Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick

Coat of arms of Thomas de Beauchamp

Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick KG (* between August 1313 and February 14, 1314 at Warwick Castle , Warwickshire , † November 13, 1369 ) was an English nobleman and military leader during the Hundred Years War .

Life

Thomas de Beauchamp came from the Beauchamp family . He was the eldest son of Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick and Alice de Tosny. During the war in Scotland , Warwick took part in the Siege of Berwick and the Battle of Halidon Hill in 1333 . During the winter campaign to Roxburgh from 1334 to 1335 , he led his own contingent of forty men-at-arms and forty mounted archers. In 1335 he took part in the summer campaign of Edward III. to Perth , while in August he belonged to the small army with which the Scottish titular king Edward Balliol advanced to western Scotland.

From 1343/44 until his death Warwick was Marshal of England and in this capacity one of the commanders in the decisive English victories in the Battle of Crécy (1346), where he also supervised the 16-year-old Edward von Woodstock , and the Battle of Maupertuis (1356); he died of the plague during the siege of Calais (1369) . Thomas de Beauchamp was one of the founding members of the Order of the Garter in 1348 .

Guy († April 28, 1360). He had two daughters, Eliszabeth and Katherine, who were excluded from grandfather's inheritance due to a severance payment.
Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick (* 1337 / 9–1401),
Reinbrun, († 1361), who after a character from the epic Guy of Warwick is named
William (around 1343-1411), who inherited the Honor of Abergavenny ; he was married to Joan FitzAlan.
Roger († 1361)
Maud († 1403), ⚭ Roger de Clifford, 5th Baron de Clifford
Philippa (before 1344–1386) ⚭ Hugh de Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford
Alice († 1383), ⚭ I. John Beauchamp of Hatch; ⚭ II. Sir Matthew Gournay
Joan, ⚭ Ralph Basset, 3rd Baron Basset de Drayton († 1390)
Isabell († 1416) ⚭ I. John le Strange, 5th Baron Strange , ⚭ II. William de Ufford, 2nd Earl of Suffolk
Margaret ⚭ Guy de Montfort

↑ see Oxford DNB
^ Ranald Nicholson: Edward III and the Scots. The formative Years of a Military Career . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1965, p. 128.
^ Ranald Nicholson: Edward III and the Scots. The formative Years of a Military Career . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1965, p. 246.
^ Ranald Nicholson: Edward III and the Scots. The formative Years of a Military Career . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1965, p. 201.
^ Ranald Nicholson: Edward III and the Scots. The formative Years of a Military Career . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1965, p. 222.

Anthony Tuck: Beauchamp, Thomas, eleventh earl of Warwick (1313 / 14-1369). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of October 2008

predecessor	Office	successor
Guy de Beauchamp	Earl of Warwick 1315-1369	Thomas de Beauchamp

personal data
SURNAME	Beauchamp, Thomas de, 11th Earl of Warwick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English nobleman and military leader
DATE OF BIRTH	between August 1313 and February 14, 1314
PLACE OF BIRTH	Warwick Castle , Warwickshire
DATE OF DEATH	November 13, 1369