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 1400 - 1439 (39 years)
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| Name |
Isabel le Despencer |
| Title |
Lady |
| Suffix |
Countess of Worcester |
| Birth |
26 Jul 1400 |
Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England  [1, 2, 3] |
- The castle is supposed to have been built for Robert Despenser in the years following the Norman Conquest. After his death (post 1098) it descended to his heirs, the powerful Beauchamp family.
It remained their chief seat until William de Beauchamp inherited the earldom and castle of Warwick from his maternal uncle, William Maudit, 8th Earl of Warwick, in 1268.
Thereafter, Elmley Castle remained a secondary property of the Earls of Warwick until it was surrendered to the Crown in 1487.
... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmley_Castle
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| Gender |
Female |
| Death |
27 Dec 1439 |
London, Middlesex, England [1, 2, 3] |
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| Burial |
Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England GL20 5RZ [1] |
| Person ID |
I42618 |
The Hennessee Family |
| Last Modified |
4 Mar 2016 |
| Father |
Sir Thomas le Despenser, Knight, 1st Earl of Gloucester, b. 22 Sep 1373, Essendine, Rutland, England d. 13 Jan 1400, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England (Age 26 years) |
| Mother |
Lady Constance of York, Princess of York, b. ~ 1374, Conisborough Castle, Conisborough, Yorkshire, England d. 28 Nov 1416, Reading, Reading, Berkshire, England (Age ~ 42 years) |
| Marriage |
~ 1396 |
(Conisborough Castle, Conisborough, Yorkshire, England) [1, 2] |
| Family ID |
F15441 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
Sir Richard Beauchamp, Knight, 13th Earl of Warwick, b. 28 Jan 1381, Salwarpe, Worcestershire, England d. 30 Apr 1439, Rouen, Normandy, France (Age 58 years) |
| Marriage |
Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England [1, 2, 3, 5] |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F15442 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Apr 2023 |
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| Notes |
- Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester and Warwick (26 July 1400 - 1439) was the posthumous daughter and eventually the sole heiress of Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester (d. 1399) by his wife, Constance of York. She was born six months after her father had been beheaded for plotting against King Henry IV (1399-1413).
Marriages and progeny
Arms of first husband Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester (d. 1422): Gules, a fesse between six crosses crosslet or a crescent for difference. These are the Beauchamp arms differenced by a crescent for a second son, referring to his father who was the second son of the 11th Earl of Warwick [1]
Isabel married twice, successively to two identically named first-cousins, grandsons of Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick (d. 1369):
Firstly to Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester (1394–1422) who died at the Siege of Meaux. They had one daughter:
Elizabeth de Beauchamp, born 1415, who married Edward Neville, 1st Baron Bergavenny (d. 1476), and had progeny.
Secondly to Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick (1382–1439), her 1st husband's first-cousin from a senior Beauchamp line, by whom she had two children:
Henry de Beauchamp (1425–1446), who succeeded his father as 14th Earl of Warwick, and later was created 1st Duke of Warwick. He married Cecille Neville, daughter of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, and had by her one daughter who died an infant:
Anne Beauchamp, 15th Countess of Warwick.
Anne de Beauchamp, who became 16th Countess of Warwick, following the deaths of her brother and his infant daughter. Anne married Richard Neville, the Kingmaker, eldest son of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, and who became jure uxoris 16th Earl of Warwick. Her husband therefore was the brother of her own brother's wife. They had two daughters who married at the highest level:
Isabella Neville (1451–1476), married George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence (1449–1478), brother of Kings Edward IV and Richard III, with issue.
Anne Neville, married firstly Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, without issue, and secondly King Richard III (1483–1485), with issue. [3]
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- [S6522] Elizabeth Beauchamp, Countess of Worcester (1415-1448) Pedigree-Ahnentafel, http://www.ourfamilyhistories.org/pedigree.p.
- [S7817] "Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester (1373-1400)" biography, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_le_Despenser,_.
- [S7818] "Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester (1400-1439)", biography, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_le_Despenser,_.
- [S7820] "Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester (~1394-1421/1422)" biography, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_de_Beau.
- [S7378] "Joan de Beauchamp, Baroness Bergavenny (nâee FitzAlan; 1375 - 14 November 1435)", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_de.
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