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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“HUGH LE DESPENSER, Knt., styled "the younger," of Hanley Castle, Worcestershire, King's Chamberlain, Constable of Odiham Castle, Keeper of the castle and town of Dryslwyn, and Cantref Mawr, Carmarthenshire, Keeper of the Castle and town of Portchester, Keeper of the Castle, town and barton of Bristol, Keeper of the Castles, manor, and lands of Brecknock, Hay, Cantref Selyf, etc., Breconshire, and Huntington, Herefordshire, son and heir. He married at Westminster shortly after 14 June 1306 ELEANOR DE CLARE, daughter of Gilbert de Clare, Knt., Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, by his 2nd wife, Joan of Acre, daughter of Edward I, King of England [see CLARE 8 for her ancestry]. She was born at Caerphilly, Glamorgan shortly before 23 Nov. 1292 (date of her mother's churching). They had five sons, Hugh, Knt. [3rd Lord le Despenser], Edward, Knt., Gilbert, Knt., John, and Philip, and five daughters, Isabel, Joan (nun at Shaftesbury Abbey), Eleanor (nun at Sempringham Priory), Margaret (nun at Whatton Priory), and Elizabeth. In 1310 he purchased the manor of Winstone, Gloucestershire from Geoffrey de Pulham. He presented to the church of Winstone, Gloucestershire in 1311. He accompanied the King to Pontoise in 1313. His wife, Eleanor, was co-heiress in 1314 to her brother, Gilbert de Clare, Knt., Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, by which she inherited the lordship of Glamorgan in Wales, including the castles of Llanblethian, Kenfeg, Neath, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Whitchurch, and the manor of Stanford in the Vale, Berkshire. He was summoned to Parliament from 29 July 1314 to 10 October 1325, by writs directed Hugoni le Deipenser juniori. From Nov. 1317 his influence at court rapidly increased, and, by the end of the following year, he won a lasting ascendancy over the king's mind. In 1320-1 John de Cromwell, Knt., Lord Cromwell, and his wife, Idoine, settled the manors of Amersham, Buckland, and Singleborough (in Great Horwood), Buckinghamshire, Moulton, Potterspury, and Yardley, Northamptonshire, Perlethorpe, Nottinghamshire, Winderton (in Brailes), Warwickshire, West Winterslow, Wiltshire, etc. on themselves for the life of Idoine, with successive remainders to Hugh le Despenser, Knt., the younger and Hugh le Despenser, Knt. the elder for life, and to Edward son of Hugh le Despenser, Knt the younger and his heirs. In 1320 the king seized the lordship of Gower in Wales, as a means of conferring it on him. The dispute over this seizure united a powerful group of Welsh marcher lords in a coalition against Hugh; moreover, his rule in Glamorgan was intensely unpopular with the Welsh. Civil war broke out May 4, 1321, and the lordship of Glamorgan was quickly overrun and devastated. Hugh and his father were subsequently banished by Parliament 14 August 1321. The royalist counter-offensive against the baronial opposition began in October 1321. Following the royalist victory at the Battle of Boroughbridge 16 March 1321/2, Parliament in May 1322 reversed the sentences on the Despensers, who were allowed to return from exile. Hugh recovered the lordships of Glamorgan and Gower. From 1322 to 1326 he directed England's internal and foreign policy. By fraud and violence, he accumulated enormous possessions in both England and Wales. The revolution of 1326 was the inevitable result of the misgovernment of the Despensers. In Sept. 1326 Queen Isabel (wife of King Edward II) and Roger de Mortimer landed at Orwell, Suffolk, with a force of 700 mercenaries hired from the Count of Hainault. In a matter of weeks, the government of the Despensers collapsed. On October 2, King Edward II left London and fled to south Wales, accompanied by Hugh the younger. They were captured near Llantrisant, Glamorgan 16 Nov. 1326. SIR HUGH LE DESPENSER, 2nd Lord le Despenser, was taken to Hereford, and executed there 24 Nov. 1326. In 1330 his bones were collected and buried at Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire. His widow, Eleanor, was treated with remarkable leniency and her inheritance was restored to her 22 April 1328. Shortly before 26 Jan. 1328/9, she was abducted from Hanley Castle, Worcestershire and married without royal license WILLIAM LA ZOUCHE MORTIMER,* Knt., 1st Lord Zouche of Richard's Castle, of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, Fulboum and Swavesey, Cambridgeshire, and Nutboum (in Pulborough) and Treve (or River) (in Tillington), Sussex, Justice in Eyre for forest pleas in Essex, Joint Keeper of Caerphilly Castle, Keeper of Glamorgan and Morganno, Chamberlain of Cardiff, Keeper of the Tower of London, Justice of the Forest south of Trent, 1328, and, in right of his 1st wife, of Walthamstow, Essex, Flamstead, Hertfordshire, Wyke or Rumboldswyke (in Rurnboldswyke), Sussex, Cherhill, Newton Tony, and Stratford Tony, Wiltshire, Elmley Lovett, Worcestershire, etc., younger son of Robert de Mortimer, of Richard's Castle and Puddlestone, Herefordshire, Burford, Milson, and Tilsop (in Burford), Shropshire, by Joyce, daughter of William la Zouche [see RICHARD'S CASTLE 3 for his ancestry] [see BEAUCHAMP 10 for the details of the remaining portion of their lives]. They had two sons, Hugh, Knt., and William (clerk). Sir William la Zouche Mortimer, 1st Lord Zouche of Richard's Castle, died 28 Feb. 1336/7, and was buried at Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire. His widow, Eleanor, died testate 30 June 1337.
(*Footnote: For instances of the style 'William la Zouche Mortimer" in contemporary records, see Horwood Year Books of Edward III: Years XI & XII (Roll Ser. 31(6)) (1883): 346-349; Year Books of Edward III, Years X1V & XV (Rolls Ser. 31(10)) (1889): 122-125; Genealogist n.s. 8 (1892): 36; C.P.R. 1334-1338 (1895): 164; Papal Regs.: Letters 2 (1895): 394; Ralph of Shrewsbury Reg. of Ralph of Shrewsbury Bishop of Bath & Wells 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 9) (1896): 275,338; Wrottesley Crécy & Calais (1898): 100; Year Books of Edward III, Years XVIII & XIX (Rolls Ser. 31(17)) (1905): 302-313; Year Books of Edward III, Year XIX (Rolls Ser. 31(18)) (1906): 92-95. For an instance of the style 'William la Zouche de Mortimer," see National Archives, SC 8/179/8915 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarcbives.gov.uk/search.asp). For instance of the styles "William la Souche" and 'William de la Zouche," see Crowley Wiltshire Tax List of 1332 (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 45) (1989): 17, 112.)
Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 140-141. Nichols Hist. & Antiqs. of (Despenser ped.), 35-36. Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 6 (1812): 496-511 (sub Despenser). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1 (1815): 354 (Tony ped.), 358 (Beauchamp ped). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65; 6(1) (1830): 110 (charter of William la Zouche). Burke Dict. of the Peerages... Extinct, Dormant & in Abeyance (1831): 171-174 (sub Despenser), 587 (sub Zouche). Banks Baronies in Fee 1(1844): 337-338 (sub Mortimer), 472 (sub Zouche of Mortimer). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped). Brewer Monumenta Franciscana 1 (Rolls Ser. 4) (1858): 513-514. Luard Annales Monastici 4 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1869): 511 (Annals of Worcester sub A.D. 1292- "Die Sancti Clementis [23 November] ... et Johanna comitissa Gloucestriæ in castro de Kaerfili post partum filiæ purificata"). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160. Lennard & Vincent Vis. of Warwick 1619 (H.S.P. 12) (1877): 282-285 (Spencer ped.: "Hugo le Despensor Com. Gloucest. creat's 20 E. 2 iure uxoris, decollatus 1326. = Elianor fil. et heres Gilb'ti de Clare Cornitis. Glou' et Hertford."). Turner Cal. Charters & Rolls: Bodleian Lib. (1878): 674. Burke Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1883): 165-167 (sub Despenser). Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 93-166. Trans. Shropshire Arch. & Nat. Hist: Soc. 6 (1883): 327-328. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 21 (Hugh le Despenser the younger styled "kinsman" by Alice de Lacy, wife of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster). Genealogist n.s. 8 (1892): 36; n.s. 18 (1902): 110. Papal Regs.: Letters 2 (1895): 394. Fry & Fry Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Dorset 1 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 5) (1896): 328-329. English Hist. Rev. 12 (1897): 755-761; 70 (1955): 261-267; 99 (1984): 1-33. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 7, 133-134, 273. Year Books of Edward III, Years XVIII & XIX 12 (Rolls Ser. 31b) (1905): 302-313; Year XIX 13 (Rolls Ser. 31b) (1906): 92-95. C.Ch.R 3 (1908): 448 (wife Eleanor styled "king's niece"). D.N.B. 5 (1908): 865-867 (biog. of Hugh le Despenser, the younger). VCH Buckingham 2 (1908): 328; 3 (1925): 70-71; 4 (1927): 25. C.P. 1 (1910): 242-244 (sub Arundel); 2 (1912): 130 (sub Berkeley); 4 (1916): 267-271 (sub Despenser), Appendix H, 671 (chart); 5 (1926): 708, footnote a (sub Gloucester); 7 (1929): 222, footnote m (sub Kildare). Clark Carta et Alia Munimenta de Glamorgancia 4 (1910): 1213-1227. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 560-563. VCH Surrey 4 (1912): 92-102. Trans. Leicestershire Arch. Soc. 11 (1913-20): 377-378. Cal. MSS in Various Colls. 7 (Hist. MSS Comm. 55) (1914): 36 (grant by Hugh le Despenser the younger). Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 3rd Ser. 9 (1915): 21-64. Kingsford Stonor Letters & Papers 1290-1483 1 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 29) (1919): 3 (letter of Eleanor le Despenser dated c.1326). Gretton Buord Recs. (1920). VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 100, 479-480 (Despenser arms: Argent quartered with gules fretty or on a bend sable over a11). Cal Chancery Warrants (1927): 519 & 529 (Hugh styled "king's nephew"), 526 (Eleanor styled "king's niece"). Reynolds Reg. of Walter Reynolds Bishop of Worcester (Dugdale Soc. 9) (1928): 153. Reichel Devon Feet of Fines 2 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. 1939) (1939): 234-236. Stokes et al. Warwickshire Feet of Fines 2 (Dugdale Soc. 15) (1939): 111-112. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 125. Chaplais War of Saint-Sardos 1323-1325 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 87) (1954): vi, 75 & 80 (Ralph Basset of Drayton styled "cousin" by Hugh le Despenser), 78 (Richard de Grey of Codnor styled "cousin" by Hugh le Despenser), 88 (Hugh le Despenser styled "cousin" by John de Segrave), 217 (Hugh le Despenser styled "cousin" by John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey). Speculum 30 (1955): 207-212. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 182: 1-2 (sub Despenser). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 6, 9-10. Smith Itinerag of John Leland 4 (1964): 150-163. Year Books of Edward II 25 (Selden Soc. 81) (1964): 13-14. Pugh Middle Ages: Marcher Lordships of Glamorgan, Morgannivg, Gower & Kilvy (Glamorgan County Hist. 3) (1971): 167-204 ("... Chroniclers of Edward II's reign depict [Hugh le Despenser] as a man of reckless and unbounded ambition... Throughout his tenure of power, Despenser's acts were the consequence of necessity or self-interest"). VCH Middlesex 4 (1971): 71,156. VCH Cambridge 5 (1973): 201. Ancient Deeds - Ser, B 2 (List & Index Soc. 101) (1974): B.8538. VCH Gloucester 11(1976): 147-148. Ancient Deeds - Ser. AS & WS (List & Index Soc. 158) (1979): 9 (Deed A.S.49). Fryde Tyrrany & Fall of Edward II (1979). London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 133 (charter of William de la Zouche, lord of Glamorgan and Margam, and Eleanor his wife), 134. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 33 (seal of Hugh le Despenser the younger dated 1319 - Hung from a leopard's face between two branches, a shield of arms: quarterly, in the second and third quarters a fret, overall a bend and a label of three points. The first and fourth quat4ers are stippled. On either side, a wyvem. Legend: S'HVGONIS LE DEPE[NS]ER.). Merrick Morganiae Archaiographia (South Wales Rec. Soc. 1) (1983): 41-52. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(1) (1984): 156 (sub Clare). Bull. Inst. Hist. Research 58 (1985): 95-100. Hicks Who's Who in Late Medieval England (1991): 63-65 (biog. of Hugh Despenser the younger: "... the evil genius of the Despenser dictatorship of 1322-26... He was greedy, arrogant and supremely self-confidant."). TAG 69 (1994): 129-139. Given-Wilson Ill. Hist. of Late Medieval England (1996): chart opp. 61 (temp. King Edward IV). Brault Rolls of Arms Edward I 2 (1997): 140-141 (arms of Hugh le Despenser the younger: Quarterly argent, and gules fretty or, a bend sable, a label azure). Nottingham Medieval Studies 41 (1997): 153 (chart). Underhill For Her Good Estate (1999). Vale Plincely Court (2001): 313. Roper Feet of Fines for the County of York 1314-1326 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 158) (2006): 107. National Archives, E 40/198 (Hugh le Despenser the younger styled "kinsman" in 1322 by Alice de Lacy, widow of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster); SC 8/120/5962 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). National Archives, CP 25/1/205/21, #15 [see abstract of fine at http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/index.htmll.
Children of Hugh le Despenser, Knt., by Eleanor de Clare:
i. HUGH LE DESPENSER, Knt., lord of Glamorgan and Morgannwg, Wales, and of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, Maplederwell, Hampshire, Tooting Bee (in Streatham), Surrey, Broad Town (then in Cliff-Pippard), Wiltshire, Hanley, Worcestershire, etc., and, in right of his wife, of Barrow, Suffolk, son and heir, born about 1308 (aged 18 in 1326). He successfully defended Caerphilly Castle against Queen Isabel's forces in 1327, until he obtained pardon of his life. He was imprisoned at Bristol Castle 15 Dec. 1328, and not released until 5 July 1331. In 1332 he was about to go on a pilgrimage to Santiago. In 1332 he was granted manors of Thorley, Hampshire and Frithby, Leicestershire. In 1334 the king granted him the manor of Ashley, together with lands in Little Sombome, Hampshire. In 1336 Hugh le Despenser, Knt., his step-father, William la Zouche Mortimer, and four others acknowledged that they owed debts of £266 to Asselmo Symonete, and £1600 to Gwido de La Chouche, merchants of Lucca, which debts they had not paid. He had livery of his mother's lands 21 July 1337. He was summoned to Parliament from 15 Nov. 1338 to 1 Jan. 1348/9 by writs directed Hugoni le Despenser, whereby he is held to have become Lord Despenser. He was in the Scottish wars, Nov. 1337-1338, and present at the Battle of Sluys 24 June 1340. He married after 31 May 1341 (by dispensation dated 27 April 1341, he and her former husband being related in the 3rd degree of kindred) ELIZABETH DE MONTAGU, widow of Giles de Badlesmere, Knt., 2nd Lord Badlesmere (died 7 June 1338) [see BADLESMERE 9.i], and daughter of William de Montagu, Knt., 1st Earl of Salisbury, 3rd Lord Montagu, Marshal of England, by Katherine, daughter of William de Grandison (or Graunson), Knt., 1st Lord Grandison [see MONTAGU 7 for her ancestry]. They had no issue. During the Breton civil war, he served as a captain in the English army which defeated the French at Morlaix in 1342. In 1343 he gave a yearly rent of 10 marks from his manor of Broad Town, Wiltshire to Shaftesbury Abbey, Dorset, for the life of his sister, Joan, a nun in the Abbey. In 1344 he sued Anthony Citroun regarding waste in the manor of Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire. The same year he and his wife, Elizabeth, were granted an indult for a portable altar. He accompanied the King to France in July 1346, and was in the King's retinue at the Battle of Crecy. He was present at the Siege of Calais, which surrendered 4 August 1347. SIR HUGH LE DESPENSER, 3rd Lord le Despenser, died 8 Feb. 1348/9, and was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire. He left a will proved in 1349. His widow, Elizabeth, married (39 before 10 July 1350 (as his 2nd wife) GUY DE BRYAN (or BRIAN), KG., Lord Bryan [see CAREW 10], of Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Clifton Dartmouth and Hardness and Slapton, Devon, etc., Governor of St. Briavel's Castle, Warden of the Forest of Dean, son and heir of Guy de Bryan, Knt., of Walwyns Castle, Pembrokeshire, Batdeford (in Ipplepen), Clifton Dartmouth and Hardness, Tor Bryan, Devon, etc., by Gwenllian, daughter of Gruffudd ap Lloyd. He was born about 1309 (being of age in 1330). They had three sons, Guy, Knt., William, Knt. [see ECHINGHAM 10], and Philip. He was first armed at Stannow Park in 1327. In 1330 the king settled a dispute between him and his father, Guy de Bryan, senior, relative to the barony and castle of Walwayn, Pembrokeshire. In 1349 he was granted an annuity of 200 marks for bearing the King's Standard against his enemies at Calais. He was summoned to Parliament from 25 Nov. 1350 to 6 Dec. 1389, whereby he is held to have become Lord Bryan. He was constantly entrusted with martial and diplomatic affairs of the highest importance. His wife, Elizabeth, died at Ashley, Hampshire 30 (or 31) July 1359, and was buried with her 2nd husband in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire. In 1361 he was Ambassador to the Pope. In 1369 he was appointed Admiral of the Fleet. In 1367 he purchased the manor of Woodsford, Dorset from John Whitfield, Knt. In 1377 he gave an endowment to four chaplains for the chapel of St. Mary at Slapton, Devon, which he augmented in 1386 and again in 1389. SIR GUY DE BRYAN, Lord Bryan, died 17 August 1390, and was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire. Pole Calls, towards a Desc. of Devon (1791): 274-275,286-287. Archaeologia 14 (1803): 143-153. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 2 (1808): 63-65 (sub Bryan). Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 19 (Despenser ped.), 36-37. Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 6 (1812): 496-511 (sub Despenser). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65. Nicolas Controversy between Scrape & Grosvenor 2 (1832): 245-255 (biog. of Sir Guy Bryan). Coll. Top. et Gen. 3 (1836): 250-278 (re. Bryan fam.). Gentleman's Mag. n.s. 12 (1839): 18-22. Beltz Mews, of the Order of the Garter (1841): clii. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 1(1861): 448 (Bryan ped.); 3 (1868): 291 (Montagu ped.). Fifth Rpt. (Hist. MSS Comm. 4) (1876): 603 (charter of Guy de Bryan). Daniel-Tyssen Royal Charters & Hist. Docs. Rel. the Town & County of Carmarthen (1878): 48, footnote 4. Burke Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1883): 165-167 (sub Despenser). Year Books of Edward III: Years XIV & XV 5 (Rolls Ser. 31b) (1889): 122-125; Year Books of Edward III: Years XVIII & XIX 12 (Rolls Ser. 31b) (1905): 302-313; Year XIX 13 (Rolls Ser. 31b) (1906): 92-95. Genealogist n.s. 8 (1892): 36. Cal. Entries Papal Regs.: Letters 2 (1895): 553. Papal Regs.: Petitions 1 (1896): 103 (Hugh styled "king's kinsman"). Ralph of Shrewsbury Reg. of Ralph of Shrewsbury Bishop of Bath & Wells 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 9) (1896): 275, 338. Papal Regs.: Letters 3 (1897): 146. C.P.R. 1338-1340 (1898): 4, 201, 447, 518 (instances of Hugh styled "king's kinsman"), 328. Wrottesley Peck from the Plea Rolls (1905): 228, 236-237. VCH Dorset 2 (1908): 73-79. Rpt. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 3rd Ser. 3 (1911): 132, 137, 191, 210-211. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 150-151,481; 5 (1912): 284-285. C.P. 2 (1912): 201, footnote b (sub Bohun), 361-362 (sub Bryan); 4 (1916): 271-274 (sub Despenser); 14 (1998): 118 (sub Bryan). VCH Surrey 4 (1912): 92-102, 249. Woodruff & Churchill Sede Vacante Wills (Kent Arch. Soc. Recs. 3) (1914): 38. C.C.R. 1381-1385 (1920): 167-168. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 70-71. C.F.R. 10 (1929): 359. Reichel Devon Feet of Fines 2 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. 1939) (1939): 392, 400. Hethe Reg. Hamonis Hethe Diocesis Roffensis 2 (Canterbury & York Soc. 49) (1948): 810. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 20: 1 (sub Badlesmere). Smith Itinerary of John Leland 4 (1964): 150-163. Haines Cal. Reg. of Wolstan de Bransford Bishop of Worcester (Worcestershire Hist. Soc. n.s. 4) (1966): 79. VCH Wiltshire 9 (1970): 23-43. Pugh Middle Ages: Marcher Lordships of Glamorgan, Morgannwg, Gower & Kilvey (Glamorgan County Hist. 3) (1971): 176-177. Ancient Deeds - Ser. B 2 (List & Index Soc. 101) (1974): B.7233, B.8656. VCH Somerset 3 (1974): 111-120, 129-153. MacCulloch Chorography of Suffolk (Suffolk Rec. Soc. 19) (1976): 28. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 18 (seal of Guy de Bryan dated 1383 - Hanging from a twin oak tree, growing from a mount below, a shield of arms: three piles in point (Batched). Upon either side, holding the strap in its beak, a gryphon, Legend: SIGILLUM: GUYDO/NIS: DE: BRYENE). Merrick Moiganiae Archaiographia (South Wales Rec. Soc. 1) (1983): 41-52. Higginbotham Traitor's Wife (2005): 471-472. Emery Greater Medieval Houses of England & Wales 3 (2006): 687.
ii. EDWARD LE DESPENSER, Knt. [see next].
iii. GILBERT LE DESPENSER, Knt., younger son. He was granted the manor of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire by his uncle, King Edward II, in 1322, subject to a life estate reserved to his mother, Eleanor. As an adult, he was granted the manors of Thorley, Hampshire and Broad Town (in Cliffe Pypard), Wiltshire by his brother, Hugh le Despenser. He served as a knight in King Edward III's household. In 1368 he received a grant of 40 marks per annum at the Exchequer for life. SIR GILBERT LE DESPENSER died without issue 23 April 1381. Nichols Hist. & Antiqs. of Leicester 2(1) (1795): Appendix: 126-127. Blore Hist & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 19 (Despenser ped.). Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 6 (1812): 496-511 (sub Despenser). Dugdale Monasti con Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65. Burke Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1883): 165-167 (sub Despenser). VCH Hampshire 5 (1912): 284-285. C.C.R. 1381-1385 (1920): 167-168. VCH Wiltshire 9 (1970): 23-43. Allington-Smith Henry Despenser (2003): 4. Higginbotham Traitor's Wife (2005): 471-472. National Archives, SC 8/120/5962 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
iv. JOHN LE DESPENSER, younger son. In 1351 he received lands in Carleton le Moorland, Lincolnshire, by reversion settled on him by his brother, Hugh le Despenser. He may be the John le Despenser who died shortly before 10 June 1366. C.C.R. 1349-1354 (1906): 322. C.F.R. 7 (1923): 344. Higginbotham Traitor's Wife (2005): 471-472.
v. PHILIP LE DESPENSER, buried in the Chapter House of the Austin Friars, London. Gentleman's Mag n.s. 8 (1860): 372-376.
vi. ISABEL LE DESPENSER, married RICHARD DE ARUNDEL, Knt., 10th Earl of Arundel, 9th Earl of Surrey [see FITZ ALAN 11].
vii. JOAN LE DESPENSER. A dispensation was granted 1 June 1323 for her to marry John son of Thomas, Earl of Kildare, they being related in the 4th degree of kindred. This marriage did not take place. Joan subsequently became a nun at Shaftesbury Abbey, where she died in 1384. Papal Regs.: Letters 2 (1895): 231. C.C.R. 1381-1385 (1920): 167-168. Allington-Smith Henry Despenser (2003): 4. Higginbotham Traitor's Wife (2005): 471-472.
viii. ELIZABETH LE DESPENSER, married (1st) MAURICE DE BERKELEY, Knt., 4th Lord Berkeley [see BERKELEY 8]; (2nd) MAURICE WYTHE, Knt., of Portbury, Somerset [see BERKELEY 8].
Children of William la Zouche Mortimer, Knt., by Eleanor de Clare:
i. HUGH LA ZOUCHE (otherwise HUGH MORTIMER LA ZOUCHE), Knt. In 1362 he was granted an indult for a portable altar and plenary remission at the hour of death. He was a man-at-arms in Italy, where he became Captain-General of the White Company, a calvary company of 5,000 men. In July 1365, while fighting in Italy at San Mariano, he was taken prisoner and placed in jail in Perugia. In Sept. 1368 Pope Urban V wrote the governors and commune of the city of Perugia exhorting them to grant the request of Lionel, Duke of Clarence, for the liberation of Hugh la Zouche, Knt., of England, detained by them in prison. He was released from imprisonment in Sept. 1369. Dugdak Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65 (Tewkesbury Abbey: "Elianoræ de Clare .... Post mortem ejus maritata fuit domino Willielmo le Sowch, de quo genuit Hugonem Souch."). Burke Dict. of the Peerages... Extinct, Dormant & in Abeyance (1831): 587 (sub Zouche). Papal Regs.: Petitions 1(1896): 388, 397 (instances of Hugh la Zouche, 3rd Lord Zouche, styled "king's kinsman"). Papal Regs.: Letters 4 (1902): 28. C.P.R. 1364-1367 (1912): 236. Pugh Middle Ages: Marcher Lordships of Glamorgan, Morgannwg, Gower & Kilvey (Glamorgan County Hist. 3) (1971): 605 footnote 60. Sumpdon Hundred Years War II: Trial by Fire (2002): 470 (erroneously identifies Hugh a Zouche Mortimer as grandson of Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March). Villalon & Kagay Hundred Years War: A Wider Focus (Hist. of Warfare 25) (2005): 203-204. Caferro John Hawkwood (2006): 120.
ii. WILLIAM LA ZOUCHE, monk at Glastonbury Abbey. In 1355-6 he leased an estate at Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire from his aunt, Elizabeth de Burgh, lady of Clare. In 1367 Edward le Despenser, lord of Glamorgan and Morgannwg, granted in mountain to the Abbot of Glastonbury a rent of 100s. out of his manor of Sherston, Wiltshire for the life of his uncle, William la Zouche, fellow-monk of the abbot. He was living 6 March 1377. C.P.R. 1377-1381 (1895): 597. C.P.R. 1374-1377 (1916): 438. Procs. Dorset Nat. Hist. & Arch. Soc. 85 (1964): 137 ("Brother William Zouche" mentioned in a letter of Walter de Monynton, Abbot of Glastonbury). Pugh Middle Ages: Marcher Lordships of Glamorgan, Morgannwg, Gower & Kilvey (Glamorgan County Hist. 3) (1971): 176, 605 footnote 60. Underhill For Her Good Estate (1999): 87.â€
2. “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].â€
3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“GUY DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., 10th Earl of Warwick, hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer, hereditary Sheriff of Worcestershire, of Worcester and Elmley Castles, Acton Beauchamp, Comberton, Naunton Beauchamp, Pirton, Salwarpe, Sheriff's Lench, Stoulton, and Wadborough (in Pershore), Worcestershire, Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, etc., eldest surviving son and heir, born about 1271-5 (aged 23-27 in 1298, aged 30 and more in 1301). He married (1st) after 4 March 1291 (date of letter) and before 11 May 1297 (date of papal dispensation to remain in marriage, they being related in the 4th degree of kindred) ISABEL DE CLARE, daughter of Gilbert de Clare, Knt., 6th Earl of Gloucester, 6th Earl of Hertford, by his 1st wife, Alice, daughter of Hugues XI le Brun (otherwise de Lusigian), Count of La Marche and Angoulême, seigneur of Lusignan in Poitou (uterine brother of Henry III, King of England) [see CLARE 8 for her ancestry]. She was born 10 March 1262/3. They had no issue. He fought in the king's division at the Battle of Falkirk 22 July 1298, where he distinguished himself for bravery. In consequence of his services, the same year he was granted lands in Scotland belonging to Mowbray, Strivelyn, and Chartres. He presented to the churches of Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, 1299, Acton Beauchamp, Worcestershire, 1309, Pillerton, Warwickshire, 1310, Notgrove, Gloucestershire, 1313, and Naunton Beauchamp, Worcestershire, 1313, and to the chapel of Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, 1309, 1313. He took part in the Siege of Caerlaverock Castle in 1300. He signed the Barons' letter to Pope Boniface VIII in 1301 as Com' Warr'. Guy and his wife, Isabel, were separated in or before 1302, and subsequently divorced; she married (2nd) about 1316 MAURICE DE BERKELEY, Knt., 2nd Lord Berkeley [see BERKELEY 6 for further details of her life]. Guy served under Edward, Prince of Wales, at the Siege of Stirling Castle in 1304. For his good services, he was granted Barnard Castle, co. Durham in 1307. He attended King Edward I on his last campaign and was present at his death 7 July 1307. Sometime in the period, 1307-11, Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and other earls and barons, while assembled in the Parliament in London, wrote to the Pope praying for the canonization of Thomas de Cantelowe, late Bishop of Hereford. He was present at the Coronation of King Edward II in 1308, where he carried one of the Swords of State. He was prominent in procuring the banishment of Peter de Gavaston, Earl of Cornwall in 1308, and alone opposed his recall in 1309. Guy married (2nd) shortly before 28 Feb. 1309/10 ALICE DE TONY, widow of Thomas de Leyboume (or Leyburne), Knt., of Leybourne, Kent (died shortly before 30 May 1307), and daughter of Ralph de Tony, Knt., of Flamstead, Hertfordshire, Walthamstow, Essex, Painscastle, Radnorshire, etc., by his wife, Mary [see TONY 9 for her ancestry]. She was born about 1282-5 (aged 24 or 27 in 1309). They had two sons, Thomas, K.G. [11th Earl of Warwick), and John [Lord Beauchamp], and five daughters, Maud, Emma (wife of Roland de Oddingseles), Isabel (wife of John de Clinton), Elizabeth, and Lucy (wife of Roger de Napton). Alice was heiress in 1309 to her brother, Robert de Tony, Knt., Lord Tony, by which she inherited extensive estates throughout England, including the manors of Flamstead, Hertfordshire, Brinkley, Kirding, Long Stanton, and Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire, Carnanton (in Mawgan), Cornwall, Walthamstow, Essex, Necton, Little Cressingham, and Saham Toney, Norfolk, Garsington, Oxfordshire, East Bergholt, Suffolk, Newton Tony and Stratford Tony, Wiltshire, Elmley Lovett, Worcestershire, etc. He presented to the church of Pillerton, Warwickshire in 1310. He was one of the Lords Ordainers of Reform in 1310. In June 1312 he seized Gavaston at Deddington, Oxfordshire, and carried him off to Warwick Castle. On the Earl of Lancaster's arrival, Gavaston was handed over to Lancaster and executed without trial 19 June 1312. He presented to the churches of Notgrove, Gloucestershire and Naunton Beauchamp, Worcestershire, and to the chapel and chantry of Elmley Castle, Worcestershire in 1313. Although pardoned for his participation in the death of Gavaston in 1313, Guy and his confederate Earls refused to serve in the Bannockburn campaign the following year. SIR GUY DE BEAUCHAMP, 10th Earl of Warwick, died at Warwick Castle 12 August 1315, and was buried at Bordesley Abbey, Warwickshire. He left a will dated 25 July 1315. His widow, Alice, married (3rd) by license dated 26 October 1316 (as his 1st wife) WILLIAM LA ZOUCHE MORTIMER (formerly DE MORTIMER)*, Knt., of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, Fulbourn and Swavesey, Cambridgeshire, and Nutbourn (in Pulborough) and Treve (or River) (in Tillington), Sussex, Justice in Eyre for forest pleas in Essex, Joint Keeper of Caerphilly Castle, Keeper of Glamorgan and Morganno, Chamberlain of Cardiff, Keeper of the Tower of London, Justice of the Forest south of Trent, 1328, and, in right of his 1st wife, of Walthamstow, Essex, Flamstead, Hertfordshire, Wyke or Rumboldswyke (in Rumboldswyke), Sussex, Cherhill, Newton Tony, and Stratford Tony, Wiltshire, Elmley Lovett, Worcestershire, etc., younger son of Robert de Mortimer, of Richard's Castle and Puddlestone, Herefordshire, Burford, Milson, and Tilsop (in Burford), Shropshire, etc., by Joyce, daughter of William la Zouche [see RICHARD'S CASTLE 3 for his ancestry]. They had four sons, Ralph, Alan [2nd Lord Zouche], Robert, and Philip, and one daughter, Joyce. He apparently fought at the Battle of Falkirk in 1298. In 1304 his kinsman, Alan la Zouche, Knt., Lord Zouche [see CHARLTON 5], settled the reversion of the manors of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, Fulbourn and Swavesey, Cambridgeshire, and Nutbourne (in Pulborough) and Treve (or River) (in Tillington), Sussex on him, on whose death in 1314, he entered into these estates. In 1313 William was pardoned for his participation in the death of Peter de Gavaston. He was summoned for service against the Scots, 1315-35, in Gascony, 1324-5, and in Ireland, 1332. In 1322-3 John Botetourt and his wife, Maud, conveyed to William and his wife, Alice, all their right in the manor of Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire. William was summoned to Parliament from 26 Dec. 1323 to 14 Jan. 1336/7, by writs directed variously Villelmo la Zousbe, Willelmo la Zouche de Castro Ricardi (or de Mortuo Mari, de Assheby, de Mortimer), whereby he is held to have become Lord Zouche. His wife, Alice, died shortly before 8 Jan. 1324/5. As a supporter of Queen Isabel, he was present at the extraordinary Council held at Bristol in October 1326, when Prince Edward was chosen as Keeper of the Realm. In Nov. 1326 he was sent with the Earl of Lancaster into Wales to pursue and capture Edward II. William married (2nd) about 26 Jan. 1328/9 (when he abducted her from Hanley Castle, Worcestershire) ELEANOR DE CLARE, widow of Hugh le Despenser ("the younger"), Knt., 2nd Lord le Despenser (hanged 24 Nov. 1326) [see DESPENSER 11], and daughter of Gilbert de Clare, Knt., Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, by his 2nd wife, Joan of Acre, daughter of Edward I, King of England [see CLARE 8 for her ancestry]. She was born at Caerphilly, Glamorgan shortly before 23 Nov. 1292 (date of her mother's churching), and was co-heiress in 1314 to her brother, Gilbert de Clare, Knt., Earl of Gloucester and Hertford. They had two sons, Hugh, Knt., and William (clerk). Soon after their marriage, orders were issued for their arrest 5 Feb. 1328/9 by Roger de Mortimer, acting in the king's name. Eleanor was subsequently imprisoned in the Tower of London and then in Devizes Castle. In Dec. 1329 she was compelled by the King to surrender the lordships of Glamorgan and Morgannwg, and the manors of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, and Hanley, Worcestershire, until they should have paid an impossible fine of £50,000. They received a pardon 22 Feb. 1329/30. In Jan. 1330/1 she recovered her lands for a reduced fine of £5,000, which sum was never paid in full during her lifetime. In 1332 he had a protection going beyond seas with the Princess Eleanor for her marriage to Renaud, Count of Guelders, in the Low Countries. The same year he had license from the Bishop of Lincoln to have a chapel in his manor-house at Flamstead, Hertfordshire. In 1332 Anthony Citroun and Nicholas de Salvo acknowledged that they owed William and his wife, Eleanor, a debt of £20,000. In 1336 William la Zouche Mortimer, his step-son, Hugh le Despenser, Knt., and four others acknowledged that they owed debts of £266 to Asselmo Symonete, and £1600 to Gwido de La Chouche, merchants of Lucca, which they had not paid. SIR WILLIAM LA ZOUCHE MORTIMER, 1st Lord Zouche of Richard's Castle, died 28 Feb. 1336/7, and was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire. His widow, Eleanor, died testate 30 June 1337.
(Footnote: *For instances of the style “William la Zouche Mortimer" in contemporary records, see Horwood Year Books of Edward III: Years XIV & XII (Roll Ser. 31(6)) (1883): 346-349; Year Books of Edward III, Years XIV & XV (Rolls Ser. 31(10)) (1889): 122-125; Genealogist n.s. 8 (1892): 36; C.P.R. 1334-1338 (1895): 164; Papal Regs.: Letters 2 (1895): 394; Ralph of Shrewsbury Reg. of Ralph of Shrewsbury Bishop of Bath &Wells 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 9) (1896): 275, 338; Wrottesley Crécy & Calais (1898): 100; List of Foreign Accounts (Lists & Indexes XI) (1900): 218; Year Books of Edward III, Years XVIII & XIX (Rolls Ser. 31(17)) (1905): 302-313; Year Books of Edward III, Year XIX (Rolls Ser. 31(18)) (1906): 92-95. For an instance of the style "William la Zouche de Mortimer," see National Archives, SC 8/179/8915 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/searthasp). For instance of the styles "William la Souche" and 'William de la Zouche," see Crowley Wiltshire Tax List of 1332 (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 45) (1989): 17, 112.)
Dugdale Baronage of England 1 (1675): 226 (chart), 229-231 (sub Beauchamp). Edmondson Hist. & Genealogical Account of the Noble Fam. of Greville (1766): 26-56. Nash Colls. for the Hist. of Worcestershire 1 (1781): 241; 2 (1782): 263 (Beauchamp ped). Nichols Hist. & Antiqs. of Leicester 3(2) (1804): 635 (Zouch ped.). Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 2 (1805): 149-150, 319-330. Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 19 (Despenser ped.), 42 (Mortimer ped.). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1 (1815): 354 (Tony ped.), 358 (Beauchamp ped.). Dalrymple Annals of Scotland 2 (1819): 157. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65; 6(1) (1830): 110 (charter of William in Zouche). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 414-415; 2 (1836-41): 218-219 (Beauchamp ped.). Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 1(1826): 52 (will of William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick), 53-54 (will of Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick). Archaeologia 21(1827): 199-200. Burke Dict. of the Peerages... Extinct, Dormant & in Abeyance (1831): 587 (sub Zouche). Surtees Hist. & Antiqs. of Durham 4 (1840): 65 (Beauchamp ped.). Banks Baronies in Fee 1 (1844): 337-338 (sub Mortimer), 472 (sub Zouche of Mortimer). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Brewer Monumenta Franciscana 1 (Rolls Ser. 4) (1858): 513-514. Munford Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 32-34. Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 169 (Tewkesbury Annals sub 1262: "Gileberto de Clare filio Ricardi comitis Gloucestriæ, nondum cincto gladio militari, nascitur filia nomine Isabella, vi. idus Mardi [10 March], de uxore sua Alicia Lila comitis Marchiæ."). Maclean Parochial & Fam. Hist. of Blisland (1868): 64-66 (Tony-Beauchamp ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160. Stevenson Docs. Ill. of the Hist. of Scotland 1 (1870): 220-221 (Isabel de Clare styled "cousin" [cosine] by King Edward I of England in letter dated 4 March 1291). Mundy et al. Vis. of Nottingham 1569 & 1614 (H.S.P. 4) (1871): 145 (1569 Vis.) (Zouche arms: Gules, ten bezants, 4, 3, 2 and 1). Maclean Hist. of Trigg Minor 1(1876): 62-66. Tegg Wills of their Own (1876): 6-7 (will of Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick). Kellawe Reg. of Richard de Kellawe, Lord Palatine & Bishop of Durham 1314-1316 4 (1878): xxxi. Flower Vis. of Yorkshire 1563-4 (H.S.P. 16) (1881): 244-246 (Percy ped.: "Guy Becham Ed of Warwyke son & heyre. = Ales doughter & heyre to Sir Raff Tony."). Carthew Hist. of the Parishes of West & East Bradenham (1883): 126. Clark Land of Mogan (1883): 93-166. Trans. Shropshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. 6 (1883): 327-328. Doyle Official Baronage of England 3 (1886): 578-579 (sub Warwick). Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 7(1)) (1886): 115. Rye Pedes Finium or Fines Rel. Cambridge (1891): 89. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 243-244 (seal of Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick dated 1301 - Obverse. To the left. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat, helmet plumed and with lambrequin, sword, shield of arms. Horse caparisoned. Arms: a fess between six crosses crosslet [BEAUCHAMP]. Legend: ... GVI DON' • DE • BELLOCAM ... Beaded borders. Reverse: a shield of arms: chequy, a chevron ermine [WARWICK]. Suspended by a loop from a hook, and between two lions passant guardant. Legend: AMPO COM' • WARREWYK. [see also Arch. Aeliana 3rd Ser. 20 (1923): 100), 474-475 (seal of Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick dated 1305 - A shield of arms: a fess between six crosses crosslet [BEAUCHAMP]. Suspended by a strap, from a tree of three branches, and between two wavy scrolls of foliage and flowers. Legend: S' GVYDONIS: COM’ : DE: WARR'. Beaded borders.). Genealogist n.s. 8 (1892): 36; n.s. 10 (1893): 213; n.s. 13 (1896): 36-37; n.s. 19 (1903): 103-104; n.s. 38 (1922): 169-172. Papal Regs.: Letters 1 (1893): 570; 2 (1895): 206 (Thomas son of the late Richard Thalebot [Talbot], priest, aged 20 years, styled "kinsman" of Guy de Beauchamp), 394. Bund Inqs. Post Morton for the County of Worcester 1 (1894): 59-65. Ralph of Shrewsbury Reg. of Ralph of Shrewsbuy Bishop of Bath & Wells 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 9) (1896): 275, 338. C.C.R. 1330-1333 (1898): 563. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 157. Sharpe Cal. Letter-Books of London: A (1899): 162 (Isabel de Clare styled "kinswoman" by King Edward I of England). English Hist. Rev. 18 (1903): 112-116. Howard de Walden Some Feudal Lords & Their Seals (1903): 16-17 (biog. of Guy de Beauchamp). List of Inqs. at Quod Damnum 1 (PRO Lists and Indexes 17) (1904): 314. Mallet Abberley Manor, Worcestershire (1905): 29-37. MSS of the Duke of Rutland 4 (Hist. MSS Comm. 24) (1905): 84-85. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 7, 72, 133-134, 137-138, 273, 418. Index of Placita de Banco 1327-1328 2 (PRO Lists and Indexes 22) (1906): 728. VCH Rutland 2 (1907): 125. Feudal Aids 5 (1908): 26, 201, 209. D.N.B. 2 (1908): 28 (biog. of Guy de Beauchamp). Salter Eynsbam Cartulary 2 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 51) (1908): 177-178. VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 364. VCH Hertford 2 (1908): 194. C.P. 2 (1912): 50-51 (sub Beauchamp); 4 (1916): 267-271 (sub Despenser); 5 (1926): 437 (sub FitzJohn), 707 footnote j (sub Gloucester), 708 footnote a (sub Gloucester); 6 (1926): 349-350 (sub Hastings); 7 (1929): 638 (sub Leyburn); 12(1) (1953): 774 footnote i (sub Tony); 12(2) (1959): 370-372 (sub Warwick), 957-960 (sub Zouche). VCH Worcester 3 (1913): 106-107; 4 (1924): 220-224, 332, Trans. Leicestershire Arch. Soc. 11 (1913-20): 377-378. Modern Philology 12 (1914-15): 45. Year Books of Edward II 13 (Selden Soc. 34) (1918): 164-166; 10 (Selden Soc. 63) (1947): 196-208; 25 (Selden Soc. 81) (1964): 13-14. Kingsford Stonor Letters & Papers 1290-1483 1 (Camden 3rd Ser. 29) (1919): 3 (letter of Eleanor le Despenser dated c.1326). Faster Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 48-50. Lambert Bletchingley 1 (1921): 102. Arch. Aeliana 3rd Ser. 20 (1923): 100 (seal of Guy de Beauchamp). VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 70-71; 4 (1927): 348-362. Report on the MSS of Reginald Rawdon Hastings, Esq. 1 (Hist. MSS Comm. 78) (1928): 280-283. Reynolds Reg. of Walter Rgnolds Bishop of Worcester (Dugdale Soc. 9) (1928): 5, 15, 39-40, 148-149, 151, 155-157. Moor Knights of Edward 11 (H.S.P. 80) (1929): 70-71. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 134-138,170-171. VCH Sussex 4 (1953): 171-174. VCH Oxford 5 (1957): 138. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 39: 1-13 (sub Beauchamp of Eknley); 130: 11. English Hist. Rev. 74 (1959): 70-89; 86 (1971): 449-472. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 6, 75-76, 117-118. Smith Itinerary of John Leland 4 (1964): 150-163. Pugh Middle Ages: Marcher Lordships of Glamorgan, Morgannwg Gower & Kilvey (Glamorgan County Hist. 3) (1971): 167-176. Phillips Aymer de Valence Earl of Pembroke 1307-1324 (1972): 263-264. TAG 49 (1973): 2. VCH Essex 6 (1973): 253-254. Ancient Deeds - Ser. B 2 (List & Index Soc. 101) (1974): B.8538, B.8971; 3 (List & Index Soc. 113) (1975): B.12440, B.12456. VCH Cambridge 6 (1978): 136-137, 265; 9 (1989): 226. Ancient Deeds - Ser. AS & (List & Index Soc. 158) (1979): 93 (Deed A.S.501). London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 133 (charter of William de la Zouche, lord of Glamorgan and Margam, and Eleanor his wife), 134. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): xxiv, lviij (Beauchamp ped), lx (Tosny ped.). Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2(1981): 117 (seal of William la Zouche Mortimer, Knt. dated 1316 - A shield of arms: five roundels. Legend lost), 117 (seal of William la Zouche Mortimer dated 1328 - In a cusped and traceried circle, a shield of arms ten roundels), 117 (seal of William la Zouche Mortimer dated 1336 - In a cusped and traceried trefoil, a shield of arms: ten roundels. Legend lost). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(1) (1984): 156 (sub Clare). Rolls & Reg. of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299 8 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 76) (1986): 170-171. VCH Cambridge 9 (1989): 381-386. Hicks Who's Who in Late Medieval England (1991): 44 46 (biog. of Guy Beauchamp: "... a highly cultivated nobleman and 'one of the most bitter of Edward II's opponents"). VCH Wiltshire 15 (1995): 146. Ward Women of the English Nobility Gentry 1066-1500 (1995): 108-109. Montacute Cal. Reg. of Simon de Montacute Bishop of Worcester 1334-1337 (Worcestershire Hist. Soc. n.s. 15) (1996): 56. Brault Rolls of Ames Edward 12 (1997): 39 (arms of Guy de Beauchamp H 52, J 10, K 24, SP 32: Gules crusily and a fess or; he sealed with a fess between six crosses crosslet in 1299, 1301, and 1305), 448. Underhill For Her Good Estate (1999). Smith & London Heads of Religious Houses, England & Wales 2 (2001): 198. Vale Princely Court (2001): 313. Fonge Cartulary of St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Warwick (2004): 10-11. National Archives, SC 8/153/7633; SC 8/153/7634 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). National Archives, CF 25/1/205/21, #15 [see abstract of fine at http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/index.html]..."
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