Ancestral Glimpses » Alianore de Clare (1292-1326)

Persoonlijke gegevens Alianore de Clare 

• Alternatieve namen: Eleanor de Clare, Alyne de Clare
• Zij is geboren op 3 oktober 1292 in Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, ENGLANDCaerphilly Castle.
• Ze werd gedoopt november 1292.
• Zij is overleden in het jaar 1326, zij was toen 33 jaar oud.

  Oorzaak: by beheading

• Alternatief: Zij is overleden op 30 juni 1337, zij was toen 44 jaar oud.
• Zij is begraven in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, ENGLAND.
• Een kind van Joan Plantagênet
• Een kind van Gilbert de Clare en Joan d'Acres Plantagênet
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 19 september 2017.

Gezin van Alianore de Clare

(1) Zij had een relatie met John de Grey.

Kind(eren):

1. Henry de Grey  ± 1178-± 1219 

(2) Zij is getrouwd met Hugh le Despencer.

Zij zijn getrouwd na 14 juni 1306.

Kind(eren):

1. Edward le Despencer  ± 1312-1342 
2. Isabel le Despenser  1313-???? 
3. Joane le Despencer  ± 1315-????
4. Elizabeth le Despencer  ± 1324-????
5. Gilbert Despencer  
6. Philip le Despencer  

(3) Zij is getrouwd met William de la Zouche.

Zij zijn getrouwd CA 1331, zij was toen 38 jaar oud.

Notities over Alianore de Clare

Eleanor de Clare (1292–1337) married Hugh Despenser the Younger, favorite of her uncle Edward II.  Hugh Despenser, 1st Lord Despenser (c. 1286-1326), also referred to as “the younger Despenser”, was the son and heir of Hugh le Despenser, Earl of Winchester (the elder Despenser) and Isabella daughter of William, 9th Earl of Warwick.  Hugh Despenser the younger became royal chamberlain in 1318.  As a royal courtier, Despenser manoeuvred into the affections of King Edward, displacing the previous favorite, Roger d’Amory.  This was much to the dismay of the baronage as they saw him both taking their rightful places at court and being a worse version of Gaveston.  After many outrageous acts, the barons finally prevailed upon King Edward and forced Despenser and his father into exile in August 1321.  Following the exile of the Despensers, the barons who opposed them fell out among themselves, and the King summoned the two men back to England.  Early in the following year, King Edward took advantage of these divisions to secure the surrender of Marcher Lord Roger Mortimer, and the defeat and execution of the Earl of Lancaster, the Despensers’ chief opponents.  The pair returned and King Edward quickly reinstated Despenser as royal favorite.  His time in exile had done nothing to quell his greed, his rashness, or his ruthlessness.  The time from the Despensers’ return from exile until the end of Edward II’s reign was a time of uncertainty in England.  With the main baronial opposition leaderless and weak, having been defeated at the Battle of Boroughbridge, and Edward willing to let them do as they pleased, the Despensers were left unchecked.  They grew rich from their administration and corruption.  This period is sometimes referred to as the “Tyranny”.  This maladministration caused hostile feeling for them and, by proxy, Edward II.  Despenser repeatedly pressed King Edward to execute Mortimer, who had been held prisoner in the Tower of London, following his surrender. However, Mortimer escaped from the Tower and fled to France.  Queen Isabella had a special dislike for Hugh Despenser the younger.  While Isabella was in France to negotiate between her husband and the French king, she formed a liaison with Roger Mortimer and began planning an invasion.  Despenser supposedly tried to bribe French courtiers to assassinate Isabella, sending barrels of silver as payment.  Roger Mortimer and the Queen invaded England in October 1326.  Their forces numbered only about 1,500 mercenaries to begin with, but the majority of the nobility rallied to them throughout October and November.  By contrast, very few people were prepared to fight for Edward II, mainly because of the hatred that the Despensers had aroused.  The Despensers fled West with the King, with a sizable sum from the treasury.  The escape was unsuccessful.  Separated from the elder Despenser, the King and the younger Despenser were deserted by most of their followers, and were captured near Neath in mid-November.  King Edward was placed in captivity and later forced to abdicate in favour of his son.  The elder Despenser (the father) was hanged at Bristol on 27 Oct 1326, and younger Despenser (the son) was brought to trial on 24 Nov 1326, in Hereford, before Mortimer and the Queen.  He was judged a traitor and a thief, and sentenced to public execution by hanging, as a thief, and drawing and quartering, as a traitor.  Additionally, he was sentenced to be disembowelled for having procured discord between the King and Queen, and to be beheaded, for returning to England after having been banished.  Immediately after the trial, Despenser was dragged behind four horses to his place of execution, where a great fire was lit.  He was stripped naked, and Biblical verses denouncing arrogance and evil were carved into his skin.  He was then hanged from a gallows 50 feet high, but cut down before he could choke to death.  In Froissart’s account of the execution, Despenser was then tied to a ladder, and – in full view of the crowd – had his genitals sliced off and burned (in his still-conscious sight) then his entrails slowly pulled out, and, finally, his heart cut out and thrown into the fire.  Finally, his corpse was beheaded, his body cut into four pieces, and his head mounted on the gates of London.  Mortimer and Isabella feasted with their chief supporters, as they watched the execution.  Four years later, in December 1330, his widow was given permission to gather and bury his remains at the family’s Gloucestershire estate, but only the head, a thigh bone and a few vertebrae were returned to her.

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