Katherine Mortimer and Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick
This is the first in a series of posts on the families of the Beauchamp line. The full references and additional maternal lines are available in My Lineage from the Roots Up, vol. 1.
Thomas de Beauchamp (11th Earl of Warwick) was born in 1313 to Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, but was a ward of Roger de Mortimer of Wigmore. He was an original member of the Order of Knights of the Garter in 1348 and a crusader, served as Lord Marshal of England, and was a Commander at Cressy and Poictiers. He married his cousin and daughter of Roger Mortimer and Joane de Genevill, Katherine Mortimer (b. 1314) after receiving permission from the Pope.
They are thought to have had 15 children:
1. Phillipa born presumably about 1344. She married Hugh Stafford and had children. She died about 1386 and is thought to be buried at Austin Priory, Stone, Staffordshire, England.
2. Thomas II, 12th Earl of Warwick. He died 1401.
3. Guy who married Phillipa Ferrers. He died before his father, leaving three daughters who became nuns at Shouldham in Norfolk.
4. Reynburne, ancestor to the Forsters of Hanslape via his only child Alianore.
5. John who was unmarried.
6. Roger who was unmarried.
7. Hierom who was unmarried.
8. Maud who married Roger de Clifford.
9. Alice who married John, Lord Beauchamp of Hacche, Somerset.
10. Joane who married Ralph Lord Basset of Drayton.
11. Isabel who married (1st) John, Lord Strange of Blackmore, and (2nd) William Ufford, Earl of Suffolk (last Earl of his line).
12. Margaret who married Guy de Montfort. As a widow she took the veil at Shouldham.
13. Agnes who married (1st) into Cokesay and (2nd) into Bardolf.
14. Juliana who was unmarried.
15. Catharine who took the veil at Wroxhall in Warwickshire.
Their daughters’ portraits appear in the windows of the choir of the collegiate church at Warwick.
Thomas died of the plague in Calais, November 13, 1369, 3 months after his wife. They are both buried in a tomb below an effigy depicting them holding hands at St. Mary’s, Warwick, Warwickshire, England.