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"There is no doubt that the Beauchamp family would have
continued to be only of regional historical importance were it
not for the marriage between William Beauchamp of Elmley and
Isabel Mauduit. The Mauduits were a ‘respectable official
family’ in the same mould as the Beauchamps. One of Isabel's
ancestors had been chamberlain of the exchequer under Henry I,
and the Mauduits inherited that hereditary office from him. What
made Isabel such a prized catch, however, was that her brother,
William Mauduit, earl of Warwick, lacked legitimate issue,
making Isabel his heiress. Mauduit had inherited the title from
his mother, a member of the twelfth-century Beaumont earls of
Warwick. The inheritance of the earldom can perhaps be viewed as
more of a fortuitous accident than a planned marriage; Earl
William was said to be between the ages of 26 and 30 in 1268,
placing the marriage of William and Isabel in the late 1230s or
early 1240s. At this time, the chances of the earldom passing to
Isabel must have seemed remote at best: Thomas Beaumont was
married to Ela, countess of Salisbury (who nearly lived on until
the very end of the thirteenth century), and if their union
failed to produce any issue, then it was likely that the
marriage of his sister Margery to John de Plessis probably
would. It was only on Margery's death in 1253 that it was clear
the earldom was going to descend to the Mauduits, and even then
any issue from the marriage of William Mauduit and Alice de
Segrave would have prevented the earldom coming into William of
Elmley's hands. In effect the earldom descended by chance and by
default, for it was the failure of both the Beaumont and Mauduit
lines to produce male heirs that allowed the earldom to pass
into the hands of the Beauchamps in 1268, and not the result of
a cunning marriage policy on the part of William of Elmley.
"Sir William, the first earl of Warwick from the Beauchamp
family, formally did homage for his lands on 9 February 1268.
From the outset, this was unusual; whereas most sons only
received their inheritance on the death of their father, it is
evident that Earl William's father, William Beauchamp of Elmley,
was still alive at the time when his son acceded to the earldom;
the will of the elder William clearly refers to his son as the
‘earl of Warwick’, and we also have an undated charter in which
the elder William Beauchamp concedes 20 librates of land to his
son, ‘William, earl of Warwick’. William Beauchamp of Elmley had
the right to assume the title of earl himself, as had happened
in similar circumstances a generation earlier, but chose to give
the title to his eldest son. Earl William had inherited his
title from his uncle, William Mauduit, whose sister Isabel had
married William Beauchamp of Elmley, Earl William's father. It
was the union between William and Isabel which proved to be the
making of the Beauchamp fortunes, changing them from a strong
family of regional significance into one of the greatest English
families of the later middle ages.
The Beauchamps, up to this time, were essentially a great
Worcestershire family."
Citations: 1. [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A.
Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de
Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland,
Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct
or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6
volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume
II, page 44. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
___________________________________________ | _WALTER de BEAUCHAMP _________________| | (1150 - 1235) | | |___________________________________________ | _WALTER (Walchaline) de BEAUCHAMP _| | (1180 - 1236) m 1212 | | | _WILLIAM de BRAOSE 1st Lord of Abergavenny_+ | | | (1126 - 1193) m 1150 | |_BERTHA de BRAOSE ____________________| | (1151 - 1170) | | |_BERTHA de PÎTRES of Gloucester____________+ | (1130 - ....) m 1150 | |--WILLIAM III de BEAUCHAMP 5th Baron of Elmley | (1215 - 1268) | _HUGH I de MORTIMER _______________________+ | | (1108 - 1184) m 1158 | _ROGER II de MORTIMER Lord of Wigmore_| | | (1158 - 1214) | | | |_MATILDA (Maud) la MESCHINES ______________+ | | (1120 - ....) m 1158 |_JOANE de MORTIMER ________________| (1187 - 1268) m 1212 | | _WILLIAM de FERRERS 3rd Earl of Derby______+ | | (1136 - 1190) |_MILLICENT de FERRERS ________________| (1170 - 1252) | |_SIBYL de BRAOSE __________________________+ (1150 - 1227)
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_Richard GREGORY III_____+ | (1695 - 1742) m 1727 _Roger GREGORY _______| | (1729 - 1803) m 1756 | | |_Agnes WEST _____________+ | (1700 - ....) m 1727 _Richard GREGORY _____| | (1758 - 1844) m 1789 | | | _Nathaniel H. CLAIBORNE _+ | | | (1716 - 1756) | |_Mary Cole CLAIBORNE _| | (1737 - 1771) m 1756 | | |_Jane COLE ______________+ | (1720 - ....) | |--Richard GREGORY | (1795 - ....) | _________________________ | | | ______________________| | | | | | |_________________________ | | |_Elizabeth WILKINSON _| (1760 - ....) m 1789 | | _________________________ | | |______________________| | |_________________________
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_Morgan MORGAN ______+ | (1720 - ....) _Nathaniel MORGAN ___| | (1740 - 1802) m 1760| | |_____________________ | _Jonathan MORGAN Sr.____| | (1768 - 1840) | | | _____________________ | | | | |_Margaret SUMMERS ___| | (1740 - ....) m 1760| | |_____________________ | | |--Margaret MORGAN | (1798 - 1864) | _____________________ | | | _Alexander BUCHANAN _| | | (1752 - 1827) m 1772| | | |_____________________ | | |_Jean or Jane BUCHANAN _| (1776 - 1833) | | _____________________ | | |_Rachel VANSCHAICK __| (1752 - 1827) m 1772| |_____________________
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