Lord Despenser, Hugh le Despenser the Younger

Birth Name Lord Despenser, Hugh le Despenser the Younger 1a 2a 3a
Also Known As Earl of Gloucester, Hugh le Despenser the
Gramps ID I32716
Gender male
Age at Death unknown

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth [E43559] BET. 1280 - 1290 Barton, England  
2b
Birth [E43560] 1292 England  
3b
Death [E43561] 1326-11-29 Hereford, England  

Cause: Executed via hanging, drawn & quartered.

1b 2c
Death [E43562] 1326 England  
3c
_FA1 [E43563]   Supposedly the “boyfriend” of King Edward II.  
2d
_FA2 [E43564]   Fled with Edward II upon rebellion of Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer.  
2e
_FA3 [E43565]   Captured with the king, then tried and hanged.  
2f
_FA4 [E43566]   Earl of Gloucester. Lord of Glamorgan on Eleanor’s brother’s death.  
1c 2g
_FA5 [E43567]   Granted forfeited estates of wife’s half sister Joan when Joan declared rebel.  
2h
_FA6 [E43568]   Wealth enormously increased by Eleanor’s 1/3 share of the de Clare estates.  
2i
_FA7 [E43569]   Said fortune increased enormoously by violence in 1321-6.  
2j
_FA8 [E43570]   Estates & fortune forfeited in 1326, partially restored in 1328.  
2k
_FA9 [E43571]   Buried in Tewkesbury Abbey.  
1d 2l
_FA10 [E43572]   2nd Lord Despenser.  
4a 2m

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Earl of Winchester, Hugh le Despenser the Elder [I34404]1260/1-03-01 (Julian)1326-10-27
Mother de Beauchamp, Isabella [I33552]about 1266before 1306-05-30
    Brother     Despenser, Phillip [I25041]
         Lord Despenser, Hugh le Despenser the Younger [I32716] BET. 1280 - 1290 1326-11-29

Families

    Family of Lord Despenser, Hugh le Despenser the Younger and de Clare, Alianor [F13265]
Married Wife de Clare, Alianor [I27757] ( * 1292 + 1337 )
   
Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Marriage [E59434] 1306-05-00 Westminster, England  
1e 4b 4c 2
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
le Despenser, Edward [I27855]1312
le Despenser, Isabel [I27760]about 13121376
le Despenser, Elizabeth [I24376]1322

Narrative

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Michael Altschul, *A Baronial Family in Medieval England: The Clares, 1217-1314*, Baltimore MD (The Johns Hopkins Press) 1965, concerning the partition of the de CLARE estates after the death of the last Gilbert, p 170-171: "Hugh Despenser and Eleanor [Gilbert's sister] received the lordship of Glamorgan, the most important of all the Clare holdings, along with Rotherfield in Sussex and scattered manors in Devon and Somerset. In addition, each heir acquired two-ninths of the liberty of Kilkenny in Ireland, although there is no evidence that any of them every visited it. (P) The death of the countess in the summer of 1320 completed the division of the estates among th heirs. Maud probably died on July 2, and the properties she held in dower must have been partitioned shortly thereafter. Each received an equal portion of her third of Kilkenny. More importantly, Despenser obtained a substantial share of the honor of Gloucester, including the manor and town of Tewkesbury, the manor of Bushley and the castle and manor of Hanley in Worcester, and other demesne lands in Berkshire, Oxford, and Buckingham. The partition of the Clare estates has been described as "the most important territorial upheaval of the reign."
[Denham-Young *Vita Edwardi Secundi, pp xii-xiii*]"

Pedigree

  1. Earl of Winchester, Hugh le Despenser the Elder [I34404]
    1. de Beauchamp, Isabella [I33552]
      1. Despenser, Phillip [I25041]
      2. Lord Despenser, Hugh le Despenser the Younger
        1. de Clare, Alianor [I27757]
          1. le Despenser, Edward [I27855]
          2. le Despenser, Isabel [I27760]
          3. le Despenser, Elizabeth [I24376]

Ancestors

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  1. Frederick Lewis Weis: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760 [S11883]
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  4. David Faris: Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists [S241672]
      • Page: 1st ed pp 99-100 "Farrar"
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      • Page: 1st ed, pp 77-78, "Dade"
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