the said William de Brewose, in free marriage".[15]
The William Beauchamp who died 1197 may also have married Avice, lady of Salwarpe. "A reference was lately noted in the VCH for Worcester to a grant of land in 'Boicot' to the priory of Westwood by 'Alicia, the lady of Salwarpe', which grant was made 'for the good estate of her own soul and of her children and for the souls of her husband William Beauchamp and her son William, the grant being confirmed by Walter Beauchamp.' [VCH Worcester II:148.]. The text of this charter (unfortunately minus certain details, incl. names of the witnesses) was then found in the section of Monasticon Anglicanum for the priory. The VCH version agrees with the Latin text and designated title, with one important exception: while the title given is 'Carta Aliciae de Salewarp..', the text of the charter identifies the grantor as "ego Avicia domina de Salewarp' [Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum VI(2):1004]. Her name therefore appears to have been Avicia, or Hawise, with the error by the editor of the Monasticon volume calling her 'Alicia' then being carried to the VCH text."[9][16]
There was a further relevant discussion in 2017.[17]
Sources
↑ 1.0 1.1 Dugdale, W. The Baronage of England. Published London, 1675-1676, p 226 Link.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Clutterbuck, R. The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford. Vol 1, 1815, p 358 Beauchamp Pedigree Family Search.
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Baker, G. History and Antiquities of The County of Northampton. Vol. II, 1844, pp 218-219 Internet Archive.
↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Burke, B. A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. 1866, pp 29-30 Google Books.
↑ 5.0 5.1 Bund, J W W. The Inquisitiones Post Mortem for the County of Worcester: From their commencement in 1242 to the end of the 13th century. The Worcestershire Historical Society. 1894, p viii Google Books.
↑ 6.0 6.1 Sanders, I J. English Baronies. A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327. 1960, pp 75-76 Internet Archive.
↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 Keats-Rohan, K S B. Domesday Descendants. A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066-1166. II. Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum. 2002, p 315.
↑ 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 8.10 8.11 Cawley, C. Beauchamp of Elmley, Worcestershire. Medieval Lands. A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families FMG.
↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Avicia, wife of William de Beauchamp (d. 1170). Thread of 2010. Soc. Gen. Medieval SGM.
↑ Hale, W. Registrum sive Liber Irrotularius et Consuetudinarius Prioratus Beatae Mariae Wigorniensis. Camden Society, 1865, p 92a Internet Archive.
↑ Cartulary of Worcester Cathedral Priory. Pipe Roll Society, 1968, p 180.
↑ Burke, B. Dormant and Extinct Peerages. 1883, p 29 Beauchamp, Earls of Warwick.
↑ Annales Monastici. Edited by H R Luard. Vol IV, 1869, p 382 Internet Archive.
↑ A P Baggs, A R J Jurica, W J Sheils, 'Tetbury: Manors and other estates', in A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 11, Bisley and Longtree Hundreds, ed. N M Herbert, R B Pugh( London, 1976), British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol11/pp264-269 [accessed 25 November 2024].
↑ Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous (Chancery). HMSO, Vol. I, 1916, p 534, No. 1971 HathiTrust.
↑ 'Houses of Benedictine nuns: Priory of Westwood', in A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 2, ed. J W Willis-Bund, William Page( London, 1971), British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/worcs/vol2/pp148-151 [accessed 25 November 2024].
↑ Braose Beauchamp Marriage. Thread of 2017. Soc. Gen. Medieval SGM.
See also:
Nash, T R. Collections for the History of Worcestershire. Vol. II, 1782, p 263 [not seen].
The Heraldry of Worcestershire. Vol. I, 1873, pp 37-39 Internet Archive.
The Battle Abbey Roll. Vol. I, 1889, p. 129 Internet Archive.
Wurts, J S. Magna Charta. Parts 1-2, [Reprint 1945], pp 203-204 Family Search.
Plantagenet Ancestry p. 117
Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999, pp 222-28
G2G Thread, 2021 G2G.
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I60168 |
Freeman-Smith |
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27 Jan 2026 |
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| Children |
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F347629 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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