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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]
He was a Bailiff who served under Henry de Turberville in Gascony and quarreled with Hugh de Vivonne in 1234 apparently having been deprived of his Bailiwick. He refused to surrender his office and the property of the office including armor, furniture, and other goods and received the protection of a cathedral.
The first creation was in 1295, when Hugh the elder Despenser was summoned to the Model Parliament. He was the eldest son of the sometime Justiciar Hugh Despenser (d. 1265), son of Sir Hugh le Despenser I (above). The sometime Justiciar was summoned in 1264 to Simon de Montfort's Parliament and is sometimes considered the first baron.
Despenser was the son of Hugh le Despencer (1223–1265, briefly Justiciar of England) and Aline Basset, only daughter and heiress of Philip Basset.His father was killed at the Battle of Evesham when Hugh was a boy, but Hugh's patrimony was saved through the influence of his maternal grandfather, who had been loyal to the king.
Hugh was captured and sentenced to public execution by hanging (for thievery), and drawing and quartering (for treason). Hugh le Despencer, Baron le Despencer (1338) (1308–1349), the eldest son and heir of Hugh Despenser the Younger, fought at the battles of Sluys and Crécy. He was created a baron by writ of summons to Parliament in 1338 ...
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
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.
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