Baron Beauchamp
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The titles Baron Beauchamp and Viscount Beauchamp have been created several times throughout English
England
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 and British
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 history. There is still an extant Viscountcy of Beauchamp, held by the Marquesses of Hertford
Marquess of Hertford
The titles of Earl of Hertford and Marquess of Hertford have been created several times in the peerages of England and Great Britain.The third Earldom of Hertford was created in 1559 for Edward Seymour, who was simultaneously created Baron Beauchamp of Hache...

.

Beauchamp family

The name Beauchamp, Latinised to Bello Campo ("beautiful field", "fair field"), is borne by one of the most ancient Anglo-Norman families.

Barons Beauchamp, first creation ("de Somerset") (1299–1361)

(Descendants of feudal barons
English feudal barony
In England, a feudal barony or barony by tenure was a form of Feudal land tenure, namely per baroniam under which the land-holder owed the service of being one of the king's barons. It must be distinguished from a barony, also feudal, but which existed within a county palatine, such as the Barony...

 of Hatch Beauchamp
Hatch Beauchamp
Hatch Beauchamp is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated south east of Taunton in the Taunton Deane district. The village has a population of 575.-History:...

, Somerset)
  • John de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp (1274–1336)
  • John de Beauchamp, 2nd Baron Beauchamp (d. 1343)
  • John de Beauchamp, 3rd Baron Beauchamp (1330–1361) (abeyant on his death)

Baron Beauchamp, second creation ("de Warwick") (1350–1360)

  • John de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp
    John de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp (second creation)
    Sir John de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp de Warwick KG was a younger son of Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick, and brother of Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick, with whom he became a founder and the tenth Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1348.He attended King Edward III into...

     (1316–1360)

Baron Beauchamp, third creation ("of Bletso") (1363–1380)

  • Roger de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp (d. 1380)

Barons Beauchamp, fourth creation ("of Kidderminster") (1387–1400)

  • John de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp
    John de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp (fourth creation)
    Sir John de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp of Kidderminster was an administrator and landowner. He came from Holt, Worcestershire, and belonged to a cadet branch of the great family of Beauchamp, whose head was the Earl of Warwick. He was the son of another John , whom he succeeded in the 1360s...

     (1319–1388)
  • John de Beauchamp, 2nd Baron Beauchamp (1378–1420) (forfeit in 1400)

Barons Beauchamp, fifth creation ("of Powick") (1447–1503)

  • John Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp (d. 1475)
  • Richard Beauchamp, 2nd Baron Beauchamp
    Richard Beauchamp, 2nd Baron Beauchamp
    Sir Richard Beauchamp, 2nd Baron Beauchamp of Powick, was born c. 1435.He married on 27 January 1447 Elizabeth, d. of Humphrey Stafford of Grafton. They had Sir John, died young; Elizabeth , married, Robert Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby de Broke Sir Richard Beauchamp, 2nd Baron Beauchamp of...

     (1435–1503)

Viscount Beauchamp, first creation ("of Hache
Hatch Beauchamp
Hatch Beauchamp is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated south east of Taunton in the Taunton Deane district. The village has a population of 575.-History:...

") (1536–1552)

  • Edward Seymour, 1st Viscount Beauchamp
    Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset
    Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, 1st Earl of Hertford, 1st Viscount Beauchamp of Hache, KG, Earl Marshal was Lord Protector of England in the period between the death of Henry VIII in 1547 and his own indictment in 1549....

     (created Earl of Hertford in 1537 and Duke of Somerset in 1547; forfeit in 1552)

Barons Beauchamp, sixth creation ("of Hache
Hatch Beauchamp
Hatch Beauchamp is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated south east of Taunton in the Taunton Deane district. The village has a population of 575.-History:...

") (1559–1750)

  • Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford, 1st Baron Beachamp
    Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford
    Sir Edward Seymour, 1st Baron Beauchamp of Hache and 1st Earl of Hertford, KG was the son of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, by his second wife Anne Stanhope....

     (1537–1621)
  • William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, 2nd Baron Beauchamp
    William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset
    Sir William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, KG was an English nobleman and Royalist commander in the English Civil War....

     (1587–1660)
  • William Seymour, 3rd Duke of Somerset, 3rd Baron Beauchamp
    William Seymour, 3rd Duke of Somerset
    William Seymour, 3rd Duke of Somerset was the son of Henry Seymour, Lord Beauchamp and Mary Capell.He died in 1671, unmarried and childless and was succeeded by his paternal uncle John Seymour....

     (1654–1671)
  • John Seymour, 4th Duke of Somerset, 4th Baron Beauchamp
    John Seymour, 4th Duke of Somerset
    John Seymour, 4th Duke of Somerset was an English peer and MP.He was the only surviving son of William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset and Lady Frances Devereux and entered Grays Inn in 1666. He succeeded his nephew as the 4th Duke of Somerset in 1671. He married in 1656 Sarah, daughter and...

     (d. 1675)
  • Francis Seymour, 5th Duke of Somerset, 5th Baron Beauchamp
    Francis Seymour, 5th Duke of Somerset
    Francis Seymour, 5th Duke of Somerset , known as 3rd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge between 1665 and 1675, was an English peer....

     (1658–1678)
  • Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, 6th Barom Beauchamp
    Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset
    Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset , sometimes referred to as the "Proud Duke". The son of Charles Seymour, 2nd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge, and Elizabeth Alington , he succeeded his brother Francis Seymour, 5th Duke of Somerset, to the dukedom when the latter was shot in 1678...

     (1662–1748)
  • Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset, 7th Baron Beauchamp
    Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset
    General Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset was the son of Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset and his wife, Elizabeth...

     (1684–1750) (Barony extinct on his death)

Viscounts Beauchamp, second creation ("of Hache
Hatch Beauchamp
Hatch Beauchamp is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated south east of Taunton in the Taunton Deane district. The village has a population of 575.-History:...

") (1750—)

  • Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Earl of Hertford, 1st Viscount Beauchamp
    Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford
    Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford KG, PC, PC was a British courtier and politician.He was born in Chelsea, London the son of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Lord Conway and Charlotte Shorter and died in Surrey, England...

     (1718–1794) (created Marquess of Hertford in 1793)

See Marquess of Hertford
Marquess of Hertford
The titles of Earl of Hertford and Marquess of Hertford have been created several times in the peerages of England and Great Britain.The third Earldom of Hertford was created in 1559 for Edward Seymour, who was simultaneously created Baron Beauchamp of Hache...

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Barons Beauchamp, seventh creation ("of Powyke") (1806–1979)

  • William Lygon, 1st Baron Beauchamp (1747–1816) (created Earl Beauchamp in 1815)

See Earl Beauchamp
Earl Beauchamp
Earl Beauchamp was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1815 for William Lygon, 1st Baron Beauchamp, along with the subsidiary title Viscount Elmley, in the County of Worcester. He had already been created Baron Beauchamp of Powyke in the County of Worcester, in 1806,...

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