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Birth:          14 Feb 1314 of Warwick Castle, Warwickshire, England
Death:          13 Nov 1369 Calais, Pas-de-Calais, France
Cause of Death: Black Death
Burial:         St. Mary's, Warwick, Warwickshire, England

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_de_Beauchamp,_11th_Earl_of_Warwick
Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick, KG (c. 14 February 1313 – 13 
November 1369) was an English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred 
Years' War. In 1348 he became one of the founders and the third Knight of the Order 
of the Garter.
Early life[edit]

Thomas de Beauchamp was born at Warwick Castle, Warwickshire, England to Guy de 
Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick and Alice de Toeni. He served in Scotland 
frequently during the 1330s, being captain of the army against the Scots in 1337. He 
was hereditary High Sheriff of Worcestershire from 1333 until his death (in 1369). In 
1344 he was also made High Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire for life.
[citation needed]

Victor at Crécy and Poitiers[edit]

Warwick was Marshall of England from 1343/4 until 1369, and was one of the 
commanders at the great English victories at Crécy and Poitiers.

Thomas de Beauchamp fought in all the French wars of King Edward III; he 
commanded the center at the Battle of Crecy (where many of his relatives were killed 
including his younger half-brother Alan la Zouche de Mortimer). He was trusted to be 
guardian of the sixteen-year-old Black Prince. Beauchamp fought at Poitiers in 1356 
and at the Siege of Calais (1346).

He began the rebuilding of the Collegiate Church of Saint Mary in Warwick using 
money received from the ransom of a French Archbishop. He died of plague in Calais 
on 13 November 1369 and was entombed in the Beauchamp Chapel. The chapel 
contains the finest example of the use of brisures for cadency in medieval heraldry—
seven different Beauchamp coats of arms.

Marriage and children[edit]

He married Katherine Mortimer, daughter of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March. They 
had five sons and ten daughters:[1]
Guy de Beauchamp (died 28 April 1360); married Philippa de Ferrers, daughter of 
Henry de Ferrers, 2nd Lord Ferrers of Groby, and Isabel de Verdun, by whom he had 
two daughters:[2] Elizabeth (died c. 1369), and Katherine, who became a nun. His 
daughters were, by entail, excluded from their grandfather's inheritance.
Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick (16 March 1339 – 8 August 1401), 
married Margaret Ferrers, daughter of William Ferrers, 3rd Lord of Groby, and Margaret 
de Ufford, by whom he had issue, including Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of 
Warwick.
Reinbrun de Beauchamp (died 1361)
William de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny (c. 1343 – 8 May 1411); inherited the 
honour of Abergavenny. On 23 July 1392, married Lady Joan FitzAlan, daughter of 
Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel and Lady Elizabeth de Bohun, by whom he had 
a son, Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester, and a daughter, Joan de 
Beauchamp, Countess of Ormond. Queen consort Anne Boleyn was a notable 
descendant of the latter.
Roger de Beauchamp (died 1361)
Maud de Beauchamp (died 1403); married Roger de Clifford, 5th Baron de Clifford, by 
whom she had issue, including Thomas de Clifford, 6th Baron de Clifford.
Philippa de Beauchamp; married Hugh de Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford, by whom she 
had nine children.
Alice Beauchamp (died 1383); married firstly John Beauchamp, 3rd Baron Beauchamp 
of Somerset, and secondly Sir Matthew Gournay.[3] She died childless.
Joan de Beauchamp; married Ralph Basset, 3rd Baron Basset of Drayton. She died 
childless.
Isabella de Beauchamp (died 29 September 1416); married firstly John le Strange, 5th 
Baron Strange, and secondly, William de Ufford, 2nd Earl of Suffolk. Upon the latter's 
death, she became a nun. She died childless.
Margaret de Beauchamp; married Guy de Montfort, and after his death, she became a 
nun. She died childless.
Elizabeth de Beauchamp; married Thomas de Ufford KG.
Anne de Beauchamp; married Walter de Cokesey.
Juliana de Beauchamp
Katherine de Beauchamp; became a nun at Shouldham Priory.

Catherine Grandison, Countess of Salisbury was not his daughter, although she is 
presented as such in William Painter's Palace of Pleasure and in the Elizabethan play 
Edward III, that may be by William Shakespeare.

Death[edit]

Beauchamp's wife Katherine died on 4 August 1369. Beauchamp died three months 
later, on 13 November 1369, of the Black Death and was buried alongside his wife at 
St. Mary's Church, Warwick, Warwickshire.

Parents
DE BEAUCHAMP Guy (1271 - 12 Aug 1315)
DE TOSNY [DE TOENI] Alice (26 Apr 1284 - 1 Jan 1324)

Siblings
DE BEAUCHAMP Thomas (14 Feb 1314 - 13 Nov 1369)
DE BEAUCHAMP Elizabeth (ABT 1315 - 1359)

Marriage To DE MORTIMER Katherine (Catherine) (1314 - 4 Aug 1369)
    m. 19 Apr 1319 

Notes

Parents
DE MORTIMER Roger (3 May 1287 - 29 Nov 1330)
DE GENEVILLE Joan (2 Feb 1286 - 19 Oct 1356)

Children by DE MORTIMER Katherine (Catherine) 1314 - 4 Aug 1369
BEAUCHAMP Philippa (ABT 1334 - 6 Apr 1386)
DE BEAUCHAMP Maud (ABT 1335 - ABT Feb 1403)

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