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Female 1256 - Bef 1306  (< 49 years)


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  • Name Isabella de Beauchamp 
    Suffix Countess Winchester 
    Nickname Lady Despencer de Beauchamp 
    Born 30 May 1256  Warwick, Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christened father, Earl of, Warwick Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Christening father, Earl of, Warwick Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christening father, Earl of, Warwick Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died Bef 30 May 1306  Elmley Castle Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Address:
    Elmley
    Elmley
    England 
    Buried St Mary the Virgin Church, Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • {geni:about_me}
      Isabel de Beauchamp, d. by 30 May 1306; m. (1) Sir Patrick de Chaworth, d. by 7 July 1283, Lord of Kempsford, co. Gloucester, and Kidwelley, Cymru, son of Patrick de Chaworth, d. 1258, lord of Kempsford, co. Gloucester, by (1) wife Haiwise, daughter & heir of Thomas of London, lord of Kidwelly; m. (2) by 1286 Sir Hugh le Despenser, b. 1 Mar 1260/1, hanged 27 Oct 1326, Earl of Winchester, son of Hugh le Despenser and Aline Basset.


      [Magna Charta Sureties]

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      most sources mentioned that she died before 30 May 1306

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      * http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=aet%2Dt&id=I9582
      * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_de_Beauchamp
      * http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_di_Beauchamp
      * http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=43145838
      * http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I2580&tree=Nixon
      * http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I8243&tree=EuropeRoyalNobleHous
      * http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cousin/html/p100.htm#i12136
      * http://www.mathematical.com/beauchampisabel.html
      * http://thepeerage.com/p10687.htm#i106863

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      Isabella de Beauchamp, Lady Kidwelly, Lady Despenser (born c. 1263 - died before 30 May 1306), was an English noblewoman and wealthy heiress.

      Family[edit]

      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. 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[edit]

      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.[1]

      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.[1] 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:[2]
      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.[3]
      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.

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      Isabel De Beauchamp Despenser was an English noblewoman and a wealthy heiress. She married twice; firstly to Sir Patrick de Chaworth, Lord of Kidwelly, by whom she had a daughter, Maud Chaworth. Her second husband was Hugh le Despencer, Earl of Winchester, by whom she had four children, including Hugh le Despencer. Her second husband and eldest son were both executed in 1326 by the orders of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, and his mistress, Isabella of France, Queen-consort to King Edward II. The couple were de facto rulers of England at the time. Isabel de Beauchamp had been dead for over twenty years at the time of their executions.
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      Note:
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      Lineage Sources:
      Hutchin's History of Dorset, Vol. 1, p. 366.
      Lewis' Manuscripts, pp. 54, 56, 22, 88, 161, 186, 223
      Welles and Allied Families (Am. Hist. Soc. Pub. 1937), pp. 143, 157, 142, 160.
      Dugdale's Baronage of England, Vol. 1, p. 68/9.
      Burke's Dormant and Extinct Peerage, pp. 111, 261, 399.

      Sources: 1.Title: scary.ged
      Author: Susan (Poliksa) Cary scary @ infowest.com
      Publication: RootsWeb World Connect, db=poliksa
      Repository:
      Media: Electronic
      Text: Date of Import: Oct 3, 2001
      2.Title: Ancestry of Richard Plantagenet & Cecily de Neville
      Author: Ernst-Friedrich Kraentzler
      Publication: Accelerated Indexing Systems, Inc., 1978
      Repository:
      Media: Book
      Page: 1057
      3.Title: Royal Genealogical Data Base
      Author: Brian C Tompsett
      Publication: Copyright 1994 - 2002
      Note: Department of Computer Science
      University of Hull
      Hull, UK, HU6 7RX
      B.C.Tompsett @ dcs.hull.ac.uk
      Repository:
      Note: http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/
      Media: Electronic
    • This individual has the following other parents in the Ancestral File:
      William D /BEAUCHAMP/ (AFN:84ZX-P1) and Isabel De /MAUDUIT/ (AFN:84ZX-Q6)
    • NCP IV:259-88
    • Isabel de Beauchamp, dau. of William, 1st Earl of Warwick, and widow ofHenry Lovet, of Elmley Lovet, co. Worcester. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant,Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London,1884, p. 54, Blount, Barons Mountjoy and Earl of Devon]
    • _P_CCINFO 1-20792
    • _P_CCINFO 1-887
    • Source #1: Frederick Lewis Weis, "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700" - Seventh Edition, with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., assisted by Davis Faris (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1995), p. 74

      Source #2: George Edward Cokayne, "The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant or Dormant," New Edition, Revised and Much Enlarged, Edited by The Hon. Vicary Gibbs and H. A. Doubleday (London: The St. Catherine Press, 1926), Vol IV, pp. 262-266
    • From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
    • Kinship II - A collection of family, friends and U.S. Presidents
      URL: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2902060&id=I575203677
      # ID: I575203677
      # Name: Isabella DE BEAUCHAMP
      # Given Name: Isabella
      # Surname: De Beauchamp
      # Sex: F
      # Birth: 1266 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England 1
      # Death: 30 May 1306 in Elmley Castle, Gloucester 1
      # Birth: 1266 1
      # Birth: Bet. 1257 - 1271
      # Birth: Bet. 1257 - 1271
      # Death: Bet. 1279 - 1360
      # Death: Bet. 1279 - 1360
      # Change Date: 15 May 2004 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
      # Note:

      Ancestral File Number: 84ZQ-B9
      NOTE: a lot of information in this file is not proven
      -Dale A. Updike

      NOTE: a lot of information in this file is not proven
      -Dale A. Updike



      Father: William De BEAUCHAMP b: Abt 1227 in Of, Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England
      Mother: Maud FITZGEOFFREY b: Abt 1237 in Of, Shere, Surrey, England

      Father: William DE BEAUCHAMP b: 1237
      Mother: Maud FITZJOHN

      Marriage 1 Patrick De CHAWORTH b: 1250 in Of, Kempsford, Gloucestershire, England

      * Married: 1282 1
      * Note: _UIDE4C1600C32979B4EBD3385564E2D1C072C23

      Children

      1. Has Children Maud de CHAWORTH b: Abt 1282 in Of, Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales


      Marriage 2 William LE BLOUNT b: Abt 1233 in Of, Belton, Rutland, England

      * Married: Abt 1261 in Of, Belton, Rutland, England
      * Note: _UID018CB1652981654A8B5F5717BD194077E1BA

      Children

      1. Has No Children Son BLOUNT b: Abt 1262 in Of, Belton, Rutland, England
      2. Has No Children Peter BLOUNT b: Abt 1266 in Of, Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, England
      3. Has Children Walter LE BLOUNT b: Abt 1270 in Of, Rock, Worcestershire, England


      Marriage 3 Hugh LE DESPENSER b: 1 Mar 1260 in Of, Winchester, Hampshire, England Or Louchborough, Leicestershire, England

      * Married: 1286 1
      * Note: _UID1CB037DC6D36A14B98E054C06A5C9DB10ED8

      Children

      1. Has Children Hugh LE DESPENSER b: 1 Mar 1260/1261 in Of, Barton, Gloucestershire, England
      2. Has Children Isabel LE DESPENSER
      3. Has No Children Philip LE DESPENSER b: 1290
      4. Has No Children Ada (Elizabeth) DESPENCER b: Abt 1262 in Of, Winchester, Hampshire, England
      5. Has No Children Joan DESPENCER b: Abt 1264 in Of, Southampton, Lincolnshire, England
      6. Has No Children Aveline (Oliva) DESPENCER b: Abt 1266 in Of, Southampton, Lincolnshire, England
      7. Has No Children Eleanor DESPENCER b: Abt 1268 in Of, Winchester, Hampshire, England
      8. Has No Children Isabel Le DESPENCER b: Abt 1270 in Of, Winchester, Hampshire, England


      Sources:

      1. Title: janet skelton.FTW
      Note:
      Source Media Type: Other
      Repository:
      2. Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
      Title: Ancestral File (R)
      Publication: Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998
      Repository:
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    • BIBLIOGRAPHY:Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982.
      Holloway, Naomi D, The Genealogy of Mary Wentworth, Who Became the Wife of William Brewster, Revised Edition, October 1969. LDS Film#1738313 item#5
      Paget, Gerald, The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales. London: Charles Skilton Ltd, 1977. Nypl ARF+ 78-835.
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      Weis, Frederick Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, David Faris, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America before 1700, 7th Edition, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1992.

      I do not have verification on all information that you have downloaded. Please feel free to contact me @ promise_me_tomorrow@yahoo.com for errors/corrections/ or any additional information, especially if you are willing to share information
    • BIBLIOGRAPHY:Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982.
      Holloway, Naomi D, The Genealogy of Mary Wentworth, Who Became the Wife of William Brewster, Revised Edition, October 1969. LDS Film#1738313 item#5
      Paget, Gerald, The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales. London: Charles Skilton Ltd, 1977. Nypl ARF+ 78-835.
      Redlich, Marcellus Donald R Von, Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants. Order of the Crown of Charlemagne, 1941.
      Schwennicke, Detlev, ed., Europaische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der europaischen Staaten, New Series. II: Die Ausserdeutschen Staaten Die Regierenden Hauser der Ubrigen Staaten Europas. Marburg: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1984.
      Watney, Vernon James, The Wallop Family and their Ancestry, Oxford:John Johnson, 1928. LDS Film#1696491 items 6-9.
      Weis, Frederick L, Magna Charta Sureties 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta and Some of Their Descendants. 4th Ed. Baltimore: Gen Pub Co, 1991.
      Weis, Frederick Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, David Faris, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America before 1700, 7th Edition, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1992.

      I do not have verification on all information that you have downloaded. Please feel free to contact me @ promise_me_tomorrow@yahoo.com for errors/corrections/ or any additional information, especially if you are willing to share information
    • Imported from "The Tillotson Project": tilston@pe.net
    • Isabella de Beauchamp was the daughter of William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick and Maud FitzGeoffrey.1 She married Hugh le Despenser, Earl of Winchester, son of Hugh le Despenser, 1st Lord le Despenser and Aliva Basset.
      Child of Isabella de Beauchamp and Sir Patrick de Chaworth
      Matilda de Chaworth+ b. bt 1282 - 1288, d. 13221
      Children of Isabella de Beauchamp and Hugh le Despenser, Earl of Winchester
      Aline le Despenser d. b 28 Nov 13532
      Hugh le Despenser, 3rd Lord le Despenser+ b. c 1290, d. 29 Nov 1326
      Citations
      [S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 76. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Family.
      [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with 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), volume II, page 434. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
    • http://www.renderplus.com/hartgen/charts/de-chaworth-de-beauchamp.htm
    Person ID I6000000001625543412  Ancestors of Donald Ross
    Last Modified 27 Oct 2020 

    Father William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick,   b. 1237, Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Jun 1298  (Age 61 years) 
    Mother Matilda FitzJohn, Countess of Warwick,   b. 1237, Shere, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Apr 1301  (Age 64 years) 
    Family ID F5602787778000102751  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Sir Patrick de Chaworth, Vl, Lord of Kidwelly,   b. Apr 1250, Glos, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Jul 1283  (Age 33 years) 
    Married 1281  Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Maud de Chaworth,   b. 2 Feb 1282, Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 3 Dec 1322  (Age < 40 years)
    Last Modified 14 Mar 2021 
    Family ID F6000000000957340496  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart