William de Beauchamp , Sir Knight 
William de was born about 1105 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England. William de's father was Walter de Beauchamp , Sheriff of Worcester, Sir and his mother was Emeline de Arbitot. His paternal grandparents were Hugh de Beauchamp , Sir Knight and Matilda Taillebois; his maternal grandparents were Urso de Arbitot , Constable of Worcester and Adeline. He was an only child. He died in 1170 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England.General Notes
William de Beauchamp, who, for all his zeal in the cause of the Empress Maud, was dispossessed of the castle of Worcester by King Stephen, to which, and all his other honours and estates, however, he was restored by King Henry II; and in that monarch's reign, besides the sheriffalty of Worcestershire, which he enjoyed by inheritance, he was sheriff of Warwickshire (2nd Henry II), sheriff of Gloucestershire (from 3rd to the 9th Henry II), sheriff of Herefordshire (from the 8th to the 16th Henry II, 1167-70, inclusive). Upon the levy of the assessment towards the marriage portion of one of King Henry's daus., this powerful feudal lord certified his knight's fees to amount to fifteen. He m. Maud, dau. of William Lord Braose, of Gower, and was s. at his decease 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]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1050 in Beauchamp, Calvados, Normandy, France d.1114 in Bedfordshire, England
- b.~ 1072 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England d.1131
- b.~ 1019 in Taillebois, Orne, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1050 in Taillebois, Orne, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1020 in France
- b.~ 1105 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England d.1170 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England
- b.1015 in Tancarville, Le Havre, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1036 in Tancarville, Le Havre, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d. in Worcestershire, England
- b.~ 1015 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1056 in Lincolnshire, England d.1118 in Worcestershire, England
- b.~ 1076 in Barley, Derbyshire, England
- b.~ 1056 in Derbyshire, England
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Children
William de Beauchamp , Lord of Elmley
William de was born about 1130 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England. He died in 1211 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England.
Maud de Beauchamp
Maud de was born about 1150 in Elmley, Worcestershire, England. She died before 1217 in Tamworth Castle, Warwickshire, England.
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