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Personal data Lady Eleanor de Clare 

Sources 1, 2, 3

Household of Lady Eleanor de Clare

She is married to Hugh le Despenser.

She was the Countess of Glouchester.
As a wedding gift, her Grandfather, King Edward I, gave her 2,000 pounds sterling - equivalent to several million dollars in todays money.

They got married on May 1, 1306 at Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom, she was 13 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Elizabeth le Despenser  ± 1327-1389 


Notes about Lady Eleanor de Clare

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_de_Clare

Eleanor de Clare, Countess of Gloucester

Sources

The Descendants of King Edward I, King of England, and Eleanora of Castile: http://goose.ycp.edu/~tgibson/RoyalAncestors/Edward.html

Michael Altschul, A Baronial Family in Medieval England: The Clares, 1217-1314, Baltimore MD (The Johns Hopkins Press) 1965, concerning the partition of the de CLARE estates after the death of the last Gilbert, p 170-171: "Hugh Despenser and Eleanor [Gilbert's sister] received the lordship of Glamorgan, the most important of all the Clare holdings, along with Rotherfield in Sussex and scattered manors in Devon and Somerset. In addition, each heir acquired two-ninths of the liberty of Kilkenny in Ireland, although there is no evidence that any of them every visited it. (P) The death of the countess in the summer of 1320 completed the division of the estates among th heirs. Maud probably died on July 2, and the properties she held in dower must have been partitioned shortly thereafter. Each received an equal portion of her third of Kilkenny. The partition of the Clare estates has been described as "the most important territorial upheaval of the reign." [Denham-Young, Vita Edwardi Secundi, pp xii-xiii]"

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Eleanor de Clare

Richard de Clare
1222-1262
Maud de Lacy
± 1223-1289
Edward I of England
1239-1307
Eleanor de Castile
1241-1290
Gilbert de Clare
± 1243-1307

Eleanor de Clare
1292-1337

1306

Hugh le Despenser
1286-1326

Elizabeth le Despenser
± 1327-1389

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    1. The Peerage : A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe, The Peerage, Darryl Lundy
      http://www.thepeerage.com/p10485.htm#i104849 Lady Eleanor de Clare
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    3. Medieval Lands : A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families, Cawley, Charles
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    Birthday October 3, 1292

    Day of marriage May 1, 1306

    Day of death June 30, 1337

    

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