William de Beauchamp

Also known as: Sir William Beauchampe / W. de Beauchampe / lord William de Beauchampe · Family: Barons · Role: captain of Bedford Castle · First appears: King John 24

Life events

• 1215 · William de Beauchamp secretly allied with the barons and surrendered Bedford castle to them.(King John 24 · 📍 Bedford)
  • With: Robert FitzWalter
  • “in which Sir William Beauchampe was capteine, who being secretlie confederate with them deliuered the place incontinentlie into their hands.”
• c. 1215 · Pope Innocent excommunicated the rebellious barons by name.(King John 29)
  • With: Pope Innocent III Robert FitzWalter Saer de Quincy, Earl of Winchester Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex William de Mandeville Hugh, Earl of Hereford Robert de Percy Geoffrey de Vescy J. Constable of Chester William de Mowbray William de Albini Peter de Braose Robert de Cressy Ranulfe Fitz Robert Roger Bigot, Earl of Norfolk Robert de Vere Foulke Fitz Warren William Mallet William de Montacute William FitzMarshall Simon de Kyme Robert de Montbégon Nicholas de Stuteville
  • “pope Innocent, who before at the instant suit of king John had excommunicated the barons in generall, did now excommunicate them by name, and in particular, as these. First all the citizens of London which were authors of the mischéefe that had happened by the rebellion of the said barons. Also Robert Fitz Walter, Saer de Quincie earle of Winchester, R. his sonne, G. de Mandeuille, and W. his brother the earle of Clare, and G. his sonne, H. earle of Hereford, R. de Percie, G. de Vescie, J. conestable of Chester, W. de Mowbraie, Will. de Albenie, W. his sonne, P. de Breuse, R. de Cressey, J. his sonne, Ranulfe Fitz Robert, R. earle Bigot, H. his sonne, Robert de Vere, Foulke Fitz Warren, W. Mallet, W. de Mountacute, W. Fitz Marshall, W. de Beauchampe, S. de Kime, R. de Montbigons, and Nicholas de Stuteuille, with diuerse other.”
• c. 1381 · English forces were sent to aid John I of Portugal against John I of Castile.(Richard II 12 · 📍 Portingale)
  • With: John I of Portugal John I of Castile Matthew Gournay
  • “the earle of Cambridge, the lord William de Beauchampe, the lord Botreux, and sir Matthew Gournie, were sent into Portingale with fiue hundred armed men, and fiue hundred archers to aid the king of Portingale against the king of Castile”