Memorial Type:

Memorial - extant tomb effigy

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

Contemporary (pre-1500)

Allegiance:

Not applicable

Condition:

Good

Condition Description:

Although damaged at the time of the Reformation it still displays many of its original features

Memorial Notes:

Isabel Despenser was responsible for having the chapel erected in 1430. It is a double story chapel. On the upper level were thought to be effigies of Isabel and her second husband Richard de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick. She had married twice, firstly to Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester (1394–1422) who died at the Siege of Meaux.
Secondly to also a Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick (1382–1439 buried in St Mary's Warwick), by whom she had two children. 1st was Henry de Beauchamp (1425–1446 who succeeded his father as 14th Earl of Warwick, and later was created 1st Duke of Warwick. He married Cecily Neville, daughter of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury.
Their second child, a daughter Anne, became 16th Countess of Warwick, following the deaths of her brother and his infant daughter. Anne married Richard Neville, known as Warwick the Kingmaker, eldest son of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, and who became 16th Earl of Warwick. Her husband therefore was the brother of her own brother's wife. They had two daughters who married at the highest level: Isabel Neville (1451–1476), who married George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence (1449–1478), and Anne Neville (1456–1485), who married firstly Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, and secondly King Richard III (1483–1485). Isabel is buried next to her father Thomas Despenser before the High Altar in the Quire.