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issue, leaving large estates around Bath which we may imagine 
went partly to Isabel, his sister, wife of Richard Beauchamp, Earl 
of Warwick. Isabel forms the centre piece of the group of 
Tewkesbury potentates of the 15th century. She united the 
houses of Olare and Despenser with Beauchamp and Neville, 
marrying in succession two cousins each named Richard 
Beauchamp. Her son married the sister of the Earl of Warwick, 
her daughter the King-maker himself, and her body still rests at 
Tewkesbury with the slab engraved on the under side with the 
words “ Mercy Lord Jhu” to be her exclamation on the 
- resurrection morn. Her estates lay around this city. Isabella 
was Richard’s second wife. His first wife was Elizabeth, daughter of 
Thomas Lord Berkeley, and Margaret heiress of Gerard Viscount 
Lisle and Lord Tryes, by her he had three daughters, the second, 
Eleanor, married Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, the third, Elizabeth, 
married George Neville Lord Latimer, and the eldest, Margaret, 
married Sir John Talbot. 
“The great Alcides of the field 
Valiant Lord Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury,” 
“The Frenchmen’s only scourge.” 
and she lost at Chatillon her husband and her son, Young Talbot, 
who scorned the Maid of Orleans “as unworthy fight ” which 
reminds us that it was at Patay Talbot had been wounded 
and taken with Lord Hungerford, whose arms are quartered on 
one of the shields. These sacrifices in the service of the King 
will account for the royal arms and the crowned M which if it does 
not represent Our Lady denotes Margaret of Anjou Queen of 
Henry VI. 
The sister of Young Talbot married another Lord Berkeley, 
35 Henry VI., and by this alliance weakened the adverse power 
of Margaret. She married afterwards Edmond Hungerford, Esq., 
and so we see another reason for Hungerford arms. But this 
Talbot and Berkeley marriage produced great disasters. 
