 1260 - 1326 (66 years)
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| Name |
Hugh Le Despencer |
| Birth |
1 Mar 1260 |
Winchester, Hampshire, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
27 Oct 1326 |
Bristol, Gloucestershire, England |
| Person ID |
I53217 |
Cecilie Family |
| Last Modified |
8 Dec 2010 |
| Father |
Sir Hugh Le Despencer, b. Bef 1223, Loughborough, Leceistershire, England d. 4 Aug 1265, Battle Of Evesham, Worcestershire, England (Age 42 years) |
| Mother |
Countess Of Norfolk Iline Bassett, b. 1241, Wooten Basset, Wiltshire, England d. Bef 11 Apr 1281 (Age 40 years) |
| Marriage |
Abt 1260 |
Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Family ID |
F18272 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Isabel Beauchamp, b. Abt 1252, Of, Warwick, Warwickshire, England d. Abt 30 May 1306, Emley Castle, Worcestershire, England (Age 54 years) |
| Marriage |
Bef 1286 |
| Children |
| | 1. Hugh Despencer, b. 1 Mar 1260-1261, Barton, Gloucestershire, England d. 24 Nov 1326, Hereford, Herefordshire, England (Age 65 years) |
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| Family ID |
F22019 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
8 Dec 2010 |
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| Notes |
supported King Edward I in the war against his rival, the Earl of Lancaster. He served in the Welsh war but was fined 2,000 marks because he married, without the king's license, Isabel, daughter of William Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, the widow of Patrick of Chaworth.
He accompanied Edward to Scotland and fought in the Battle of Dunbar (I) and the expediition against Flanders in 1297. The King used him to negotiate for peace between Edward I and the King of the Romans and the King of France.
He served again in Scotland and then was sent to negociate with France which led to the peace of 1303. In 1305 he was sent to see Pope Clement V at Lyons and obtained a Papal bull which absolved King Edward from the oaths he had been forced to take to his people. When Edward II was coronated as King, Hugh carried part of the royal insignia. He defended the king's favorite, Gaveston, in 1308 against the league of barons, which alienated him from the barons who regarded him as a deserter from their cause.
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