Hugh Baron le Despenser , KB, Sir 
Hugh Baron le was born about 1286 in Winchester, Hampshire, England. Hugh Baron le's father was Hugh Baron le Despenser , Earl of Winchester and his mother was Isabel de Beauchamp. His maternal grandparents were William de Beauchamp , 9th Earl of Warwick and Maud FitzJohn. He had a brother and two sisters, named Philip I le, Aline le and Isabel le. He was the oldest of the four children. He had a half-sister named Maud de. He died on November 24th, 1326 in Hanged, Drawn, and Quartered.General Notes
Hugh le Despenser ("The Younger Despenser"), 1st Lord (Baron) le Despenser of the 29 July 1314 creation, KB, associated with his father in the period of ascendancy over Edward II in the early 1320's but reckoned more deserving than his father of the hatred of the generality of the baronial class; convicted as a traitor and hanged 29 Nov 1326, when all his honours were forfeited. [Burke's Peerage]
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Sir Hugh le Despenser, hanged and quartered 24 Nov 1326, Lord Despenser; m. 1306 aft. 14 June, Alianore de Clare (34-5). [Magna Charta Sureties]
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Hugh and his father were favorites of King Edward II (a weak king) and helped him throw off the mastery of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster. Edward's reliance on the Despenser's drew the ire of his wife Isabel. She had become the mistress of Roger de Mortimer while on a diplomatic mission to France. In September 1326 the couple invaded England, executed the Despensers, and deposed Edward II in favor of his son, Edward III. Isabel was rumored to be involved in her husband Edward II's murder. See Encyclopedia Britannica, Edward II.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1 MAR 1260/61 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.27 Oct 1326 in Hanged
- b.~ 1286 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.24 Nov 1326 in Hanged, Drawn, and Quartered
- b.~ 1150 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England d.14 Apr 1236 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England
- b.~ 1194 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England d.14 Apr 1236 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England
- b.1151 in Bramber, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1210 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England d.AFT 7 JAN 1268/69 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England
- b.1158 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.<19 Aug 1214 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England
- b.~ 1194 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.1268 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England
- b.1170 in Derby, Derbyshire, England
- b.1237 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England d.BET 5 AND 9 JUN 1298 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England
- b.~ 1171 in Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, England d.Jun 1222
- b.~ 1196 in Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, England d.BEF 14 FEB 1256/57 in Hartley Manduit, Buckinghamshire, England
- b.1176 in Chapham, Bedfordshire, England d.1224
- b.~ 1217 in Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, England d.< 1268 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England
- b.< 1153 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England d.12 Dec 1204
- b.1196 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England d.< 1263
- b.~ 1175 in Stanton-Harcourt, Oxfordshire, England d.>Sep 1212
- b.1252 in Warwick Castle, Warwickshire, England d.<30 May 1306 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England
- b.~ 1134 in Cherhill, Wiltshire, England d.>08 May 1198 in Pleshey, Essex, England
- b.< 1163 in Saffron Walden, Essex, England d.14 Oct 1213 in Shouldham Priory, Downham, Norfolk, England
- b.1138 in Costow, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1208 in Shere, Surrey, England d.23 Nov 1258 in Farmbridge, Essex, England
- b.1116 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England d.1173 in Oxfordshire, England
- b.~ 1168 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England d.<04 Jun 1225
- b.~ 1132 in Burkenham, Norfolk, England d.1173 in Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1237 in Shere, Surrey, England d.BET 16 AND 17 APR 1301 in Grey Friars, Worcestershire, England
- b.~ 1150 in Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, England d.<02 Aug 1221 in Thetford, Norfolk, England
- b.1186 in Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, England d.BET 11 AND 18 FEB 1224/25 in Thetford, Norfolk, England
- b.1154 in Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1212 in Thetford, Norfolk, England d.1252
- b.1146 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.14 May 1219 in Caversham Manor, England
- b.~ 1192 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.27 Mar 1248 in Tintern Abbey, Chapel Hill, Monmouthsire, England
- b.~ 1172 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1220 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
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