General Notes

Cause of Death:<CAUS> Executed via hanging, drawn & quartered.
[large-G675.FTW]
Michael Altschul, *A Baronial Family in Medieval  England
: The Clares, 1217-1314*, Baltimore MD (The Johns Hopkins P
ress) 1965, concerning the partition of the de CLARE estate
s after the death of the last Gilbert, p 170-171:  "Hugh De
spenser and Eleanor [Gilbert's sister] received the lordshi
p of Glamorgan, the most important of all the Clare holding
s, along with Rotherfield in Sussex and scattered manors i
n Devon and Somerset.  In addition, each heir acquired two-
ninths of the liberty of Kilkenny in Ireland, although ther
e is no evidence that any of them every visited it.  (P) Th
e death of the countess in the summer of 1320 completed th
e division of the estates among th heirs.  Maud probably di
ed on July 2, and the properties she held in dower must hav
e been partitioned shortly thereafter.  Each received an eq
ual portion of her third of Kilkenny.  More importantly, De
spenser obtained a substantial share of the honor of Glouce
ster, including the manor and town of Tewkesbury, the mano
r of Bushley and the castle and manor of Hanley in Worceste
r, and other demesne lands in Berkshire, Oxford, and Buckin
gham. The partition of the Clare estates has been describe
d as "the most important territorial upheaval of the reign."
[Denham-Young *Vita Edwardi Secundi, pp xii-xiii*]"