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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.
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.
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]
The execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger, as pictured in the Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse. To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a penalty in England, Wales, Ireland and the United Kingdom for several crimes, but mainly for high treason. This method was abolished in 1870.
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The execution of Hugh the younger Despenser, a miniature from the Gruuthuse manuscript of the Chronicles. Charles VI of France attacks his companions in a fit of insanity The Bal des Ardents in the Gruuthuse MS: Charles VI huddling under the Duchess of Berry's skirt at middle left, and burning dancers in the centre
Hugh Despenser the younger and Edmund Fitzalan were captured. Fitzalan was executed on November 17 by hanging, and Despenser was hanged on 24 November. With the end of the war, Edward II was deposed in parliament, imprisoned, and later died—probably murdered—in Berkeley Castle. [2]