Statues & Figurines

Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick (14 February 1313 – November 13,1369) was an English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War. Warwick was Marshall of England from 1343/4 until 1369, and was one of the commanders at the great English victories at Crecy and Poitiers. Thomas de Beauchamp & Katherine Mortimer effigies in Warwick St. Mary's churchThomas Beauchamp fought in all the French wars of King Edward III: commanded at the Battle of Crecy: was guardian of the sixteen-year-old Black Prince: fought at Poitiers in 1356 and at the Siege of Calais where he died of plague. It was he who began to rebuild the Collegiate Church of Saint Mary, in Warwick out of money received from the ransom of a French Archbishop. Painted figure made of white metal, 54 mm.