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Sir Hugh Le Despenser

Male Abt 1285 - 1326  (~ 41 years)


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  • Name Sir Hugh Le Despenser  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    Born Abt 1285  Barton, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation 22 May 1306 
    Knighted by the Prince of Wales at Westminster 
    Occupation 1314-1326 
    2nd Lord Le Despenser 
    Died 24 Nov 1326  Hereford, Herefordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Cause: Executed 
    Buried Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4986  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Father Sir Hugh Le Despenser,   b. 1 Mar 1261, Winchester, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Oct 1326, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years) 
    Mother Isabel de Beauchamp,   b. 1260-1261, Warwick, Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1306, Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 45 years) 
    Married Abt 1285  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1888  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Alianore de Clare,   b. 12 Oct 1292, Caerphilly Castle, Glamorganshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Jun 1337, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 44 years) 
    Married 1306  Westminster, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Sir Edward Le Despenser,   b. Abt 1310,   d. 30 Sep 1342, Morlaix, Finistère, Bretagne, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 32 years)
     2. Isabel Le Despenser,   b. Abt 1315, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Jul 1389  (Age ~ 74 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2539  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S576] Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France, Anselme de Sainte-Marie, augustin déchaussé, (Troisième Édition, la Compagnie des Libraires, Paris, 2 août 1726-1733), Volume 2, p. 486.

    2. [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. 267-271, 670 (chart III) & Vol. V, p. 737 (chart).

    3. [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), 123, 172-173 & 198.

    4. [S752] Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the adjoining countries, Sir John Froissart and Thomas Johnes, Esq., (Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, London, 1862), Volume 1, pp. 5-6 & 11-13.

    5. [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), 11:8-30.