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{{Infobox peer<br />
| name = Henry Beauchamp<br />
| image = HenryWarwickRousRoll.jpg<br />
| caption = Drawing of Henry from the [[John Rous (historian)|Rous Roll]], {{circa|1483}}<br />
| title = Duke of Warwick<br />
| tenure = 14 April 1445{{snd}}11 June 1446<br />
| other_titles = 14th [[Earl of Warwick]]<br />
| residence = [[Warwick Castle]]<br />
| nationality = [[England|English]]<br />
| birth_name = <br />
| birth_date = 22 March 1425<br />
| birth_place = <br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1446|06|11|1425|03|22}}<br />
| noble family = [[Earl of Warwick#1088 creation|Beauchamp]]<br />
| spouse = [[Cecily Neville, Duchess of Warwick|Cecily Neville]]<br />
| issue = [[Anne Beauchamp, 15th Countess of Warwick]]<br />
| parents = [[Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick]]<br/>[[Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester and Warwick]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Henry Beauchamp''' (22 March 1425{{snd}}11 June 1446<ref>Carpenter, Christine. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/1836 "Beauchamp, Henry, duke of Warwick"], ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'', 23 September 2004. Retrieved 21 November 2018.</ref>), '''14th Earl and 1st Duke of Warwick''', was an English nobleman.<br />
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==Life==<br />
Henry was the son of [[Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick]], and [[Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester and Warwick|Isabel le Despenser]]. In 1434, he married [[Cecily Neville, Duchess of Warwick|Cecily Neville]], the second daughter of [[Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury]], and [[Alice Montagu, Countess of Salisbury]]. He became 14th Earl of Warwick on his father's death in 1439.<br />
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His boyhood friendship with [[Henry VI of England|King Henry VI]] and his father's military services placed him high in the King's favour, and he was loaded with titles. In 1444, he was made premier Earl of the realm, and on 14 April 1445, was created Duke of Warwick,<ref name="EB1911">{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Warwick, Earls of|volume=28|page=338}}</ref> and around the same time, granted the [[Feckenham Forest|Forest of Feckenham]].<ref>{{cite book|publisher = Alan Sutton |isbn = 0-86299-781-X |ol = 1878197M |location = Wolfeboro Falls, NH |title = The royal forests of England |author = Raymond Grant |date = 1991 |id = 086299781X}} See p169</ref><br />
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He is said to have been crowned King of the [[Isle of Wight]] in 1444<ref>[http://vision.edina.ac.uk/text/chap_page.jsp?t_id=Camden&c_id=20&p_id=73 William Camden, Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London, 1610)]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> by Henry VI, to place his playmate on a more equal standing with him, but this story is considered unhistorical.<ref name="EB1911"/><ref>''[https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofnati04stepuoft#page/28/mode/2up Dictionary of National Biography]'' (New York: Macmillan, 1985) vol. 4, p. 28</ref><br />
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As Duke of Warwick, he was preceded only by the [[Duke of Norfolk]]. This precedence was disputed by the [[Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham|Duke of Buckingham]], whom it displaced. However, the issue was rendered moot by his death on 11 June 1446, at which time the dukedom expired for lack of [[heirs male]].<br />
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==Succession==<br />
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On his death, the earldom was inherited by his two-year-old daughter, [[Anne Beauchamp, 15th Countess of Warwick|Anne]] (14 February 1444{{snd}}3 June 1449<ref>Hicks, Michael (1998). ''Warwick the Kingmaker'', pp. 30, 39. Blackwell, Oxford. {{ISBN|0-631-16259-3}}.</ref>), ''[[suo jure]]'' Countess of Warwick. She, however, died three years later, and there was some question regarding who, if any, of her father's sisters (or their heirs) should succeed.<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43269 Parishes: Flamstead, A History of the County of Hertford: volume 2 (1908), pp. 193-201]. Accessed 11 January 2008.</ref> <br />
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In the end, his full sister [[Anne Beauchamp, 16th Countess of Warwick|Anne]] (who was married to [[Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick|Richard Neville]], eldest son of Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury, and brother to Beauchamp's widow) was declared the heir, due to the English common law principle that "possession by the brother makes the sister the heir", which denies relatives of the half-blood from inheriting when full-blood relatives are available to inherit. The three half-sisters from their father's first marriage contested this decision, but to no avail.<br />
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==Ancestry==<br />
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| 1 = 1. '''Henry Beauchamp, Duke of Warwick'''<br />
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| 3 = 3. [[Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester and Warwick]]<br />
| 4 = 4. [[Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick]]<br />
| 5 = 5. [[Margaret Ferrers]]<br />
| 6 = 6. [[Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester]]<br />
| 7 = 7. [[Constance of York]]<br />
| 8 = 8. [[Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick]]<br />
| 9 = 9. [[Katherine Mortimer]]<br />
| 10 = 10. William Ferrers, 3rd [[Baron Ferrers of Groby]]<br />
| 11 = 11. Margaret Ufford<br />
| 12 = 12. [[Edward le Despenser, 1st Baron le Despencer]]<br />
| 13 = 13. [[Elizabeth le Despencer, Baroness le Despencer|Elizabeth de Burghersh]]<br />
| 14 = 14. [[Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York]]<br />
| 15 = 15. [[Infanta Isabella of Castile]]<br />
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