Elizabeth Beauchamp, Baroness Bergavenny

Elizabeth Beauchamp Baroness Bergavenny
Born	16 September 1415 Hanley Castle, Worcestershire, England
Died	18 June 1448 (aged 32)
Spouse	Edward Neville, 3rd Baron Bergavenny
Children	George Nevill, 4th Baron Bergavenny
Parents	Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Worcester (father) Isabel le Despenser (mother)

Elizabeth Beauchamp, Baroness (A)Bergavenny (16 September 1415 – 18 June 1448)[1] was a medieval English noblewoman and heiress. She was born at Hanley Castle, Worcestershire[2] and was the only child of Richard de Beauchamp, Baron Abergavenny and Earl of Worcester, by Isabel, daughter of Thomas le Despenser, Earl of Gloucester.[3] She was therefore the great-great-granddaughter of Edward III.[1]

She inherited her father's estates upon his death in 1422, and succeeded to the title of Lady Bergavenny [E., 1392] on 18 March 1422, suo jure.[1][4]

She became the first wife of Edward Neville, 3rd Baron Bergavenny (d. 1476) before 18 October 1424.[1] He was a younger son of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland, daughter of John of Gaunt and his third wife, Katherine Roët, aka Katherine Swynford.[1] Her husband's brother, George Neville, 1st Baron Latimer, married her step-sister, also named Elizabeth Beauchamp, daughter of her step-father Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick. Their half-brother and half-sister married their husbands' niece and nephew.

Elizabeth and Edward had five children including George Nevill, 4th Baron Bergavenny.[2][3] She was buried in Coventry in the graveyard of the Carmelites.[1][4]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Elizabeth Beauchamp, Baroness Bergavenny

16. Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick 8. Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick 17. Alice de Toeni 4. William de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny 18. Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March 9. Katherine Mortimer 19. Joan de Geneville, 2nd Baroness Geneville 2. Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Worcester 20. Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel 10. Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel 21. Eleanor of Lancaster 5. Joan FitzAlan 22. William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton 11. Elizabeth de Bohun 23. Elizabeth de Badlesmere 1. Elizabeth Beauchamp, Baroness Abergavenny 24. Edward le Despenser 12. Edward le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer 25. Anne Ferrers 6. Thomas le Despenser, Earl of Gloucester 26. Bartholomew de Burghersh, 2nd Baron Burghersh 13. Elizabeth de Burghersh, 3rd Baroness Burghersh 27. Cicely Weyland 3. Isabel le Despenser 28. Edward III of England 14. Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York 29. Philippa of Hainault 7. Constance of York 30. Peter of Castile 15. Isabella of Castile 31. María de Padilla

References

1. Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume I, page 27, 29.
2. Luminarium website, Edward Neville, 1st Baron Bergavenny (d.1476)
3. Encyclopedia.com website, Beauchamp, Elizabeth (Fl. 1400s)
4. Cambridge University Heraldic & Genealogical Society website, Elizabeth (Beauchamp) suo jure Lady Bergavenny