Thomas de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick (3rd) image Born about 1313 Died on 13 November 1369 - Calais (62) Age at death: possibly 56 years old Parents Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick +1315 Alice de Toëny 1284-1324/1325 Marriages and children Married after October 1326 to Katherine Mortimer ca 1314-1369, with Thomas 1339-1401 William 1343-1411 Philippa 1343-/1386 Maud Beauchamp +1403 Guy +1360 Reinbrun Roger +1361 Alice +1383 Joan Beauchamp Isabella +1416 Margaret Elizabeth Anne Juliana Katherine (linked pages) Notes Effigies of Katherine de Mortimer and Thomas Beauchamp, 3rd (11th) Earl of Warwick. Church of St Mary in 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 He 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. Victor at Crécy and Poitiers Thomas Beauchamp fought in all the French wars of King Edward III: commanded at the Battle of Crecy: was guardian of the sixteen-year-old Black Prince: 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 out of money received from the ransom of a French Archbishop. He died of plague in Calais on 13 November 1369. Marriage and children He married Katherine Mortimer, daughter of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March. They had five sons and ten daughters:[1] Guy (d. 28 April 1360). He had two daughters who by entail were excluded from their grandfathers inheritance: Elizabeth (d. c.1369), and Katherine, who became a nun Thomas (1337x9-1401) who succeeded his father as earl and inherited most of his property Reinbrun, (d. 1361); he was named for a character in Guy of Warwick William (c.1343-1411), who inherited the honour of Abergavenny. Married Joan FitzAlan. Roger (d. 1361) Maud (d. 1403), who married Roger de Clifford, 5th Baron de Clifford Philippa de Beauchamp who married Hugh de Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford Alice (d. 1383), who married first John Beauchamp, 3rd Baron Beauchamp and then Sir Matthew Gournay Joan, who married Ralph Basset, 4th Baron Basset de Drayton Isabell (d. 1416) who married first John le Strange, 5th Baron Strange, and then William de Ufford, 2nd Earl of Suffolk. After the latters death she became a nun. Margaret, who married Guy de Montfort and after his death became a nun. Elizabeth, married Thomas de Ufford KG Anne, married Walter de Cokesey Juliana Katherine, became a nun at Shouldham Catherine Montacute, Countess of Salisbury was not his daughter, although she is presented as such in William Painters Palace of Pleasure and in the Elizabethan play, Edward III that may be by William Shakespeare
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