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Hugh Le Despenser The Younger Lord Despenser

Hugh Le Despenser The Younger Lord Despenser

Male 1290 - 1326  (46 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Hugh Le Despenser The Younger Lord Despenser  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] 
    Birth Between 1280 and 1290  Barton, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 5] 
    Gender Male 
    Alt. Birth 1292  England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5] 
    Alt. Birth 
    Alt. Death 1326  England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5] 
    Alt. Death 
    Fact 1 Supposedly The "Boyfriend" Of King Edward Ii. Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 5] 
    Fact 1 
    Fact 10 2ND Lord Despenser. Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 5, 6] 
    Fact 10 
    Fact 2 Fled With Edward II Upon Rebellion Of Queen Isabella And Roger Mortimer. Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 5] 
    Fact 2 
    Fact 3 Captured With The King, Then Tried And Hanged. Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 5] 
    Fact 3 
    Fact 4 Earl Of Gloucester. Lord Of Glamorgan On Eleanor's Brother's Death. Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 5, 7] 
    Fact 4 
    Fact 5 Granted Forfeited Estates Of Wife's Half Sister Joan When Joan Declared Rebel. Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 5] 
    Fact 5 
    Fact 6 Wealth Enormously Increased By Eleanor's 1/3 Share Of The DE Clare Estates. Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 5] 
    Fact 6 
    Fact 7 Said Fortune Increased Enormoously By Violence In 1321-6. Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 5] 
    Fact 7 
    Fact 8 Estates & Fortune Forfeited In 1326, Partially Restored In 1328. Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 5] 
    Fact 8 
    Fact 9 Buried In Tewkesbury Abbey. Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 5, 8] 
    Fact 9 
    Name Hugh Le Despenser The Earl Of Gloucester  [4, 5] 
    Death 29 Nov 1326  Hereford, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 5, 8] 
    • Executed via hanging, drawn & quartered.
    Patriarch & Matriarch
    Thomas Le Despenser,   b. 1169, Of Elington, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1218  (Age < 48 years)  (2 x Great Grandfather) 
    Gormflaith Ingen Finn O'caellaide   d. 1152  (7 x Great Grandmother) 
    Notes 
    • [large-G675.FTW]

      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*]"
    Person ID I54968  ktree
    Last Modified 4 Mar 2024 

    Father Hugh Le Despenser The Elder Earl Of Winchester,   b. Between 1 Mar 1260 and 1261, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Oct 1326, Bristol, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years) 
    Relationship unknown 
    Mother Isabella De Beauchamp,   b. Abt 1266, Warwick, Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 30 May 1306, Elmley Castle, Gloucester Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 40 years)
    Other Partners: Patric De Chaworth Lord Kidwillyin, II  m. Bef 1282  
    Relationship unknown 
    Marriage Bef 1286  [9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14] 
    Marriage Fact Between 1286 and 1287  Out License. Find all individuals with events at this location  [14, 15] 
    Hugh Paid A Fine Of 2000 Marks To King Edward I For Marrying Her W 
    Family ID F22864  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Alianor De Clare,   b. 1292, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1337, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 45 years) 
    Other Partners: William De Mortimer 
    Marriage May 1306  Westminster, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [16, 17, 18, 19] 
    Children 
     1. Edward Le Despenser,   b. 1312, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
     2. Isabel Le Despenser,   b. Abt 1312, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1376 (Age 64 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
     3. Elizabeth Le Despenser,   b. 1322, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
    ▻ Maurice De Berkeley  m. Aug 1338
    Family ID F19673  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Mar 2024 

  • Sources 
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    2. [S204] large-G675.FTW.
      b bef 1000

    3. [S202] 11615-2.ftw.
      Date of Import: 21 Feb 1999

    4. [S203] Gregory Strong, Ancestory.com Individual Tree - Kings & Presidents.

    5. [S201] Leisure Guy, leisureguy@icloud.com, "KinshipTree - Historical Family Database", (Name: Name: http://kinshipcove.com Genealogy Research: Common Historical Roots In South Texas;;).

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    7. [S205] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760, (Name: Name: 7th ed Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore 1992;;).
      E. of Gloucester, no mention of other titles

    8. [S205] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760, (Name: Name: 7th ed Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore 1992;;), 74-32.

    9. [S225] Ed Mann, Mann Database.
      bef 1286

    10. [S143] Sir Bernard Burke, Burke's Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, (Name: Name: London, 1866;;).
      No date, 2nd marriage for Isabella

    11. [S205] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760, (Name: Name: 7th ed Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore 1992;;), 74-31.
      bef 1287

    12. [S133] G.E. Cockayne, Complete Peerage, (Name: Name: St. Catherine Press, 29 Great Queen St, Kingsway, W.C. 1959;;).
      bef 1287

    13. [S27] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, (Name: Name: 4th ed, Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore;;), line 4 p 3.
      her 2nd m, m by 1286

    14. [S204] large-G675.FTW, 1st ed, pp 263-264 "Talbot".
      no date

    15. [S143] Sir Bernard Burke, Burke's Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, (Name: Name: London, 1866;;).

    16. [S205] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760, (Name: Name: 7th ed Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore 1992;;), line 39 pp 42-43.
      line 39 pp 42-43 gives no date, another citation says m 1306

    17. [S79] David Faris, Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, (Name: Name: Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1996;;), 1st ed, pp 77-78, "Dade".
      no date/place

    18. [S204] large-G675.FTW.

    19. [S79] David Faris, Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, (Name: Name: Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1996;;), 1st ed, p 98-99 "Elsing".



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