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Birth:          ABT 1238 Shere, Surrey, England
Death:          16 Apr 1301 Grey Friars, Worcestershire, England
Burial:         7 May 1301 Grey Friars, Worcestershire, England

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_FitzJohn,_Countess_of_Warwick
Maud FitzJohn, Countess of Warwick (c. 1238 – 16/18 April 1301) was an English 
noblewoman and the eldest daughter of John FitzGeoffrey, Lord of Shere. Her second 
husband was William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick, a celebrated soldier. 
Through her daughter, Isabella, Maud was the maternal grandmother of Hugh the 
younger Despenser, the unpopular favourite of King Edward II of England, who was 
executed in 1326.

Family[edit]

Maud was born in Shere, Surrey, England in about 1238, the eldest daughter of John 
FitzGeoffrey, Lord of Shere, Justiciar of Ireland, and Isabel Bigod, a descendant of 
Strongbow and Aoife of Leinster. Maud had two brothers, Richard FitzJohn of Shere 
and John FitzJohn of Shere, and three younger sisters, Aveline FitzJohn, Joan 
FitzJohn, and Isabel FitzJohn. She also had a half-brother, Walter de Lacy, and two 
half-sisters, Margery de Lacy, and Maud de Lacy, Baroness Geneville, from her 
mother's first marriage to Gilbert de Lacy of Ewyas Lacy. The chronicle of Tintern 
Abbey in Monmouthshire names Matilda uxor Guidono comitis Warwici as the eldest 
daughter of Johanni Fitz-Geffrey and Isabella Bygod.[1] Her paternal grandparents 
were Geoffrey Fitzpeter, 1st Earl of Essex and Aveline de Clare, and her maternal 
grandparents were Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk and Maud Marshal.


 


Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick, the only son of Maud FitzJohn. Here he is 
shown with the decapitated body of Piers Gaveston
Marriages and issue[edit]

Maud married her first husband, Gerald de Furnivalle, Lord Hallamshire on an unknown 
date. Sometime after his death in 1261, Maud married her second husband, the 
celebrated soldier, William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick. Upon their marriage, 
Maud was styled as Countess of Warwick.

Together William and Maud had at least two children:[2]
Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick (1270/1271- 28 July 1315), on 28 February 
1310, he married as her second husband, heiress Alice de Toeni, by whom he had 
seven children.
Isabella de Beauchamp (died before 30 May 1306), married firstly in 1281 Sir Patrick 
de Chaworth, Lord of Kidwelly, by whom she had a daughter, Maud Chaworth; she 
married secondly in 1286, Hugh le Despenser, Lord Despenser by whom she had four 
children including Hugh Despenser the younger, the unpopular favourite of King 
Edward II, who was executed in 1326, shortly after his father.

Maud died between 16 and 18 April 1301. She was buried at the house of the Friars 
Minor in Worcester.

Parents
FITZ GEOFFREY John (ABT 1211 - 23 Nov 1258)
BIGOD Isabel (ABT 1212 - 1239)

Siblings
FITZ JOHN Aveline (ABT 1236 - 20 May 1274)
FITZ JOHN Maud (ABT 1238 - 16 Apr 1301)
FITZ JOHN Joan (ABT 1238 - 4 Apr 1303)
FITZ JOHN Isabel (ABT 1239 - )

Marriage To DE BEAUCHAMP William (1237 - Jun 1298)
    m. ABT 1262 

Notes

Parents
DE BEAUCHAMP William (ABT 1215 - AFT 7 Jan 1268)
MAUDUIT Isabel (ABT 1217 - BEF 1268)

Children by DE BEAUCHAMP William 1237 - Jun 1298
DE BEAUCHAMP Isabel (ABT 1263 - BEF 30 May 1306)
DE BEAUCHAMP Guy (1271 - 12 Aug 1315)

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