Family of Earl of Winchester, Hugh le Despenser the Elder and de Beauchamp, Isabella

Families

Married Husband Earl of Winchester, Hugh le Despenser the Elder [I34404] ( * 1260/1-03-01 (Julian) + 1326-10-27 )
Married Wife de Beauchamp, Isabella [I33552] ( * about 1266 + before 1306-05-30 )
   
Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Marriage [E59292] before 1286    
1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a
_FA1 [E59293] BET. 1286 - 1287 Hugh paid a fine of 2000 marks to King Edward I for marrying her w/out license.  
2 6b
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Despenser, Phillip [I25041]
Lord Despenser, Hugh le Despenser the Younger [I32716]BET. 1280 - 12901326-11-29

Narrative

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According to Burke's Dormant and Extinct Peerages: Hugh Le Despenser the Elder "paid a fine of 2,000 marks to the king, in the 15th of Edward I (1286-1287], for marrying, without license, Isabel, dau. of William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and widow of Patrick Cheworth; by this lady he had an only son, the too celebrated" Hugh Le Despenser the Younger. Elsewhere in the article it is remarked that Despenser the Elder "was in his ninetieth year" when he was executed upon St. Dennis's Day [October 9], 1326, and that Despenser the Younger was executed upon St. Andrew's Eve [November 29], 1326.

Source References

  1. Ed Mann: Mann Database [S331348]
      • Source text:

        bef 1286

  2. Sir Bernard Burke: Burke's Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages of the British Empire [S340764]
      • Source text:

        No date, 2nd marriage for Isabella

  3. Frederick Lewis Weis: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760 [S11883]
      • Page: 74-31
      • Source text:

        bef 1287

  4. G.E. Cockayne: Complete Peerage [S336368]
      • Source text:

        bef 1287

  5. Frederick Lewis Weis: Magna Charta Sureties, 1215 [S72360]
      • Page: line 4 p 3
      • Source text:

        her 2nd m, m by 1286

  6. large-G675.FTW [S261374]
      • Page: 1st ed, pp 263-264 "Talbot"
      • Source text:

        no date

      • Page: 1st ed, pp 263-264 "Talbot"
      • Source text:

        no date