Isabel le Despenser

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Isabel le Despenser

Isabel was born about 1312.¹ Isabel's father was Hugh le Despenser the Earl of Gloucester and her mother was Eleanor de Clare. Her paternal grandparents were Hugh le Despenser the Elder Earl of Winchester and Isabella de Beauchamp; her maternal grandparents were Gilbert the Red de Clare Earl of Gloucester and Joan of Acre Plantagenet. She had a brother named Edward. She was the younger of the two children. She died in 1376.¹

Ancestor Pedigree Chart
- Thomas le Despenser ^*
  - b.1169 in of Elington, Lincolnshire, England d.<  1218
  
  Hugh le Despenser
  - b.1197 in of Ryhall, Rutlandshire, England d.23 FEB 1237/38 in Sibsey & Aukborough, Lincolnshire
  
  Rohese (le Despenser)
  
  Hugh le Despenser Lord Despenser
  - b.1223 in Rhyall, Rutland, Wales d.04 Aug 1265 in Battle of Evesham, Worcestershire, England/Battle, England
  
  Hugh le Despenser the Elder Earl of Winchester
  - b.1 MAR 1260/61 d.27 Oct 1326 in Bristol
  
  Alan Basset Lord Basset of Wycombe ^*
  - b.1175 in Wycombe, Buckinghamshire d.1231 in of Headington, Oxfordshire
  
  Philip Basset
  - b.1211 in Wycombe, Buckinghamshire d.29 Oct 1271 in Stanley, Wiltshire, England/Stanley, England
  
  Aline (Alvira) de Gael ^*
  - b.~  1170
  
  Aline Basset
  - b.1241 in Wooten Basset, Wiltshire, England d.~11 Apr 1281
  
  Matthew de Louvaine ^*
  - d.1258
  
  Hawise de Louvaine
  - b.~  1221 in Lancaster
  
  Muriel (de Louvaine)
  - d.1275
  
  Hugh le Despenser the Earl of Gloucester
  - b.BET. 1286 - 1290 in Barton, England d.29 Nov 1326 in Hereford, England
  
  Walcheline de Beauchamp Lord Beauchamp ^*
  - b.1194 in of Elmsley, Warwickshire, England d.14 Apr 1236
  
  William de Beauchamp Lord Beauchamp of Elmley
  - b.~  1215 in Elmsley Castle, Worcestershire d.AFT. 7 JAN 1267/68 in Worcester, England
  
  Joane de Mortimer ^*
  - b.1194 in Worcestershire, England d.1268
  
  William de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick
  - b.1237 in of Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England d.05 Jun 1298 in Elmley, Worcestershire, England
  
  William de Mauduit V Lord Mauduit ^*
  - b.1196 in Hanslap, Warwickshire, England d.Apr 1257
  
  Isabel de Mauduit
  - b.1217 in Warwick, Warwickshire d.7 JAN 1267/68
  
  Alice de Newburgh ^*
  - b.1196 in Homeslip, Buckinghamshire, England d.1246
  
  Isabella de Beauchamp
  - b.~  1266 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England/Warwick, England d.<30 May 1306 in Elmley Castle, Gloucester
  
  Geoffrey FitzPiers Earl of Essex ^*
  - b.BET. 1152 - 1162 in Northampton, England d.14 Oct 1213 in of Walden, Essex, England
  
  John FitzGeoffrey Lord Kirtling
  - b.~  1208 in Shere, Surrey, England d.23 Nov 1258
  
  Aveline de Clare ^*
  - b.~  1172 in of Hereford, Herefordshire, England/Hereford, England d.~04 Jun 1225
  
  Maud FitzJohn
  - b.BET. 1244 - 1250 in Shere, Surrey, England d.16 Apr 1301
  
  Hugh le Bigod Earl of Norfolk ^*
  - b.1186 in Thetford, Norfolk, England/Thetford, England d.BEF. 18 FEB 1224/25
  
  Isabel le Bigod
  - b.1210 in of Thetford, Norfolk, England/Thetford, England d.1239
  
  Maud Marshall ^*
  - b.~  1192 in Pembroke, Wales d.WFT Est. 1237-1292
  
  Isabel le Despenser
  - b.~  1312 d.1376
  
  Richard FitzRoger de Clare Earl of Clare ^*
  - b.BET. 1153 - 1162 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England d.30 Dec 1218
  
  Gilbert de Clare Earl of Clare
  - b.BET. 1180 - 1182 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England/Hertford, England d.25 Oct 1230 in Perres-Guirrec ( Penrose), Brittany, France
  
  Amicia FitzRobert ^*
  - b.1160 in Tewkesbury, Gloucester, England/Tewkesbury, England d.1 JAN 1224/25
  
  Richard de Clare Earl of Clare
  - b.04 Aug 1222 in Mellent, Gloucester, England d.15 Jul 1262 in Ashenfield, Canterbury, Kent
  
  Sir ^*
  - b.1146 in of Caversham, England d.14 May 1219 in Caversham, Berkshire, England
  
  Isabella Mareschal
  - b.09 Oct 1200 in Pembroke Castle, Wales d.15 JAN 1239/40 in Berkhamsted Castle, Hertfordshire, England/Berkhamsted, England
  
  Isabel de Clare Cts of Strigoil ^*
  - b.BET. 1171 - 1173 in of Pembroke, Wales d.1220 in Pembroke, Wales
  
  Gilbert the Red de Clare Earl of Gloucester
  - b.02 Sep 1243 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England/Christchurch, England d.07 Dec 1299 in Monmouth Castle, England
  
  Roger 'Helle' de Lacy Lord Halton ^*
  - b.1171 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England/Lincoln, England d.1211 in of Pontefract, Yorkshire
  
  John de Lacy Earl of Lincoln
  - b.1192 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England/Lincoln, England d.22 Jul 1240 in Stanlaw, Chester, England
  
  Matilda de Clare ^*
  - b.BET. 1175 - 1184 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England/Lincoln, England d.1213
  
  Maude de Lacy
  - b.1223 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England/Lincoln, England d.10 MAR 1287/88 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England/Lincoln, England
  
  Robert de Quincy ^*
  - b.1172 in of Winchester (Buckley), Hampshire d.~  1219 in the Holy Land, Asia Minor
  
  Margaret de Quincy
  - b.1208 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England/Lincoln, England d.<30 Mar 1266 in Clerkenwell, England or Hampstead, England
  
  Hawise le Meschines Cts of Lincoln ^*
  - b.1180 in Chester, Chestershire, England d.BET. 1242 - 1243
  
  Eleanor de Clare
  - b.12 Oct 1292 in Caerphilly Castle, Glamorganshire, Wales d.30 Jun 1337
  
  John Lackland Plantagenet King of England ^*
  - b.24 Dec 1166 in Beaumont Palace, Oxford, England d.19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Lincolnshire
  
  Henry III Plantagenet
  - b.01 Oct 1207 in Winchester Castle, Hampshire, England/Winchester, England d.16 Nov 1272 in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England
  
  Isabella Taillefer Cts of Angoulême ^*
  - b.1188 in Angoulême, Charente, France d.31 May 1246 in Fontevrault L'Abbe, Maine-et-Loire, France
  
  Edward King Of England
  - b.17 Jun 1239 in Westminser Palace d.07 Jul 1307 in Burgh-On-The-Sands, Near Carlisle
  
  Raimund V Berenger Ct of Farcalquier ^*
  - b.1198 in of Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-Du-Rhone, France d.19 Aug 1245 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-Du-Rhone, France
  
  Eleanor
  - b.1222 in Aix-en-Provence, France d.24 Jun 1291 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England/Amesbury, England
  
  Beatrice de Savoie ^*
  - b.BET. 1198 - 1201 in of Ghamberg, Savoie, France d.Dec 1266 in France
  
  Joan of Acre Plantagenet
  - b.1272 in Acre, Palestine d.23 Apr 1307 in Clare, Suffolk, England
  
  Alphonso IX the Slobberer de León King of León ^*
  - b.15 Aug 1171 in Zamora, León, Spain d.24 Sep 1230 in Villanueva de Soria, Castile
  
  Ferdinand III King of Castile & León
  - b.1199 in Castile, Spain d.30 May 1252 in Seville, Spain
  
  Berengaria Alfonsez Queen of Castile ^*
  - b.Aug 1181 in Segovia, Castile, Spain d.08 Nov 1246 in Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile, Spain
  
  Eleanor
  - b.WFT Est. 1235-1254 in of Burgos, Castile, Spain d.WFT Est. 1260-1339 in Herdeby (near Grantham), Lincolnshire, England/Grantham, England
  
  Simon de Dammartin II de Aumâle Ct of Montreul ^*
  - b.1180 in of Dammartin, Seine-Et-Marne, France d.21 Sep 1239 in Abbeville, France
  
  Johanna de Dammartin
  - b.1216 in Abbeville, France d.15 MAR 1278/79 in Abbeville, France
  
  Marie (Jeanne) de Ponthieu Cts of Ponthieu ^*
  - b.17 Apr 1199 in of Aumâle, Seine-Maritime, France d.Sep 1251 in Abbeville, France
  
  ^*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)

Details of Isabel's family with Richard Fitzalan II Earl of Arundel

¹ SUSANNA KEENE.FTW
Further sources/citations:
Royal Descents of Famous People @ Has her mother of Margaret FitzAlan, her husband's
granddaughter by his 2nd wife! Also, daughter of Edward le
Despenser, her nephew!, Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, Pages: 324 @ 1st ed, pp 77-78, "Dade", Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, Pages: 324 @ 1st ed, pp 54-57 "Cergeaux"

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Isabel le Despenser

Ancestor Pedigree Chart

Details of Isabel's family with Richard Fitzalan II Earl of Arundel