Elizabeth Beauchamp, Baroness Bergavenny
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| name = Elizabeth Beauchamp
| post-nominals = Baroness Bergavenny
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| birth_date = 16 September 1415
| birth_place = Hanley Castle, Worcestershire, England
| death_date = 18 June 1448 (aged 32)
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| spouse = Edward Neville, 3rd Baron Bergavenny
| children = George Nevill, 4th Baron Bergavenny
| father = Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Worcester
| mother = Isabel le Despenser
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Elizabeth Beauchamp, Baroness (A)Bergavenny (16 September 1415 – 18 June 1448)Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume I, page 27, 29. was a medieval English noblewoman and heiress. She was born at Hanley Castle, Worcestershire[https://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/bergavenny1.htm Luminarium website, Edward Neville, 1st Baron Bergavenny (d.1476)] and was the only child of Richard de Beauchamp, Baron Abergavenny and Earl of Worcester, by Isabel, daughter of Thomas le Despenser, Earl of Gloucester.[https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/beauchamp-elizabeth-fl-1400s Encyclopedia.com website, Beauchamp, Elizabeth (Fl. 1400s)] She was therefore the great-great-granddaughter of Edward III.
She inherited her father's estates upon his death in 1422, and succeeded to the title of Lady Bergavenny [E., 1392] on 18 March 1422, suo jure.[https://cuhags.soc.srcf.net/gen/tng/getperson.php?personID=I2400&tree=tree1 Cambridge University Heraldic & Genealogical Society website, Elizabeth (Beauchamp) suo jure Lady Bergavenny]
She became the first wife of Edward Neville, 3rd Baron Bergavenny (d. 1476) before 18 October 1424. He was a younger son of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland, daughter of John of Gaunt and his third wife, Katherine Roët, aka Katherine Swynford. Her husband's brother, George Neville, 1st Baron Latimer, married her step-sister, also named Elizabeth Beauchamp, daughter of her step-father Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick. Their half-brother and half-sister married their husbands' niece and nephew.
Elizabeth and Edward had five children including George Nevill, 4th Baron Bergavenny. She was buried in Coventry in the graveyard of the Carmelites.
Ancestry
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|1= 1. Elizabeth Beauchamp, Baroness Abergavenny
|2= 2. Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Worcester
|3= 3. Isabel le Despenser
|4= 4. William de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny
|5= 5. Joan FitzAlan
|6= 6. Thomas le Despenser, Earl of Gloucester
|7= 7. Constance of York
|8= 8. Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick
|9= 9. Katherine Mortimer
|10= 10. Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel
|11= 11. Elizabeth de Bohun
|12= 12. Edward le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer
|13= 13. Elizabeth de Burghersh, 3rd Baroness Burghersh
|14= 14. Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York
|15= 15. Isabella of Castile
|16= 16. Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick
|17= 17. Alice de Toeni
|18= 18. Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March
|19= 19. Joan de Geneville, 2nd Baroness Geneville
|20= 20. Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel
|21= 21. Eleanor of Lancaster
|22= 22. William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton
|23= 23. Elizabeth de Badlesmere
|24= 24. Edward le Despenser
|25= 25. Anne Ferrers
|26= 26. Bartholomew de Burghersh, 2nd Baron Burghersh
|27= 27. Cicely Weyland
|28= 28. Edward III of England
|29= 29. Philippa of Hainault
|30= 30. Peter of Castile
|31= 31. María de Padilla
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Category:15th-century English women
Category:15th-century English nobility
Category:Daughters of British earls
Category:People from Worcestershire
Category:Place of death missing
Category:Barons Bergavenny (Peerage of England)
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