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 1263 - Bef 1306 (~ 43 years)
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| Name |
Isabella Beauchamp |
| Birth |
~ 1263 |
Warwickshire, England  [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Death |
Bef 30 May 1306 [2] |
| Person ID |
I44759 |
The Hennessee Family |
| Last Modified |
28 Nov 2015 |
| Father |
Sir William de Beauchamp, Knight, 9th Earl of Warwick, b. 0___ 1237, Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England d. 0___ 1298, (Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England) (Age ~ 61 years) |
| Mother |
Maud FitzGeoffrey, b. ~1238, Shere, Surrey, England d. 18 Apr 1301 (Age ~ 62 years) |
| Marriage |
~1261 [3, 4] |
| Family ID |
F16826 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Sir Patrick Chaworth, Knight, Lord of Kidwelly, b. ~ 1250, Kempsford, Gloucestershire, England d. 0___ 1283 (Age ~ 33 years) |
| Marriage |
~ 1281 |
Carmarthenshire, Wales [1, 2, 3] |
| Children |
| | 1. Lady Maud Chaworth, b. 2 Feb 1282, Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales d. 3 Dec 1322, Montisfort, Hampshire, England (Age 40 years) |
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| Family ID |
F16296 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Apr 2023 |
| Family 2 |
Sir Hugh le Despenser, Knight, 1st Earl of Winchester, b. 1 Mar 1261 d. 27 Oct 1326, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England (Age 65 years) |
| Marriage |
Y [2, 5] |
| Children |
| | 1. Sir Hugh le Despenser, IV, Knight, Baron Despenser, b. ~ 1286, England d. 24 Nov 1326, Hereford, Herefordshire, England (Age ~ 40 years) |
| | 2. Aline le Despencer, b. (England) |
| | 3. Isabel le Despencer, b. (England) |
| | 4. Elizabeth le Despenser, b. 0___ 1297, Barton, Gloucestershire, England d. 0___ 1370 (Age ~ 73 years) |
| | 5. Sir Philip le Despenser, of Goxhill, b. (Gloucestershire) England |
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| Family ID |
F16933 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Apr 2023 |
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| Notes |
- Isabella de Beauchamp, Lady Kidwelly, Lady Despenser (born c. 1263 - died before 30 May 1306), was an English noblewoman and wealthy heiress.
Family
Isabella was born in about 1263 in Warwickshire, England. She was the only daughter of William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick and Maud FitzJohn who appears to have married; two sisters who were nuns at Shouldham are mentioned in her father's will.[1] She had a brother, Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick who married Alice de Toeni, by whom he had seven children. Her paternal grandparents were William de Beauchamp of Elmley Castle and Isabel Maudit, and her maternal grandparents were Sir John FitzGeoffrey, Lord of Shere, and Isabel Bigod.
Marriages and issue
Sometime before 1281, she married firstly Sir Patrick de Chaworth, Lord of Kidwelly in Carmarthenshire, South Wales. The marriage produced one daughter:
Maud Chaworth (2 February 1282- 1322), married Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, by whom she had seven children.
Following Patrick's death in 1286, Isabella had in her possession four manors in Wiltshire and two manors in Berkshire, assigned to her until her dowry should be set forth along with the livery of Chedworth in Gloucestershire and the Hampshire manor of Hartley Mauditt which had been granted to her and Sir Patrick in frankmarriage by her father.[2]
That same year 1286, she married secondly Sir Hugh le Despenser without the King's licence for which Hugh had to pay a fine of 2000 marks.[2] He was created Lord Despenser by writ of summons to Parliament in 1295, thereby making Isabella Lady Despenser.
Together Hugh and Isabella had four children:
Hugh le Depenser, Lord Despenser the Younger (1286- executed 24 November 1326), married Eleanor de Clare, by whom he had issue.
Aline le Despenser (died before 28 November 1353), married Edward Burnell, Lord Burnell
Isabella le Despenser (died 4/5 December 1334), married firstly as his second wife, John Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings, by whom she had three children. Their descendants became the Lords Hastings; she married secondly as his second wife, Sir Ralph de Monthermer, 1st Baron Monthermer.[4]
Phillip le Despenser (died 1313), married as his first wife Margaret de Goushill, by whom he had issue.
Isabella died sometime before 30 May 1306. Twenty years later, her husband and eldest son, favourites of King Edward II, were both executed by the orders of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March and Queen Isabella. The couple were by that time the de facto rulers of England, and along with most of the people in the kingdom, they had resented the power both Despensers wielded over the King.
As her husband had been made Earl of Winchester in 1322, Isabella was never styled as the Countess of Winchester.
References
Jump up ^ Testamenta Vestusta by Nicholas Harris Nicolas.
^ Jump up to: a b http://www.powernet.co.uk/barfield/chap1.htm.[dead link]
Jump up ^ Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, Earls of Winchester
Jump up ^ Richardson, D. (2011) Magna Carta Ancestry 2nd Edition, pg 325 (via Google)
Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, Earls of Warwick
Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, Earls of Winchester [2]
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| Sources |
- [S7162] "Maud de Chaworth (2 February 1282 - 3 Dec 1322)", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Chaworth.
- [S8630] "Isabella de Beauchamp, Lady Kidwelly, Lady Despenser (born c. 1263 - died before 30 May 1306)", biography, abstracted N.
- [S6591] "Patrick de Chaworth (~1250-1283)" profile, http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/CHAWORTH.htm#Thomas CHAWORTH (Sir Knight)1, ret.
- [S10481] "Maud FitzJohn, Countess of Warwick" biography, which was abstracted, downloaded and published Saturday, February 25th,.
- [S9771] "Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester" biography, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_le_Despenser,_1st_Earl_of_Winc.
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