William Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Beaumont
William Beaumont, 7th Baron Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Beaumont (* 1438 in Edenham, Lincolnshire, † 1507) was an English nobleman.
Life
William Beaumont was the only son of his father, John Beaumont, 1st Viscount Beaumont and Elizabeth PHELIP. He was born on an unknown date in 1438 in Edenham in the county of Lincolnshire and baptized there on April 23, 1438. He inherited the vast estates of his maternal family, and with the death of his maternal grandmother, the Baroness Bardolf, their title of Lord Bardolf. On December 19, 1507, he died without male heirs.
Military and political career
Like his father, he was a strict follower of the Lancasters. In Wars of the Roses, therefore, fought both, father and son, for the kings of the house of Lancaster (red rose ) against the pretender to the throne and kings of the house of York ( white rose ). William Beaumont fought in the battle of Northampton, where his father fell, and in the so unfortunate for the house of Lancaster Battle of Towton, was captured in the William Beaumont of the Yorkist. He was outlawed by Parliament Decision of 1 November 1461 and divested of his title; his lands were confiscated. After the Lancastrian King Henry VI. 1470 came to power, he was restituted in his possession and his titles. But already in 1471 acquired the House of York with King Edward IV regained the upper hand. William Beaumont was outlawed again, but escaped to the island of St. Michael 's Mount, which he successfully defended until December 1473 with the Earl of Oxford for the house of Lancaster against the Yorkists. In 1474 he came again but in captivity, but was in 1485, just the coming to power of Henry VII of the House of Tudor, the pretenders to the House of Lancaster, free and used by Parliament Decision of November 7, 1485 in all his rights and title again. As he had no male heirs, lapsed with his death the English Viscountcy and the French title of the house of Beaumont, while his English baronies Bardolf and Beaumont fell into Abeyance.