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Beauchamp, Henry de (1424/5 - 1446)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1425-03-22
Death Date: 1446-06-11

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Neville, Cecily (1425 - 1450)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1434
    Union ended: n.d.
    Note: One part of a double marriage including the marriage of Henry's sister Anne to Cecily's brother Richard.

Siblings

Offspring

Primary Title

  • 1st Duke of Warwick

Titles

  • Lord Le Despenser
    Assumed: 1424/5-03-22
    Vacated: 1439-04-30
  • 14th Earl of Warwick
    Assumed: 1439-04-30
    Vacated: 1446-06-11
  • Count of Aumale
    Assumed: 1439-04-30
    Vacated: 1446-06-11
  • 1st Duke of Warwick
    Assumed: 1445-04-05
    Vacated: 1446-06-11
  • 8th Baron Burghersh
    Assumed: 1439-12-27

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
Keeper, Hampshire
Chamberlain of the Exchequer, England 1439 -4 -30 1446 -06 -11 Hereditary office
Constable, Worcestershire 1439 -4 -30 1446 -06 -11 Hereditary office
Constable, Gloucestershire 1439 -4 -30 1446 -06 -11 Hereditary office
Sheriff, Worcestershire 1439 -4 -30 1446 -06 -11 Hereditary office
JP, Warwickshire 1445/6
JP, Gloucestershire 1446
JP, Northamptonshire 1446
JP, Oxfordshire 1446
JP, Worcestershire 1446

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Hanley Castle, Worcestershire
    (Performance Venue)
    Acquired: 1424/5-03
    Divested: 1446-06
    Patrimony; born and died here
  • Elmley Castle, Worcestershire
    (Performance Venue)
    Acquired: 1439-12
    Divested: 1446-06
    Patrimony (via mother)

Lands

  • Buckinghamshire
  • Cambridgeshire
  • Cornwall
  • Devon
  • Essex
  • Gloucestershire
  • Hampshire
  • Herefordshire
  • Kent
  • Lincolnshire
  • Monmouthshire: Abergavenny Lordship
    Patrimony (via mother)
  • Northamptonshire
  • Northumberland
  • Nottinghamshire
  • Oxfordshire
  • Rutland
  • Wales
  • Somerset
  • Staffordshire
  • Sussex
  • Warwickshire
  • Worcestershire
  • Yorkshire

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Worcester (Unknown), Worcester, Worcestershire Duke of Warwick's Minstrel/s

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Duke of Warwick's Minstrel/s Beauchamp, Henry de (1425 - 1446) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Elmley Castle Worcestershire Private Residence
Hanley Castle Worcestershire Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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  • The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982
  • Doyle, James E. The Official Baronage of England Showing the Succession, Dignities, and Offices of Every Peer from 1066 to 1885. 3 vols. London: Longmans, 1886
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.