Identifier: cu31924050615214 (find matches)
Title: Warwick castle and its earls : from Saxon times to the present day
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Warwick, Frances Evelyn Maynard Greville, Countess of, 1861-1938
Subjects: Warwick castle
Publisher: New York : E.P. Dutton London, Hutchinson
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ome tomb of its founder and his Countess.Their effigies He on a high tomb, the lady to the rightof her husband, whose hand she holds. She wears along, close-fitting robe, laced down the bodice, and hasa long girdle, buckled in front and ornamented withthe four-leaved flower. Above this is a loose cloak,fastened by a brooch on either shoulder. She wearsthe stiff netted head-dress of the period, and her feetrest on a bull. Her husband is in bascinet and camail,shirt of mail, with jupon over it, bearing the arms ofBeauchamp. His arms are protected by brassarts, hislegs with greaves, and the feet covered with pointedsollerets. His feet rest on a bear, and on either sideof the tomb by the head-cushions are seated angels.About the sides of the tomb are thirty-six statuettes incusped panels, and below these is a series of plainshields, which from Dugdales figure seem formerly tohave been tinctured. They represent alternately maleand female members of the families of Beauchamp andMortimer. 98
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CHAPTER III Thomas de Beauchamp—His Hostility to Richard H.—His Arrest andImprisonment—His Confession of Treachery—His subsequent Re-pudiation of it—His Death—Richard de Beauchamp—His Feats ofChivalry—Plis Tailors Bill. THE Thomas de Beauchamp whose famous deedswe have recounted married Katherine, eldestdaughter of Roger, Earl of March. His eldest son,Guy, having predeceased him, another Thomas deBeauchamp, his second son, succeeded to the titleand estates. He was only a moderately famous Earl, andperhaps one had better add, only a moderately satis-factory one. His renown is over-shadowed by hissons, no less than by his fathers; though his titles,distinctions, and public offices and emplqyments werenumerous enough. He was Earl of Warwick, BaronBeauchamp of Elmley and Hanslape, Lord of CastleBarnard and Kirtling, and by hereditary right Pantlerof England, Chamberlain of the Exchequer, Sheriff ofthe County of Worcester, Constable of Worcester Castle,and also Patron of Wa

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