William Mauduit, Earl of Warwick

The body of William Mauduit, 8th Earl of Warwick was buried in Westminster Abbey, although the location is unknown, but his heart was buried at Catesby Priory in Northamptonshire, in January 1268. According to The Complete Peerage Mauduit (Maledoctus) is a nickname meaning The Dunce. The family descended from William Malduith, a tenant of Hartley Mauditt in Hampshire at the time of the Domesday Book (1086). The Mauduits also had properties in Westminster. He was the only son of William Mauduit, lord of Hanslope in Buckinghamshire, and his wife Alice (de Newburgh), daughter of Waleran, Earl of Warwick, and was born about 1221. After his father's death he succeeded as hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer and aided the King against the Welsh. On the death of John Earl of Warwick he succeeded to the title in 1263. In the Barons' War Simon de Montfort's men captured Warwick Castle and he and his wife were taken prisoner to Kenilworth, though released on payment of a fine. His wife was Alice daughter of Gilbert de Segrave, who survived him. He was succeeded as Earl by his nephew William de Beauchamp, son of his sister Isabel.

Further reading

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

"The Mauduits and their Chamberlainship of the Exchequer" by Emma Mason in Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research May 1976