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 [I1813] ( * 1260/1-03-01 (Julian) + 1326-10-27 )
Married Wife de Beauchamp, Isabella [I0608] ( * about 1266 + before 1306-05-30 )
   
Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Marriage [E28005] before 1286    
1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Lord Despenser, Hugh le Despenser the Younger [I3068]BET. 1286 - 12901326-11-29

Narrative

[SUSANNA KEENE.FTW]

Her 2nd mar. Per 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.
Hugh paid a fine of 2000 marks to King Edward I for marrying
her w/out license.

Source References

  1. Ed Mann: Mann Database, Recipient: J.H. Garner, soc.genealogy.medieval, [S12163]
      • Page: bef 1286
  2. Burke's Peerage: Burke's Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited [S10724]
      • Page: No date, 2nd marriage for Isabella
  3. Frederick Lewis Weis: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to [S10400]
      • Page: 74-31, bef 1287
  4. G.E. Cockayne: Complete Peerage, Location: Mid-Continent Library, Independence [S10849]
      • Page: bef 1287
  5. Frederick Lewis Weis: The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215 : The Barons Named and Some of [S13024]
      • Page: line 4 p 3, her 2nd m, m by 1286
  6. SUSANNA KEENE.FTW [S85410]
      • Source text:

        Date of Import: Aug 7, 2000