Margaret Beauchamp Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford 1404-1468

Before 5th October 1397 [her father] Richard Beauchamp 13th Earl Warwick [aged 15] and [her mother] Elizabeth Berkeley Countess Warwick [aged 11] were married. He the son of [her grandfather] Thomas Beauchamp 12th Earl Warwick [aged 59] and [her grandmother] Margaret Ferrers Countess Warwick [aged 50]. They were second cousin once removed. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward I of England. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward I of England.

In 1404 Margaret Beauchamp Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford was born to Richard Beauchamp 13th Earl Warwick [aged 21] and Elizabeth Berkeley Countess Warwick [aged 18]. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward I of England. Coefficient of inbreeding 1.71%.

Before 12th March 1407 [her future husband] John "Old Talbot" Talbot 1st Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 24] and Maud Neville 6th Baroness Furnivall [aged 14] were married. He by marriage Baron Furnivall. They were third cousin once removed. He a great x 3 grandson of King Edward I of England.

Before 1414 Hugh Courtenay 4th or 12th Earl Devon [aged 24] and [her future sister-in-law] Anne Talbot Countess Devon [aged 20] were married. He the son of Edward Courtenay 3rd or 12th Earl Devon [aged 56] and Maud Camoys Countess Devon. They were third cousins. He a great x 3 grandson of King Edward I of England. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward I of England.

On 28th December 1422 [her mother] Elizabeth Berkeley Countess Warwick [aged 36] died. Baron Lisle of Kingston Lisle in Oxfordshire abeyant between her daughters Margaret Beauchamp Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford [aged 18], [her sister] Eleanor Beauchamp Duchess Somerset [aged 14] and Elizabeth Beauchamp Baroness Latimer [aged 5].

Before 1425 [her father] Richard Beauchamp 13th Earl Warwick [aged 42] and [her step-mother] Isabel Despencer Countess Warwick and Worcester [aged 24] were married. She by marriage Countess Warwick. She the daughter of Thomas Despencer 1st Earl Gloucester and Constance York Countess Gloucester. He the son of [her grandfather] Thomas Beauchamp 12th Earl Warwick and [her grandmother] Margaret Ferrers Countess Warwick. They were third cousins. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward I of England. She a great granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

On 6th September 1425 John "Old Talbot" Talbot 1st Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 42] and Margaret Beauchamp Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford [aged 21] were married. She by marriage Baroness Strange Blackmere, Baroness Talbot. The difference in their ages was 21 years. She the daughter of Richard Beauchamp 13th Earl Warwick [aged 43] and Elizabeth Berkeley Countess Warwick. They were second cousin twice removed. He a great x 3 grandson of King Edward I of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward I of England.

In 1426 [her son] John Talbot 1st Viscount Lisle was born to [her husband] John "Old Talbot" Talbot 1st Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 43] and Margaret Beauchamp Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford [aged 22]. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward I of England. He married 1443 Joan Cheddar Viscountess Lisle and had issue.

Before 9th September 1427 [her brother-in-law] Thomas Ros 8th Baron Ros Helmsley [aged 19] and [her sister] Eleanor Beauchamp Duchess Somerset [aged 19] were married. She by marriage Baroness Ros Helmsley. She the daughter of [her father] Richard Beauchamp 13th Earl Warwick [aged 45] and [her mother] Elizabeth Berkeley Countess Warwick. They were third cousin once removed. He a great x 4 grandson of King Henry III of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward I of England.

Around 1429 [her son] Louis Talbot was born to [her husband] John "Old Talbot" Talbot 1st Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 46] and Margaret Beauchamp Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford [aged 25]. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward I of England.

In or before 1432 [her brother-in-law] Edmund Beaufort 1st or 2nd Duke of Somerset [aged 25] and [her sister] Eleanor Beauchamp Duchess Somerset [aged 23] were married. She the daughter of [her father] Richard Beauchamp 13th Earl Warwick [aged 49] and [her mother] Elizabeth Berkeley Countess Warwick. He the son of John Beaufort 1st Marquess Somerset and Dorset and Margaret Holland Duchess Clarence [aged 46]. They were third cousin once removed. He a great grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward I of England.

In or before 1433 [her son] Humphrey Talbot was born to [her husband] John "Old Talbot" Talbot 1st Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 49] and Margaret Beauchamp Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford [aged 28]. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward I of England.

In 1434 [her half-brother] Henry Beauchamp 1st Duke Warwick [aged 8] and [her sister-in-law] Cecily Neville Duchess Warwick [aged 10] were married at Titchfield Abbey, Hampshire [Map]. A Marriage of Two Sets of Siblings. His sister [her half-sister] Anne Beauchamp 16th Countess Warwick [aged 7] would marry her brother [her future brother-in-law] Richard "Kingmaker" Neville Earl Warwick, 6th Earl Salisbury [aged 5] two years later. She the daughter of Richard Neville Earl Salisbury [aged 34] and Alice Montagu 5th Countess of Salisbury [aged 27]. He the son of [her father] Richard Beauchamp 13th Earl Warwick [aged 51] and [her step-mother] Isabel Despencer Countess Warwick and Worcester [aged 33]. They were third cousins. He a great x 2 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

In 1436 [her brother-in-law] Richard "Kingmaker" Neville Earl Warwick, 6th Earl Salisbury [aged 7] and [her half-sister] Anne Beauchamp 16th Countess Warwick [aged 9] were married. A Marriage of Two Sets of Siblings. His sister [her sister-in-law] Cecily Neville Duchess Warwick [aged 12] had previously married her brother [her half-brother] Henry Beauchamp 1st Duke Warwick [aged 10]. She the daughter of [her father] Richard Beauchamp 13th Earl Warwick [aged 53] and [her step-mother] Isabel Despencer Countess Warwick and Worcester [aged 35]. He the son of Richard Neville Earl Salisbury [aged 36] and Alice Montagu 5th Countess of Salisbury [aged 29]. They were third cousins. He a great x 2 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

Around February 1436 [her daughter] Eleanor Talbot was born to [her husband] John "Old Talbot" Talbot 1st Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 53] and Margaret Beauchamp Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford [aged 32]. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward I of England. She married 1449 her half third cousin once removed Thomas Boteler, son of Ralph Boteler 6th and 1st Baron Sudeley and Elizabeth Norbury Baroness Sudeley.

In 1437 [her brother-in-law] George Neville 1st Baron Latimer of Snape [aged 30] and [her sister] Elizabeth Beauchamp Baroness Latimer [aged 20] were married. She by marriage Baroness Latimer of Snape. She the daughter of [her father] Richard Beauchamp 13th Earl Warwick [aged 54] and [her mother] Elizabeth Berkeley Countess Warwick. He the son of Ralph Neville 1st Earl of Westmoreland and Joan Beaufort Countess of Westmoreland [aged 58]. They were second cousin once removed. He a great grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward I of England.

On 30th April 1439 [her father] Richard Beauchamp 13th Earl Warwick [aged 57] died at Rouen, France [Map]. His son [her half-brother] Henry [aged 14] succeeded 14th Earl Warwick. [her sister-in-law] Cecily Neville Duchess Warwick [aged 15] by marriage Countess Warwick.

In the middle of the Beauchamp Chapel [Map] lieth upon a tomb of marble, in full statue, the effigy of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, in armour, all made of fine latten brass, doubly guilt.

Besides these there stand round about, his tomb, eighteen lesser images, made of brass and gilt, resembling angels, with this label: Glory and for Praise to God - Mercy to the Dead.

The Inscription about his tomb, engraved in brass, in the uncouth diction and spelling, is as follows:

Preith devoutly for the Sowel whom God assoile of one of the moost worshipful Knightes, in his Dayles of Monhode and Conning. Richard Beauchamp, late Earl of Warrewyk. Lord Despenser of Bergevenny, of mony other grete Lordships; whose Body resteth here under this Tumbe in a ful seire voute of Stone set on the bare rooch, the which visited with longe sikness in the Castel of Roan therinne deceased full cristenty the last day of April, the yer of our Lord God MCCCCXXXIX. He being at that time lieutenant, genal and goverin of the Roialmes of Fraunce, and of the Duchie of Normandie by sufficient authorite of oure Sovaigne Lord the King Harry the sixth, the which body with grete deliberacon and ful worshipful Conduit by see and by lond was brought to Warrewik the iiii day of October the yer aboveseide and was leide with ful solemne exequies in a feir Chest made of Stone in this Church, afore the west dore of this Chapel according to his last Wille and Testament therein to reste, til this Chapel by him devised in his lief were made. At the whuche Chapel founded on the rooche and alle the Membres thereof, his Executors dede fully make and apparaille, by the autorite of his said wille & Testament, and thereafter by the same autorite then dide translate ful worshipfully the seide body into the vout abouesaide; honired be God therefore.

At his head there is a great helm with a crest of a swan with a Coronet around its neck.

At his right foot a muzzled bear which features on the Beauchamp Bear and Ragged Staff badge.

At his left foot a griffin.

Over the said monument is a hearse of brass, gilt, made designedly to support a covering over the curious repository of the remains of this once great Earl.

Round about his tomb, stand fourteen images of brass, all gilt; under the feet of each of them is a coat of arms. These images are resembling fourteen lords and ladies, called weepers.

At the head of the tomb: Henry Beauchamp, Duke of Warwick, and Lady Cecil, his wife, daughter to Richard Nevil, Earl of Salisbury [aged 39].

On the south side: Richard Nevil, Earl of Salisbury;

Edmund Beaufort [aged 33], Duke of Somerset;

Humphrey Stafford [aged 36], Duke of Buckingham;

John Talbot [aged 56], Earl of Shrewsbury;

Richard Nevil [aged 10], Earl of Warwick.

At the foot of the tomb: George Nevil [aged 32], Lord Lattimer, and Elizabeth [aged 22], his wife, daughter to Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick.

On the north side: Anne [aged 12], daughter to Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, wife to Richard, Earl of Warwick.

Eleanor [aged 30], daughter to Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and wife to Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset;

Anne [aged 31], daughter to Ralph Nevill, Earl of Westmoreland, wife to Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckingham;

Margaret [aged 35], eldest daughter to Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, wife to John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury;

Alice [aged 32], daughter and heiress to Thomas Montague, Earl of Salisbury, wife to Richard Nevil, Earl of Salisbury;

In 1442 [her husband] John "Old Talbot" Talbot 1st Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 59] was created 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and 1st Earl Waterford. Margaret Beauchamp Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford [aged 38] by marriage Countess of Shrewsbury Countess Waterford.

Around December 1442 [her daughter] Elizabeth Talbot Duchess Norfolk was born to [her husband] John "Old Talbot" Talbot 1st Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 59] and Margaret Beauchamp Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford [aged 38]. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward I of England. She married 1461 her fourth cousin John Mowbray 4th Duke of Norfolk, son of John Mowbray 3rd Duke of Norfolk and Eleanor Bourchier Duchess Norfolk, and had issue.

In 1443 John Talbot 1st Viscount Lisle [aged 17] and Joan Cheddar Viscountess Lisle [aged 18] were married. He the son of John "Old Talbot" Talbot 1st Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 60] and Margaret Beauchamp Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford [aged 39].

After 27th January 1443 [her step-son] Christopher Talbot [aged 24] and Joyce Charleton Baroness Tiptoft [aged 39] were married. She the daughter of Edward Charleton 5th Baron Cherleton and Eleanor Holland Countess March and Ulster. He the son of [her husband] John "Old Talbot" Talbot 1st Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 60] and Maud Neville 6th Baroness Furnivall. They were third cousins. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward I of England. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward I of England.

Before 1445 [her step-son] John Talbot 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 27] and Elizabeth Butler Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford [aged 20] were married. She the daughter of James "White Earl" Butler 4th Earl Ormonde [aged 51] and Joan Beauchamp Countess Ormonde. He the son of [her husband] John "Old Talbot" Talbot 1st Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 61] and Maud Neville 6th Baroness Furnivall. They were third cousins. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward I of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward I of England.

In 1449 [her son-in-law] Thomas Boteler and Eleanor Talbot [aged 12] were married. She the daughter of John "Old Talbot" Talbot 1st Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 66] and Margaret Beauchamp Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford [aged 45]. They were half third cousin once removed. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward I of England.

In 1449 John "Butcher of England" Tiptoft 1st Earl of Worcester [aged 21] and [her former sister-in-law] Cecily Neville Duchess Warwick [aged 25] were married. Her second marriage; her first husband [her half-brother] Henry Beauchamp 1st Duke Warwick had died three years earlier - she was a wealthy widow. She died a year later. She the daughter of Richard Neville Earl Salisbury [aged 49] and Alice Montagu 5th Countess of Salisbury [aged 42]. They were second cousins. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward I of England. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

In 1458 [her son] Louis Talbot [aged 29] died.

Around April 1458 James Butler 1st Earl Wiltshire 5th Earl Ormonde [aged 37] and [her niece] Eleanor Beaufort Countess Ormonde [aged 26] were married. She by marriage Countess Ormonde. She the daughter of [her former brother-in-law] Edmund Beaufort 1st or 2nd Duke of Somerset and [her sister] Eleanor Beauchamp Duchess Somerset [aged 49]. He the son of James "White Earl" Butler 4th Earl Ormonde and Joan Beauchamp Countess Ormonde. They were second cousin once removed. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward I of England. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

Around 1461 [her son-in-law] John Mowbray 4th Duke of Norfolk [aged 16] and Elizabeth Talbot Duchess Norfolk [aged 18] were married. She by marriage Duchess Norfolk. She the daughter of John "Old Talbot" Talbot 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and Margaret Beauchamp Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford [aged 57]. He the son of John Mowbray 3rd Duke of Norfolk [aged 45] and Eleanor Bourchier Duchess Norfolk [aged 44]. They were fourth cousins. He a great x 2 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward I of England.

In 1465 Robert Spencer of Spencer Combe [aged 30] and [her niece] Eleanor Beaufort Countess Ormonde [aged 33] were married. She the daughter of [her former brother-in-law] Edmund Beaufort 1st or 2nd Duke of Somerset and [her sister] Eleanor Beauchamp Duchess Somerset [aged 56].

On 14th June 1468 Margaret Beauchamp Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford [aged 64] died.