Earl Warwick

Earl Warwick is in Earldoms of England Alphabetically.

1448 Warwick "Kingmaker" Becomes Earl of Warwick

1499 Trial and Execution of Perkin Warbreck and Edward Earl of Warwick

Earl Warwick (1st Creation)

1st: Henry Beaumont 1st Earl Warwick. Died 1119. Son.

2nd: Roger Beaumont 2nd Earl Warwick. Died 1153. Son.

3rd: William Beaumont 3rd Earl Warwick. Died 1184. Brother.

4th: Waleran Beaumont 4th Earl Warwick. Died 1204. Son.

5th: Henry Beaumont 5th Earl Warwick. Died 1229. Son.

6th: Thomas Beaumont 6th Earl Warwick. Died 1242. Half Sister.

7th: Margaret Beaumont 7th Countess Warwick. Died 1253. Half First Cousin.

8th: William Maudit 8th Earl Warwick. Died 1268. Nephew.

9th: William Beauchamp 9th Earl Warwick. Died 1298. Son.

10th: Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick. Died 1315. Son.

11th: Thomas Beauchamp 11th Earl Warwick. Died 1386. Son.

12th: Thomas Beauchamp 12th Earl Warwick. Died 1401. Son.

13th: Richard Beauchamp 13th Earl Warwick. Died 1439. Son.

14th: Henry Beauchamp 1st Duke Warwick. Died 1446. Daughter.

15th: Anne Beauchamp 15th Countess Warwick. Died 1448. Aunt.

16th: Anne Beauchamp 16th Countess Warwick. Died 1492. Forfeit.

In 1088 Henry Beaumont 1st Earl Warwick (age 38) was created 1st Earl Warwick.

Before 1100 Henry Beaumont 1st Earl Warwick (age 50) and Marguerite Chateaudun Countess Warwick were married. She by marriage Countess Warwick. She the daughter of Geoffrey Chateaudun II Count Mortain III Count Perche and Beatrix de Ramerupt Montdidier Countess Mortain and Perche.

On 20 Jun 1119 Henry Beaumont 1st Earl Warwick (age 69) died. His son Roger Beaumont 2nd Earl Warwick (age 17) succeeded 2nd Earl Warwick.

On 12 Jun 1153 Roger Beaumont 2nd Earl Warwick (age 51) died. His son William Beaumont 3rd Earl Warwick (age 13) succeeded 3rd Earl Warwick.

On 15 Nov 1184 William Beaumont 3rd Earl Warwick (age 44) died. His brother Waleran Beaumont 4th Earl Warwick (age 31) succeeded 4th Earl Warwick. Margery Bohun Countess Warwick by marriage Countess Warwick.

Before 12 Dec 1204 Waleran Beaumont 4th Earl Warwick (age 51) and Alice Harcourt Countess Warwick (age 53) were married. She by marriage Countess Warwick. He the son of Roger Beaumont 2nd Earl Warwick and Gundred Warenne Countess Warwick.

On 12 Dec 1204 Waleran Beaumont 4th Earl Warwick (age 51) died. His son Henry Beaumont 5th Earl Warwick (age 12) succeeded 5th Earl Warwick. Philipa Basset Countess Warwick by marriage Countess Warwick.

On 10 Oct 1229 Henry Beaumont 5th Earl Warwick (age 37) died. His son Thomas Beaumont 6th Earl Warwick (age 21) succeeded 6th Earl Warwick. Ela Longespee Countess Warwick by marriage Countess Warwick.

On 26 Jun 1242 Thomas Beaumont 6th Earl Warwick (age 34) died. His half sister Margaret Beaumont 7th Countess Warwick succeeded 7th Countess Warwick.

Before Aug 1242 John Marshal Earl Warwick (age 30) and Margaret Beaumont 7th Countess Warwick were married. He by marriage Earl Warwick. She the daughter of Henry Beaumont 5th Earl Warwick and Margaret Oili. They were half fourth cousins.

Before 14 Sep 1243 John Plessis Earl Warwick and Margaret Beaumont 7th Countess Warwick were married. He by marriage Earl Warwick. She the daughter of Henry Beaumont 5th Earl Warwick and Margaret Oili.

On 03 Jun 1253 Margaret Beaumont 7th Countess Warwick died. Her half first cousin William Maudit 8th Earl Warwick (age 33) succeeded 8th Earl Warwick. Alice Segrave Countess Warwick (age 21) by marriage Countess Warwick.

On 08 Jan 1268 William Maudit 8th Earl Warwick (age 48) died. His nephew William Beauchamp 9th Earl Warwick (age 31) succeeded 9th Earl Warwick. Maud Fitzjohn Countess Warwick (age 30) by marriage Countess Warwick.

In 1298 William Beauchamp 9th Earl Warwick (age 61) died. His son Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick (age 26) succeeded 10th Earl Warwick.

In 1309 Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick (age 37) and Alice Tosny Countess Warwick (age 24) were married. She by marriage Countess Warwick. He the son of William Beauchamp 9th Earl Warwick and Maud Fitzjohn Countess Warwick. They were second cousin twice removed. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.

On 12 Aug 1315 Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick (age 43) died. He was buried at Bordesley Abbey, Worcestershire [Map]. His son Thomas Beauchamp 11th Earl Warwick (age 2) succeeded 11th Earl Warwick. Given his young age Thomas Beauchamp 11th Earl Warwick (age 2) became a ward of King Edward II of England (age 31) until 1326.

On 19 Apr 1319 Thomas Beauchamp 11th Earl Warwick (age 6) and Katherine Mortimer Countess Warwick (age 5) were married. She by marriage Countess Warwick. An arranged marriage although not clear who arranged it or whose ward Thomas Beauchamp 11th Earl Warwick (age 6) was (his father Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick had died four years before) - possibly by King Edward II of England (age 34) as a means of securing the Welsh March. The Beauchamp family established, the Mortimer family aspirational. The marriage took place after Roger Mortimer 1st Earl March (age 31) had returned from his tenure as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and before he rebelled against King Edward II of England (age 34) in opposition to Hugh "Younger" Despencer 1st Baron Despencer (age 33). She the daughter of Roger Mortimer 1st Earl March (age 31) and Joan Geneville Baroness Mortimer 2nd Baroness Geneville (age 33). He the son of Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick and Alice Tosny Countess Warwick (age 34). They were half second cousin once removed. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King John "Lackland" of England.

Before 1374 Thomas Beauchamp 12th Earl Warwick (age 35) and Margaret Ferrers Countess Warwick were married. She by marriage Countess Warwick. He the son of Thomas Beauchamp 11th Earl Warwick (age 60) and Katherine Mortimer Countess Warwick. He a great x 5 grandson of King John "Lackland" of England. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England.

On 13 Nov 1386 Thomas Beauchamp 11th Earl Warwick (age 73) died of plague. His son Thomas Beauchamp 12th Earl Warwick (age 48) succeeded 12th Earl Warwick.

On 08 Apr 1401 Thomas Beauchamp 12th Earl Warwick (age 63) died. His son Richard Beauchamp 13th Earl Warwick (age 19) succeeded 13th Earl Warwick. Elizabeth Berkeley Countess Warwick (age 15) by marriage Countess Warwick.

Before 1425 Richard Beauchamp 13th Earl Warwick (age 42) and Isabel Despencer Countess Warwick and Worcester (age 24) were married. She by marriage Countess Warwick. She the daughter of Thomas Despencer 1st Earl Gloucester and Constance York Countess Gloucester. He the son of Thomas Beauchamp 12th Earl Warwick and Margaret Ferrers Countess Warwick. They were third cousins. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England. She a great granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

On 30 Apr 1439 Richard Beauchamp 13th Earl Warwick (age 57) died at Rouen, France [Map]. He was buried at St Mary's Church, Warwick [Map]. His son Henry Beauchamp 1st Duke Warwick (age 14) succeeded 14th Earl Warwick. Cecily Neville Duchess Warwick (age 15) by marriage Countess Warwick.

On 04 Feb 1443 Anne Beauchamp 15th Countess Warwick was born to Henry Beauchamp 1st Duke Warwick (age 17) and Cecily Neville Duchess Warwick (age 19) at Cardiff. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

Baron Burghesh, and the representation of the three Despencers Baronies abeyant between her cousin George Neville 5th and 3rd Baron Bergavenny and her aunt Anne Beauchamp 16th Countess Warwick (age 16).

Her subsequent death aged four (her father died when she was aged three) resulted in Richard "Kingmaker" Neville Earl Warwick, 6th Earl Salisbury (age 14) unexpectedly becoming Earl of Warwick by marriage ie by right of his wife Anne Beauchamp 16th Countess Warwick (age 16) who was the younger Anne's Aunt.

On 11 Jun 1446 Henry Beauchamp 1st Duke Warwick (age 21) died at Hanley Castle, Worcestershire. Duke Warwick extinct. His daughter Anne Beauchamp 15th Countess Warwick (age 3) succeeded 15th Countess Warwick, 7th Baroness Burghesh.

On 03 Jan 1448 Anne Beauchamp 15th Countess Warwick (age 4) died at Ewelme, Oxfordshire aged four whilst in the care of Alice Chaucer Duchess Suffolk (age 44).

After a prolonged legal dispute between her three half-aunts, Margaret Beauchamp Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford (age 44), Eleanor Beauchamp Duchess Somerset (age 39), Elizabeth Beauchamp Baroness Latimer (age 31) and her full aunt Anne Beauchamp 16th Countess Warwick (age 21), the courts decided her full aunt Anne Beauchamp (age 21) should succeed. Anne Beauchamp  (age 21) succeeded 16th Countess Warwick. Her husband Richard Neville (age 19) by marriage Earl Warwick; the first step on his journey to becoming Kingmaker.

The decision of the court was not subscribed to by Edmund Beaufort Earl Somerset (age 42) who was married to Anne's (age 21) half-sister Eleanor (age 39); he wanted his share of the considerable Beauchamp inheritance.

Letters. 1471. Letter XXXVIII. Anne Countess of Warwick (age 14) to the House of Commons.

To the right worshipful and discreet Commons of this present Parliament.

Sheweth unto your wisdoms and discretions the king's true liege woman, Anne countess of Warwick, which never offended his most redoubted highness; for she, immediately after the death of her lord and husband (age 17) - on whose soul God have mercy - for none offence by her done, but dreading only trouble, being that time within this realm, entered into the sanctuary of Beaulieu [Map] for surety of her person, to dispose for the weal and health of the soul of her said lord and husband, as right and conscience required her so to do; making within five days, or near thereabouts, after her entry into the said sanctuary, her labours, suits, and means to the king's highness for her safeguard, to be had as diligently and effectually as her power would extend. She not ceasing, but after her power continiling in such labours, suits, and means, insomuch that, in absence of clerks, she hath written letters in that behalf to the king's highness with her own hand, and not only making such labours, suits, and means to the king's highness, soothly also to the queen's (age 34) good grace, to my right redoubted lady the king's mother, to my lady the king's eldest daughter, to my lords the king's brethren, to my ladies the king's sisters, to my lady of Bedford (age 56), mother to the queen, and to other ladies noble of this realm; in which labours, suits, and means, she hath continued hitherto, and so will continue, as she owes to do, till it may please the king, of his most good and noble grace, to have consideration that, during the life of her said lord and husband, she was covert baron, which point she remits to your great wisdoms, and that after his decease, all the time of her being in the said sainctuary, she hath duly kept her fidelity and liegeance, and obeyed the king's commandments. Howbeity it hath pleased the king's highness, by some sinister information to his said highness made, to direct his most dread letters to the abbot of the monastery of Beaulieu, with right sharp commandment that such persons as his highness sent to the said monastery should have guard and strait keeping of her person, which was and is to her great heart's grievance, she specially fearing that the privileges and liberties of the church, by such keeping of her person, might be interrupted and violated, where the privileges of the said sanctuary were never so largely attempted unto this time, as is said; yet the said Anne and Countess, under protestations by her made, hath suffered strait keeping of her person and yet doth, that her fidelity and liegeance to the king's highness the better might be understood, hoping she might the rather have had largess to make suits to the king's highness in her own person for her livelihood and rightful inheritance, which livelihood and inheritance, with all revenues and profits thereto pertaining, with her jointure also, and dower of the earldom of Salisbury, fully and wholly hath been restrained from her, from the time of the death of her said lord and husband unto this day. And forasmuch as our sovereign lord the king of his great grace hath set and assembled his high court of Parliament for reformations, right, and equity to all his subjects and liege people duly to be ministered, the said Anne and Countess humbly beseecheth your great wisdom to ponder and weigh in your consciences her right and true title of her inheritance, as the earldom of Warwick and Spencer's lands, to which she is rightfully born by lineal succession, and also her jointure and dower of the earldom of Salisbury aforesaid. And to shew her your benevolence, that by the king's good grace and authority of this his noble Parliament she may to her foresaid livelihood and rightful inheritance duly be restored and it enjoy, as the laws of Almighty God and of this noble realm, right, also, and conscience doth require; beseeching heartily your great goodnesses, in the reverence of Almighty God and of his most blessed mother, will of grace to consider the poor estate she stands in, how in her own person she may not solicit the premises as she would, an she might, nor is of power any sufficient solicitor in this behalf to make; and though she might, as (she; may not, there is none that dare take it upon him; to have also this poor bill in your tender remembrance, that your perfect charity and good will may solicit the eflFect of the same, which to do, her power at this time may not extend. And shall pray and do pray to God for you.

On 28 Nov 1499 Edward "Last Plantagenet" York 17th Earl Warwick (age 24) was executed at Tower Hill [Map].

Earl Warwick, Baron Montagu forfeit.

Documentation held in Spain apparently describes Catherine of Aragon's (age 13) parents Ferdinand II King Aragon (age 47) and Isabella Queen Castile (age 48) expressing concern that Edward "Last Plantagenet" York 17th Earl Warwick (age 24) was a potential claimant to throne, and being reluctant for their daughter to marry Arthur Prince of Wales (age 13) whilst there was a threat to his (age 13) accession causing King Henry VII of England and Ireland (age 42) to use Perkin Warbreck's (deceased) attempted escape with Edward "Last Plantagenet" York 17th Earl Warwick (age 24) as a means to an end.

Earl Warwick (2nd Creation)

In 1547 John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland (age 43) was created 1st Earl Warwick.

In Jan 1553 John Dudley 2nd Earl Warwick (age 26) by writ of acceleration 2nd Earl Warwick through a summons to Parliament.

In Aug 1553 John Dudley 2nd Earl Warwick (age 26) was attainted. Earl Warwick was forfeit. However, his brother Ambrose Dudley 3rd Earl Warwick (age 23) was restored to the Earldom in 1561.

On 26 Dec 1554 Ambrose Dudley 3rd Earl Warwick (age 24) was was created 1st Baron Lisle. Elizabeth Tailboys Countess Warwick (age 32) by marriage Countess Warwick.

In 1561 Ambrose Dudley 3rd Earl Warwick (age 31) was restored 3rd Earl Warwick. Elizabeth Tailboys Countess Warwick (age 38) by marriage Countess Warwick.

On 11 Nov 1565 Ambrose Dudley 3rd Earl Warwick (age 35) and Anne Russell Countess Warwick (age 17) were married. She by marriage Countess Warwick. She the daughter of Francis Russell 2nd Earl Bedford (age 38) and Margaret St John Countess Bedford. He the son of John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland and Jane Guildford Duchess Northumberland.

On 21 Feb 1590 Ambrose Dudley 3rd Earl Warwick (age 60) died. He was buried at St Mary's Church, Warwick [Map]. Earl Warwick and Baron Lisle extinct.

Earl Warwick (3rd Creation)

In 1618 Robert Rich 1st Earl Warwick (age 58) was created 1st Earl Warwick. Frances Wray Countess Warwick by marriage Countess Warwick.

On 20 Mar 1619 Robert Rich 1st Earl Warwick (age 59) died. His son Robert Rich 2nd Earl Warwick (age 31) succeeded 2nd Earl Warwick, 4th Baron Rich of Leez. Frances Hatton Countess Warwick (age 29) by marriage Countess Warwick.

He was buried at St Lawrence's Church, Snarford [Map]. Unusual head and shoulder portrait sculpture of deceased full face, with a profile of his wife Frances Wray Countess Warwick behind, set in a circular medallion. To either side are pelleted Pilasters supporting an entablature with scrolled Cartouche of arms and flanked by heraldic supporters. The whole is painted and gilded and beneath is a panel containing an inscribed poem. Above his Arms implaled with hers. His are quartered 1&4 Rich Arms 2&3 Baldry Arms (his mother), hers quartered 1&4 Wray 2&3 Unknown. the monument is perhaps the work of Epiphanius Evesham. Sculpted by Epiphanius Evesham.

Before 20 Jan 1626 Robert Rich 2nd Earl Warwick (age 38) and Susan Rowe Countess Warwick (age 44) were married. She by marriage Countess Warwick. He the son of Robert Rich 1st Earl Warwick and Penelope Devereux Countess Devonshire.

On 09 Apr 1632 Robert Rich 3rd Earl Warwick (age 20) and Anne Cavendish Countess Warwick (age 21) were married at Battersea, Surrey. She by marriage Countess Warwick. She the daughter of William Cavendish 2nd Earl Devonshire and Christian Bruce Countess Devonshire. He the son of Robert Rich 2nd Earl Warwick (age 44) and Frances Hatton Countess Warwick.

After 1638 Robert Rich 3rd Earl Warwick (age 26) and Anne Cheeke Countess Warwick (age 18) were married. She by marriage Countess Warwick. He the son of Robert Rich 2nd Earl Warwick (age 50) and Frances Hatton Countess Warwick. They were first cousins.

On 19 Apr 1658 Robert Rich 2nd Earl Warwick (age 70) died. His son Robert Rich 3rd Earl Warwick (age 46) succeeded 3rd Earl Warwick, 5th Baron Rich of Leez.

On 29 May 1659 Robert Rich 3rd Earl Warwick (age 47) died. His brother Charles Rich 4th Earl Warwick (age 44) succeeded 4th Earl Warwick, 6th Baron Rich of Leez. Mary Boyle Countess Warwick (age 33) by marriage Countess Warwick.

On 24 Aug 1673 Charles Rich 4th Earl Warwick (age 58) died. His first cousin Robert Rich 5th Earl Warwick 2nd Earl Holland (age 54) succeeded 5th Earl Warwick, 7th Baron Rich of Leez. Anne Montagu Countess Warwick and Holland by marriage Countess Warwick.

On 16 Apr 1675 Robert Rich 5th Earl Warwick 2nd Earl Holland (age 56) died. His son Edward Rich 6th Earl Warwick 3rd Earl Holland (age 2) succeeded 6th Earl Warwick, 3rd Earl Holland, 8th Baron Rich of Leez.

On 31 Jul 1710 Edward Rich 6th Earl Warwick 3rd Earl Holland (age 37) died. His son Edward Rich 7th Earl Warwick 4th Earl Holland (age 12) succeeded 7th Earl Warwick, 4th Earl Holland, 9th Baron Rich of Leez.

On 16 Aug 1721 Edward Rich 7th Earl Warwick 4th Earl Holland (age 23) died. His second cousin Edward Richard 8th Earl Warwick 5th Earl Holland (age 26) succeeded 8th Earl Warwick, 5th Earl Holland, 10th Baron Rich of Leez. Mary Stanton Countess Warwick and Holland by marriage Countess Warwick, Countess Holland.

On 07 Sep 1759 Edward Richard 8th Earl Warwick 5th Earl Holland (age 64) died without male issue. He was buried at St Mary Abbots Church, Kensington. Earl Warwick, Earl Holland, and Baron Rich of Leez extinct.

Earl Warwick (4th Creation)

In 1759 Francis Greville 1st Earl Brooke Warwick Castle 1st Earl Warwick (age 39) was created 1st Earl Warwick. Elizabeth Hamilton Countess Brooke Warwick Castle and Warwick (age 39) by marriage Countess Warwick.

In 1816 Henry Greville 3rd Earl Warwick 3rd Earl Brooke Warwick Castle (age 36) and Sarah Elizabeth Savile Countess Warwick (age 29) were married. She by marriage Countess Warwick. She the daughter of John Savile 2nd Earl Mexborough (age 54) and Elizabeth Stephenson Countess Mexborough (age 54). He the son of George Greville 2nd Earl Warwick and Brooke (age 69) and Henrietta Vernon Countess Warwick and Brooke (age 55).