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Despenser served Edward I on numerous occasions both in battle and as a diplomat, and was created a baron by writ of summons to Parliament in 1295. His son, Hugh Despenser the Younger, became a favourite of Edward II, in what was rumoured to be a homosexual relationship. [4] Hugh the Elder was loyal to his son and the King, which worried the ...
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]
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 ...
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)
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]
Hugh le Despenser, 1st Baron le Despenser (c. 1308/9 – 8 February 1349), Lord of Glamorgan, was an English peer. Imprisoned as a consequence of his support for deposed king Edward II , he would return to royal favour under Edward III , being made Baron le Despenser 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