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BEAUCHAMP OF POWICK 47 I. 1447. of Powick, CO. Worcester, and of Alcester, co. Warwick, (m. before Mar. 1414/5, and ^. before 143 1) by Catherine, da. and coh. of Sir Gerard Ufflete. In 1438 he was guardian of the extensive lands of his cousin, Henry, Earl of Warwick. On 16 Aug. 1445 he was installed K.G. Constable of Gloucester Castle, 20 June 1446. On 2 May 1447 he was (by patent) cr. BARON BEAUCHAMP OF POWICK,(*) CO. Worcester, with an annuity of ;(^ii5 out of the city of Gloucester and elsewhere. On the same day he was made Justice of South Wales. Lord Treasurer, 1450 to 1452. He had exemption from attend- ance in Pari, on account of old age and debility, 24 Oct. 1462. He m., in or before 1434, Margaret, sister of Richard Ferrars. He ^. between 9 and 19 Apr. 1475, ^"'i ^^5 ^^^- '" ^^^ church of the Dominican Friars at Wor- cester. Will dat. 9 Apr. 1475. C") His widow, who, in 1448, had been one of the ladies for whom robes of the order of the Garter were provided,("=) directs, in her will,() dat. 29 Jan. 1487, to be i>ur. with her husband. II. 1475 2- Richard (Beauchamp), Baron Beauchamp of to Powick, s. and h., aged 40 years at his father's death. 1 503. He appears to have been the " Lord Beauchamp " who was present at the Coronation of Richard III, 6 July 1483. (^) He m., 27 Jan. 1446/7, by spec, lie, in his private chapel at Beauchamp's Court, Elizabeth, da. of Sir Humphrey Stafford. He i/. s.p.m.s.,^^) 19 Jan. 1502/3, at Broomhill, when the Barony became extinct. Inq.p. m. at Tewkesbury 8 June, and at Spittlegate by Grantham, 15 Oct. 15 12. III. 1806. I. William Lygon was on 26 Feb. 1806, cr. BARON BEAUCHAMP OF POWYK, co. Worcester, and was subsequently (i Dec. 181 5) cr. Earl Beauchamp. See under "Beau- champ," Earldom, cr. 18 15. eventually h. of Walter B., of Alcester and of Powick (who d. 1303), who was a younger %. of William B., of Elmley, by Isabel Mauduit. (See ante note " d," page 45, as also under Beauchamp (of Bletsoe) p. 44). (*) See note " a " on previous page. (b) Teit. Vet., pp. 338 and 390. (■=) As to these ladies, see Appendix B in this volume. (^) For a list of the peers there present, see note mb Humphrey, Lord Dacre OF GiLLESLAND [1473]. (*) The coheirs were his grandson, Edward Willoughby, aged 18 or 21 in I 5 12, who was s. and h. of his ist da. Elizabeth, by Robert (Willoughby), Lord Wil- loughby of Broke. He inherited the manor of Alcester, in which stood Beauchamp's Court, and d. v.p., before 1521 ; see tabular pedigree sub Willoughby of Eresby: his h.. Sir Fulke Greville was, in 1621, cr. Lord Broke of Beauchamp's Court. (2) Anne, 2nd da., aged 40 or 50 in 1 5 12, who d. 1535, being ancestress, by Richard Lygon, of the Barons Beauchamp of Powick (so cr. 1806), afterwards (18 15) Earls Beauchamp. (3) Richard Rede, another grandson, aged 15 or 16 in 15 12, s. and h. of Margaret, his 3rd da. by Richard Rede, of co. Gloucester. Among the knights made at the marriage of Richard, Duke of York, 18 Jan. (1477/8) 17 Edw. IV, is "John, son and heire to the Lord Beauchamp" — presumably a s. of the above, who d. v. p. and s.p.