Lady Elizabeth Beauchamp

circa 1417 - Before 1480  (~ 63 years)

• Name	Elizabeth Beauchamp  [1]
  Prefix	Lady
  Born	circa 1417  [2]
  Gender	Female
  Will	20 Sept. 1480  [3]
  	She desired to buried in the Beauchamp Chapel (St. Mary's), Warwick, beside her son. She made various gifts to this chantry, and some also to Well, where her first husband was buried. [3] She made provision for Thomas Neville, younger son of her late son Henry; also for her daughter Catherine, wife of Oliver Dudley. [4]
  Died	Before 2 Oct. 1480  [1]
  Person ID	I900	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	1 Dec. 2018

  
  

  Father	Richard (Beauchamp), 13th Earl of Warwick
  Mother	Elizabeth (de Berkeley), suo jure Baroness Lisle and Baroness Berkeley
  Family ID	F494	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	George (Neville), 1st Lord Latimer,   d. 30/31 Dec. 1469
  Married	Before Feb. 1436/37  [5]
  Children	+ 1. Hon. Sir Henry Neville,   d. 26 July 1469, Danes Moor, Edgecote, Northamptonshire, England
  Last Modified	1 Dec. 2018
  Family ID	F493	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Thomas Wake,   d. 20 May 1476
  Last Modified	1 Dec. 2018
  Family ID	F496	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  There are engravings of the figure of Elizabeth Beauchamp, Lady Latimer, from the East window of the Beauchamp Chapel in Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwick, 2nd ed., page 412, and of the ffigies of her and her husband in the niches at the side of her father's tomb there in Nichols' Description of the Beauchamp Chapel, plate vi. [1] She inherited Stowe and other lands in Northamptonshire in 1439, when she was aged 22. [6]

  
  

• Sources

  [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 480. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 480. Citing Ch. Inq. p. m., 17 Hen. VI, no. 54 (file 94). [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 480. Citing Test. Vet., page 357. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 480. Citing Cal. Inq. p. m., Hen. VIII, vol. i, no. 905. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 480. Citing Cal. Papal Letters, volume viii, page 615. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 480. Citing Ch. Inq. p. m., 17 Hen. VI, no. 54 (file 94). On 31 December 1439 there was an inspeximus of the deed of partition of the lands of Elizabeth Countess of Warwick among her 3 daughters, Eleanor, wife of Edmund, Earl of Dorset; Margaret, wife of John, Lord Talbot; and Elizabeth, wife of George, Lord Latimer (Jeayes, Berkeley Castle Charters, no. 594). In 1449 these 3, with Anne (wife of Richard Neville), daughter by a 2nd wife, were the coheirs of the said Earl of Warwick (Cal. Patent Rolls, 1446–52, pages 262, 451). There was a further partition in 1466 (Jeayes, ut supra, no. 615). For disputes about the Berkeley lands see Early Chanc. Proc., bundle 19, no. 426, and Rolls of Parl., volume v, page 41; and for the Beauchamp inheritance, Early Chanc. Proc., bundle 66, no. 376.