Hugh le Despenser

Abt 1223 - 1265  (~ 42 years)

• Name	Hugh le Despenser  [1]
  Born	Abt 1223  [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Bef 1224	of Ryhall, Rutland, England   [5]
  Died	4 Aug 1265	Evesham, Worcestershire, England   [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Buried	Evesham Abbey, Evesham, Worcestershire, England   [3, 5]
  Person ID	I166	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	1 Jan 2020

  
  

  Father	Hugh le Despenser,   b. of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England ,   d. Between 23 Feb 1238 and 30 May 1238
  Mother	(Unknown)
  Family ID	F59	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Aline Basset,   b. Abt 1240, of Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England ,   d. Bef 11 Apr 1281  (Age ~ 41 years)
  Married	Bef 1261  [2, 3]
  Children	+ 1. Eleanor le Despenser,   d. 30 Sep 1328, London, England + 2. Joan le Despenser,   d. Bef 8 Jun 1322 + 3. Hugh le Despenser,   b. 1 Mar 1261, of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England ,   d. 27 Oct 1326, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England  (Age 65 years)
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2017
  Family ID	F229	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  "Sir Hugh le Despenser of Loughborough, Burton, Hugglescote, Freeby, and Arnesby, co. Leicester, Parlington and Hilliam, co. York, Sibsey and Aukborough, co. Lincoln, Ryhall and Belmesthorp, Rutland, s. and h. of Sir Hugh le Despenser, of the same (who d. between 23 Feb. and 30 May 1238). He was b. in or before 1223. Had respite of knighthood, 11 July 1244. On 7 Nov. 1255 he was appointed Constable of Horston Castle for five years from the preceding Michaelmas. In Apr. 1257 he accompanied Richard, Earl of Cornwall, to Aachen, for the latter's coronation, on 17 May, as King of the Romans. At the Parl. of Oxford, in Jun 1258, he was one of the twelve elected by the Barons to redress grievances, and also one of the twelve elected to treat with the King's Council in Parl. Appointed Justiciar of England, 25 Oct. 1260, being the nominee of the Barons: he was deprived of his office by the King, May or June 1261. Attended Montfort's Parl. at Oxford in Apr. 1263. Appointed Justiciar of England and Constable of the Tower of London, about 15 July 1263, by the Barons, with the assent of the King. In Mar. 1264, when Constable of the Tower, he led the rioters who sacked the mansion at Isleworth of the King of the Romans. Was at the battle of Lewes, 14 May 1264. Appointed, by the counsel of the Barons, Constable of the Castles of Devizes and Oxford, 12 July, of Orford Castle, 18 July, and of Nottingham Castle, 15 Dec. 1264. Was appointed an arbiter to consider the peace between the King and the Barons, 11 Sep. 1264. He was sum. for Military Service against the Welsh, 14 Mar. (1257/8) 42 Hen. III and 25 May (1263) 47 Hen. III, by writs directed Hugoni le Despenser Justic' Anglie. He was appointed an arbiter between the Earls of Leicester and Gloucester in May 1265. He m., in or before 1260, Aline, da. and h. of Sir Philip Basset, of Wycombe, Bucks, Compton-Bassett and Wootton-Basset, Wilts, &c., Justiciar of England, by his 1st wife, Hawise, da. of Sir Matthew de Lovaine, of Little Easton, Essex. He joined the Earl of Leicester in his last campaign, and with him was slain at the battle of Evesham, 4 Aug. 1265. He was bur. in Evesham Abbey." [Complete Peerage IV:259.]

  
  

• Sources

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