Walter de Beauchamp

  General Notes:

The Inquisitions Post Mortem for the County of Worcester, Part I, p. viii

Urso d'Abbito was the hereditary Sheriff ⁷⁴⁹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ⁸²⁹
Walter de Beauchamp, of Elmley Castle in Gloucester, married Emeline, daughter and heiress of Urso de Abitot, constable of the Castle of Worcester, and hereditary sheriff of Worcestershire. Urso de Abitot was also the brother of Robert le Despenser, steward to the conqueror. Walter was made sheriff of Worcester Castle by King Henry I, of whom he was steward, and Henry I granted all the land belonging to Roger de Worcester, with confirmation of certain lands given to him by Adelise, widow of his father-in-law.

~Burke's General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland, extinct, dormant and in abeyance, p. 30

• Background Information: ⁹⁸⁵
The Beauchamps were among those who came to England with William the Conqueror. Walter de Beauchamp or Bellocampo, a Norman, was granted the estates of Roger de Wygracestra and the shrievalty of Worcester, which Urso d'Abitot had held at the time of William I, whose daughter, Emeline, Walter married. Walter's son was William, who held the office of Dispensator to the King, and his great grandson, William de Beauchamp, married Isabella Mauduit, sister and heir of William Mauduit, Earl of Warwick.

~Warwick castle and Its Earls, p. 75

• Background Information: ¹⁴¹
Cokaney's Complete Peerage, Vol. I (Abitot), 1887, p. 34, Urso sat in the great council of 1082 and 1085 according to Dugdale. Emmeline, his daughter married Walter de Beauchamp, who obtained from Henry I, all the lands of Roger de Worcester and Sheriffalty of Worcestershire to hold as freely as any of his ancestors had done.

• Web Reference:
Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands Walter de Beauchamp

Walter married Emeline de Abitot, daughter of Urso de Abitot Constable Of Worcester and Atheliza ¹⁴¹.^,985 (Emeline de Abitot was born about 1075 in Barley, Derbyshire, England.)