BURGHERSH— BTJKGHLEY. 79 VI. 1114. 5. Isabel, apparently, s/to jure Baroness Burghersh, only surv, sister .mil sole bu, being posthumous child of Thomas (Despkncer) Earl of Gloucester, abovenamed, b. at Cardiff 26 July 1400. She m. firstly 27 July 1411, Richard (BbabcHAMP), Lord Beroaykxny, or Beauciiami' dk BeugavEN.vv, who, in 1420, was cr. Earl oi- WORCESTER, and who d. s.p.m, 1422, and was bur. at Tewkesbury. She m. secondly (by spec, dispensation), her husband's cousin, Richard (BbauOHaHp), Earl of Warwick (being his second wife) who A 30 April 1439. She d. a few months subsequently, and was bar. at Tewkesbury. Wffl dat. 1 Dec. 1439, pr. 4 Feb. 1439/40. VII. 1440. O. Henry (Beauchamp) Earl of Warwick, and, f | apparently, Lord IUrohersH, only s. and h. by 2d husband. 1 He, who wxs cr. Dike ok 'Warwick d. n.p.m. 11 June 1443 aged about 22 years. II VIII. 1445, 7. Ann, suo fure Countess of Warwick, and, r"| apparently. Baroness Bchoiiehsii. only da. and h. .She d. an infant and unm. 3. Tunc 1449, when the Barony of Burghersh fell
159. «>to abcyanec lietweeu her aunts (the daughters and coheirs of
Isabel, her grandmother, by her two husbands) or their descendants. (•) o> a i.e. " BARON OF BURGHERSH, co. Sussex," see " Westmorland," Earldom of, or. 1C24. BURGHLEY. Barony. J, gja William Cecil, " Chief Secretary to the Queen," ,_. was, on 25 Feb. 1570/1, cr. BARON OF BURGHLEY,( b ) co. North- L 101 1. ampton. He was s. and h. of Richard Cecil of Burghley, near Stam- ford, co. Northampton, sometime Groom of the Wardrobe, by Jane, da. and h. of William Hkckiniitox of Bourne, co. Lincoln. He was b. 13 Sep. 1521 and bap. at Bourne afsd. ; ed. 1535 at St, John's Coll., Cambridge ; admitted 1541 to Gray's Inn. He was befriended by the Protector Somerset, whom (as EaTl of Hert- ford) he had accompanied at the battle of Musselburgh, 10 Sep. 1547, and by whose influence he was made Master of the Requests, and (1548) Gustos Brevium of the (") These coheirs were (1) Edward (Nevill), Lord Bergavenuy, s. and h. of Sir Edward Nevill by Elizabeth suo jure, apparently, Baroness Bergavenuy, who was 1st da. of Isabel, suo jure, apparently, Baroness Burghersh abovenamed, and only child and h. of the said Isabel's 1st husband, Richard (13eauchamp),"Lord Bergavenny (orBeauchamp de Bcrgavenny), and Earl of Worcester (2) Ann, 2d and yst. da. of the said Isabel, sister of the whole blood to Henry, Earl of Warwick, apparently, Lord Burghersh above- named, both being the said Isabel's children by her 2d husband, Richard (Beauehamp), Earl of Warwick. This Ann was then wife of Richard Nevill, who on 23 July 1449, was confirmed in the Earldom of Warwick. She d. a widow s.p.m. about 1490, leaving numerous descendants. The coheirship as thus stated is independent of any doctrine of half blood, which, if the Barony of Burghersh was legally vested in the Duke of Warwick, might be argued in favour of his sister of the whole blood as against the descendants of Lady Bergavenuy, his sister fx parte maternA. ( b ) " In the patent of the creation of this title it is written Burghley throughout, excepting in the clause which provides that the grantee and his heirs male shall have a. seat in Parliament, when it is spelt Burleigh." See " Courthope."
