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 Abt 1354 - 1405 (51 years)
Generation: 1
Generation: 2
| 2. | Maurice DE BERKELEY was born in 1330 in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England (son of Thomas DE BERKELEY and Margaret DE MORTIMER); died on 8 Jun 1368 in Berkeley Castle. Other Events and Attributes:
- Also Known As: Lord Berkeley
- Military Service: 19 Sep 1356, Wounded at the battle of Poitiers
- Fact: 1362-1368, Member of Parliament
Notes:
Name:
He was born about 1330 (aged eight at time of marriage). He was a commander in Glascony in 1355, and distinguished himself at the battle of Poitiers on 19 Sep 1356, where he was severely wounded and taken prisoner, ransomed for L1000. He was summoned to Parliament 1362-1368.
Maurice married Elizabeth LE DESPENSER in Aug 1338. Elizabeth (daughter of Sir Hugh LE DESPENSER, Knt. and Alianor DE CLARE) was born in 1322 in Stoke, Gloucestershire, England; died on 13 Jul 1389. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Generation: 3
| 6. | Sir Hugh LE DESPENSER, Knt. (son of Sir Hugh The Younger LE DESPENSER and Isabel DE BEAUCHAMP); died on 24 Nov 1326 in hanged and quartered. Other Events and Attributes:
- Also Known As: Baron Despenser
Notes:
Name:
He was summoned to Parliament from 29 July 1314 by writs directed 'hugoni le Despenser juniori'. he was disinherited and exiled on 19 Aug 1321. He took refuge in the Cinque Ports, and engaging in piracy, with the King's connivance did considerable damage. After the battle of Boroughbridge, he received large grants of the lands forfeited by the rebels. He accompanied the King in his flight to Wales in October 1326, and with the King was captured near Llantrisant, co. Glamorgan, on 16 Nov 1326. Hugh Le Despenser, Lord Le Despenser, was taken to Hereford, tried, without being allowed to speak in his own defence, condemned to death as a traitor, and hanged on 24 Nov 1326, buried some years afterwards at Tewkesbury Abbey.
Hugh married Alianor DE CLARE after 14 Jun 1306 in Westminster. Alianor (daughter of Sir Gilbert DE CLARE, Knt. and Joan (of Acre) Of ENGLAND) was born between Oct and Nov 1292 in Caephilly Castle, Glamorganshire, Wales; died on 30 Jun 1337 in Tewkesbury, Gloucesteshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Generation: 4
| 9. | Eve LA ZOUCHE was born in Harringworth, Northamptonshire, England (daughter of Eudo LA ZOUCHE and Millicent DE CANTELOU); died on 05 Dec 1314; was buried in Church, Portbury, Somersetshire, England. Children:
- 4. Thomas DE BERKELEY was born in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England; died on 27 Oct 1361.
- John DE BERKELEY was born about 1297.
- Maurice BERKELEY was born about 1298 in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England; died on 12 Feb 1346 in Calais, France.
- Maurice DE BERKELEY was born about 1299.
- Peter BERKELEY was born about 1301 in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England; died in 1341.
- Eudo DE BERKELEY was born about 1301.
- Peter DE BERKELEY was born about 1304.
- Isabel BERKELEY was born about 1307 in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England; died on 25 Jul 1362 in Hartley Castle, Kirkby Stephen, Westmoreland, England.
- Milicent DE BERKELEY died after 1322.
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| 11. | Joan DE GENEVILLE was born on 02 Feb 1286 in Ludlow, Shropshire, England (daughter of Sir Piers DE GENEVILLE and Joan/Jenne DE LUSIGNAN); died on 19 Oct 1356. Children:
- Edmund DE MORTIMER was born about 1305; died in 1331/2.
- Maud DE MORTIMER was born about 1307 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England; died after Aug 1345.
- Roger DE MORTIMER was born about 1308.
- 5. Margaret DE MORTIMER was born in 1308 in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England; died on 05 May 1337.
- Catherine DE MORTIMER was born in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England; died between 04 Aug and 06 Sep 1369; was buried in St Mary's, Warwick, England.
- Geoffrey DE MORTIMER was born about 1310.
- Joan DE MORTIMER was born about 1313 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England; died between 1337 and 1351.
- Agnes DE MORTIMER was born about 1313 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England; died about 1368; was buried in Minoresses Church, Without Aldgate, Middlesex, England.
- Blanche DE MORTIMER was born about 1316 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England; died in 1347.
- John DE MORTIMER was born about 1321.
- Beatrice DE MORTIMER was born about 1322 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England; died on 16 Oct 1383.
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| 12. | Sir Hugh The Younger LE DESPENSER was born on 01 Mar 1260/1 in Barton, Gloucestershire, England; died on 27 Oct 1326; was buried in Tewesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. Other Events and Attributes:
- Also Known As: Baron Despenser
- Fact: 1st Earl of Winchester
Notes:
Hugh and his father were beheaded in 1326. Both father and son were loyal to the king, Edward II, the young Despenser being his especial favorite. This engendered great jealousy on the part of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, cousin-german to the King, and first prince of the blood, the most opulent and powreful subject in England, possessed in his own right of no less than 6 earldoms, who raised an army against the king and was joined by many of the barons who wre dissatisfied with King Edward. In the civil war which followed, Lancaster was defeated and captured and condemned by court-martial and beheaded. The two Despencers were condemned to death by the rebellious barons whithout trial, or witness, or accusation, or answer.
Excerpts from Blood Royal: Hugh was hanged on a gallows 50 feet high, 24 Nov 1326. His head was set up on London Bridge, 4 Dec., and his quarters in four different places (towns). Some years afterwards his bones were collected, and bur. in Tewkesbury Abbey. The permit for his bones to be collected and buried was given on 15 Dec 1330.
Hugh married Isabel DE BEAUCHAMP in 1286. Isabel (daughter of William DE BEAUCHAMP and Lady Maud FITZ JOHN) was born in Warwick, England; died about 30 May 1306 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 14. | Sir Gilbert DE CLARE, Knt. was born on 02 Sep 1243 in Christ Church, Hampshire, England (son of Sir Richard DE CLARE and Maud DE LACY); died on 07 Dec 1295 in Monmouth Castle, Monmouthshire, England; was buried on 22 Dec 1295 in Abbey Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England. Other Events and Attributes:
- Fact: 6th Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, Earl of Clare
Notes:
Gilbert was also known as the 7th Earl of Hertford, and the 3rd Earl of Gloucester, commonly called the Red, married Alice, daughter of Guy, Earl of Angoulesme, the King's half-brother, from whom he was divorced. In the battle of Lewes was one of the commanders against King Henry III, the King being taken prisoner; afterwards returned to the Royal party and was one of the chief generals on that side at the battle of Evesham where the barons were vanquished and their leader, Montfort, Earl of Leicester, was slain.
Name:
Gilbert De Clare 'the red', Knt., Baron of Clare, Suffolk, 9th Earl of Clare, 3rd Earl of Gloucester, 6th Earl of Hertford, son and heir of Richard de Clare and Maude de Lacy. He was born at Christ Church, co Hants on 2 Sep 1243.
He was married first to Alice De Lusignan, daughter of Hughes XI de Lusignam and Yolande de Bretagne. They had two daughters, and were divorced, his wife Alice said to have become hypochondriacal in 1271. At the death of King Henry III on 16 Noc 1272, the Earl took the lead in swearing fealty to Edward I, who was then in Sicily returning from the Crusade. He was Joint Guardian of England during the King's absence. Proposals for his marriage to the King's daughter were made as early as may 1283. Their daughter Margaret is probably the daughter born at Caerphilly Castle in October 1292, her mother having been purified there on 23 November following the birth of a daughter.
Gilbert married Joan (of Acre) Of ENGLAND about 30 Apr 1290 in Westminster Abbey. Joan (daughter of Edward I "Longshanks"Of ENGLAND and Countess of Ponthieu Eleanor of CASTILE) was born in 1272 in Acre, Palestine; died on 23 Apr 1307 in Clare, Sufolk, England; was buried in Clare Priory. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 15. | Joan (of Acre) Of ENGLAND was born in 1272 in Acre, Palestine (daughter of Edward I "Longshanks"Of ENGLAND and Countess of Ponthieu Eleanor of CASTILE); died on 23 Apr 1307 in Clare, Sufolk, England; was buried in Clare Priory. Notes:
Joan, also known as Princess Joan Plantaganet, who was the 8th in direct descent from William The Conqueror.
Was betrothed to Hartmann (drowned 1281/December 1282) son of Emperor Rudolf.
Children:
- Gilbert DE CLARE was born between 10 and 11 May 1291 in Winchcombe near Tewkesbury; died on 24 Jun 1314 in killed in Battle of Bannockburn; was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey.
- 7. Alianor DE CLARE was born between Oct and Nov 1292 in Caephilly Castle, Glamorganshire, Wales; died on 30 Jun 1337 in Tewkesbury, Gloucesteshire, England.
- Margaret DE CLARE was born about 1292; died on 09 Apr 1342; was buried in Queenhithe.
- Elizabeth DE CLARE was born on 16 Sep 1295 in Tewkesbury Abbey; died on 04 Nov 1360; was buried in Covent of the Minoresses without Aldgate.
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