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WARWICK, See also:RICHARD See also:BEAUCHAMP, See also:EARL OF (1382—1439) , son of See also:Thomas Beauchamp, was See also:born at Salwarp in See also:Worcester-See also:shire on the 28th of See also:January 1382, and succeeded his See also:father in 1401. He had some service in the Welsh See also:War, fought on the See also:king's See also:side at the See also:battle of See also:Shrewsbury on the 22nd of See also:July 1403, and at the See also:siege of Aberystwith in 1407. In 1408 he started on a See also:pilgrimage to the See also:Holy See also:Land, visiting on his way See also:Paris and See also:Rome, and fighting victoriously in a See also:tournament with Pandolfo Malatesta at See also:Verona. From See also:Venice he took See also:ship to Jaffa, whence he went to See also:Jerusalem, and set up his arms in the See also:temple. On his return he travelled through Lithuania, See also:Prussia and See also:Germany, and reached See also:England in 1410. Two years later he was fighting in command at See also:Calais. Up to this See also:time Warwick's career had been that of the typical See also:knight errant. During the reign of See also:Henry V. his See also:chief employment was as a trusted counsellor and diplomatist. He was an See also:ambassador to See also:France in See also:September 1413, and the chief See also:English See also:envoy to the See also:coronation of See also:Sigismund at See also:Aix-la-Chapelle, and to the See also:council of See also:Constance in the autumn of 1414. During the See also:campaign of See also:Agincourt he was See also:captain of Calais, where in See also:April 1416 he received Sigismund 'with such courtly magnificence as to See also:earn from him the See also:title of the " Father of See also:Courtesy." In the See also:campaigns of 1417—18 Warwick took a prominent See also:part, reducing See also:Domfront and Caudebec. Then he joined the king before See also:Rouen, and in See also:October 1418 had See also:charge of the negotiations with the dauphin and with See also:Burgundy. Next See also:year he was again the chief English spokesman in the See also:conference at Meulan, and afterwards was Henry's representative in arrangeing the treaty of See also:Troyes.

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Melun in 1420, and of Mantes in 1421—22 he held high command. Warwick's See also:sage experience made it natural that Henry V. should on his See also:death-See also:bed appoint him to be his son's See also:governor. For some years to come he was engaged chiefly as a member of the council in England. In 1428 he received formal charge of the little king's See also:education. He took Henry to France in 1430, and whilst at Rouen had the superintendence of the trial of See also:Joan of Arc. In 1431 he defeated Pothon de Xaintrailles at Savignies. Next year he returned to England. The king's minority came nominally to an end in 1437. Warwick was then not unnaturally chosen to succeed Richard of See also:York in the See also:government of See also:Normandy. He accepted loyally a service " full far from the ease of my years," and went down to See also:Portsmouth in See also:August, but was See also:long detained by had See also:weather, " seven times shipped or ever he might pass the See also:sea," and only reached See also:Honfleur on the 8th of See also:November. In Normandy he ruled with vigour for eighteen months, and died at his See also:post on the 3oth of April 1439. His See also:body was brought See also:home and buried at Warwick.

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tomb in St See also:Mary's See also:church is one of the most splendid specimens of English See also:art in the 15th See also:century. Warwick married (I) See also:Elizabeth See also:Berkeley, (2) See also:Isabella See also:Despenser. By his second wife he See also:left an only son Henry, afterwards See also:duke of Warwick, who died in 1445, and a daughter See also:Anne, who as her See also:brother's See also:sister of the whole See also:blood brought the title and chief See also:share of the estates to her See also:husband Richard See also:Neville, the king-maker. By his first wife he had three daughters, of whom the eldest, See also:Margaret, married See also:John See also:Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury. See also:Manners and Customs; new edition by Mr See also:Emery See also:Walker, with notes by See also:Lord See also:Dillon and Mr W. St John See also:Hope. More authoritative material must be sought in strictly contemporary See also:chronicles, and especially in the Vita Henrici Quintiascribed to Elniham, See also:Monstrelet; Chronicles of See also:London (ed. C. L. See also:Kingsford) and J. See also:Stevenson, Letters, esac. illustrative of the English See also:Wars in France (" Rolls " See also:series). For See also:modern accounts consult J.

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Wylie, Henry IV. ; C. L. Kingsford, Henry V. ; and See also:Sir See also:James See also:Ramsay, See also:Lancaster and York. (C. L.

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