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Hugh Despenser, 1st Baron Despenser (c.1287/1289 [1] [2] – 24 November 1326), also referred to as "the Younger Despenser", [3] was the son and heir of Hugh Despenser, Earl of Winchester, (the Elder Despenser) and his wife Isabel Beauchamp, daughter of William Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick. [4]
The execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger, as depicted in the Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse. To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a method of torturous capital punishment used principally to execute men convicted of high treason in medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland.
Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edmund Fitzalan were both hanged, drawn, and quartered. The deaths of Fitzalan, Despenser the Younger, Despenser the Elder and Edward II brought an end to the civil war, saw the start of a year of looting of the Despensers' estates and the issuing of pardons to thousands of people falsely indicted by them. [22]
Eleanor de Clare, suo jure 6th Lady of Glamorgan (October 1292 [3] – 30 June 1337) was a powerful Anglo-Welsh noblewoman who married Hugh Despenser the Younger, the future favourite of Edward II of England, and was a granddaughter of Edward I of England.
Hugh Despenser may refer to: Hugh le Despenser (sheriff) (died 1238), High Sheriff of Berkshire; Hugh Despenser (justiciar) (1223–1265), son of the above; Hugh Despenser the Elder (1261–1326), son of the above; Hugh Despenser the Younger (died 1326), son of the above; Hugh le Despenser, Baron le Despenser (1338) (1308–1349), son of the above
The opposition stemmed from resentment against the king's new favourites, Hugh Despenser the Younger and Hugh Despenser the Elder. [13] When Bartholomew Badlesmere, steward of the royal household, defected to the opposition, Edward made his youngest brother Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in place of Badlesmere on 16 June. [9]
Barony of le Despenser: Hugh le Despenser (sheriff) (1218–1238) Hugh Despenser (justiciar) (1238–1265) Hugh Despenser the Elder (1285–1326) [Later as Earl of Winchester] Barony de Ross: Robert de Ros (died 1227) (~1205–1227) Barony of Prudhoe: Richard Umfraville (1182–1226) Gilbert Umfraville I (1245)
Hugh was the eldest son and heir of Hugh Despenser the Younger and grandson of Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester. [2] His father and grandfather were both executed and attainted in 1326, when the young Hugh was 18 years old.