Hugh le Despencer, 2nd Baron le Despencer

Arms of Despenser: Quarterly 1st & 4th: Argent; 2nd & 3rd: Gules fretty or, over all a ribbon sable

1338 seal of Hugh le Despencer, 2nd Baron le Despencer, recto and verso, showing on his shield and horse's caparison the arms of Despenser. National Library of Wales. Legend: S(IGILLUM) HUGONIS LE DESPENSER D(OMI)NI GLAMORGANCIE ET MORGANCIE ("Seal of Hugh le Despenser Lord of Glamorgan and Morgan")^[1]

Arms of Despenser in stained glass, Tewkesbury Abbey, burial place of Hugh le Despencer, 2nd Baron le Despencer

Hugh le Despencer, 2nd Baron le Despencer (1308–1349), Lord of Glamorgan, was the eldest son and heir of Hugh the younger Despenser, son of Hugh the elder Despenser.^[2] His father and grandfather were both executed in 1326. His mother was Eleanor de Clare, suo jure Lord of Glamorgan, daughter of Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford and Joan of Acre. Through his mother, Hugh was a great grandson of King Edward I. He married Elizabeth Montague (d.1359), and both are buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire, which abbey was founded by Robert Fitzhamon (d.1107), the first Norman feudal baron of Gloucester and Lord of Glamorgan.

Death and inheritance

Hugh was restored to his grandfather's title of Baron le Despencer in 1338. He died without issue in 1349. His heir was his nephew, Edward le Despenser, who was created Baron le Despencer of a new creation in 1375.

In fiction

Hugh is the protagonist portrayed in the 2007 historical fiction novel Hugh and Bess, by author Susan Higginbotham.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Hugh le Despencer, 2nd Baron le Despencer

16. Hugh le Despenser I

8.Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer

4.Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester

18. Philip Basset

9. Aline Bassett

19. Hawise de Gray

2.Hugh Despenser the Younger

20. William de Beauchamp

10. William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick

21. Isabel Mauduit

5. Isabella de Beauchamp

22. John Fitzgeoffrey

11. Maud FitzJohn

23. Isabel Bigod

1. Hugh le Despenser

24. Gilbert de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford

12. Richard de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford

25. Isabel Marshal

6.Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford

26. John de Lacy, 1st Earl of Lincoln

13. Maud de Lacy

27. Margaret de Quincy, Countess of Lincoln

3.Eleanor de Clare

28. Henry III of England

14. Edward I of England

29. Eleanor of Provence

7. Joan of Acre

30. Ferdinand III of Castile

15. Eleanor of Castile

31. Joan, Countess of Ponthieu

Notes

↑ Text of charter and description of seal see George Thomas Clark, Cartae et Alia Munimenta Quae ad Dominium de Glamorgancia Pertinent, Vol.4, Cardiff, 1910, Charter no. DCCCCLXVIII, pp.1213-18, "INSPEXIMUS BY HUGH LE DESPENSER (son and heir of Hugh le Despenser and Alianora de Clare his wife), OF CERTAIN CHARTERS TO MARGAM ABBEY.
↑ Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). "Despenser, Hugh le (d.1326)". Dictionary of National Biography. 14. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Peerage of England
Preceded by Hugh Despenser	Baron le Despencer	Succeeded by extinct

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 6145376295183721188

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