In 1445 John Beauchamp 1st Baron Beauchamp Powick (age 36) was appointed 159th Knight of the Garter by King Henry VI of England and II of France (age 23).

Patent Rolls Henry VI 1452-1461. 08 Aug 1457. Westminster. Commission to Jasper, earl of Pembroke (age 25), James, earl of Wiltshire (age 36), Ralph de Sudeley (age 68), knight, John Beauchamp of Powyk (age 48), knight, and the sheriff of Gloucester, reciting that whereas the king at the suit of Alice Veell, widow, caused writs to be directed to Thomas de la Hay, Thomas Holte, William Tyffyn, Nicholas Kyng, Maurice Kyng and Roger Clyff to appear before the king and council on a certain day to answer touching riots and offences done to her by them, and because Thomas de la Hay received his writ and the others withdrew in order that the writs should not be delivered to them, and they appeared not, the king by other writs caused proclamation to be made in London and the said county that they should appear before the council or chancellor within a month after the last day of proclamation, pursuant to the ordinance made in the Parliament held at Redyng in 31 Henry VI, which writs were duly returned by the sheriffs of London and Gloucestershire, yet they appeared not ; and appointing the said commissioners to arrest and bring them before the king in Chancery to answer touching the premises. By the Chancellor.

After 1466 Thomas Burdett of Arrow in Warwickshire (age 41) was in the service of John Beauchamp 1st Baron Beauchamp Powick (age 57), Ralph Boteler 6th and 1st Baron Sudeley (age 77) and George York 1st Duke of Clarence (age 16).