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• Margaret BEAUCHAMP (d. 1468), who married John TALBOT, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English commander during the Hundred Year's War and whose great-grandson John Dudley was created Earl of Warwick and subsequently Duke of Northumberland. TALBOT was married on 12 March 1406 to Maud Nevill, daughter and heiress of Thomas Nevill, 5th Baron Furnivall (and in her right summoned to Parliament from 1409) and had four children:
  • Lady Joan TALBOT
  • John TALBOT, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury (c. 1413 – 11 July 1460). He was knighted in 1426 at Leicester alongside King Henry VI. During his father's lifetime, he served as Lord Chancellor of Ireland. He was a Lancastrian, and served as Lord High Treasurer from 1456 to 1458, besides being created a Knight of the Garter in 1457. He was killed at the Battle of Northampton.
  • Sir Christopher TALBOT (d. 10 July 1460)
  • Hon. Thomas TALBOT (died before his father in Bordeaux)

  John TALBOT married, secondly, Lady Margaret Beauchamp, daughter of Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick and Elizabeth de Berkeley, on 6 September 1425 and had four children:

  • Sir Lewis TALBOT
  • John TALBOT, 1st Viscount Lisle (c. 1426 – 17 July 1453). In 1444, he was created Baron Lisle (his mother being one of the coheirs to the previous creation of the barony), and in 1451, was made Viscount Lisle. In the winter of 1452, he led troops into Guyenne to reinforce his father. Both father and son were killed the next summer at the Battle of Castillon- the last battle fought between the French, the Bretons and the English. Following Henry VI's episode of insanity in 1453 AD and the subsequent outbreak of the Wars of the Roses, the English were no longer in any position to pursue their claim to the French throne and lost all their land on the continent (except for Calais). John married Joan CHEDDAR after 1443 and had three children:
    • Elizabeth TALBOT (d. 1487), married Edward GREY, 1st Viscount Lisle
    • Thomas TALBOT, 2nd Viscount LISLE (d. 1470) He married Margaret HERBERT, the daughter of William HERBERT, 1st Earl of Pembroke. Upon the death of his grandmother Margaret Beauchamp in 1468, Lisle inherited her claims upon the lands of Baron Berkeley.
    • Margaret TALBOT (d. 1475)
  • Sir Humphrey TALBOT (before 1453 – c. 1492)
  • Lady Elizabeth TALBOT (before 1453). She married John de MOWBRAY, 4th Duke of Norfolk.

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• Eleanor BEAUCHAMP, who married Thomas de ROS, 9th Baron de ROS and then married Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset. Eleanor was an older half-sister of Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick and Anne Neville, Countess of Warwick. Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de ROS was the second son of William de ROS, 7th Baron de Ros and Margaret FITZALAN.

  9th Baron Thomas' father, William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, KG (1369 – September 1, 1414) was Lord Treasurer of England. His first assignment from Richard II of England was to join Walter Skirlaw, Bishop of Durham, Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland and others in negotiating for a peace treaty with Robert III of Scotland. He was a son of Thomas de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros and Beatrice Stafford, daughter of Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford.

Richard favored William with a position in his Privy council. In 1396, William accompanied the King to Calais for his marriage to his second Queen consort Isabella of Valois, daughter of Charles VI of France and Isabeau of Bavaria. William, seems to have been a special favourite with the first monarch of the House of Lancaster and was employed him in various civil affairs of great importance. He was first summoned to the Parliament of England on November 20 of the same year. He would reguraly attend sessions till 1413 and was in charge of investigating the activities of Lollards in Derbyshire, Middlesex and Nottinghamshire from 1413 to his death. He served as Lord Treasurer of England from 1403 to 1404. He was created a Knight of the Garter in 1403 along with Edmund de Holand, 4th Earl of Kent and Richard Grey, 4th Baron Grey of Codnor.

9th Baron Thomas was also a younger brother of John de Ros, 6th Baron de Ros (1365–1394) who took a prominent part in the pageantry at the coronation of the ill-advised, and ill-fated Richard II, then only years old. Following the coronation he was made a Knight of the Bath. While on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem he died in Pathos, Cyprus. His body was returned and buried at Rievaulx Abbey. 9th Baron Thomas and 6th Baron de Ros' mother was a daughter of John FITZALAN and Eleanor Maltravers. He was also a younger brother of John de Ros, 8th Baron de Ros. He fought in the Battle of Verneuil under the successful command of John, Duke of Bedford. He was honored for his efforts, knighted by Henry VI of England on May 19, 1426. Henry was nephew of the Duke. Thomas resumed service under the Duke in 1427. He was summoned to the Parliament of England in 1429. He fell into the Seine during a minor skirmish and drowned in 1430. He was married to Eleanor Beauchamp, daughter of Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick and his first wife Elizabeth Berkeley. Eleanor was an older half-sister of Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick and Anne Neville, Countess of Warwick. They were parents of three children:

• Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros (September 9, 1427 - May 17, 1464). Thomas himself was an older maternal half-brother to Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset and Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset. As a loyal supporter of King Henry VI of England, de Ros was attained in Parliament on November 4, 1461. He was later beheaded at Newcastle for treason, and the Ros lands were confiscated. Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire was given to Lord Hastings. The title Baron Hastings is an ancient one in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1295 by writ. The third Baron was created Earl of Pembroke, but the earldom became extinct in 1389, when there were no heirs of the first Earl surviving... In February 1461, he had been one of the knights made at the second Battle of St. Albans by Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales. Thomas had inherited the barony of de Ros when he was barely four years old. His great uncle, Sir Robert Ros, knight, was deputed to perform the office of chamberlain to Archbishop Stafford, on the day of his installation at Canterbury; this office belonged to the Lord Ros, from his tenure of the manor of Hethfield, in Kent. The fee for this service was the furniture of the room, and the basin and towel. The manor, and tenure on which it was held, came to the Ros family, from the marriage of an ancestor with Margaret Badlesmere. In 1456, he had permission to go on a pilgrimage, and in 1460, the king settled on him, as in part, a recompense for the expenses and losses incurred in his service, an annuity of £40, arising out of certain manors forfeited by the Earl of Salisbury. In the same year, being with king at York when news arrived of the Lancastrian defeat at the Battle of Towton on Palm Sunday- the bloodiest ever fought on British soil, with casualties believed to have been in excess of 20,000, he accompanied Henry to Berwick. Thomas was married to Philippa de Tibetot, the sister of John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester. Their children were:
  • John de Ros
  • Edmund de Ros, 11th Baron de Ros (1446 – October 13, 1508) was a follower of the House of Lancaster during the Wars of the Roses, and regained his family title after the accession of King Henry VII of England. As a result of his father's attainder, he went into exile. Under Henry VII, who united the houses of York and Lancaster, the attainder was reversed; and Edmund, Lord Ros, was reinstated in his ancestral property; Belvoir had been in the possession of the Hastings family for more than twenty years. In the petition to parliament, presented by Lord Ros, November, 1483, his claims are stated with great moderation, and his sufferings for his loyalty to King Henry VI are not overstated. About nine years later, Sir Thomas Lovel, who married Isabel, Edmund's sister, presented a petition to parliament, stating that Edmund was "not of sufficient discretion to guide himself and his livelihood; nor able to serve his sovereign after his duty" and asking "that he might have the guidance and governance of the said Edmund" and all his property. An act of parliament was passed, giving full powers to Sir Thomas Lovel over the person and property of Lord Ros, and entire possession of the latter at is death; upon trust for the other relatives of Lord Ros, reserving only a rent of seven hundred marks to the king, and the right, title, and interest of those who have, or ought to have, possession or occupation of certain portions of the property. Edmund, Lord Ros, lived at the manor of Elsinges, at Enfield, which he had inherited from his mother, and was probably kept under restraint. On his death, and was buried in the church at Enfield, on the north side of the altar; where his monument is an arch, erected over the tomb of Lady Joyce Tiploft, his maternal grandmother, and charged with the arms of Ros quartering Badlesmere. Since Edmund had no children, his sisters were his heirs; and Elsinges became the property of his brother in law, Sir Thomas Lovel, who, at his death, in 1524, bequeathed it to his cousin, Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland, in 1526. Eleanor, the eldest sister and co-heir of Edmund, Lord Ros, married Sir Robert Manners, of Ethale, in the county of Northumberland.
  • Eleanor de Ros
  • Isabel de Ros
  • Joan de Ros
  • Margaret de Ros

 

• Richard de Ros (March 8, 1429 - after 1492).
• Margaret de Ros (1432 - December 10, 1488). Married first William Botreaux, 3rd Baron Bocastle, secondly Thomas Borough, 1st Baron Borough of Gainsborough.

 

9th Baron Thomas' widow was remarried to Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset. He was the fourth son of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset. During the five yeare truce from 1444 to 1449, Somerset was Lieutenant of France. In 1448 he was created Duke of Somerset. Somerset found military success elusive after hostilities began again in 1449. By the summer of 1450 the bulk of the English possessions in northern France were in French hands. This loss lead to the fall of the king's chief minister, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk. A handsome and urbane courtier, his affair with King Henry V's widow, Queen, Katherine Valois of France in 1427 created a political scandal. The focus of the war with the French now turned to Gascony, in the south of France. Here the English were no more successful, losing all by 1453. Soon afterwards the king went insane, Somerset's rival Richard, Duke of York was named Lord Protector, and Somerset was imprisoned in the Tower of London. His life was probably saved only by the king's recovery. Henry VI had Somerset released and returned to his position at court. The Duke of York was determined to depose Somerset by one means or another, and thus in May 1455 Ricahrd, Duke or York raised an army and confronted Somerset and the king. Somerset was killed in the resulting engagement, known as the First Battle of St. Albans. It was the beginning of the Wars of the Roses, which would go on to claim many of Somerset's sons and relatives.

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• Elizabeth BEAUCHAMP , who married George Neville, 1st Lord Latimer.

• Henry, who succeeded his father as Earl of Warwick, and later became Duke of Warwick
• Anne Beauchamp (1426 - 1492), who was theoretically Countess of Warwick in her own right after the death of her infant niece and namesake, and who married Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick. Anne became the wife of Richard Neville or "Warwick the Kingmaker." Following the death of Anne's father, and subsequently that of her brother, Henry (who had been created a duke), and her niece Anne de Beauchamp, Neville inherited the title and estates of the Earl of Warwick through her.
  • Isabel Neville married George, Duke of Clarence, the younger brother of King Edward IV of England.
  • Anne Neville, was married to Edward of Westminster, the only son of King Henry VI. When Edward of Westminster was killed in the Battle of Tewkesbury, Anne was married to Richard of Gloucester, later King Richard III of England.

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