General Notes

This feudal lord, Walter de Beauchamp, was appointed governor of Hanley Castle, co. Worcester, in the 17th King John [1216], and entrusted with the custody of the same shire in that turbulent year. Walter de Beauchamp m. Bertha, dau. of William Lord Braose, by whom he had two sons, Walcheline and James. Of this nobleman we find further that, being one of the barons-marchers, he gave security to the king for his faithful services (with the other lords-marchers) until peace should be fully settled in the realm; and for the better performance thereof, gave up James, his younger son, as a hostage. He d. in 1235, and was s. by his elder son, Walcheline de Beauchamp. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 30, Beauchamp, Earls of Warwick]