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Richard Beauchamp, 5th (13th) Earl of Warwick

Richard Beauchamp, 5th (13th) Earl of Warwick,
born 1381.
See wikipedia.
He mar 1stly to Elizabeth de Berkeley [descendant of Edward I].
Fought with Henry V in France.
Appears in the play Henry V by Shakespeare.
Shakespeare gives him the lines before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415: "O that we now had here but one ten thousand of those men in England that do no work today." These lines are sometimes also given to Westmoreland.
Elizabeth died 1422.

He mar 2ndly, 1423, to Isabel le Despenser [born 1400, descendant of Edward III].
She was widow of his 1st cousin Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Worcester.
He received the captured Joan of Arc in 1431. The English contrived to have her burnt by the church.
He died 30 April 1439.
He was bur Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick.
Isabel died 27 December 1439, at the Minories, London, age 39 yrs.
She was buried at Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire.
5th Earl had issue by 1st wife:

1. Margaret Beauchamp, born 1404,
   mar John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and had issue.

   
   

2. Eleanor Beauchamp, born 1407,
   mar Edmund Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset and had issue.

   
   

Richard Beauchamp, 5th (13th) Earl of Warwick, jousting, c.1410.
From p.13 of Some feudal coats of arms, Joseph Foster, 1902.

Inscription (after 1439) to Isabel le Despenser on the chantry she erected at Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire.
It says: "ET OBIIT LONDINIIS APUD MINORES ANNO DOMINI MCCCCXXXIX DIE SANCTI IOHANNIS EVANGELISTAE".
Translation: "and died in London at the Minories in Anno Domini 1439 on St.John the Evangelist's Day".
Photo 2026. See larger and full size.

Close-up of the year Isabel le Despenser died, "Anno Domini M CCCC XXXIX" (1439).

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Tomb of Richard Beauchamp, 5th (13th) Earl of Warwick

Spectacular effigy in the Beauchamp Chapel, Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick.

Effigy of Richard Beauchamp, 5th (13th) Earl of Warwick.
Church of St Mary in Warwick.
Photo 2008. See full size. From here. See terms of use.

Other view of above.
Tomb of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester in background.
Photo 2008. See full size. From here.

Wider shot of tomb of Richard Beauchamp, 5th (13th) Earl of Warwick.
Church of St Mary in Warwick.
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Photo 2009. From here. See terms of use.

  
Front and back views of above effigy.
From A Student's History of England by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1916). See here.
Originally from Stothard's Monumental Effigies.
Also here.

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The Beauchamp Chapel

Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick.

The Beauchamp Chapel, Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick.
Tomb of Richard Beauchamp, 5th (13th) Earl of Warwick, in centre.
1858 print. For sale here.

The Beauchamp Chapel, Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick.
Painting at Warwick Castle.
Taken at angle. See larger and full size.
See other angle.

The Beauchamp Chapel, Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick.
Tomb of Richard Beauchamp, 5th (13th) Earl of Warwick, in centre.
Tomb of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester on LHS.
Photo c.1875. From here. Origin here.

The Beauchamp Chapel, Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick.
Tomb of Richard Beauchamp, 5th (13th) Earl of Warwick, in centre.
Photo 2006. See full size. From here.
See other angle.

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