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William de Beauchamp
William de Beauchamp
Baron Bergavenny
	Sir William Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny, KG
Born	c. 1343
Died	8 May 1411 (aged 67–68)
Noble family	Beauchamp
Spouse(s)	Lady Joan FitzAlan; (m. 1392–1411; his death)
Issue	Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester; Joan Butler, Countess of Ormond
Father	Thomas Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick
Mother	Katherine Mortimer

William de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny, KG (c. 1343 – 8 May 1411) was an English peer.

Sir William Beauchamp served on the royal council of king Richard II as sub-chamberlain or acting chief chamberlain of the household from 1378 to 1380 (in place of the formal chamberlain, Robert de Vere (9th Earl of Oxford), who held it by hereditary right, but was still considered a minor).^[1] Beauchamp served as Captain of Calais in 1383.^[2]

Upon the death of his first cousin once removed, John Hastings, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, on 30 December 1389, William inherited the lordship of Abergavenny, including Abergavenny Castle.^[2] He was summoned to Parliament on 23 July 1392 as "Willilmo Beauchamp de Bergavenny", by which he is held to have become Baron Bergavenny, a barony by writ.^[3] In 1399, he was appointed Justiciar of South Wales and Governor of Pembroke.^[4] He entailed the castle and Honour of Abergavenny on the issue male of his body, with remainder to his brother Thomas Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick and his heirs male; his wife enjoyed it in dower until her death in 1435. Bergavenny died in 1411 and was buried at Black Friars, Hereford.^[5]

Marriage and offspring

Bergavenny married Lady Joan FitzAlan, daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, and Elizabeth de Bohun, and they had the following children:

Ancestors of William Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny

17. Isabella Maudit

19. Isabel Bigod

21. Alice de Bohun

22.

11. Mary

23.

1. William de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny

26. Sir William de Fienes

14. Sir Piers de Genevelle

^ J.F. Tout (1928) Chapters in the Administrative History of Mediaeval England, v.3, p.353.
^ ^a ^b Cokayne 1910, p. 24.
^ Cokayne 1910, p. 25.
^ Cokayne 1910, pp. 25–26.
^ Cokayne 1910, p. 26.

Political offices
Preceded by Simon de Burley	Acting Chief Chamberlain 1378–1380	Succeeded by Aubrey de Vere
Peerage of England
New creation	Baron Bergavenny 1392–1411	Succeeded by Richard de Beauchamp