Hugh Despenser, 1st Baron Despenser (c.1287/1289 – 24 November 1326), also referred to as "the Younger Despenser", was the son and heir of Hugh Despenser...
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Hugh le Despenser (1 March 1261 – 27 October 1326), sometimes referred to as "the Elder Despenser", was for a time the chief adviser to King Edward II...
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Bohun. The rebellion was fuelled by opposition to Hugh Despenser the Younger, the royal favourite. After the rebels' summer campaign of 1321, Edward was able...
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Baron le Despenser in 1338. His title became extinct at his death without issue. Hugh was the eldest son and heir of Hugh Despenser the Younger and grandson...
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Isabella of France (redirect from Isabella the She-Wolf)
turned to a new favourite, Hugh Despenser the Younger, and attempted to take revenge on the barons, resulting in the Despenser War and a period of internal...
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Eleanor de Clare (category Le Despenser family)
June 1337) was a powerful Anglo-Welsh noblewoman who married Hugh Despenser the Younger, the future favourite of Edward II of England, and was a granddaughter...
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Edward II of England (redirect from Edward the Second)
particular Hugh Despenser the Younger, became close friends and advisers to Edward, but in 1321 Lancaster and many of the barons seized the Despensers' lands...
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Baron le Despencer (redirect from Baron le Despenser)
of the title. Both elder and younger Despensers were attainted and executed in 1326, extinguishing the two creations. In 1338, Hugh le Despenser, son...
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of Hugh Despenser the Younger and Hugh Despenser the Elder and the abdication of Isabella's husband, King Edward II. It brought an end to the insurrection...
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Hugh Despenser the Elder (1261–1326), son of the above Hugh Despenser the Younger (died 1326), son of the above Hugh le Despenser, Baron le Despenser...
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Despencer (redirect from Hugh le Despenser (family))
(for treason). Hugh le Despencer, Baron le Despencer (1338) (1308–1349), the eldest son and heir of Hugh Despenser the Younger, fought at the battles of Sluys...
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Hulton Abbey (category Christian monasteries established in the 13th century)
Lewis of the University of Reading identified the remains as belonging to Hugh Despenser the Younger. Despenser was the son of Hugh Despenser the Elder,...
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Edward le Despenser (c. 1310 – 30 September 1342) was a son of Hugh le Despenser the Younger by his wife Eleanor de Clare. His father, a favourite of Edward...
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Edmund Fitzalan, 2nd Earl of Arundel (category People knighted at the Feast of the Swans)
association with the king's new favourite Hugh Despenser the Younger, whose daughter was married to Arundel's son. Arundel supported the king in suppressing...
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Favourite (section Study of the subject)
abroad, but was executed after capture by rebels in 1312 Hugh Despenser the Younger, also possibly the lover of Edward II, was captured and killed in a rebellion...
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Hanged, drawn and quartered (redirect from The four horrors)
executions, such as those of Andrew Harclay, 1st Earl of Carlisle, and Hugh Despenser the Younger, which each occurred during Edward II's reign, happened when acts...
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Isabel le Despenser (1312 – living 1356, and died by 1374/5) was an English noblewoman. She was the eldest daughter of Hugh le Despenser, 2nd Baron le...
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Elizabeth le Despenser (c. 1327 – 13 July 1389) was an English noblewoman. She was the youngest daughter of Hugh le Despenser the younger and his wife...
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Thomas Despenser, 2nd Baron Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester KG (22 September 1373 – 13 January 1400) was the son of Edward le Despenser, 1st Baron le...
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Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent (category Lords Warden of the Cinque Ports)
resentment against the king's new favourites, Hugh Despenser the Younger and Hugh Despenser the Elder. When Bartholomew Badlesmere, steward of the royal household...
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Isabella de Beauchamp (category Le Despenser family)
Lady Isabella Baroness Despenser. Together Lord and Lady Despenser had four children: Hugh le Despenser, Lord Despenser the Younger (1286 – executed 24 November...
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Bill of attainder (section The Great Act of Attainder)
bill of attainder was in 1321 against Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester and his son Hugh Despenser the Younger, Earl of Gloucester, who were both...
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John of Nottingham (section The conspiracy)
and Hugh Despenser the Younger in 1324 through witchcraft. By 1324, Edward II was ruling England with his royal favourite Hugh Despenser the Younger in...
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Llywelyn Bren (category People executed under the Plantagenets by hanging, drawing and quartering)
English rule in Wales until the attempts of Owain Lawgoch to invade with French support in the 1370s. Hugh Despenser the Younger's reputedly unlawful execution...
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After Gaveston's death, the most influential men around the king were Hugh Despenser and his son, Hugh Despenser the Younger. The king alienated moderate...
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Elizabeth de Clare (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
brother-in-law, Hugh Despenser the younger. D'Amory switched sides, joining the Marcher Lords led by Roger Mortimer and Thomas, Earl of Lancaster in the rebellion...
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Isabel le Despenser may refer to: Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Arundel (1312–1356), daughter of Hugh Despenser the Younger and Eleanor de Clare Isabel...
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executed at Hereford by Queen Isabella, Regent for Edward III Hugh Despenser the Younger (1326) – hanged, drawn and quartered by order of Queen Isabella...
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disembowelment, the man was also typically emasculated and his genitals and entrails would be burned.[citation needed] William Harrington, Hugh le Despenser the Younger...
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Roger Clifford, 2nd Baron Clifford (category People executed by the Kingdom of England by hanging)
Edward II's favourite Hugh Despenser the Younger, and ultimately against the King himself. He took part in the Siege of Tickhill. The rebel forces were then...
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