Henry de Beaumont 1st Earl of Warwick

⚠ DEATH DATE CORRECTED 7 Aug 2026 from 1119 to 20 JUN 1123, and HIS MISSING WIFE MARGARET OF PERCHE now wired (I100371). Source: Cokayne, Complete Peerage (1st edn), 'WARWICK' pp.52-71, page images read 7 Aug 2026. adds: b. about 1046; 'spoken of as a brave Knight' in 1066, though he does not appear to have been present at Hastings; Constable of Warwick Castle 1068; Councillor to William I 1079; Baron of the Exchequer of Normandy 1080; RECEIVED FROM WILLIAM II ABOUT 1090 THE VAST WARWICKSHIRE POSSESSIONS OF THURKILL OF ARDEN, a Saxon noble, and was presumably then created EARL OF WARWICK; one of the few who stayed faithful to Henry I in 1101; bur. with his ancestors in the ABBEY OF PREAUX near Pont Audemer, Normandy. Henry de Beaumont, called de Newburgh, younger son of Roger de Beaumont, was created the first Earl of Warwick by William Rufus; his elder brother's line held Leicester, his own held Warwick, and both now stand in this tree.