Isabel de Beaumont

Other Events and Attributes:

• History: birth to death

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Birth:
Father: Henry, Lord Beaumont
Mother: Alice Comyn

History:
She was the first woman in England to hold the title of duchess.

In March 1332, she was with her husband at Grosmont Castle.

In 1341, she accompanied her husband to the Low Countries and in 1345 to 1347, to Gascony.

In 1344, she partitioned the Pope on behalf of two of her clerks.

On 24 March 1356, the king granted permission for Henry and Isabel to alienate their joint manor of Hannington in Wiltshire to the new college.

In 1359, her husband submitted the following partition to the Pope.

The same [Duke of Lancaster]. Whereas his principal chaplain had a papal indult to hear the confessions of himself his wife, children and household, he prays for an extension of the same to cases reserved to bishops.

The same. Whereas the principal chaplain had papal licence to hear the confessions of the duke, Isabella his wife, and their then children and household, he [the Duke] prays that it may extend to persons in the same relation to him, present and future.

On 30 May 1359, the Pope granted the petitions:

To Henry, duke, and Isabella, duchess of Lancaster. Extension for ten years of the indult granted by Clement VI. That their chaplains or other fit priests should hear confessions, to cases reserved to bishops.

To the same duke Henry. Extension of the indult granted him by Clement VI. That his chaplains should give him and Isabella his wife plenany remission at the hour of death, to another wife, if he takes one after the death of Isabella.

This is the last reference to Isabel in the records.

Buried:
The College of the Annunciation of St. Mary in Newarke, Leicester endured for almost two centuries. The college was suppressed under the Act for the Dissolution of Chantries, and ceased to exist. The church and many of the other buildings fell into decay, and were eventually demolished, bringing an end to the 14th century tombs of Henry, Isabel and the other Lancasters.

Isabel married Henry of Grosmont, Earl of Lancaster and Leicester in by 24 Jun 1330. Henry (son of Sir Henry Pantagenet, Earl of Lancaster and Leicester and Maud de Chaworth) was born about 1310; died on 24 Mar 1360/61 in Leicester Castle, Leicester, Leicestershire, England; was buried on 14 Apr 1361 in Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady of the Newarke Leicester, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]