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of South Wales and Governor of Pembroke. By deed, 20 Feb. (1395/6) 19 Ric. II, he entailed the Castle, &c., of Abergavenny on himself and his wife, and their issue male, with rem. to (his br.) Thomas, Earl of Warwick, and his heirs male for ever. He m. Joan, sister and eventually (1415) coh. of Thomas (Fitzalan), Earl of Arundel, da. of Richard, Earl of Arundel, by Elizabeth, da. of William (Bohun), Earl of Northampton. He d. 8 May 1411. Will dat. 25 Apr. 1408, in which he directs to be bur. at the Black Friars, Hereford, pr. at Lambeth.[1] Inq. p. m. 5 June 1411, at Hereford. His widow, who was b. 1375, held the Castle and Honour of Abergavenny in dower till her death. She d. 14 Nov. 1435. Will dat. 10 Jan. 1434/5, pr. 19 Nov. 1435.[2] In it she directs to be bur. by her husband. Inq. p.m. at the Guildhall, London, 15 Dec. 1435. | |
| II. 1411. | 2. Richard Beauchamp, who, unless the Peerage be considered as one incident to the tenure of the Castle (which he never possessed), must be considered as Lord Bergavenny, or Beauchamp de Bergavenny, s. and h., b. in or before 1397, being 14 years old and upwards in June 1411. K.B. 8 Apr. 1413. Joint Warden of the Welsh Marches 1415. Capt. of Lances and Archers in Normandy 1418. He does not appear among the fourteen Barons in the Parl. of 16 Nov. 1417, nor among the thirteen Barons in that of 16 Oct. 1419,[3] but (in |
- ↑ See Test. Vet., p. 171.
- ↑ Idem, p. 224.
- ↑ This is one of the arguments urged as to the right of the Writ of Summons being incident to the tenure of the feudal Barony which was then in possession of (his mother) the widow of the late Baron. The able and learned author of the Authorities, &c. (1862), in the Berkeley claim (in his zeal for establishing the existence of territorial Peerages), actually asserts (p. 188, and elsewhere) as a fact that
venny.' In the 2nd Hen. IV. he is mentioned as 'William Sire de Bergavenny,' and in a similar manner on subsequent occasions. It must, however, be observed, on the other hand, that on the last and most solemn occasion when his name occurs in the Rolls of Parl., viz. among the Peers present at the settlement of the Crown in the 8th Hen. IV., he is in both places styled 'Will'mi Beauchamp de Bergevenny; and at the same time Henry Lord Scrop of Masham is mentioned as 'Henrici le Scrop de Masham whilst other Barons are styled 'Reginaldi Domini de Grey de Ruthyn, Wiliam Domini de Ferrers, Thomæ Domini de Furnyvel,' &c. Richard Beauchamp, his s. and h., was never sum. to Parl. as a Baron, as he was cr. Earl of Worcester four years after he became of age; and though he is sometimes styled 'Lord of Bergavenny,' and his mother, both in the Rolls of Parl. and in her will, is called 'Lady of Bergavenny,' no conclusion is to be drawn therefrom, for this expression was more frequently applied to designate important manors and lordships than Parliamentary Baronies. On Edward Nevill's being sum. in the 29th Hen. VI. as 'Domino de Bergavenny,' such certainly became the title of his Barony: but it is to be considered that this occurred in the reign of Henry VI., a period, as is remarked elsewhere, fruitful in anomalies on subjects connected with the Peerage, and when even, as is stated in a subsequent page, some instances occur of the addition of 'Domino de,' &c., being used, without such designation being the title of the dignity possessed by the Baron to whose name it was appended. Vide the observations on this subject under Charleton, Dudley, and Grey of Powis."—Nicolas, p. 9, note.
