Thomas de Beaumont, 6th Earl of Warwick

Coat of arms of Thomas de Beaumont

Thomas de Beaumont, 6th Earl of Warwick (also Thomas de Newburgh ) (* after 1205 - † June 26, 1242 ) was an English magnate .

Thomas de Beaumont came from the Anglo-Norman family Beaumont . He was the eldest son of Henry de Beaumont, 5th Earl of Warwick and his first wife Margery de Oilly . After his father's death in 1229, he inherited his possessions and the title of Earl of Warwick . With his stepmother Philippa , the second wife of his father, and with her second husband Richard Siward , he had a bitter dispute about their widowhood after he had come of age , since as a widow she had a lifelong claim to a third of the property of her deceased husband.

Beaumont married Ela Longespée († 1298), a daughter of William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury and his wife Ela of Salisbury . When he died childless in 1242, his sister Margery inherited the title of Countess of Warwick and his estates. His widow married Philip Basset , a cousin of his stepmother , in 1254 or 1255 .

Web links

• Cracroft's Peerage: Warwick, Earl of (E, 1088-1446)

Individual evidence

1. ^ David Crouch: The last adventure of Richard Siward . In: Morgannwg, 35 (1991), p. 10
2. ↑ David Crouch: Siward, Sir Richard (d. 1248). 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 2004

predecessor	Office	successor
Henry de Beaumont	Earl of Warwick 1229-1242	Margaret de Beaumont