Ancestral Trails 2016 » Isabel DESPENCER (1400-1439)

Personal data Isabel DESPENCER 

  • She was born on July 26, 1400 in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales.

    Waarschuwing Attention: Age at marriage (June 27, 1411) below 16 years (10).

    Waarschuwing Attention: Was younger than 16 years (15) when child (Elizabeth BEAUCHAMP) was born (September 16, 1415) .

  • Title: Lady
  • She died on December 27, 1439 in Friarsminoresses, London, she was 39 years old.
  • A child of Thomas DESPENCER and Constance of YORK

Household of Isabel DESPENCER

(1) She is married to Richard BEAUCHAMP.

They got married on November 26, 1423 at Hanley Castle, Worcestershire, she was 23 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Anne BEAUCHAMP  1426-1492 


(2) She is married to Richard BEAUCHAMP.

They got married on June 27, 1411 at Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, she was 10 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Elizabeth BEAUCHAMP  1415-1448 


Notes about Isabel DESPENCER

Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester and Warwick (26 July 1400 - 1439) was the posthumous daughter and eventually the sole heiress of Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester (d. 1399) by his wife, Constance of York. She was born six months after her father had been beheaded for plotting against King Henry IV (1399-1413).

Marriages and progeny
Isabel married twice, successively to two identically named first-cousins, grandsons of Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick (d. 1369):

Firstly to Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester (1394-1422) who died at the Siege of Meaux. They had one daughter:
Elizabeth de Beauchamp, born 1415, who married Edward Neville, 1st Baron Bergavenny (d. 1476), and had progeny.

Secondly to Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick (1382-1439), her 1st husband's first-cousin from a senior Beauchamp line, by whom she had two children:
Henry de Beauchamp (1425-1446), who succeeded his father as 14th Earl of Warwick, and later was created 1st Duke of Warwick. He married Cecille Neville, daughter of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, and had by her one daughter who died an infant:
Anne Beauchamp, 15th Countess of Warwick.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Isabel DESPENCER

Edward DESPENCER
-1375
Elizabeth de BURGHERSH
1342-1409
Edmund PLANTAGENET
1341-1402
Isabel de CASTILE-LEON
1355-1392

Isabel DESPENCER
1400-1439

(1) 1423

Richard BEAUCHAMP
-1439

Anne BEAUCHAMP
1426-1492
Henry BEAUCHAMP
-1446
(2) 1411

Richard BEAUCHAMP
1397-> ????

Elizabeth BEAUCHAMP
1415-1448

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Birthday July 26, 1400

  • Graaf Albrecht (Beiers Huis) was from 1389 till 1404 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1400: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 14 » Richard II of England dies, most probably from starvation, in Pontefract Castle, on the orders of Henry Bolingbroke.
    • March 23 » The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule, by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official.
    • September 16 » Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers.
    • November 11 » Siege of Aleppo (1400) during Timur's conquest of Syria.

Day of marriage June 27, 1411

  • Graaf Willem VI (Beiers Huis) was from 1404 till 1417 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1411: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 1 » The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights (Prussia).
    • February 17 » Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of Bayezid I, becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire with the support of Mircea I of Wallachia.
    • June 4 » King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries.
    • July 6 » Ming China's Admiral Zheng He returns to Nanjing after the third treasure voyage and presents the Sinhalese king, captured during the Ming–Kotte War, to the Yongle Emperor.
    • July 24 » Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.
    • September 3 » The Treaty of Selymbria is concluded between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice.

Day of death December 27, 1439



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