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Feb 11, 2024 · Jules Frusher. Feb 11, 2024. 1. Share. Hugh Despenser the younger has fascinated me since I first heard about him around 18 years ago. He appeared to be classed as an ‘archetypical moustache-twirling villain - a one-dimensional baddie with a notorious reputation similar to Richard III before he was rehabilitated by the Richard III Society.
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. His title became extinct at his death without issue.
Hugh Despenser, 1st Lord Despenser (1286 - 1326, sometimes referred to as "the younger Despenser", was the son and heir of Hugh le Despenser, Earl of Winchester, by Isabella de Beauchamp, daughter of William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick. Hugh became royal chamberlain in 1318.
Oct 30, 2018 · The greatest villain of the fourteenth century – at least according to a poll by BBC History Magazine – was Hugh Despenser the Younger. He was the favourite and possible lover of Edward II, his influence leading to the tyranny that marked Edward II’s later reign and, ultimately, the rebellion led by Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer that resulted in Edward’s deposition and Hugh’s ...
Feb 18, 2024 · And it wasn’t long before trouble stirred and the man holding the spoon was Hugh Despenser the younger. Sources: The Parliamentary Rolls ‘The Despenser War in Glamorgan’ – J. Conway Davies, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Vol. 9 (1915), pp. 21-64 (44 pages), Cambridge University Press
Aug 23, 2023 · Hugh le Despenser, 1st and last Earl of Winchester was born on 1 March 1260/61.2 He was the son of Sir Hugh le Despenser, 1st Lord Despenser and Aliva Basset.2 He married Isabella de Beauchamp, daughter of William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick and Maud fitz John, before 1286.2 He died on 27 October 1326 at age 65, hanged as a traitor.2.
Eleanor de Clare. / 51.9903; -2.1604. 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. [2] [4] With her sisters, Elizabeth de Clare and ...
