General Notes

Hugh de Beauchamp's third son, Walter de Beauchamp, of Elmley Castle, co. Gloucester, having m. Emeline, dau. and heiress of Urso de Abitot, constable of the castle of Worcester, and hereditary sheriff of Worcestershire (who was brother of Robert le Despenser, steward to the Conqueror), was invested with that sheriffalty by King Henry I, and obtained a grant from the same monarch (to whom he was steward) of all the lands belonging to Roger de Worcester, with a confirmation of certain lands given to him by Adelise, widow of his father-in-law, the said Urso. Walter de Beauchamp was s., as well in his estates as in the royal stewardship, by his son, William de Beauchamp. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 29, Beauchamp, Earls of Warwick]