Richard de Beauchamp , 13th Earl of Warwick Richard de Beauchamp , 13th Earl of Warwick , Count of Aumale , KG ( 25 or 28 January 1382 – 30 April 1439 ) was an English medieval nobleman and military commander . Early life . Beauchamp was born at Salwarpe in Worcestershire , the son of Thomas de Beauchamp , 12th Earl of Warwick , and Margaret , a daughter of William Ferrers , 3rd Baron Ferrers of Groby . His godfather was King Richard II . He was knighted at the coronation of King Henry IV and succeeded to the Earldom of Warwick in 1401 . Welsh Rebellion . Soon after reaching his majority and taking responsibility for the Earldom , he saw military action in Wales , defending against a Welsh rebellion led by Owain Glyndŵr . On 22 July 1403 , the day after the Battle of Shrewsbury , he was made a Knight of the Garter . In the summer of 1404 , he rode into what is today Monmouthshire at the head of a force . Warwick engaged Welsh forces at the Battle of Mynydd Cwmdu , near Tretower Castle a few miles northwest of Crickhowell – nearly capturing Owain Glyndwr himself , taking Owain ' s banner , forcing the Welsh to flee . They were chased down the valley of the River Usk where they regrouped and turned the tables on the pursuing English force , attempting an ambush . They chased the English in turn to the town walls of Monmouth after a skirmish at Craig - y - Dorth , a conical hill near Mitchel Troy . Chivalry and Pilgrimage . Warwick acquired quite a reputation for chivalry , and when in 1408 he went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land , he was challenged many times to fight in the sporting combat which was then popular . On the return trip he went through Russia and Eastern Europe , not returning to England until 1410 . Soldier of the King . In 1410 , he was appointed a member of the royal council and in 1413 was Lord High Steward at the Prince ' s coronation as Henry V of England . The next year he helped put down the Lollard uprising , and then went to Normandy as Captain of Calais and represented England at the Council of Constance . He spent much of the next decade fighting the French in the Hundred Years ' War . In 1419 , he was created Count of Aumale , part of the King ' s policy of giving out Norman titles to his nobles . He was appointed Master of the Horse . Responsibilities . Henry V ' s will gave Warwick the responsibility for the education of the infant Henry VI of England . This duty required him to travel back and forth between England and Normandy many times . In 1437 , the Royal Council deemed his duty complete , and he was appointed lieutenant of France and Normandy . He remained in France for the remaining two years of his life . Marriages and children . Warwick first married Elizabeth de Berkeley ( born ca . 1386 – 28 December 1422 ) before 5 October 1397 , the daughter of Thomas de Berkeley , 5th Lord Berkeley and the Baroness Margaret de Lisle . Together they had 3 daughters : Warwick then married Isabel le Despenser ( 26 July 1400 – 1439 ) , the daughter of Thomas le Despenser , 1st Earl of Gloucester and Constance of York . With Isabel , who was also the widow of his cousin Richard Beauchamp , 1st Earl of Worcester , his children were : Death and Burial . Richard de Beauchamp ' s will was made at Caversham Castle in Oxfordshire ( now Berkshire ) , one of his favoured residences , in 1437 . Most of his property was entailed , but with a portion of the rest the will established a substantial trust . After his debts were paid the trust endowed the Collegiate Church of St Mary in Warwick , and called for the construction of a new chapel there . It also enlarged the endowment of the chantries at Elmley Castle and Guy ' s Cliffe , and gave a gift to Tewkesbury Abbey . Beauchamp died in Rouen , Normandy , two years later , on 30 April 1439 . After the completion of the chapel , his body was transferred there ( in 1475 ) , where his magnificent gilt - bronze monumental effigy may still be seen .