William de Beauchamp

• Preferred Name: William de Beauchamp^[1]
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: 1197
  
• FSID: GVF6-1K5
  
• Burial: 1236 in Elmley Castle, Wychavon District, Worcestershire, England
  
• Birth: ABT 1154 in Worcestershire, England at LATI: N2.2334 LONG: E2.2125
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  «b»Biography«/b»
  He has been detached from Joane Walerie as his mother.
  
  In this generation different authors have interpreted the records in different ways concerning this profile and also Beauchamp-438, who is sometimes seen as the same person, or a younger brother or a son. There was in any case a period from 1197 until about 1214 at the latest, where at least one minor was at the head of the Beauchamp barony.
  
  H.C. Maxwell Lyte, who wrote the section introductions in the 1920 edition of the so called Book of Fees, or Testa de Nevill, wrote concerning the records for 1208-1213:
  
  William de Beauchamp, who is mentioned several times in the list, may be identified with Wilikin de Beauchamp, the the heir of William de Beauchamp who died in 1197. This Wilikin died under age in the summer of 1209, when his lands passed to another minor, Walter, or Watekin, de Beauchamp, who survived until 1236.
  
  Note that Maxwell Lyte does not state the relationship between what he considered to be two different minors. (Most obviously, they might be brothers, given that children do not have children.)
  
  According to Charles Cawley's report, the Introduction the Beauchamp cartulary more clearly defines William and Walter as brothers.
  
  A possible complication here is that the records about the minor who was heir tend to use a diminutive form of his name, and these diminutives imply different names. Wiliken and Watekin are however similar. Were there really two boys, or only one? Dugdale, for example, apparently thought they were one. A critical aspect of Maxwell Lyte's understanding is that there was a death of one of them in 1209 (which was in the 10th and 11th years of King John's reign).
  
  In the Close Rolls of the 9th year of King John we indeed find Watekin de Bello Campo and his marriage being in the hands of Roger de Mortimer. But it mentions no death.
  
  === Ancestral File Number: B27P-JT ===
  Ancestral File Number: B27P-JT
  
  === Family info ===
  Family:
  
  Son of William of Elmley, 1st Baron of Beauchamp and Bertha de Beauchamp
  Husband of Avice de Beauchamp, Lady of Salwarpe
  Partner of Unknown de Salwarpe?, Mistress 1
  Father of Juliana, illgt. daughter of William II de Beauchamp; William de Beauchamp and Walter de Beauchamp, III
  Brother of Maud (Matilda) de Beauchamp; Emma de Sudeley; Robert de Beauchamp; Peter de Beauchamp; John de Beauchamp and 1 other
  
  William Beauchamp
  heir & eldest son of Ralph Beauchamp & Matilda Limesi
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• m. ABT 1175 in England

1. Walter de Beauchamp, b. 1192 in Elmley, Worcestershire, England     d. 14 APR 1236 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England

• m. ABT 1175 in England

1. Walter de Beauchamp, b. 1192 in Elmley, Worcestershire, England     d. 14 APR 1236 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England

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