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
/ref> and was the only child of Richard de Beauchamp, Baron Abergavenny and Earl of Worcester, by

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, daughter of

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. Encyclopedia.com website, ''Beauchamp, Elizabeth (Fl. 1400s)''
/ref> She was therefore the great-great-granddaughter of

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. She inherited her father's estates upon his death in 1422, and succeeded to the title of Lady Bergavenny ., 1392on 18 March 1422, ''suo jure''. Cambridge University Heraldic & Genealogical Society website, ''Elizabeth (Beauchamp) suo jure Lady Bergavenny''
/ref> She became the first wife of

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(d. 1476) before 18 October 1424. He was a younger son of

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and Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland, daughter of

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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

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and

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married their husbands'

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and

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. Elizabeth and Edward had five children including George Nevill, 4th Baron Bergavenny. She was buried in

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in the graveyard of the Carmelites.

Ancestry

References

1415 births 1448 deaths 15th-century English women 15th-century English nobility Elizabeth English baronesses Daughters of British earls Elizabeth People from Worcestershire Place of death missing Barons Bergavenny (Peerage of England) {{England-baron-stub