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Hugh le Despenser

Male 1261 - 1326  (65 years)


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  • Name Hugh le Despenser 
    Born 1/01 Mar 1260/1  of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 27 Oct 1326 
    Buried Winchester, , England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I6169  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Hugh le Despenser,   b. of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Aline or Aveline Bassett 
    Family ID F2675  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Isabel de Beauchamp,   b. of Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 30 May 1306 
    Married From 10 Sep 1285 to 27 Jan 1287 
    Children 
     1. Hugh le Despenser,   d. 24 Nov 1326, Hanged Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Philip le Despenser,   b. of Parlington, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Sep 1313
     3. Aline le Despenser,   d. Abt 28 Nov 1353
     4. Isabel le Despenser,   d. From 4 Dec 1334 to 5 Dec 1334
     5. Margaret le Despenser,   d. Bef 1330
     6. Elizabeth le Despenser,   d. From 14 Mar 1327 to 17 Feb 1331
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2674  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      "ISABEL DE BEAUCHAMP, married (1st) PATRICK DE CHAWORTH, Knt. [see CHAWORTH 7], of Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales, East Garston and North Standen (in Hungerford), Berkshire, Kempsford, Gloucestershire, King's Somborne, Hampshire, Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire, Berwick St. James and Standon Chaworth, Wiltshire, etc., younger son of Patrick de Chaworth, Knt., of Kempsford, Gloucestershire, North Standen (in Hungerford), Berkshire, King's Sombome, Hampshire, Stoke Brueme, Northamptonshire, etc., by Hawise, daughter and heiress of Thomas de London, of Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Ogmore, Glamorgan, East Garston, Berkshire, and Hannington, Wiltshire [see CHAWORTH 6 for his ancestry]. He was born about 1254 (aged 24 in 1278). Isabel had the manor of Chedworth, Gloucestershire in free marriage. They had one daughter, Maud. In 1275-6 he arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Nicholas Attewode and others touching a tenement in Weston Chaurz, Hampshire. In 1276 he witnessed a deed of his older brother, Pain de Chaworth, to Aaron son of Vives, a Jew. He was Captain of the king's munition in Wales in 1277. Sometime during the period, c.1278-82, Patrick witnessed a charter of Guy de Bryan to the burgesses of Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales. He was heir in 1279 to his older brother, Pain de Chaworth, Knt. In 1279-80 Walter atte Berewe arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Patrick de Chaworth and others touching a tenement in Etloe, Gloucestershire. In 1280-1 the king granted murage to the bailiffs and men of Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire for a term of five years at the instance of Patrick de Chaworth their lord. Patrick fought in Wales in 1282. On 6 June 1283, he confirmed the gift of his brother, Pain de Chaworth, to Godstow Abbey, which provided for the anniversaries of the obits of their mother, Hawise, and grandmother, Eve. SIR PATRICK DE CHAWORTH died testate shortly before 7 July 1283. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) between 10 Sept. 1285 (record of Highworth Hundred Rolls) and 27 Jan. 1287 (date of fine for marrying without license) HUGH LE DESPENSER, Knt., of Loughborough, Arnesby, Barrow, Beaumanor, and Hugglescote (in Ibstock), Leicestershire, Ryhall, Rutlandshire, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Maplederwell, Hampshire, Woking, Surrey, Broad Town (then in Cliff-Pippard), Eastern (in Wootton Basset), Wootton Basset, Wiltshire, Barrowby, Hillam, Parlington, and Shippen [Ho], Yorkshire, etc., Justice of the Forest south of Trent, 1297-1307, 1308-11, 1312-15, 1324-6, Privy Councillor, 1297, Warden of the Coasts south of Trent, 1303, Constable of Devizes, Marlborough, Odiham, St. Briavel's, and Striguil Castles, son and heir of Hugh le Despenser, Knt., of Loughborough, Leicestershire, Justiciar of England, by Aline (or Aveline), daughter and heiress of Philip Basset, Knt., Justiciar of England. He was born 1 March 1260/1 (aged 14 in 1275). They had two sons, Hugh, Knt. [2nd Lord Despenser], and Philip, Knt., and four daughters, Aline (wife of Edward Burnell, Knt., Lord Burnell), Isabel, Margaret, and Elizabeth. He was heir in 1275 to his cousin, John le Despenser, by which he inherited the manor of Arnesby, Leicestershire. A letter of William de Valence to John de Kirkby indicates that the Queen exacted 1,000 marks from Hugh because of his marriage. In Jan. 1285 the king took the manor of Bollington, Cheshire because Hugh took emends of ale without warrant. In 1286 and again in 1287, he appointed attorneys, he then going beyond seas. He released all right to his lands and tenements in Soham, Cambridgeshire and Bollington in Macclesfield, Cheshire to the king in 1286-7. He was with the king in Gascony in 1287. In 1289 he was going beyond seas with Roger le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk. He presented to the churches of Cossington, Leicestershire, 1289, Stoke Brueme, Northamptonshire, 1292, 1304, and Winterbourne Houghton, Dorset, 1316, 1317. In 1292 he was granted a weekly market and year fair at Arnesby, Leicestershire. In 1293 he had license to enclosed 30 acres of wood adjoining his park at Fastern (in Wootton Basset), Wiltshire. In 1293-4 he claimed to have view of frankpledge in his manor of Barrowby, Hillam, Parlington, and Shippen [Ho], Yorkshire, and that he and his men were free from suits of counties, hundreds/wapentakes/ridings, and from sheriff's aid and murdrum and view of frankpledge. He was appointed an envoy to treat with the King of the Romans in 1294. He was summoned to Parliament from 24 June 1295 to 14 March 1321/2, by writs directed Hugoni le Despenser, whereby he is held to have become Lord Despenser. In 1295 he was going beyond seas on the king's service. The following year he was going beyond seas on an embassy for the king. In 1297 he was granted 20 oaks fit for timber by the king. The same year he took part in the expedition to Flanders. In 1297 he demised the manor of Arnesby, Leicestershire to two tenants for a term of seven years. In 1298 Maud le Barber of Garscherch testified in London court that Saer le Barber said that Sir Hugh le Despenser "kept more robbers with him than any man in England." In 1299 he was granted the manors of Chelworth and Somerford, Wiltshire, together with the bailiwick of the Forest of Braydon, by his kinsman, Robert de Kaynes (or Kaignes). He was present at the Siege of Caerlaverock in 1300. In 1300 he was going to the court of Rome on the king's special affairs. In 1301 Ralph Pipard granted him the manor of Great Haseley, Oxfordshire. In 1302 Robert de Kaynes, Knt. conveyed to him the manors of Tarrant Keyneston, Dorset and two parts of the manor of Newentone, Wales, together with the reversion of the manors of Dodford, Northamptonshire, Oxhill, Warwickshire, Coombe Keynes, Wiltshire, and a third part of Newentone, Wales. He took part in the negotiations with France which preceded the peace of 1303. In 1305 he was sent as Joint Ambassador to Pope Clement V at Lyons, where he obtained a bull absolving the king from the oaths which he had taken to his people. In Feb. 1306 Hugh received a papal indult to have a portable altar. His wife, Isabel, died shortly before 30 May 1306. At the Coronation of King Edward II in 1308, he carried part of the royal insignia. In the quarrel about Peter de Gavaston in 1308, Hugh alone sided with the king against the barons. He was regarded as a deserter from the common cause, and the parliament which met at Northampton procured his dismissal from the king's council. His disgrace was not of long duration; he received the castles of Devizes and Marlborough, and became the chief adviser of the king. On the death of Gavaston in 1312, he became the chief man of the court party, and encouraged the king to form plans of revenge against the barons. He was present at the Battle of Bannockburn 24 June 1314, and accompanied the king in his flight to Dunbar, and thence by sea to Berwick. About this time his son, Sir Hugh le Despenser, joined the king's side. He was appointed Ambassador to Pope John XXII in 1319, and Joint Ambassador to the Pope in 1320. In May and June 1321 the barons of the Welsh Marches and their adherents ravaged the lands of the younger Despenser in Wales and those of the elder throughout the country. In August of that year both Despensers were accused in Parliament, chiefly on account of the son's misconduct, of many misdeeds, including appropriating royal power to themselves, counselling the King evilly, and replacing good ministers by bad ones. They were then disinherited and exiled from the realm. The elder Hugh accordingly retired to the Continent. The sentence on the Despensers was pronounced unlawful at a provincial council of the clergy about 1 Jan. 1321/2. In March following, the elder Hugh accompanied the King against the contrariants, and was present at the judgment on Thomas, Earl of Lancaster. The proceedings against the Despensers were annulled and cancelled, and his lands restored 7 May 1322. He was created Earl of Winchester 10 May 1322, and granted £20 yearly from the issues of Hampshire, together with the Castle and manor of Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, and the manors of Badgeworth and Syde, Gloucestershire, Ashton Giffard, Codford St. Peter, Sherrington, and Stapleford, Wiltshire (formerly belonging to John Giffard), as well as other lands formerly belonging to Thomas Mauduit, Henry le Tyeys, Warin de Lisle, and John de Kyngeston. The queen hated the Despensers, and when some difficulty arose in France, she gladly left the kingdom on an embassy to her brother, King Charles IV of France. When the queen landed in England with an armed force in Sept. 1326, she put out a proclamation against the Despensers. On the king's flight to Wales in October 1326, Earl Hugh was dispatched to defend Bristol, which, however, he at once surrendered on the arrival of the Queen. The next day, 27 October 1326, SIR HUGH LE DESPENSER, Earl of Winchester, was tried - without being allowed to speak in his own defence - condemned to death as a traitor, and hanged on the common gallows, all his honours forfeited. His head was sent to Winchester.
      Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 1 (1791): 325. Nichols Hist. & Antiqs. of Leicester 3(1) (1800): 136-137. Cobbett's Complete Coll. of State Trials 1 (1809): 23-38 (Proceedings against Hugh and Hugh le Despenser). Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 19 (Despenser ped.), 32-35. Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 6 (1812): 496-511 (sub Despenser). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 591. Nicolas Siege of Carlaverock (1828): 190-192 (biog. of Hugh le Despenser). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 2 (1836 11): 218-219 (Beauchamp ped.), 239-240 (Bruere or Briwere ped.). Palgrave Antient Kalendars & Inventories of the Treasury of His Majesty's Exchequer 1 (1836): 62. Palgrave Docs. & Recs. Ill the Hist. of Scotland 1(1837): 226 ("Hug' le Despenc[er] Mil[es]" included on list of people owing military service in 1300). Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 1(1861): 296. Arch. Cambrensis 3rd Ser. 8 (1862): 281 (13th Cent. Chronicle: "Anno mcclxxxiiio [A.D. 1283] - Obiit Patricius Chavard."); 4th Ser. 9 (1878): 99-100. Lennard & Vincent Vis. of Warwick 1619 (H.S.P. 12) (1877): 282-285 (Spencer ped.: "Hugo le Despensor Comes Wintoniæ 18 E. 2 decollatus 19 E. 2. = Isabella fil. Willi Beauchamp Com. Warw."). Burke Dormant, Abeyant, Footed & Extinct Peerages (1883): 165-167 (sub Despenser). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 45 (1885): 354; 46 (1886): 119; 49 (1888): 62; 50 (1889): 127. Doyle Official Baronage of England 3 (1886): 695-697 (sub Winchester). C.P.R. 1281-1292 (1893): 248, 267-268, 325. Cal Entries Papal Regs.: Letters 2 (1895): 4 (William de Handlo [Haudlo], clerk, styled "kinsman" of Hugh le Despenser), 9, 541. C.P.R. 1292-1301 (1895): 42, 72-73, 170, 206-207, 211, 224, 226, 293, 306, 535, 561, 600. Fry & Fry Abs. of Feet of Fines Rd. Dorset 1 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 5) (1896): 264-265. Dallas & Porter Note-book of Tristram Risdon (1897): 74-75. C.C.R. 1272-1279 (1900): 345. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 3 (1900): 97-107, 107-118 (Sir Hugh le Despenser styled "kinsman" by Robert de Kaynes in 1299), 226-238; 4 (1902): 48 (Sir Alan de Elsefeld [Ellesfield] styled "kinsman" by Hugh le Despenser in undated grant), 89. C.P.R. 1272-1281 (1901]: 439 English Hist. Rev. 18 (1903): 112-116; 99 (1984): 1-33. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 544. D.N.B. 5 (1908): 863-865 (biog. of Hugh le Despenser, the elder: "Both the Despensers received many large grants from the crown; they were generally hated, and were accused of many acts of oppression and wrong dealing ... Greedy and ambitious, they used the influence they gained over the king for their own aggrandisement."). VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 150-151. VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 381-390. Wedgwood Staffordshire Coats of Arms (Colls. Hist Staffs. 3rd Ser. 1913) (1913): 298 (his seal bearing a shield displaying quarterly, in the 2nd and 3rd quarters, a fret, over all a bend). C.P. 4(1916): 262-266 (sub Despenser); 9 (1936): 142; 11 (1949): 298-299 (sub Saint Amand); 12 (2) (1959): 754 (sub Winchester): Cal. Inqs. Misc., 2 (1916): 245 (In 1327 William Fitz Matthew, former keeper of Odiham park, claimed he was removed as keeper by Hugh le Despenser the younger because he "levied hue and cry" upon Isabel the said Hugh's mother who was taking 5 bucks in the park without warrant). Farrer Honors & Knights' Fees 1 (1923): 233-234. Thomas Cal Early Mayor's Court Rolls 1298-1307 (1924): 23. VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 158-162. Salter Boarstall Cartulary (Oxford Hist. Soc. In Ser. 88) (1930): 107-108, 300, 312, 318. Richardson & Sayles Rotuli Parl. Anglie Hactenus Inediti 1274-1373 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 51) (1935): 12. Stokes et al. Warwickshire Feet of Fines 2 (Dugdale Soc. 15) (1939): 111-112. Hethe Reg. Hamonis Hethe Diocesis Roffensis 1 (Canterbury & York Soc. 48) (1948): 334-335. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 28: 1-5 (sub Basset). Farr Rolls of Highworth Hundred 1275-1287 (Wiltshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. Recs. Branch 21) 1 (1966): 142, 144-147, 149-150, 152, 154, 156-157; 2 (Wiltshire Arch. & Nat. Hist Soc. Recs. Branch 22) (1968): 201, 203, 206, 208, 211-212, 215-216, 219, 221, 223, 251-252, 294-297. VCH Gloucester 11 (1976): 285-288. Ancient Deeds - Ser. A1 (List & Index Soc. 151) (1978): 166 (Hugh styled "kinsman" by Robert de Kaines [Kaynes] son of Sir Robert de Kaines [Kaynes]). Ancient Deeds - Ser. AS & WS (List & Index Soc. 158) (1979): 5 (Deed A.S.20), 8 (Deed A.S.41), 12 (Deed A.S.63). Rogers Lacock Abbey Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 80 (charter of Hugh le Despenser dated 1299). Hill Rolls & Reg. of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299 8 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 76) (1986): 42. NEHGR 145 (1991): 258-268. Kirby Hungerford Cartulary (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 49) (1994): 154. English Yorkshire Hundred & Quo Warranto Rolls (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 151) (1996): 274. Parsons Eleanor of Castile: Queen & Soc. (1997): 44, 163, 171. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 500. Online resource: http:// www.briantimms.net/era/lord_marshals/Lord_Marshal02/Lord%20Marsha12.htm (Lord Marshal's Roll - arms of Hugh le Despenser: Quarterly argent and gules fretty or overall a bencllet sable).
      Child of Isabel de Beauchamp, by Patrick de Chaworth, Knt.:
      i. MAUD DE CHAWORTH, married HENRY OF LANCASTER, Knt., Earl of Lancaster and Leicester, Lord of Monmouth [see LANCASTER 8].
      Children of Isabel de Beauchamp, by Hugh le Despenser, Knt.:
      i. HUGH LE DESPENSER, Knt., 2nd Lord Despenser [see next].
      ii. PHILIP LE DESPENSER, Knt., of Goxhill, Lincolnshire, married MARGARET DE GOUSHILL [see NETTLESTEAD 11].
      iii. ALINE LE DESPENSER, married EDWARD BURNELL, Knt, Lord Burnell [see BURNELL 9.i].
      iv. ISABEL LE DESPENSER, married (1st) GILBERT DE CLARE [see BADLESMERE 8.i]; (2nd) JOHN DE HASTINGS, Knt., 1st Lord Hastings [see HASTINGS 10]; (3rd) RALPH DE MONTHERMER, Knt., 1st Lord Monthermer [see CLARE 8].
      v. MARGARET LE DESPENSER, married JOHN DE SAINT AMAND, Knt., 2nd Lord Saint Amand [see SAINT AMAND 11].
      vi. ELIZABETH LE DESPENSER, married RALPH DE CAMOYS, Knt., 1st Lord Camoys [see CAMOYS 6].”

      2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “RALPH DE CAMOYS, Knt., of Flockthorpe (in Hardingham) and Bekerton, Norfolk, Eling and Hambledon, Hampshire, Broadwater, Barcombe, and Trotton, Sussex, Pilton and Tansor, Northamptonshire, etc., Constable of Heleigh and Windsor Castles, Keeper of the Forest of Woolmer, son and heir, born about 1282 (adult in 1303). He married (1st) shortly before 25 June 1303 MARGARET DE BREWES, daughter of William de Brewes, Knt., 1st Lord Brewes, by his wife, Mary, daughter of Robert de Roos, Knt. [see BREWES 8 for her ancestry]. They had one son, Thomas, Knt. [2nd Lord Camoys]. He served in the French and Scottish wars, and was taken prisoner in the latter. At an uncertain date, he successfully claimed his mother's former estate at Lasham, Hampshire on the ground that his father in alienating this property, had violated the statute de donis conditionalibus, this in spite of the fact that this statute was not passed until 1285. In 1299 he witnessed a release of Robert de Harwedon to John de Haudlo, of Boarstall, Buckinghamshire, and his 1st wife, Joan. In 1300 he first appears in the company of Hugh le Despenser the elder. In 1303 he was granted free warren in his demesne lands at Hampnett, Sussex. In 1303-4 he and his wife, Margaret, conveyed the manor of Little Bookham, Surrey to her mother, Mary de Brewes. In 1305 was granted letters of protection, he then going beyond seas with Hugh le Despenser on the king's service. In 1306 he acquired the manor of Woolbeding, Sussex from John son of John de Arundel. In 1309 he was granted free warren in his demesne lands at Woolbeding, Sussex. He presented to the churches of Hardingham, Norfolk, 1309, 1319, and Pilton, Northamptonshire, 1312. A commission was appointed in 1310 touching the persons who felled and carried away the trees of Ralph de Camois at Flockthorpe (in Hardingham), Norfolk. The same year he also witnessed a grant by John de la Mare to Sir Hugh le Despenser of the manor of Asshemere, Dorset. 1312 he was granted a weekly market and a yearly fair at Broadwater, Sussex. He was summoned to Parliament from 26 Nov. 1313 to 1 April 1335, by writs directed Rodolphe de Camoys, whereby he is held to have become Lord Camoys. In 1313 he was granted letters of protection, he then going beyond seas with Hugh le Despenser the elder on the king's service. In 1314-15 he obtained permission to cut down diverse trees to the value of 100 marks in his wood at Pilton, Northamptonshire. He married (2nd) before 20 May 1316 (date of settlement) ELIZABETH LE DESPENSER, daughter of Hugh le Despenser, Knt., Earl of Winchester, by Isabel, daughter of William de Beauchamp, Knt. [see DESPENSER 10 for her ancestry]. They had four sons, Hugh, Knt., John, Knt., Ralph, and Richard, and two daughters, Margaret and Isabel [Abbess of Romney]. In 1318 he was granted free warren in his demesne lands at Lasham and Hambledon, Hampshire, Stukeley, Huntingdonshire, and Pilton and Tansor, Northamptonshire. In 1319 he and his wife, Elizabeth, and Hugh le Despenser were pardoned for acquiring to them and the heirs of Ralph the bailiwick of the forestership of Alice Holt and Woolmer, Hampshire from Richard de Venuz without license. The same year he was granted free warren in his demesne lands at Eling, Lasham, and Hambledon, Hampshire, Stukeley, Huntingdonshire, and Pilton and Tansor, Northamptonshire. The same year Ralph obtained judgment against Robert, the warden of the house of St. Nicholas, Portsmouth, with respect to the moiety of the manor of Lasham, Hampshire, which had been assigned to the hospital in 1299. In 1320 he witnessed a release from Thomas Fillol to John de Haudlo, Knt., and his 2nd wife, Maud, regarding Fillol's right in 140 acres of land and 4s. of rent in Hatfield Peverel and Borham, Essex. The same year Ralph de Camoys and William de Clie were nominated attorneys for Hugh le Despenser the younger, the said Hugh going beyond the seas with the king. In 1321 Ralph and his wife, Elizabeth, granted 12 messuages, a mill, and various lands in Rogate, Didling, Trotton, etc., in Sussex to William de Rogate for life. The same year he settled the manor of Lasham, Hampshire on himself and his wife, Elizabeth, in fee tail in 1321-2 he conveyed a messuage and lands in Didling, Sussex to Thomas de Dydelyngg and his heirs. In 1323 he settled the manor of Fling, Hampshire on himself and his wife, Elizabeth. In 1323-4 he and his wife, Elizabeth, settled the manor of Cokeham (in Sompting), Sussex on themselves for life, together with the advowson of the hospital of Cokeham, with reversion to their son, Ralph. In 1325-6 he and his wife, Elizabeth, settled a messuage and lands in Woolavington, Sussex on themselves for life, with reversion to their son, John. In 1326 the king out of special grace granted Ralph and his wife, Elizabeth, and their son, John, a yearly fair at Rogate, Sussex, together with free warren at Rogate, Harting, Tortewyk, Tadeham, and Alfradesham, Sussex. He was pardoned in Feb. 1326/7 for his adherence to the Despensers in their rebellion against King Edward II. In March 1327 Margery, widow of Robert Lever, arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Ralph de Camoys, Elizabeth his wife, and their son, Hugh, for a tenement in Westbury. The said Ralph, Elizabeth, and Hugh proferred a charter of the late king whereby they asserted they held the said tenement; however, it was found by the tenor of the assize that the defendants had disseised the said Margery of the manor of Westbury long before the making of the king's charter. In 1327 he sued John de Saint John regarding a debt. In 1328 he and Edmund, Earl of Kent, were sued by Eve Dautry, wife of Edward de Saint John, for dower in Broadwater, Trotton, Woolavington, Petworth, etc., Sussex. The same year John de Ifeld sued Ralph de Camoys and Richard Macy for trespass at Offington [in Broadwater], Sussex. The same year Ralph sued John de Bohun, of Midhurst, Sussex, for the detention of beasts and Geoffrey Hoghles regarding a debt. His wife, Elizabeth, was living 14 March 1327, but presumably died before 17 February 1331, when Ralph alone granted their son, Hugh de Camoys, for the term of his life the manor of Eling, Hampshire, together with lands and tenements called Winsor, and lands which Margery, once wife of Robert Lewyr held by writ of elegit of the king, remainder to the said Ralph and his heirs. In the period, 1327-8, he sued Walter son of Lucy de Meriet regarding the manor of Bradford, Somerset; Walter de Meriet in turn sued him regarding the wardship of land in Bradford, Sowerset during the minority of the heir of Roger Baudrip. In 1335 he complained that ceratin malefactors broke his park at Trotton, Sussex and hunted deer there. SIR RALPH DE CAMOYS, 1st Lord Camoys, died shortly before June 1336.
      Blomefield Essex towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 2 [1805): 277-281; 10 (1809): 221-227. Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 19 (Despenser ped.). Brydges Collins’ Peerage of England 6 (1812): 496-511 (sub Despenser) ("[Hugh le Despenser] married Isabel, daughter of William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and widow of Sir Patrick Chaworth, and by her had ... Ada [sic], married to Sir Ralph Camois, Knt."). Dallaway Hist of the Western Div. of Sussex 1(2) (1832): 217 (Camoys ped.). Lennard & Vincent Vis. of Warwick 1619 (H.S.P. 12) (1877): 282-285 (Spencer ped.: “Ada [Despenser] ux. Dn'i St. Amon 2d Rad'i Dn'i Camois."). Carthew Hundred of Launditch & Deaneary of Brisley 1 (1878): 238-241 (Camoys ped.). Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 1 (1880): 234-235, 298-299, 341 (W.D. Macray states "The following short descent, which I have put together from two seventeenth century MSS. in the Bodleian (Rawinson, B. 74 and 314 [shows] Ralph [Camoys] = Da. of Hugh Le Despenser, Earl of Winchester."). Genealogist 6 (1882): 236-247. Year Books of Edward III, Years XIII & XIV 3 (Rolls Ser. 31b) (1886): 220-223. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1(1890): 23. C.P.R. 1327-1330 (1891): 20. C.P.R. 1307-1313 (1894): 257, 582. C.P.R. 1318-1323 (1895): 221. C.P.R. 1327-1330 (1896): 71-72. C.P.R. 1301-1307 (1898): 382. C.P.R. 1317-1321 (1903): 325, 449. VCH Hampshire 2 (1903): 206-208; 3 (1908): 239, 241; 4 (1911): 81-82, 547-548. List of Inqs. ad Quod Damnum 1 (PRO Lists and Indexes 17) (1904): 63, 83; 2 (PRO Lists and Indexes 22) (1906): 562, 573, 659, 660, 666, 672. Benolte et at. Vis. of Sussex 1530 & 1633-4 (H.S.P. 53) (1905): 29-30 (Camoys ped.: "Rafe Lord Camoys = d. of Hugh le Spencer Erle of Winchester."). VCH Northampton 2 (1906): 595-596; 3 (1930): 129-131. C.Ch.R. 3 (1908): 36, 127, 194, 397, 417, 469, 493. C.P. 2 (1912): 506-507 (sub Camoys). Salzman Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Sussex 3 (Sussex Rec. Soc. 23) (1916): 46, 50, 53, 59. Davies Baronial Opposition of Edward II: Its Character & Policy (1918): 93-94. Moor Knights of Edward II (H.S.P. 80) (1929): 176-177. Sussex Arch. Coll.: 70 (1929): 1-7 (The author, Mr. Lambarde, discusses the Lewknor tapestry dating from the 1560's which tapestry features various coats of arms which involve ancestral marriages of the Lewknor family. Among the coats of arms depicted are the arms of Camoys impaling Despenser. The author, writes: "This records the marriage of Ralph, Lord Camoys, to the daughter of Hugh De Spencer, Earl of Winchester. This is according to the Pedigree recorded in the Visitations of Sussex, 1634, Harl. Soc., LIII, 29."). Salter Boarstall Cartulary (Oxford Hist. Soc. 1st Ser. 88) (1930): 108. VCH Huntingdon 2 (1932): 230-234. VCH Sussex 4 (1953): 34-35 (Camoys arms: Or on a chief pales three roundels argent), 84-87; 6(1) (1980): 53-64, 69-70; 7 (1940): 80-83. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 90: 1-12 (sub Braose); 114: 1-7 (sub Camoys). Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 21 (seal of Ralph de Carnoys, knight dated 1335 - hung from a hook, a shield of arms: on a chief three roundels; the field diapered [CAMOYS]). English Hist. Rev. 99 (1984): 1-33. Himsworth Winchester College Muniments 2 (1984): 269-274. Hanna Cartularies of Southwick Priory 1 (Hampshire Recs. 9) (1988): 209. Brault Rolls of Arms Edward I 2 (1997): 89 (arms of Ralph de Camoys: Or, on a chief gules three roundels argent). Coss Soldiers, Nobles and Gentlemen (2009): 107. National Archives, E 40/215 (grant dated 17 June 1320 by John de la Mare to Sir Hugh le Despenser of his manor of Asshemere, Dorset. Witnesses: Sirs John de Handlo [Haudlo], Ralph de Camoys, Knts., and others); SC 8/61/3011A; SC 8/127/6319 (petition dated c.1334 from Walter de Meryet, clerk to the king and council, requesting the intervention of the justices of King's Bench in his dispute with Ralph de Camoys, stating that although his case against Camoys was adjudged in his favour and damages awarded, Camoys has alienated his lands to other people before the judgment was made, and is thus avoiding paying the necessary damages); SC 8/169/8415; SC 8/261/13033 (petition dated 1334-5 from Luke de Burgh, king's attorney of Common Pleas, to the king and council, asking that an exigent might be granted against Ralph de Camoys, who has persistently taken steps to resist arrest in a case before the justices of Common Pleas, losing the King a redemption of 1000 marks or more, and that the same might be done in every case where the capias is granted) (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).”

      3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “PATRICK DE CHAWORTH, Knt., of Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales, East Garston and North Standen (in Hungerford), Berkshire, Kempsford, Gloucestershire, King's Somborne, Hampshire, Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire, Berwick St. James, Lavington (in Market Lavington), and Standon Chaworth, Wiltshire, etc., younger son, born about 1254 (aged 24 in 1278). He married ISABEL DE BEAUCHAMP, daughter of William de Beauchamp, Knt., 9th Earl of Warwick, by Maud, daughter of John Fitz Geoffrey, Knt. [see BEAUCHAMP 9 for her ancestry]. She had the manor of Chedworth, Gloucestershire in free marriage. They had one daughter, Maud. In 1275-6 he arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Nicholas Attewode and others touching a tenement in Weston Chaurz, Hampshire. In 1276 he witnessed a deed of his older brother, Pain de Chaworth, to Aaron son of Vives, a Jew. He was Captain of the king's munition in Wales in 1277. Sometime during the period, c.1278-82, Patrick witnessed a charter of Guy de Bryan to the burgesses of Laugharne, Carrnarthenshire, Wales. He was heir in 1279 to his older brother, Pain de Chaworth, Knt. In 1279-80 Walter atte Berewe arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Patrick de Chaworth and others touching a tenement in Etloe, Gloucestershire. In 1280-1 the king granted murage to the bailiffs and men of Kidwelly, Carrnarthenshire for a term of five years at the instance of Patrick de Chaworth their lord. Patrick fought in Wales in 1282. On 6 June 1283, he confirmed the gift of his brother, Pain de Chaworth, to Godstow Abbey, which provided for the anniversaries of the obits of their mother, Hawise, and grandmother, Eve. SIR PATRICK DE CHAWORTH died testate shortly before 7 July 1283. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) between 10 Sept. 1285 (record of Highworth Hundred Rolls) and 27 Jan. 1287 (date of fine for marrying without royal license) HUGH LE DESPENSER, Knt., Earl of Winchester, 1st Lord le Despenser, Justice of the Forest south of Trent (hanged 27 October 1326) [see DESPENSER 10 for the issue of this marriage and subsequent history of this couple]. Isabel died shortly before 30 May 1306.
      Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 591 (charter of Pain de Chaworth, son and heir of Hawise de London dated 1270; charter witnessed by Patrick and Hervey his brothers both knights). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 2 (1836-41): 218-219 (Beauchamp ped.), 239-240 (Bruere or Briwere ped.). Arch. Cambrensis 3rd Ser. 8 (1862): 281 (13th Cent. Chronicle: "Anno mcclxxxiiio- [A.D. 12831 - Obiit Patricius Chavard."); 4th Ser. 9 (1878): 99-100. Doyle Official Baronage of England 3 (1886): 695-697 (sub Winchester). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 45 (1885): 354; 46 (1886): 119; 49 (1888): 62; 50 (1889): 127. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 631 (seal of Patrick de Chaworth dated 1280 - A shield of arms lozenge-shaped: nine barrules, or barruly, four martlets in cross or one, for CHAWORTH. Between four small quatrefoil panels. * S' PATRICI DE CHAW..ORZ *.). Dallas & Porter Note- book of Tristram Risdon (1897): 74-75. C.C.R. 1272-1279 (1900): 345. Clark English Reg. of Godstow Nunnery, Near Oxford 1 (1905): 122-125. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 544. Cal. IPM 2 (1906): 182, 288-290. Fry Abs. of Wiltshire IPM 2 (Index Lib. 37) (1908): 124-125. Jones Hist. of Kidwelly (1908): 23 (London-Chaworth ped.). VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 470-471. VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 381-390. CP. 4 (1916): 262-266 (sub Despenser); 7 (1929): 400 (sub Lancaster); 12 (2) (1959): 754 (sub Winchester). Cal. Inqs. Misc. 2 (1916): 245 (In 1327 William Fitz Matthew, former keeper of Odiham park, claimed he was removed as keeper by Hugh le Despenser the younger because he "levied hue and cry" upon Isabel the said Hugh's mother who was taking 5 bucks in the park without warrant). VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 194, 247-248 (Chaworth arms: Burelly argent and gules an one of martlets sable). Year Books of Edward II 20 (Selden Soc. 52) (1934): 110-113. Richardson & Sayles Rotuli Parl. Anglie Hactenus Inediti 1274-1373 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 51) (1935): 12. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 125: 3. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 125. Farr Rolls of Highworth Hundred 1275-1287 (Wiltshire Arch. & Nat Hist. Soc. Recs. Branch 21) 1 (1966): 142, 144-147, 149-150, 152, 154, 156-157; 2 (Wiltshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. Recs. Branch 22) (1968): 201, 203, 206, 208, 211-212, 215-216, 219, 221, 223, 251-252, 294-297. VCH Wiltshire 10 (1975): 82-106. VCH Gloucester 7 (1981): 98, 99, 168. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 24 (seal of Patrick de Chaworth dated 1281 - A lozenge of arms: barruly, four martlets in one; between four small cinquefoils. Legend: +S PATARICI.DE.CHAUWORZ). Rolls & Reg. of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299 8 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 76) (1986): 42. Parsons Eleanor of Castile: Queen & Soc. (1997): 44, 163, 171. VCH Northampton 5 (2002): 374-413. National Archives, SC 8/2/83; SC 8/56/2769; SC 8/58/2860; SC 8/123/6149; SC 8/240/11977 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
      Child of Patrick de Chaworth, Knt., by Isabel de Beauchamp:
      i. MAUD DE CHAWORTH, married HENRY OF LANCASTER, Knt., Earl of Lancaster and Leicester, Lord of Monmouth [see LANCASTER 8].”

      4. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “MARGARET LE DESPENSER, married before 20 Feb. 1314/5 (by marriage settlement dated 4 Dec. 1313) JOHN DE SAINT AMAND, Knt., 2nd Lord Saint Amand, of West Woodhay, Berkshire, Houghton Conquest, Bedfordshire, Catton, Derbyshire, Ipplepen, Devon, Cerney, Gloucestershire, and Gormanston, co. Meath, Ireland, younger son of Amaury de Saint Amand, of Millbrook, Bedfordshire, West Woodhay, Berkshire, and Gormanston, co. Meath, Ireland. He was born about 1280/83 (aged 27 or 30 in 1310). They had one son, Amaury, Knt. [3rd Lord Saint Amand, Justiciar of Ireland] and one daughter, Isabel. He was heir in 1310 to his brother, Amaury de Saint Amand, 1st Lord Saint Amand, by which he inherited half the barony of Cainhoe, Bedfordshire. He was summoned to Parliament from 8 Jan. 1312/3 to 10 October 1325, by writs directed Johanni de Sancto Amando. He was summoned against the Scots in 1315 and 1323. In Feb. 1318/9 he was going overseas on service with his father-in-law, Hugh le Despenser the elder. In 1320 he was expelled from his manor of Houghton Conquest, Bedfordshire by Richard Fitz Richard with "a great force of armed men." SIR JOHN DE SAINT AMAND, 2nd Lord Saint Amand, died shortly before 25 Jan. 1329/30. His wife, Margaret, predeceased him.
      Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 19 (Despenser ped.). Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 6 (1812): 496-511 (sub Despenser). Lennard & Vincent Vis. of Warwick 1619 (H.S.P. 12) (1877): 282-285 (Spencer ped.: "Ada [Despenser] ux. Dn'i St. Amon 2d Rad'i Dn'i Camois."). Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 4 (1902): 525 (marriage agreement of John de Saint Amand and Margaret le Despenser dated 4 Dec. 1313). Ancestor 6 (1903): 176. Phillimore Abs. of Gloucestershire IPM 6 (Index Lib. 47) (1914): 15. GenealogIst n.s. 35 (1919): 95-96. Salter Boarstall Cartulary (Oxford Hist. Soc. 88) (1930): 65-75, 191. Adams Elkinton Fam. in England & America (1945): 12-13. CF 11 (1949): 298-299 (sub Saint Amand). Holmes Estates of the Higher Nobility in 14th Cent. England (1957): 42. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 478: 3. VCH Oxford 9 (1969): 5-44. Stratton Applied Gen. (1989): 133,135,304,315. Ward English Noblewomen in the Later Middle Ages (1992): 25. Prestwich et al. Procs. of the Gregynog Conf. 2005 (13th Cent. England 11) (2007): 227. Derbyshire Rec. Office: Wilmot-Horton of Osmaston and Catton, D3155/J 575 (gift dated 16 July 1317 by John de Sancto Amando, Knt, lord of Canon, Derbyshire to Henry son of William Geffrey of Catton, for homage and service and £4 which he gave to him, of a messuage and a virgate of land in Catton: annual rent of 7s. and suit of court at Catton) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). National Archives, SC 8/30/1492 (petition dated 1320 from John de Saint Amand to king and council complaining that when John de Grey and Ralph Fitz Richard, his steward, were appointed as Guardians of the Peace in Bedfordshire, on the Monday, on the morrow the feast of St Lawrence in that year, Ralph Fitz Richard came with Thomas, son of Henry Spigumel and with a great force of armed men, and expelled the said John from his manor of Houghton, carrying off his goods and chattels found there; and they extracted an obligation from Robert de Shakeleston, and arranged for him to deliver the manor to John de Grey) (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). Berkeley Castle Muniments, BCM/A/2/19/7 (lease dated 25 July 1322 by John de Saint Amand to William Bythewatere and Alice his wife re. the holding in South Cemey, Gloucestershire) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). “

      5. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “PHILIP LE DESPENSER, Knt., of Parlington, Yorkshire, and Alkborough, Lincolnshire, and, in right of his wife, of Goxhill and Gedney, Lincolnshire, youngerson, minor in 1294. He married MARGARET DE GOUSHILL, daughter and heiress of Ralph de Goushill, of Goxhill and Gedney, Lincolnshire, Coldon (in Aldborough), Holme, Kayngham, Otringham, and Paull, Yorkshire, etc., by Hawise, daughter of Fulk Fitz Warin [see HOO 10 for her ancestry]. She was born at Whittington, Shropshire 12 May 1294 and baptized there. They had one son, Philip, Knt. SIR PHILIP LE DESPENSER died 24 Sept. 1313. His widow, Margaret, married (2nd) before 22 April 1314 JOHN DE ROOS (or ROS), Knt. [see ROOS of Watton, Norfolk, Ilkley and Thornton in Craven, Yorkshire, etc., Steward of the Household, Admiral of the Fleet north of Thames' mouth, younger son of William de Roos, Knt., 1st Lord Roos of Helmsley, by Maud, daughter and co-heiress of John de Vaux, Knt. [see ROOS 8 for his ancestry]. They had no issue. In the period, 1322-7, John de Roos and Margaret his wife, "[grand]daughter and heir of Peter de Goushull," petitioned the king and council, stating that after the said Peter's death, the Earl of Lincoln seized certain tenements in Swinefleet, Yorkshire in the name of wardship during Margaret's minority; the tenements passed into the hands of the earl and countess of Lancaster after the Earl's death, and were now in the King's hand; they ask that these tenements might be delivered to Margaret. In 1323 he was going overseas in the King's service. He returned with Queen Isabel in 1326, and became Steward of the royal household and one of the twelve guardians of the King. He was summoned to Parliament from 27 Jan. 1331/2 to 20 Dec. 1337, by writs directed Johanni de Ros, whereby he is held to have become Lord Roos. In 1337 he convoyed the King's ambassadors from Dordrecht back to England, capturing on the way a Scottish supply ship. SIR JOHN DE ROOS, Lord Roos of Watton, died shortly before 16 Nov. 1338. In 1341-2 the Abbot of Croyland, James de Roos, Margaret widow of John de Roos, and Hawise de Goushill sued Reginald, Abbot of Thorney, and others regarding eight acres of marsh in Gedney, Lincolnshire. Margaret had license to found a chantry at Gedney, Lincolnshire in 1344. She was a legatee in the 1344 will of Hawise de Hoo. She presented to the church of Thornton in Craven, Yorkshire in 1346 and 1349. Margaret, Lady Roos, died 29 July 1349.
      Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Ragland 1(2) (1811): 19,200 (Despenser peds.). Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 6 (1812): 496-511 (sub Despenser). Gage Hist. & Antiqs. of Suffolk: Thingoe Hundred (1838): 4-8 (cites Placita coram Rege, Term. S. Hill. 8 Edward II. [Year: 13151, Rot. 77, which proceedings specifically identify Philip as "filio ipsius Hugonis" (that is, son of Hugh le Despenser; a roll of arms from the reign of King Edward III gives Philip these arms: "barre d'Or et d'Asur de vj pieces, a un quarter d'Ermin," which indicates he assumed his wife's Goushill arms in place of his own). Coll. Top. et Gen. 7 (1841): 262-263. Yorkshire Arch. Jour. 3 (1875): 212-217. Whitaker Hist. & Antiqs. of the Deanery of Craven (1878): 118-119. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 347 (seal of John de Roos dated 1332 - Obverse. To the right. In armour: hauberk, surcoat, crested helmet, sword, shield of arms. Horse galloping, caparisoned and plumed. Arms: chequy. Crest, a wyvern. In the field, two slipped trefoils. Within a carved and pointed quatrefoil. Beaded borders. Reverse. A small counterseal. Impression of an antique intaglio gem. A bust, in profile, to the right). Genealogist n.s. 9 (1892): 7. Lincolnshire N & Q 4 (1896): 38. Year Books of Edward III: Year XVI 7 (Rolls Ser. 31b) (1896): 22-29. Brown Yorkshire Inqs. 2 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser. 23) (1898): 165-169. C.C.R. 1337-1339 (1900): 603. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 4 (1902): 89. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 21. C.P. 4 (1916): 289, footnote a (sub Despenser); 11(1949): 122-123 (sub Ros). Cal. Chancery Warrants (1927): 275. Hedley Northumberland Fams. (1968): 224-230. Fasti Parochiales 4 (Pubs. Yorkshire Arch, Soc. 133) (1971): 61-62, 116-118, 121. NEHGR 140 (1986): 219-229; 145 (1991): 258-268. Hebgin-Barnes Medieval Stained Glass of the County of Lincolnshire (1996): xxxix, 99. National Archives, E 42/63 (Letters patent of Hugh le Despenser, Knt., appointing Richard de Louctheburg, rector of the same church [sic] as guardian of Philip his son, a minor, to receive seisin of the manors of Parlington, Yorkshire and Alkborough [Hauctebarg], Lincolnshire. Date: 24 June 1294); SC 8/69/3406 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).”

      6. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “Children of Maud Fitz Alan, by Philip Burnell, Knt.:
      i. EDWARD BURNELL, Knt., of Holgate, Acton Burnell, Condover, Eudon Burnell (in Chetton), Hope Bowdler, and Norton (in Condover), Shropshire, East and West Ham (in East Ham) and Great Holland, Essex, Little Rissington, Gloucestershire, Letchworth, Hertfordshire, Upton (in Upton Noble), Somerset, Ham (in Kingston-upon-Thames) and Hatcham, Surrey, Great Cheverell, Wiltshire, Kidderminster Burnell, Worcestershire, etc., son and heir, born about 1286 (proved his age in 1307). He married after 3 May 1302 ALINE LE DESPENSER, 1st daughter of Hugh le Despenser, Knt., Earl of Winchester, by Isabel, daughter of William de Beauchamp, Knt., 9th Earl of Warwick [see DESPENSER 10 for her ancestry]. They had no issue. He presented to the church of Wyck Rissington, Gloucestershire in 1309 and 1312. In 1310 Alice, widow of Walter de Beauchamp, was summoned to answer him of a plea wherefore she made waste and sale of the lands, houses, woods, and gardens which she had in the wardship of the inheritance of the said Edward in Broom Court near Bidford, Warwickshire to his disherison. He served in the Scottish wars, 1311-14. He was summoned to Parliament from 19 Dec. 1311 to 24 October 1314, by writs directed Edwardo Burnell, whereby he is held to have become Lord Burnell. SIR EDWARD BURNELL, Lord Burnell, died testate shortly before 1 Sept. 1315. In 1316 the Warden of the Schools of Balliol at Oxford appeared by attorney against John de Haudlo and his wife, Maud, "sister and heir of Edward Burnel," in a plea that they should warrant to him the third part of two messuages and ten shops in Oxford which Aline widow of Edward Burnel claimed as dower. His widow, Aline, presented to the church of Chetton, Shropshire in 1318 and again in 1321, and to the prebendal portion of the church of Holdgate, Shropshire in 1322. She was appointed Constable of Conway Castle 30 Jan. 1325/6. In 1326 she sued Robert de Staundon in a plea that he had taken and abducted John son and heir of Peter de Saltmarsh from Morton, Worcestershire, who was under age and whose marriage belonged to her. In Nov. 1329 his widow, Aline, and Hawise de Kaynes were granted protection for one year, they going on pilgrimage to Santiago. In April 1330 she was granted protection until the Feast of the Purification, she going on pilgrimage to Santiago. In Feb. 1331 Aline had simple protection for one year, she going again going on pilgrimage to Santiago. In March 1331 she had letters nominating attorneys in England for one year. In June 1331 she was again granted protection for one year. In 1338 she obtained a license to found a chantry of two chaplains in the chapel of St. Giles, Lulsley, Worcestershire to pray for her soul and that of late husband, Edward Burnell, and for the soul of her late brother, Hugh le Despenser. She received a papal indult for plenary remission at the hour of death in 1347. Aline, Lady Burnell, died shortly before 28 Nov. 1353. Hasted Hist. & Top. Survey of Kent 2 (1797): 184-203. Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 19 (Despenser ped.). Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 6 (1812): 496-511 (sub Despenser). Rye Some Rough Materials for a Hist. of the Hundred of North Erpingham 1(1883): 82-85. Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 9) (1888): 6,19, 24, 33, 64, 113, 124; (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 13) (1892): 10. Tresswell & Vincent Vis. of Shropshire 1623, 1569 & 1584 1 (H.S.P. 28) (1889): 92-93 (1623 Vis.) (Burnell ped.: "Sr Edw. Burnell Knight baron of Holgatte died Ao 1315, 9 E. 2. s. = Ela da. to Hughe le Despenser."). C.P.R. 1327-1330 (1891): 455, 514. C.P.R. 1330-1334 (1893): 69, 84, 123. C.P.R. 1292-1301 (1895): 404, 581. Papal Regs.: Letters 3 (1897): 249. Amphlett Lay Subsidy Roll 1332-3 (Worcestershire Hist. Soc. 6(3)) (1899): 1, 3, 5, 8, 9. Maitland Year Books of Edward II 3 (Selden Soc. 20) (1905): 90-91; 13 (Selden Soc. 34) (1918): 191-192. List of Inqs. ad Quod Damnum 2 (PRO Lists and Indexes 22) (1906): 569. Orleton Cal. Reg. of Adam de Orleton 1317-1327(1907): 209-210, 234, 385, 387. Ancestor 8 (1904): 167-185. C.P. 2 (1912): 434 (sub Burnell). VCH Bedford 3 (1912): 117-122. VCH Surrey 4 (1912): 42-43 (Burnell arms: Argent a lion sable crowned or in a border azure). VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 118-124. VCH Worcester 3 (1913): 161; 4 (1924): 354-361. Reynolds Reg of Walter Reynolds Bishop of Worcester (Dugdale Soc. 9) (1928): 148, 154. Martival Regs. of Roger Martival, Bishop of Salisbury 1315-1330 3 (Canterbury & York Soc. 59) (1965): 32. VCH Wiltshire 8 (1965): 61-74. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 1 (1978): 13 (seal of Edward Burnell dated 1315 - Hanging from a triple bush, between two wyverns, a shield of arms: a lion rampant crowned. Legend: SIGILLVM. EDWARDI. BURNEL.). VCH Shropshire 10 (1998): 44-52, 135-147. VCH Somerset 7 (1999): 59-63. Morrison Women Pilgrims (2000): 157-158. Trans. Monumental Brass Soc. 18 (2010): 119-132. National Archives, SC 8/70/3464 (petition dated 1327 from Richard de la Rivere to the king and council. Places mentioned: la Wieke (Sewardswick, Wick), [Keynsham hundred, Somerset]; Keynsham, [Somerset]; Compton Dando, [Somerset]. Other people mentioned: Alyne Burnele, daughter of Hugh le Despenser); SC 8/195/9741B (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).”