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, referring to his father who was the second son of the 11th Earl of Warwick ^[1]

Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester, KCB (c. 1394 – 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.^[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.^[3]

He died on 18 March 1421/22 at Meaux, France, mortally wounded in action, without male issue. His body was taken back to England and he was buried on 25 April 1422 at Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.^[4]

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

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.)
3. Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families, page 108
4. Cokayne, G.E.; Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed.. 13 volumes in 14. 1910-1959. Reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000.