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Données personnelles Hugh IV 'the younger' le Despencer Baron Le Despencer, Earl of Gloucester 

• Il est né le 1 mai 1286 dans Barton, Gloucester, England.Source 7
• Professions:
• 1st Baron Despencer.Les sources 5, 7
• 3rd Lord le Despenser.Source 9
• Il est décédé le 24 novembre 1326 dans Hereford, Hereford and Worcester, England, il avait 40 ans.Les sources 7, 9

  Oorzaak: executed: hanged and quartered

• Il est enterré apres 15 décembre 1330 dans Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, Great Britain.Source 9
• Un enfant de Hugh III 'the elder' le Despencer et Isabel de Beauchamp
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 4 décembre 2022.

Famille de Hugh IV 'the younger' le Despencer Baron Le Despencer, Earl of Gloucester

(1) Il est marié avec Eleanore de Clare.

Ils se sont mariés apres 14 juin 1306 à Westminster, London, Middlesex, England, Great Britain.

Enfant(s):

1. Isabella le Despencer  ± 1312-± 1350 
2. Philip le Despencer  
3. Elizabeth le Despencer  1322-1389 
4. Edward le Despencer  ± 1312-1342 

Notes par Hugh IV 'the younger' le Despencer Baron Le Despencer, Earl of Gloucester

2nd Lord Despenser, Earl of Winchester.  Hanged and quartered

On Edward II's defeat at Bannockburn, Thomas of Lancaster became Steward of England. He was extremely inefficient and unpopular and was overthrown by a royalist party led by the Despensers. The Despensers were not a landowning family and set out to win land in the Welsh marches.

In 1321 the Welsh marcher lords and the Lancastrian party joined together and fought the King and the Despensers. The Marcher lords were defeated first and then the northern barons led by Lancaster were defeated at Boroughbridge in Yorkshire. Lancaster was beheaded by the King.

One of the Marcher lords, Roger Mortimer, escaped to France.

Meanwhile Charles IV of France seized Gascony, Isabella suggested she went to France to negotiate for Edward II. She became Mortimer's lover and the scheming began. She sent for her son, Prince Edward, to do homage for Gascony. Once he arrived safely she and Mortimer headed an invasion of England. The Despensers were hanged. The King was deposed and later died, almost certainly murdered, at Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire

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1   Took part in Edward I's Scottish campaigns and engaged innegotiations with France. On accessio of Edward II, alienatedthe baronial party by support of Piers Gaveston. In 1312 becamechief adviser to the King. Both he and his son were banished in1321 but returned in 1322 after the barons were defeated atBoroughbridge and were the real rulers of England until 1326when they were executed after the invasion of Queen Isabella in1326. See J.C. Davies, "Baronial Opposition to Edward II" (1918,repr. 1967). COLUMBIA ENCYCLOPAEDIA.
Supposedly the "boyfriend" of King Edward II.   Fled with Edward II upon rebellion of Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer. Captured with the king, then tried and hanged. Earl of Gloucester. Lord of Glamorgan on Eleanor's brother's death. Granted forfeited estates of wife's half sister Joan when Joan declared rebel.    Wealth enormously increased by Eleanor's 1/3 share of the de Clare estates.    Said fortune increased enormoously by violence in 1321-6.   Estates & fortune forfeited in 1326, partially restored in 1328.    Buried in Tewkesbury Abbey.  2nd Lord Despenser.
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. More importantly, Despenser obtained a substantial share of the honor of Gloucester, including the manor and town of Tewkesbury, the manor of Bushley and the castle and manor of Hanley in Worcester, and other demesne lands in Berkshire, Oxford, and Buckingham. 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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