Sir Hugh Le Despenser

Abt 1223 - 1265  (~ 42 years)

• Name	Sir Hugh Le Despenser  [1, 2, 3]
  Born	Abt 1223	Loughborough, Leicestershire, England
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	25 Oct 1260
  	Justiciar of England (deprived of the office by the King the following year)
  Occupation	1263
  	Appointed Justiciar of England and Constable of the Tower of London by the Barons (with the King's consent)
  Occupation	1263
  	Attended Simon de Montfort's Parliament at Oxford
  Occupation	14 May 1264
  	Was present at the battle of Lewes
  Died	4 Aug 1265	Battle of Evesham, Worcestershire, England
  	Cause: Killed with Simon de Montfort (Earl of Leicester)
  Buried	Evesham Abbey, Worcestershire, England
  Person ID	I3758	Godbout
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2017

  
  

  Father	Sir Hugh Le Despenser,   b. Abt 1195, Loughborough, Leicestershire, England ,   d. Aft 23 Feb 1238, Ryhall, Stamford, Rutlandshire, England  (Age ~ 43 years)
  Family ID	F1944	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Aline Basset of Norfolk,   b. Abt 1235, Wootton Basset, Wiltshire, England ,   d. 1281  (Age ~ 46 years)
  Married	Abt 1255	Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
  Children	1. Anne Le Despenser,   b. Abt 1255, Loughborough, Leicestershire, England ,   d. Bef 1280  (Age ~ 24 years)   2. Sir Hugh Le Despenser,   b. 1 Mar 1261, Winchester, Hampshire, England ,   d. 27 Oct 1326, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England  (Age 65 years)   3. Joan Le Despenser,   b. Abt 1265,   d. Abt 1321  (Age ~ 56 years)
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2017
  Family ID	F1889	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S7] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, George Edward Cokayne; Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand & Howard de Walden, editors, (Reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), Volume IV, pp. 259-261 & Vol. V, pp. 341, 581-582. [S728] A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland, John Burke, Esq., (Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, London, 1831), 60, 171 & 195. [S633] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, Frederick Lewis Weis. Edited with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr.; assisted by David Faris, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 7th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland, 1992), 64:58-30.