Edward le Despenser

Abt 1336 - 1375  (~ 39 years)

• Name	Edward le Despenser  [1]
  Birth	Abt 24 Mar 1336	Essendine, Rutland, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	24 Mar 1336	Essendine, Rutland, England   [3, 4, 5]
  Death	11 Nov 1375	Llanblethian, Glamorgan, Wales   [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Burial	Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I20128	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD
  Last Modified	3 Oct 2020

  
  

  Father	Edward le Despenser,   b. of Buckland, Buckinghamshire, England d. 30 Sep 1342, Morlaix, Finistère, Brittany, France
  Mother	Anne de Ferrers   d. 8 Aug 1367
  Marriage	20 Apr 1335	Groby in Ratby, Leicestershire, England   [2, 3, 5]
  Family ID	F12438	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Burghersh,   b. 1342   d. 26 Jul 1409 (Age 67 years)
  Marriage	Bef 2 Aug 1354  [2, 3, 5]
  Children	+ 1. Margaret le Despenser   d. 3 Nov 1415 + 2. Anne Despenser,   b. Abt 1363   d. 30 Oct 1426 (Age ~ 63 years) + 3. Thomas le Despenser,   b. 22 Sep 1373   d. 16 Jan 1400 (Age 26 years)
  Family ID	F12439	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Sep 2020

  
  

• Notes

  From The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz: Accompanied the Prince of Wales into Gascony, Sept 1355, and fought at the battle of Poitiers (France, Hundred Years' War), 17 Sept 1356, at which time he was already a knight. He was with the King in the invasion of France 1359-1360. Made a Knight of the Garter, 1361. Took part in the war in Lombardy, 1368-1372; fought in France, 1372-1373, was Constable of the Army in the Duke of Lancaster's unsuccessful expedition to France 1373-1374, and assisted the Duke of Brittany in his campaign in that province, 1375. From Wikipedia: He was a friend and patron of Jean Froissart and the eldest brother of Henry le Despenser, Bishop of Norwich. There is a statue of him on the top of the Holy Trinity Chantry Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey, renowned as the "Kneeling Knight." Edward le Despenser (1335-1375) Elizabeth le Despenser (1365-1408) Thomas Arundel (1388-1430) Alianor Arundel Katherine Browne Richard Sackville Richard Sackville Anne Sackville Henry Shelley Richard Shelley John Shelley (Unknown) Shelley John Shelley Timothy Shelley (b. 1700) Byssche Shelley (1731-1815) Timothy Shelley (1753-1844) Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

  
  

• Sources

  [S4342] Norfolk Families by Walter Rye. Two volumes, 1911-13. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S1526] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, Wife of Reverend John Owsley, Generations 1-15, Fourth Preliminary Edition, by Ronny O. Bodine and Bro. Thomas Spalding, Jr. 2013. [S2166] Brad Verity, Edward I Descents for Erasmus Paston. 11 Nov 2015., year only. [S4124] James L. Hansen, "The Ancestry of Joan Legard, Grandmother of the Rev. William1 Skepper/Skipper of Boston, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist 69:129, Jul 1994.