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Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester and Warwick, LG (26 July 1400 - 1439) was the posthumous daughter and eventually the sole heiress of Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester (d. 1399) by his wife, Constance of York. She was born six months after her father had been beheaded for plotting against King Henry IV (1399-1413). Marriages and progeny Firstly to Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester (1394-1422) who died at the Siege of Meaux. They had one daughter: Elizabeth de Beauchamp, born 1415, who married Edward Neville, 1st Baron Bergavenny (d. 1476), and had progeny. Secondly to Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick (1382-1439), her 1st husband's first-cousin from a senior Beauchamp line, by whom she had two children: Henry de Beauchamp (1425-1446), who succeeded his father as 14th Earl of Warwick, and later was created 1st Duke of Warwick. He married Cecille Neville, daughter of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, and had by her one daughter who died an infant: Anne Beauchamp, 15th Countess of Warwick. Anne de Beauchamp, who became 16th Countess of Warwick, following the deaths of her brother and his infant daughter. Anne married Richard Neville, the Kingmaker, eldest son of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, and who became jure uxoris 16th Earl of Warwick. Her husband therefore was the brother of her own brother's wife. They had two daughters who married at the highest level: Isabella Neville (1451-1476), married George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence (1449-1478), brother of Kings Edward IV and Richard III, with issue. Anne Neville (1456-1485), married firstly Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, without issue, and secondly King Richard III (1483-1485), with issue. Notes Jump up ^ As per his seal ("Beauchamp with crescent on the fesse & Despencer quarterly") affixed to Cardiff Inspeximus, 20 April 1421, published as Charter no. MCXVI, in [1] References[edit] Jump up ^ Clark, G.T. (1910), "Cartae et Alia Munimenta Quae ad Dominium de Glamorgancia Pertinent", Charters DCCCCLII-MCXCIV (Cardiff), vol. 4 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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