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 | | Hugh Le DeSpencer, the Elder, great great grandson of Thurston was born about 1262 and supported King Edward I in the war against his rival, the Earl of Lancaster. |
 | | Hugh and his nephew Edward Le DeSpencer had strongly supported Tewkesbury Abbey in Gloucestershire, and between the two of them, completed the Choir, the Roof, and the Chevet Chapels during the reigns of Edward II, III, Richard II and Henry IV, between 1307 and 1413, and the remains of his body was entombed there. |
 | | The younger Hugh was charged with piracy, complicity in the murder of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and was condemned and was excuted as a traitor with a death similar to his father, and his head was send to London where it was placed on London Bridge. |
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