Sir Hugh The Younger LE DESPENSER

Male 1261 - 1326  (65 years)


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  • Name Hugh The Younger LE DESPENSER  [1, 2
    Prefix Sir 
    Birth 01 Mar 1260/1  Barton, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Also Known As Baron Despenser  [2
    Fact 1st Earl of Winchester Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Death 27 Oct 1326  [1, 2
    Burial Tewesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    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.
    Person ID I35486  Main Tree
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2018 

    Family Isabel DE BEAUCHAMP,   b. Warwick, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 30 May 1306, Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 1286  [2
    Children 
    +1. Sir Hugh LE DESPENSER, Knt.   d. 24 Nov 1326, hanged and quartered Find all individuals with events at this location  [Birth]
    +2. Sir Philip LE DESPENSER,   b. Stoke, Gloucesteshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Sep 1313  [Birth]
     3. Isabel LE DESPENSER
    Family ID F03994  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 26 Apr 2018 

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  • Sources 
    1. [S01910] Blood Royal, Issue of the Kings and Queens of Medieval England 1066-1399 by. T. Anna Leese.

    2. [S5840] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonist Who Came to America before 1700.