Hugh le Despenser the Younger Lord Despenser 
Hugh le Despenser the Younger was born in Barton, England. Hugh le Despenser the Younger's father was Hugh le Despenser the Elder Earl of Winchester and his mother was Isabella de Beauchamp. His paternal grandparents were Hugh le Despenser II Lord Falmouth Justiciar and Aliva Basset; his maternal grandparents were William de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick and Maud FitzJohn. He had a brother named Philip. He had a half-brother and a half-sister, named Patrick and Maud. He died on November 29th, 1326 in Hereford, England.Death Notes
Executed via hanging, drawn & quartered.
General Notes
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*]"
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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*]"
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1169 in of Elington, Lincolnshire, England d.< 1218
- b.1197 in of Ryhall, Rutlandshire, England d.23 FEB 1237/38 in Sibsey & Aukborough, Lincolnshire
- b.1223 in Rhyall, Rutland, Wales d.04 Aug 1265 in Battle of Evesham, Worcestershire, England
- b.1 MAR 1260/61 d.27 Oct 1326 in Bristol
- b.1175 in Wycombe, Buckinghamshire d.1231 in of Headington, Oxfordshire
- b.1211 in Wycombe, Buckinghamshire d.29 Oct 1271 in Stanley, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1170
- b.1241 in Wooten Basset, Wiltshire, England d.~11 Apr 1281
- d.1258
- b. in Lancaster
- d.1275
- b.BET. 1280 - 1290 in Barton, England d.29 Nov 1326 in Hereford, England
- b.1173 in of Elmley, Worcestershire, England d.1235
- b.1194 in of Elmsley, Warwickshire, England d.14 Apr 1236
- b.BET. 1151 - 1175 in Bramber, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1215 in Elmsley Castle, Worcestershire d.AFT. 7 JAN 1267/68 in Worcester, England
- b.1158 in of Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.24 Jun 1215 in Wigmore, Hereford, England
- b.1194 in Worcestershire, England d.1268
- b.BET. 1164 - 1170 in of Derby, Derbyshire, England d.29 Apr 1252
- b.1237 in of Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England d.05 Jun 1298 in Elmley, Worcestershire, England
- b.1172 in Hanslope, Buckinghamshire d.Jun 1222
- b.1196 in Hanslap, Warwickshire, England d.Apr 1257
- b.1176 in Chapham, Bedfordshire, England d.1224
- b.1217 in Warwick, Warwickshire d.7 JAN 1267/68
- b.1140 in of Warwick, Warwickshire, England d.12 Dec 1204
- b.1196 in Homeslip, Buckinghamshire, England d.BET. 1246 - 1263
- b.1181 in Bosworth, Leicestershire d.~Sep 1212
- b.~ 1266 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England d.<30 May 1306 in Elmley Castle, Gloucester
- b.1134 in Cherhill, Wiltshire, England d.14 JAN 1179/80 in Pleshy, Essex, England
- b.BET. 1152 - 1162 in Northampton, England d.14 Oct 1213 in of Walden, Essex, England
- b.1138 in Rycott, Oxford, England d. in England
- b.~ 1208 in Shere, Surrey, England d.23 Nov 1258
- b.1116 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England d.1173 in Oxfordshire, England
- b.1172 in of Hereford, Herefordshire, England d.04 Jun 1225
- b.BET. 1132 - 1137 in of Burkenham, Field Dalling, Norfolk d.24 Dec 1195 in Norfolk, England
- b.BET. 1244 - 1250 in Shere, Surrey, England d.16 Apr 1301 in Grey Friars, Worcestershire
- b.1150 in of Norfolk, England d.02 Aug 1221 in Thetford, Norfolk, England
- b.1186 in Thetford, Norfolk, England d.FEB 1224/25
- b.1154 in of Norfolk, England
- b.1210 in of Thetford, Norfolk, England d.1239
- b.1146 in of Caversham, England d.14 May 1219 in Caversham, Berkshire, England
- b.~ 1192 in of Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.27 Mar 1248
- b.BET. 1171 - 1173 in of Pembroke, Wales d.1220 in Pembroke, Wales
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Hugh le Despenser the Younger and Eleanor were married in a religious ceremony in May 1306 in Westminster, England. They had three sons and two daughters, named Hugh, Gilbert, Sir Edward, Isabel and Elizabeth.
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