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Beauchamp, Richard de (1381/2 - 1439)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1382-01-25 (possibly born 28 Jan. 1381/2)
Death Date: 1439-04-30

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Berkeley, Elizabeth (1386 - 1422)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1397-10-5
    Union ended: n.d.
  2. Despenser, Isabel le (1400 - 1439)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1423-11-26
    Union ended: n.d.

Siblings

Female

  • Beauchamp, Catherine de (1400 - )

Offspring

Primary Title

  • 13th Earl of Warwick

Titles

  • 13th Earl of Warwick
    Assumed: 1401-04-08
    Vacated: 1439-04-30

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
Chamberlain of the Exchequer, England 1401 -4 -8 1439 -04 -30 Hereditary office
JP, Worcestershire 1401
JP, Warwickshire 1401
Sheriff, Worcestershire 1401 -4 -8 1439 -04 -30 Hereditary office
Commissioner of Array, Warwickshire 1403
JP, Worcestershire 1403 1407
Keeper, Brecon 1403 -10 -24 1403/4 -02 -19 Held jointly
JP, Warwickshire 1404 1407
JP, Worcestershire 1409/10
Member, King's Council, England 1410 -5 -9
JP, Warwickshire 1412/13 1414
JP, Worcestershire 1412/13 1415
JP, Staffordshire 1413
JP, Suffolk 1413/14
Chief Warden, Marches of Wales 1415 -6 -16 Warden of the Marches boarding Gloucestershire and Herefordshire
JP, Staffordshire 1415
JP, Suffolk 1416/17
JP, Worcestershire 1417
Keeper, Northamptonshire 1421 -12 -20 1439 -04 -30
JP, Warwickshire 1421/2 1424
Councillor of Regency, England 1422 -12 -9
JP, Worcestershire 1423 1424
JP, Shropshire 1423 1424
JP, Herefordshire 1423 1424
JP, Essex 1423 1424
JP, Gloucestershire 1423 1424
JP, Sussex 1424
JP, Devon 1424
JP, Cornwall 1424
JP, Buckinghamshire 1424
JP, Northamptonshire 1424
JP, Rutland 1424
JP, Oxfordshire 1424
JP, Shropshire 1426
JP, Cornwall 1427
JP, Northamptonshire 1427
JP, Essex 1427
JP, Sussex 1427 1428
JP, Herefordshire 1427 1428
JP, Worcestershire 1427
JP, Devon 1427
JP, Warwickshire 1427
JP, Essex 1429
JP, Worcestershire 1430 1431
JP, Staffordshire 1430
JP, Shropshire 1430 1432
JP, Buckinghamshire 1430/1 1438
JP, Herefordshire 1431 1433
JP, Essex 1431 1433
JP, Cornwall 1431 1433
JP, Yorkshire: North Riding 1431/2 1433
JP, Northamptonshire 1431/2 1432
JP, Gloucestershire 1431/2 1433
JP, Staffordshire 1432
JP, Oxfordshire 1432
JP, Rutland 1432
JP, Sussex 1433
JP, Warwickshire 1433 1434
JP, Worcestershire 1433
Ranger, Oxfordshire 1433 -11 -21
JP, Northamptonshire 1433/4 1434
JP, Rutland 1433/4 1437
JP, Herefordshire 1435
JP, Worcestershire 1435
JP, Oxfordshire 1435 1438
JP, Essex 1435
JP, Gloucestershire 1435
JP, Cornwall 1435/6
JP, Sussex 1436 1437
JP, Yorkshire: West Riding 1436/7
JP, Herefordshire 1436/7
JP, Yorkshire: North Riding 1436/7
Constable, Bristol 1437 -7 -11
JP, Yorkshire: North Riding 1437
JP, Gloucestershire 1437
JP, Essex 1437 1438
Keeper, Dorset 1437 -7 -11
Keeper, Gloucestershire 1437 -7 -11
Keeper, Somerset 1437 -7 -11
JP, Shropshire 1438/9
JP, Staffordshire 1438/9
JP, Sussex 1439
JP, Northamptonshire 1439

Details of Properties

Residence

Lands

  • Glamorgan: Gower Lordship

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Exeter (Unknown), Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon Earl of Warwick's Entertainers
Performance - Exeter (Unknown), Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon Earl of Warwick's Minstrel/s
Performance - Exeter (Unknown), Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon Earl of Warwick's Minstrel/s
Performance - Exeter (Unknown), Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon Earl of Warwick's Minstrel/s
Performance - Dover (Unknown), Dover, Kent Earl of Warwick's Minstrel/s
Performance - Exeter (Unknown), Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon Earl of Warwick's Minstrel/s
Performance - Dover (Unknown), Dover, Kent Earl of Warwick's Minstrel/s
Performance - Canterbury (Unknown), Canterbury, Kent Earl of Warwick's Minstrel/s
Performance - Dover (Unknown), Dover, Kent Earl of Warwick's Minstrel/s
Performance - Dover (Unknown), Dover, Kent Earl of Warwick's Minstrel/s
Performance - Exeter (Unknown), Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon Earl of Warwick's Minstrels
Performance - Dover (Unknown), Dover, Kent Earl of Warwick's Minstrels

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Earl of Warwick's Entertainers Beauchamp, Richard de (1382 - 1439) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Earl of Warwick's Minstrel/s Beauchamp, Richard de (1382 - 1439) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Earl of Warwick's Minstrel/s Beauchamp, Richard de (1382 - 1439) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Earl of Warwick's Minstrel/s Beauchamp, Richard de (1382 - 1439) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Earl of Warwick's Minstrel/s Beauchamp, Richard de (1382 - 1439) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Earl of Warwick's Minstrel/s Beauchamp, Richard de (1382 - 1439) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Earl of Warwick's Minstrel/s Beauchamp, Richard de (1382 - 1439) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Earl of Warwick's Minstrel/s Beauchamp, Richard de (1382 - 1439) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Earl of Warwick's Minstrel/s Beauchamp, Richard de (1382 - 1439) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Earl of Warwick's Minstrel/s Beauchamp, Richard de (1382 - 1439) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Earl of Warwick's Minstrels Beauchamp, Richard de (1382 - 1439) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Earl of Warwick's Minstrels Beauchamp, Richard de (1382 - 1439) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Hanley Castle Worcestershire Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

View a list of abbreviations.

  • 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
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.