Margaret de Ferrers

Family/Spouse: 12th Earl of Warwick Thomas Beauchamp. Thomas (son of Thomas Beauchamp 11th Earl of Warwick and Katherine de Mortimer) was born on 16 Mar 1338/39 in Warwickshire, England; died on 8 Apr 1401 in Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. 13th Earl of Warwick Richard Beauchamp 13th Earl of Warwick was born on 25 Jan 1382 in Salwarpe, Worcestershire, England; died on 30 Apr 1439 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France; was buried in Warwick, Warwickshire, England.
2. Elizabeth Beauchamp
3. Margaret Beauchamp
4. Katherine Beauchamp

William married Margaret de Ufford. Margaret was born in 1335 in Thurston, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Isabel de Verdun. Isabel (daughter of 2nd Lord Verdon Theobold de Verdon and Elizabeth de Clare) was born on 21 Mar 1316/17 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England; died on 25 Jul 1349. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Isabel, who had the Castle of Ludlow, as 4th co-heiress, m. to Henry Ferrers, Lord Ferrers, of Groby, which Henry d. 17th Edward III [1344], leaving by the said Isabel, William, Lord Ferrers, Philippa, m. to Guy de Beauchamp, and Elizabeth, m. to --- de Assells. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 548, Verdon, Barons Verdon]

William married Ellen de Menteith. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sir Theobald de Verdon, 2nd baron, had summons to parliament in the lifetime of his father as "Theobald de Verdon, junior," from 29 December, 1299, to 22 February, 1307, and afterwards, without the word "Junior," from 4 March, 1309 to 24 October, 1314. This nobleman, in the 6th Edward II [1313], was constituted justice of Ireland, having likewise the lieutenancy of that realm, and the fee of 500 per annum, then granted to him. His lordship m. 1st, Maud, dau. of Edmund, Lord Mortimer, of Wigmore, by whom (who d. at Alveton Castle, 1315), he had issue, I. John, d. s. p.; II. William, d. s. p.; I. Joan, m. 1st William de Montagu; and 2ndly, Thomas de Furnival, 2nd Lord Furnival, and d. in 1334. Joan had the castle of Alveton as co-heiress of her father. II. Elizabeth, m. to Bartholomew, Lord de Burghersh. Elizabeth had the castle of Ewyas Lacie as her share. III. Margaret, m. 1st, Marcus Hussee; 2ndly, William le Blount; and 3rdly, Sir John Crophull. Margaret had the castle of Weobley, as 3rd co-heiress. By Sir John Crophull, she had a son, Thomas Crophull, whose dau. and heiress, Agnes, m. Sir Walter Devereux, Knt.

Theobald m. 2ndly, Elizabeth, widow of John de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, and dau. and eventually co-heir of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, by Jane Plantagenet, dau. of King Edward I, by whom (who m. 3rdly, Sir Roger d'Amorie) he had an only dau., IV. Isabel, who had the Castle of Ludlow, as 4th co-heiress, m. to Henry Ferrers, Lord Ferrers, of Groby, which Henry d. 17th Edward III [1344], leaving by the said Isabel, William, Lord Ferrers, Philippa, m. to Guy de Beauchamp, and Elizabeth, m. to --- de Assells.

Theobald, Lord Verdon, d. at Alveton Castle, and was buried at Croxden, aged circa thirty-four, in 1316, when the Barony of Verdon fell into abeyance amongst his daughters and so continues with their representatives. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 548, Verdon, Barons Verdon]

Theobold married Elizabeth de Clare on 4 Feb 1315/16 in England. Elizabeth (daughter of 7th Earl of Hertford, 3rd Earl of Gloucester Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester and Joan "of Acre" Plantagenet) was born on 16 Sep 1295 in Tewkesbury, England; died on 4 Nov 1360; was buried in Convent of Minoresses, Aldgate, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Elizabeth de Burgh, Lady of Clare, (c. 1294-1360), foundress of Clare College, Cambridge, was the youngest daughter of Gilbert Clare Earl of Gloucester and Hertford (d. 1295) by his second marriage to Edward I's daughter Joan of Acre (1271-1307). She was married first to John Burgh (d. 1313), heir to the earldom of Ulster, to whom she bore her only son William. Following the childless death of her only brother Gilbert at Bannockburn in 1314, she became a great heiress and was abducted in 1316, probably with her consent, by Theobald Verdon, who died later the same year and to whom she bore a posthumous daughter Isabel. A daughter Elizabeth was born by her third marriage to Roger Damory, who died in 1321. Still only in her mid-twenties, with dowers from all three husbands and with an inheritance worth at least 2,000 a year, she was an obvious target both for marriage and for molestation by the Despensers, who defrauded her of her lordship of Usk. This was recovered after their overthrow and she did not marry again, taking a vow of chastity by 1344. At her death her inheritance descended to her granddaughter Elizabeth, wife of Edward III's son Lionel, Duke of Clarence, and thence passed to the Mortimers and house of York.

Elizabeth's widowhood is illuminated by the finest set of household accounts still surviving. These reveal that she lived in stately splendour at Clare in Suffolk, where she received a stream of visitors, including her kinsfolk Edward III and Queen Philippa. 250 people received her livery in 1343, many of them members of her household, and at least 3,000 a year and sometimes more was spent by her wardrobe and household. This was not because Elizabeth was extravagant; she ran her household and estates efficiently, obtained value for her money, and took a strong line with poachers. That 93 esquires took her livery indicates her role as a great local aristocrat, particularly in East Anglia, which also emerges from her religious patronage.

As an heiress, Elizabeth held estates in her own right, not for life, and could thus give generously to the Church without first saving up wealth, as her friend Mary of St Pol had to do. Already before her husbands' deaths, she had vowed to go on pilgrimage to Santiago and the Holy Land, a promise she was unable to fulfill, and from the early 1330s was giving property to Ely cathedral priory, Tremenhall and Anglesey priories, and West Dereham Abbey. Her attention was attracted by 1336 to the notoriously under-financed University Hall at Cambridge, which she was persuaded to take over as Clare Hall, to endow (1346), and for which she devised statutes in 1359. All this involved dealing tactfully but firmly with the university and unsatisfactory fellows. Clare College was the first college deliberately planned to include undergraduates. While Elizabeth's example may have prompted Mary of St Pol to found Pembroke College, certainly it was Mary who interested Elizabeth in the Franciscans. In 1343 Elizabeth gave a church to Mary's abbey of Franciscan nuns (Minoresses) at Denney, in 1347 she founded a Franciscan friary at the pilgrimage centre of Walsingham priory, from 1355 (like Mary) she was authorised to stay overnight in Minoress houses, and in 1360 her will asked for burial at the Aldgate house of Minoresses. Her influence helps explain the foundation of the final English house of Minoresses at Bruisyard by her granddaughter and her husband Clarence with nuns from Denney. [Michael Hicks, Who's Who in Late Medieval England, Shepheard-Walwyn Ltd, London, 1991]

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Elizabeth m. 1st, John de Burgh, son of Richard, Earl of Ulster, by whom she had issue, William, Earl of Ulster, who m. Maud, sister of Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Lancaster, and left a dau. and heiress, Elizabeth de Burgh, who m. Lionel Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, K.G., and had an only dau. and heiress, Philippa Plantagenet, who m. Edward Mortimer, Earl of March. Elizabeth, widow of John de Burgh, m. 2ndly, Theobald de Verdon, and 3rdly, Roger d'Amory; by the last she had two daus., Elizabeth, m. to John, Lord Bardolph, and Eleanor, m. to John de Raleigh. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 120, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]

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Elizabeth de Clare, the youngest sister of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Hertford and Gloucester, m. John de Burgh, son of Richard, Earl of Ulster, and through this alliance the honour of Clare came into the possession of the de Burghs. The heiress of Clare left a son, William de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, who m. Maud, sister of Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Lancaster. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 434, Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence]