Mother: ISOBEL MAUDUIT of Warwick |
Of the first three Beauchamp earls of Warwick, Earl William is
the most shadowy figure. Clearly a great and important figure in
his day, no chroniclers have left us any personal picture of the
man, in the way which they have for his son and grandson.
William was a soldier of considerable importance; he was
frequently summoned against the Welsh between 1277 and 1294, and
from 1296 to his death in 1298 was involved in the Scottish
wars. He was a vigorous and innovative military commander, and
it is in this role that he is best remembered by historians and
chroniclers; his tactics at the battle of Maes Moydog over the
Welsh forces commanded by Madog ap Llywelyn have been credited
as anticipating the successful use of crossbow men at Falkirk,
although there is some dispute as to how much of the victory can
be ascribed to Earl William's strategy. He was also present at
the siege of Droselan, and with John, earl of Surrey, helped
recover the castle of Dunbar. Apart from his military exploits,
William appears to have had a tendency toward hot-headedness;
particularly demonstrated by his exhumation of his father's
corpse in the middle of the church of the Friars Minor in
Worcestershire, because he had given credence to the rumour that
someone else had been buried in his stead. After his brothers,
who were present and identified their father ‘by certain
markings’, the earl was excommunicated for his sacrilegious
actions. Despite this episode, and the lifelong enmity between
him and Bishop Giffard, William appears to have been a
conventionally religious man; he added ‘crosse-crosslets’ to his
coat of arms, which Dugdale interprets as possibly implying a
‘testimony of....pilgrimage by him made into the holy land, or a
vow to do so’. By the end of his life the earl had resolved any
quarrel with the Minorites, and, under the influence of Brother
John de Olney, bequeathed his body to their church. The friars,
according to a disgruntled annalist at Worcester Cathedral,
‘having got hold of the body of so great a man, like conquerors
who had obtained booty, paraded the public streets, and made a
spectacle for the citizens’.
It was also William who began to cultivate the association of
the Beauchamp earls with the legendary tale of ‘Gui de Warwic’.
The tale of Guy de Warwick is an Anglo-Norman romance which has
been dated from between 1232 and 1242, and is thought to have
been written to flatter Thomas Beaumont, the contemporary earl
of Warwick. William's appropriation of the name ‘Guy’ for his
eldest surviving son was undoubtedly influenced by the mythical
figure of Guy of Warwick. Previously the most common male family
names were either William or Walter, with James and John also
being used occasionally for younger sons. The Beauchamp family
grew increasingly attached to the legend of Guy of Warwick as
our period progressed: not only was Guy used as a name for the
firstborn son of Earls William and Thomas (I), but Thomas (I)
named one of his younger sons ‘Reinbrun’ after the son of the
mythical Guy. ‘Un volum del Romaunce du Guy’ is listed in the
collection of books which Earl Guy gave to Bordesley Abbey in
1305, and he was reputedly buried there with the relics of his
legendary namesake. By the time of Thomas I's death in 1369, the
legend of Guy of Warwick was so interwoven into the Beauchamps'
psyche that he bequeathed his son ‘the coat of mail sometime
belonging to that famous Guy of Warwick’ as the most highly
treasured of his possessions; in his will, this mythical relic
took precedence over other caskets of gold, and ornate crosses
containing pieces of Christ's cross. As McGoldrick points out,
‘the holiest of relics from good kings and venerated public
figures were subordinate to symbols of family honour and
ancestry’. However the ‘family honour and ancestry’ was an
invented one, and William's adoption of the Guy of Warwick
legend must, at least in part, have been motivated by shrewd
political and practical reasons. He belonged to a family of
administrators, and owed his earldom either to good fortune or,
as some might suppose, manipulative social climbing. It is no
surprise that he should have adopted this legend in 1268, for it
provided the family with a noble heritage and a heroic
legitimacy. By Earl Thomas' time, the Beauchamps were firmly
established amongst the higher nobility, and his attachment to
the legend of Guy of Warwick appears to have been fostered by a
genuine sense of family honour.
Of the three sons, Guy was the only one to outlive his father;
Robert died in infancy and Dugdale maintains that John ‘died in
the life of his father’, although it does not seem likely that
he survived long into his childhood. By the time of the earl's
death, two of his daughters were nuns at Shouldham in Norfolk, a
remote monastery with close links to the FitzGeoffrey family,
taking up a cloistered existence like so many women in the
Beauchamp family. "
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Alt: abt 1227
_WALTER de BEAUCHAMP ____________________ | (1150 - 1235) _WALTER (Walchaline) de BEAUCHAMP _| | (1180 - 1236) m 1212 | | |_BERTHA de BRAOSE _______________________+ | (1151 - 1170) _WILLIAM III de BEAUCHAMP 5th Baron of Elmley_| | (1215 - 1268) | | | _ROGER II de MORTIMER Lord of Wigmore____+ | | | (1158 - 1214) | |_JOANE de MORTIMER ________________| | (1187 - 1268) m 1212 | | |_MILLICENT de FERRERS ___________________+ | (1170 - 1252) | |--WILLIAM de BEAUCHAMP 1st Earl of Warwick | (1238 - 1298) | _________________________________________ | | | _WILLIAM MAUDUIT __________________| | | (1196 - 1257) | | | |_________________________________________ | | |_ISOBEL MAUDUIT of Warwick____________________| (1227 - 1268) | | _WALERAN de NEWBURGH 4th Earl of Warwick_+ | | (1153 - 1204) m 1196 |_ALICE de NEWBURGH of Warwick______| (1196 - 1263) | |_ALICE de HARCOURT ______________________+ (1181 - 1212) m 1196
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Mother: MAUD of Felbrigge |
_ROGER de BIGOD 2nd Earl of Norfolk____________________+ | (1160 - 1221) _HUGH de BIGOD 3rd Earl of Norfolk__| | (1178 - 1224) m 1207 | | |_IDA (Isabel) PLANTAGENET of Lancaster_________________+ | (1170 - ....) _SIMON de BIGOD of Felbrigge_| | (1222 - ....) | | | _WILLIAM "The Protector" MARSHALL 3rd Earl of Pembroke_+ | | | (1144 - 1219) m 1189 | |_MAUD (Matilda) MARSHALL of Norfolk_| | (1192 - 1248) m 1207 | | |_ISABEL de CLARE of Pembroke___________________________+ | (1174 - 1220) m 1189 | |--ROGER de BIGOD of Felbrigge | | _______________________________________________________ | | | ____________________________________| | | | | | |_______________________________________________________ | | |_MAUD of Felbrigge___________| | | _______________________________________________________ | | |____________________________________| | |_______________________________________________________
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Mother: Charlotte Elizabeth DUVALL |
__ | __| | | | |__ | _Charles Henry DICKINSON ____| | (1860 - ....) | | | __ | | | | |__| | | | |__ | | |--Edith Kent DICKINSON | (1891 - ....) | __ | | | __| | | | | | |__ | | |_Charlotte Elizabeth DUVALL _| (1870 - ....) | | __ | | |__| | |__
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Mother: Mary Ann MCCOY |
_James EUBANK _______+ | (1754 - 1830) m 1780 _James Taylor EUBANK _| | (1787 - 1814) m 1813 | | |_Lucy Ann TAYLOR ____+ | (1759 - 1823) m 1780 _James Moss Taylor EUBANK _| | (1815 - 1867) m 1842 | | | _Archibald BROWN ____ | | | (1770 - 1806) m 1791 | |_Maria H. BROWN ______| | (1792 - 1825) m 1813 | | |_Nancy Ann MOSS _____+ | (1774 - ....) m 1791 | |--Anna Mariah EUBANK | (1848 - 1913) | _William MCCOY Sr.___ | | (1770 - ....) | _William MCCOY Jr.____| | | (1800 - ....) | | | |_____________________ | | |_Mary Ann MCCOY ___________| (1826 - 1909) m 1842 | | _____________________ | | |______________________| | |_____________________
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Mother: Dorothy TAYLOR |
_Richard LEE "the immigrant"___+ | (1613 - 1664) m 1641 _William LEE ________| | (1651 - 1697) | | |_Anne CONSTABLE OWEN? _________+ | (1615 - 1706) m 1641 _William LEE II______| | (1679 - 1717) m 1700| | | _______________________________ | | | | |_____________________| | | | |_______________________________ | | |--Nancy Anna LEE | (1728 - 1794) | _Thomas TAYLOR "the Immigrant"_+ | | (1637 - 1685) m 1656 | _Thomas TAYLOR II____| | | (1657 - 1712) m 1680| | | |_Mary__________________________ | | (1637 - ....) m 1656 |_Dorothy TAYLOR _____| (1681 - 1754) m 1700| | _William HARWOOD ______________ | | (1640 - ....) |_Elizabeth HARWOOD __| (1662 - 1747) m 1680| |_______________________________
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Mother: Ann Clark MCLEOD |
_Thomas MARSHALL _________________+ | (1660 - 1704) m 1680 _William MARSHALL ______________| | (1685 - 1757) m 1715 | | |_Martha Jane SHERWOOD ____________+ | (1662 - 1749) m 1680 _William MARSHALL ___| | (1730 - 1810) m 1767| | | _William WILLIAMS "the Immigrant"_ | | | (1665 - 1712) m 1690 | |_Elizabeth WILLIAMS ____________| | (1691 - 1750) m 1715 | | |_Jael HARRISON ___________________+ | (1675 - 1733) m 1690 | |--Sarah MARSHALL | (1779 - 1854) | __________________________________ | | | _Torquil MCLEOD "the Immigrant"_| | | (1700 - 1752) | | | |__________________________________ | | |_Ann Clark MCLEOD ___| (1742 - 1809) m 1767| | _Jonathan CLARK __________________ | | |_Ann CLARK _____________________| (1727 - ....) | |_Elizabeth Ann WILSON ____________
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Mother: MABEL de CLARE |
There is a documented issue from Philip down to the present day,
although some of the inheritance of the name has been through
the female line. There is a great deal of information about this
family in the W. Stephen's book "The History of Inverkeithing
and Rosyth".
_NELE d' AUBIGNY ____+ | (1085 - 1129) m 1118 _ROGER de (d'Aubigny) MOWBRAY _| | (1120 - 1188) | | |_GUNDRED de GOURNAY _+ | (1100 - 1155) m 1118 _NIGEL de MOWBRAY ___| | (1145 - 1191) m 1170| | | _WALTER de GAUNT ____ | | | | |_ALICE de GAUNT _______________| | (1120 - ....) | | |_____________________ | | |--PHILIP de MOWBRAY | (1170 - ....) | _____________________ | | | _______________________________| | | | | | |_____________________ | | |_MABEL de CLARE _____| (1150 - 1203) m 1170| | _____________________ | | |_______________________________| | |_____________________
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Mother: Joanna DILLON |
_(RESEARCH QUERY) SMITH _ | _(RESEARCH QUERY) Pike Co. MS SMITH _| | | | |_________________________ | _Jeremiah G. SMITH __| | (1773 - 1843) m 1798| | | _________________________ | | | | |_____________________________________| | | | |_________________________ | | |--Hollander SMITH | (1800 - ....) | _________________________ | | | _Richard DILLON _____________________| | | (1750 - ....) | | | |_________________________ | | |_Joanna DILLON ______| (1778 - ....) m 1798| | _________________________ | | |_Ann LAWRENCE _______________________| (1750 - ....) | |_________________________
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Mother: Mildred BERRY |
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or born in Cedar Lawn, Jefferson, VA
_Augustine WASHINGTON Sr._+ | (1694 - 1743) m 1731 _Samuel WASHINGTON of Harewood_| | (1734 - 1781) m 1756 | | |_Mary BALL _______________+ | (1707 - 1790) m 1731 _Thornton Augustine WASHINGTON _| | (1758 - 1787) m 1779 | | | _John THORNTON ___________+ | | | (1712 - 1777) m 1740 | |_Mildred THORNTON _____________| | (1741 - 1764) m 1756 | | |_Mildred GREGORY _________+ | (1721 - 1750) m 1740 | |--John Thornton Augustine WASHINGTON | (1783 - 1841) | _Enoch BERRY Sr.__________+ | | (1703 - 1763) m 1726 | _Thomas BERRY _________________| | | (1729 - 1813) m 1758 | | | |_Dulcabella BUNBURY ______ | | (1705 - 1763) m 1726 |_Mildred BERRY _________________| (1760 - 1785) m 1779 | | _John WASHINGTON _________+ | | (1692 - 1741) m 1721 |_Elizabeth WASHINGTON _________| (1737 - 1789) m 1758 | |_Mary MASSEY _____________+ (1702 - 1746) m 1721
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