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2 days ago · The long-threatened civil war finally broke out in England in 1321, triggered by the tension between many of the barons and the royal favourites, the Despenser family. Hugh Despenser the Elder had served both Edward and his father, while Hugh Despenser the Younger had married into the wealthy de Clare family, became the King's chamberlain, and ...
- 7 July 1307 – 13/25 January 1327
- Eleanor, Countess of Ponthieu
3 days ago · In 1321 war broke out on the March, provoked by Edward's grant of Glamorgan to Hugh Despenser the Younger. Despenser's misrule of Glamorgan and treatment of the Welsh 'rebel', Llywelyn Bren, infuriated Roger Mortimer and Humphrey Bohun, earl of Hereford. In the conflict that followed, the rebels even occupied London, forcing Edward to send ...
6 days ago · King Edward II of England had court favourites who were unpopular with his nobility, such as Piers Gaveston and Hugh Despenser the Younger. Gaveston was killed during a noble rebellion against Edward in 1312, while Despenser was hated by the English nobility. [2]
- 25 January 1327 – 21 June 1377
- Isabella of France
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2 days ago · Then came the Despenser War. I hadn’t actually realised that there was a personal element to this, in that a Mortimer had killed a Despenser at Evesham. The book, being told from Johane’s viewpoint, obviously took the side of Mortimer and his allies, but we were told that Mortimer had admired Edward when he first met him.
1 day ago · As a result, Roger was dispatched to the Tower of London with execution hanging over his head, while Johane was ultimately sent to confinement in Skipton Castle. Their young Mortimers were shut away in Windsor Castle or in convents, the younger girls sharing Johane’s imprisonment. All was not lost.
5 days ago · Even after that, Edward took another favourite, Hugh Despenser the Younger, who angered Edward’s wife Isabella enough that she deserted him and fled to France, where she took the exiled rebel Roger Mortimer as her lover.
5 days ago · Hugh Despenser, sheriff of Berkshire , has respite from rendering his account until the octaves of Michaelmas in the tenth year.
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