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2 days ago · Hugh Despenser the Younger. From the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. Things had changed drastically since 1321, when Isabel’s family, the Despensers, had been riding very high in royal circles, two of them—father and son—having been favourites of Edward II.
2 days ago · The fee was granted in 1325 by Alice and her second husband Ebles Lestraunge to Hugh le Despenser the younger, who already had the reversion of the land. At the same time Warenne made over to Despenser his 'foreign court' of Trowbridge and the court of Durleigh.
4 days ago · His downfall began in 1320 with his quarrel with the king's favourite Hugh le Despenser the younger, who tried to seize his wife's inheritance of Gower. (fn. 112) He joined the insurrection of Thomas Earl of Lancaster and was taken prisoner at the battle of Boroughbridge and hanged at York in 1322.
3 days ago · In July 1321 the barons condemned Hugh le Despenser and his son Hugh, generally called the younger, to forfeit all their estates and go into exile.
3 days ago · They were held of his heir and direct lineal descendant the last Gilbert de Clare in 1314, when they came on the partition of his estates to his eldest sister Eleanor and her husband, the younger Hugh le Despenser. Hugh le Despenser, their son and heir, was overlord at his death without issue in 1349. The overlordship of Tooting Bec then ...
5 days ago · Odiham Castle (also known locally as King John's Castle) is a ruined castle situated near Odiham in Hampshire, United Kingdom. It is one of only three fortresses built by King John during his reign. The site was possibly chosen by King John because he had visited the area in 1204 and it lay halfway between Windsor and Winchester.
5 days ago · Hugh Despenser has made fine with the king by 50 m. for having custody of the land and heirs of Geoffrey Savage, who had Hugh’s daughter to wife, and for having the marriage of the same heirs with the marriage of his same daughter.
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