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It ended with war in 1369 between Edward Despenser and Galeazzo Visconti, ruler of Pavia. Despenser had come to Italy the year before with King Edward III’s son Lionel, Duke of Clarence, who was betrothed to Galeazzo’s daughter, Violante. Lionel died suddenly after wedding (October 1368), touching off the so-called English revenge.
DESPENSER, HUGH LE (1262–1326), English courtier, was a son of the English justiciar who died at Evesham. He fought for Edward I. in Wales, France and Scotland, and in 1295 was summoned to parliament as a baron. Ten years later he was sent by the king to Pope Clement V. to secure Edward’s release from the oaths he had taken to observe the ...
Robert Despenser (d. after 1098), a court official and landholder under William II of England. Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester (22 September 1373 – 13 January 1400, Bristol) was the son of Edward le Despenser, 1st Baron le Despencer, whom he succeeded in 1375. He was executed after the abortive Epiphany Rising.
HUGH LE DESPENSER, the younger (d. 1326), baron, son of Hugh le Despenser the elder, received knighthood with the Prince of Wales [later Edward II] at Easter 1306, and about 1309 married Eleanor, daughter of Gilbert of Clare, earl of Gloucester, and sister and co-heiress of the next Earl Gilbert.
1 mar 2007 · Despenser's ‘sodomy’, Le Bel adds scandalised, was rumoured even to have extended to the king himself, thus implying Edward's passivity in controlling Despenser's behaviour and vindicating Isabella's actions. 31 It is unquestionable that Edward II had a tendency to focus too much on one particular male companion, and that it was on occasion criticised by contemporaries as extending to a ...
30 ott 2018 · The greatest villain of the fourteenth century – at least according to a poll by BBC History Magazine – was Hugh Despenser the Younger. He was the favourite and possible lover of Edward II, his influence leading to the tyranny that marked Edward II’s later reign and, ultimately, the rebellion led by Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer that resulted in Edward’s deposition and Hugh’s ...
Sir Edward le Despenser. Lord of the Manor of Tewkesbury, is remembered today chiefly for the effigy on his tomb, which shows him in full color kneeling on top of the canopy of his chantry, facing toward the high altar. Son of Sir Edward le Despenser and Anne de Ferrers, husband of Elizabeth Berghersh and father of Margaret, Elizabeth, Anne,...
