Warwick castle and its earls : from Saxon times to the present day . Gualo. Afterthe death of the King he had livery of his Castle ofWorcester, and was made Sheriff of Worcestershire,but subsequently fell into disfavour, probably sidingwith the rebel barons against Henry HL His son, William de Beauchamp, was in the warsboth in Gascony and Wales. He was, as we haveseen, the husband of Isabel, daughter of WilliamMauduit, of Hanslape, and the father of the William deBeauchamp who became Earl of Warwick. This first Earl of the House of Beauchamp, whosucceeded to the title on January 12th, 1268, an
Warwick castle and its earls : from Saxon times to the present day . Gualo. Afterthe death of the King he had livery of his Castle ofWorcester, and was made Sheriff of Worcestershire,but subsequently fell into disfavour, probably sidingwith the rebel barons against Henry HL His son, William de Beauchamp, was in the warsboth in Gascony and Wales. He was, as we haveseen, the husband of Isabel, daughter of WilliamMauduit, of Hanslape, and the father of the William deBeauchamp who became Earl of Warwick. This first Earl of the House of Beauchamp, whosucceeded to the title on January 12th, 1268, and did His will, dated morrow of the Epiphany, 1268, bequeathed hisbody to be buried in the Friars Minors of Worcester, and ordered thata horse fully armed should be led behind the coffin. He left to Joan, hisdaughter, Surcellam Sancti Wolstani and a book of Lancelot; to William,his eldest son, the cup and horns of St. Hugh, and many small sums tovarious religious foundations, the largest, x marks, being left to the nunsof Cokehill (Register of Bishop, f ii d). 76. Warwick Castle ?*- homage for it on February 9th of the same year, wasone of the guardians of Prince Edward (afterwardsEdward II.) during his fathers absence from thekino-dom, and one of the sureties for the King thathe would renew in England the confirmation of thecharters first made on foreign soil. He was alsoa formidable fighting-man, who distinguished himselfboth in Scotland and in Wales. In the former countryhe retook Dunbar Castle, which had been capturedby the Scots, and in the latter he performed severalnotable feats of arms. At a place called Meismeidoc,Madoc-ap-Llewellyn, Prince of Wales, fled disgrace-fully before him, leaving slain 700 of their bestmen, besides those drowned and mortally Merionethshire he brought Morgan, a Prince ofSouth Wales, in the Kings peace ; and in a battlefought after the passage of the Conway he gained avictory, thus picturesquely recorded in the Historyof Walsingham :
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