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Title: Warwick castle and its earls : from Saxon times to the present day
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Warwick, Frances Evelyn Maynard Greville, Countess of, 1861-1938
Subjects: Warwick castle
Publisher: New York : E.P. Dutton London, Hutchinson
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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manhode and coursing, Richard Beauchamplate Earle of Warrewik, lord Despencer of Bergevennyand of many other grete lordships. The pall whichoriginally covered the tomb and hung upon the brazenhearse has long since perished. So we take our leave of Richard de Beauchampwith a real regret. He is the first Earl of Warwickwhose personality it has been possible to grasp clearly ;and we find it a dashing and altogether an attractivepersonality. He was a soldier, not a politician—abetter man by far than some of those whose nkmesloom larger in the histories—a typical knight of thedeparted age of chivalry. He was twice married : first, to a grand-daughterof Warrine de Lisle, who was only seven at the timeof her wedding, and died in 1422 ; secondly, by specialdispensation, to Isabella, widow of his cousin, RichardBeauchamp, Earl of Worcester, and apparently suo ^ His will—a striking document, reflecting the character of the man—together with that of his wife, is given in an appendix. 132
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Warwick Castle <*- jure Baroness Burghersh, by whom he had a sonHenry, who succeeded to the Earldom. By comparison with his father, Henry de Beau-champ is but a shadowy and unsubstantial figure,though apparently a young man of amiable and en-gaging disposition. There are one or two referencesto his appearance in the French war. He ismentioned as a leader of an expedition to France in1431 ; but as he was then but seven years of age, hecan only have been the leader in a titular and compli-mentary sense. It is also recorded that he went alittle way out of London to meet the embassy ofComte de Vendome in 1445, and that in the sameyear the Archbishop of Rheims lodged in his house.He was also in high favour with Henry VI., wholoaded him with honours, making him premier Earl,and Duke, and Privy Councillor, and King of the Isleof Wight, and Constable of St. Briavels Castle, andLord of the Forest of Dean, and Lord of Jersey,,Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark, and High Steward ofthe Duchy of Lanc

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