Family Notes

[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.