Warwick castle and its earls : from Saxon times to the present day . THE TOMB OF ISABELLA, SECOND WIFE OF RICHARDDE BEAUCHAMP, EARL OF WARWICK. Ill Tewkesbury Abbey. Warwick Castle He married Lady Cecilia Neville, daughter ofRichard, Earl of Salisbury, who, after his death,contracted a second marriage with John, Earl ofWorcester, known as Tiptoft, who was, as we shallsee, beheaded on October i8th, 1470. She bore herfirst husband in 1444 one child, Anne, who suc-ceeded as Countess ofWarwick, suo pne, in1446, but died onlythree years later. TheEarldom then lapsedto the Crown, the nextof kin bein
Warwick castle and its earls : from Saxon times to the present day . THE TOMB OF ISABELLA, SECOND WIFE OF RICHARDDE BEAUCHAMP, EARL OF WARWICK. Ill Tewkesbury Abbey. Warwick Castle He married Lady Cecilia Neville, daughter ofRichard, Earl of Salisbury, who, after his death,contracted a second marriage with John, Earl ofWorcester, known as Tiptoft, who was, as we shallsee, beheaded on October i8th, 1470. She bore herfirst husband in 1444 one child, Anne, who suc-ceeded as Countess ofWarwick, suo pne, in1446, but died onlythree years later. TheEarldom then lapsedto the Crown, the nextof kin being her fouraunts, daughters of hergrandfather, EarlRichard. Oneofthese,another Anne, bornin 1427, was createdCountess of Warwickon July 23rd, had been married,since 1439, to RichardNeville, son of Richard,Earl of Salisbury,known to history asthe King-maker. He succeeded, ac-cording to the doctrineof the exclusion of HENRY BEAUCHAMP, EARL OF WARWICK. ^^6 half-blood, tO all 136. The House of Beauchamp the vast estates of the Earldom of Warwick, whichincluded the Castles of Warwick, Worcester, Elmley,Abergavenny, Neath, etc., and the Lordships of Gowerand Barnard Castle, to which, after his fathers deathin 1460, the great Neville estates of Middleham andSheriff Hutton inYorkshire wereadded, and onMarch 2nd, 1450,the former creationwas cancelled, andhe was createdEarl and she Coun-tess of Warwickeach for life, withall the privilegesgranted by thepreceding patent, •^^ril-U .-on-, ., ;„ ^^^ THE SEAL OF JOHANNA DE BEAUCHAMP, LADY With remainder bergevenny. after death of both of the dignity to the heirs of the body of the said Anne, and in case she should die without issue then to Margaret, Countess of Shrewsbury. Thus is the King-maker first brought upon thescene. But the account of so illustrious a man cannot,with propriety, be begun at the end of a chapter.
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