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	Hugh le Despenser
		Hugh le Despenser (or Hugh Despenser) (1262-1326) was an English baron, chief adviser to King Edward II of England.
		Despenser became Edward's loyal servant and chief administrator after the execution of Piers Gaveston in 1312, but the jealousy of other barons led to his being exiled along with his son in 1321.
		The elder Despenser was hung at Bristol and his son was hung at Hereford.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hu/Hugh_le_Despenser.html (139 words)

	Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Hugh (1223 – August 4, 1265) was an important ally of Simon de Montfort during the reign of Henry III.
		He was slain by Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Wigmore; this caused a feud to begin between the Despenser and Mortimer families.
		By his wife, Aline Bassett, he was father of Hugh the elder Despenser.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hugh_le_Despencer,_1st_Baron_le_Despencer (196 words)

	The Despensers: King Edward II's "Favourites" - Genealogy on Pat Patterson's Pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In the case of Gaveston, the hatred of the barons was mixed with contempt for the upstart foreigner; in the case of the Despensers, it was near akin to fear.
		From almost the beginning of the reign the elder Despenser had taken a leading part on the king's side, and the hostility of the barons towards him was of long standing.
		Despenser and his father alike seem to have recognised the importance of agreement between the king and the people as a means ofcheckingthe turbulent aggressiveness of the barons (Stubbs, Const.
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		Hugh, the elder left without any fuss, but his son, Hugh the younger had different ideas and at first was given refuge by sailors of a Cinque Port and then started a spell of piracy.
		The Archbishop of Canterbury had ruled that the banishment of the Despensers was illegal at the end of 1321 and as soon as they heard the news, the Despensers returned to England.
		Hugh Despenser was given a short trial and executed as a traitor.
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	Despenser Hugh Le: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		The elder Despenser took part in Edward I's Scottish campaigns and engaged in negotiations with France.
		On the accession of Edward II, Despenser alienated the baronial party by his support of Piers Gaveston and, on the latter's death (1312), became the chief adviser to the king.
		Born in 1286, Hugh was the son and heir of the Earl of Winchester, Hugh Le Despenser the Elder.
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		It was there perhaps that news reached them of Hugh Despenser the elder's death at the block in Bristol.
		The despised Hugh the younger was sent to Hereford for trial and was condemned to an execution of crude brutality on 20 November.
		Foodstuff included 118 quarters of wheat, 118 quarters of beans, 78 carcasses of oxen, 280 of mutton, 72 hams, 1,856 stockfish, and 6 tuns of red wine and 1 of white ('whereof ten inches are lacking', noted the punctilious clerk, John de Langeton).
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		The manor of Loughborough (Lucteburne, Lucteburg, Lughteburgh) was granted by William the Conqueror to Hugh Lupus, from whom it passed to the Despensers.
		In 1226-1227 when it belonged to Hugh Despenser he obtained various privileges for himself and his men and tenants there, among which were quittance from suits at the county and hundred courts, of sheriffs'.
		Among the subsequent lords were Henry de Beaumont and Alice his wife, Sir Edward Hastings, created Baron Hastings of Loughborough in 1558, Colonel Henry Hastings, created baron in 1645, and the earls of Huntingdon.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=41440 (498 words)

	Churchill's Spencer Ancestry - The Churchill Centre
		The younger Hugh became Justiciary of England and was killed at the battle of Evesham in 1265, having been summoned to Simon de Montfort’s parliament the previous year.
		Here Hugh the elder was captured and on 27th October was sentenced as a traitor and sent to the gallows outside the town at the age of 64.
		Hugh the younger accompanied Edward II when he fled before the Queen’s army but was eventually captured in Wales where he had retreated to one of his castles.
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	Hugh le Despenser
		While the elder Hugh left England the younger one remained; soon the king persuaded the clergy to annul the sentence against them, and father and son were again at court.
		The elder Despenser was seized at Bristol, where he was hanged on the 27th of October 1326, and the younger was taken with the king at Llantrisant and hanged at Hereford on the 24th of November following.
		The intense hatred with which the barons regarded the Despensers was due to the enormous wealth which had passed into their hands, and to the arrogance and rapacity of the younger Hugh.
	www.nndb.com /people/486/000097195 (508 words)

	Ancestors of Eugene Ashton ANDREW & Anna Louise HANISH Hugh Le DESPENSER, V ANDREW ANGERMUELLER HANISH STRUDELL ...
		Edward's wife, Isabella, `the she-wolf of France,' who was disgusted by his passion for Hugh Despenser, suggested that she should go over to France to negotiate with her brother Charles about the restoration of Gascony.
		Hugh Le Despenser the Elder (1261-1326), and Hugh Le Despenser the Younger (Died 1326) were unpopular favourites of Edward II, and were executed by Edward's opponents, Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer.
		The younger Despenser was the son of a trusted courtier of Edward I and was himself essentially a creature of the court.
	www.geneal.net /2201.htm (2113 words)

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		Their ancestor Hugh, bishop of Coutances in 990, had at least three sons by a niece of Herfast the Dane, forefather of the Norman earls of Hereford, and brother-in-law of Duke Richard I. The eldest of these sons was Ralph, father of William of Warenne, earl of Surrey.
		Hugh de Mortimer, who is found as his successor, a great Herefordshire baron in 1140, may have been either the son of Ralph's old age, or a grandson, the son of another Ralph.
		He was among the judges of the elder Despenser at Bristol, and of the younger, his chief enemy, at Hereford.
	www.griffincunningham.net /mortimer/MORTIMER-earlyenglish.doc (1798 words)

	The Forsythe Saga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		To this Hugh Henry II gave the manor of Rithal, co. Rutland, and in the 21st of that monarch's reign, upon the death of John Scot, Earl of Chester, he was deputed with Stephen de Segrave and Henry de Aldithley to take charge of the castles of Chester and Beeston.
		Of Hugh, senior, we shall first treat, although as father and son ran almost the same course at the same time and shared a similar fate, it is not easy to sever their deeds.
		The younger Hugh, as well as his father, was a peer of the realm, having been summoned to parliament as a baron from 29 July, 1314, to 10 October, 1325, but the Baronies of Spencer and the Earldom of Winchester expired under the attainders of the father and son.
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	Hugh le Despenser - TheBestLinks.com - Tower of London, 1326, Yorkshire, Bristol, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
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		Despenser became Edward's loyal servant and chief administrator after Gaveston was executed in 1312, but the jealousy of other barons led to his being exiled along with his son in 1321, when Edmund de Woodstoke replaced him as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.
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	Hugh Cossart Baker
		Hugh Cossart Baker was the son of George William Baker and Ann Cole, born June 15, 1818 in the Parish of Woolwich, County of Kent, England.
		Hugh's baptism was solemnized November 24, 1818 at Saint Mary Magdalene Church in the Parish of Woolwich, in the County of Kent.
		Hugh was born December 29, 1871 at Woodstock, Ontario and died in 1962.
	www3.sympatico.ca /dljordan/Bakerfamily.htm (19159 words)

	DESPENSER, HUGH LE (12... - Online Information article about DESPENSER, HUGH LE (12...
		attainder against the Despensers was reversed in 1398.
		Woodstock, duke of Gloucester, and the other lords appellant in 1397, when he himself was created earl of Gloucester, but he deserted the king in 1399.
		The elder Edward le Despenser left another son, HENRY (c.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /DEM_DIO/DESPENSER_HUGH_LE_1262_1326_.html (1169 words)

	Despenser
		Hugh le Despenser "the Younger", 3rd Lord le Despenser, b.
		Hugh was a favorite of King Edward II after the death of Piers Gaveston.
		Hugh le Despenser "the Elder", 1st Lord Despenser, b.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Ranch/7834/despencer.html (396 words)

	Wikinfo \| Edward II of England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		They were indignant at the privileges Edward lavished upon father and son, especially when the younger Despenser strove to procure for himself the earldom of Gloucester in right of his wife, Edward's niece.
		In 1322 he recalled the Despensers from exile, and waged war against the barons on their behalf.
		She formed a liaison with Roger Mortimer of Wigmore, one of the baronial exiles, and in September 1326 landed in Essex accompanied by Mortimer and her son, declaring that she was come to avenge the murder of Lancaster, and to expel the Despensers.
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		Hugh bore the Hastings arms with the label of three point as the young earl had no children, but on occasion Hugh was asked to use the undifferenced arms of his family.
		Hugh was asked by the duchess of Norfolk and her daughter the countess of Pembroke to use the arms of Hastings without the label while serving with many other Norfolk knights under John of Gaunt in Spain to honour his young cousin.
		Hugh Hastings had raised the banner after he survived a shipwreck in 1379 when he was serving in the company of Bardwell, in a fleet commanded by Sir John Arundel.
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	Murder on the Road to Santiago
		The elder Hugh Despenser was eventually made earl of Winchester for his services, while the younger one merely married another of Edward II’s nieces, Eleanor, and proceeded to amass all the wealth he possibly could get his hands on, especially in Wales and its environs.
		Since the Despensers were running the government, this of course made the Mortimers in effect enemies of King Edward II as well, since the Despensers had assumed power entirely with his blessing.
		As soon as Edward II and the Despensers realized what was happening and how extensive was the sentiment against them, they knew that their only hope lay in shameless flight, so flee they did, to the one place that Edward knew he might be able to find aid and support: Wales.
	enigma.cs.ucla.edu /games/santiago/scand-eng.html (8467 words)

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		The son of Sir Hugh Despenser (the elder).
		Hugh the younger was to play an important role at the side of Edward II in military aspects and as an advisor.
		Donald was the younger brother of Malcolm III and became king of the Scots in 1093 when his elder brother was killed.
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		The son of Hugh le Despenser, the justiciar of the barons, who fell at Evesham, by his wife Aliva, daughter of Philip Basset, was born in 1262, for he was twenty-one on 1 March 1283.
		In 1305 he was sent to Clement V at Lyons, and obtained a bull absolving the king from the oaths which he had taken to his people.
		Hugh le Despencer held land throughout the Midlands, Southern England and South Wales.
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	hambry
		Despencer (Hugh, #19144) was born circa 1312 at Buckland, Buckinghamshire.
		Audley (Hugh, #19194) was buried at Tunbridge Priory, Kent.
		Despencer (Hugh, #38274) was buried at Tewkesbry Abey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.
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	Browse All Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Hugh was elected king not because he was strong but precisely because he would not be strong enough to control the other magnates; in fact, he secured election only by giving much of his land to the electors.
		Despenser, Hugh le (died 1265), one of the English barons who participated in the so-called Mad Parliament, which in 1258 formulated the Provisions of Oxford, a plan of government reform.
		Le Despenser was killed in the Battle of Evesham; in that battle the barons were defeated by Henry's son, Prince Edward, who later became king as Edward I. Source: "Despenser, Hugh le (died 1265)," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 98 Encyclopedia.
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	Hugh le Despenser - Gurupedia
		His son Hugh (1262-1326), sometimes referred to as "the elder Despenser", was for a time the chief adviser to King
		He was one of the few barons to remain loyal to Edward during the controversy regarding
		The pair returned the next year, the younger Despenser was captured along with his father during Queen Isabella's rebellion, and was hanged November 26, 1326 at
	www.gurupedia.com /h/hu/hugh_le_despenser.htm (401 words)

	The Bailey Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Hugh DESPENCER [BARON LE DESPENSER] was born on 1 Mar 1260/61 in Barton, Gloucestershire, England.
		Despenser, Hugh le (1262-1326), English nobleman, son of Hugh le Despenser.
		The elder le Despenser became virtual ruler of England, instituted several important administrative reforms, and concluded peace with Scotland in 1323.
	bailey.aros.net /jsbailey/d67.htm (1381 words)

	Miserden: Manors and other estates \| British History Online
		72) Nicholas conveyed the manor to his son Malcolm who granted it to Hugh Despenser the elder in 1297 with the reversion of that part settled in dower on Christine, his mother.
		Hugh Despenser held the manor until his forfeiture (fn.
		47) The prior, William de Tothale, leased the manor in 1312 or 1313 to Hugh Despenser the elder for life, and in 1337 it was temporarily in Crown hands on the grounds that Hugh had acquired it without licence.
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	Edward II - Cunnan
		He became heir to the throne on the death of his elder bother Alfonso, and was equipped with the training to succeed his father, but he rapidly gained a reputation for frivolity and extravagance, as well as improper closeness with a Gascon knight, Piers Gaveston.
		Edward was indiscrete in favouring Despenser, and the barons had him exiled.
		She grew close to one of the barons whom Edward and the Despensers had exiled, Roger Mortimer, and in 1326 she landed with him in Essex, and declared she sought revenge for the death of Lancaster.
	cunnan.sca.org.au /wiki/Edward_II (551 words)

	Ancestors of Eugene Ashton ANDREW & Anna Louise HANISH Sir Hugh Le DESPENSER, III ANDREW ANGERMUELLER HANISH STRUDELL ...
		Those of Baronal rank were Roger Mortimer, the strongest of the marchers, Hugh Bigod, the brother of the earl marshal, John Fitz Geoffrey, Richard Grey, William Bardolf, Peter Montfort, and Hugh Despenser.
		Those of Baronal rank were Roger Mortimer, the strongest of the marchers, Hugh Bigod, the brother of the earl marshal, John FitzGeoffrey, Richard Grey, William Bardolf, Peter Montfort, and Hugh Despenser.
		IGI Marriage 7223414-75-822006 Hugh LE DESPENSER Spouse Aline or Aliva BASSET 1260 Buckingham England.
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	Articles - Edward II of England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		They were indignant at the privileges Edward lavished upon father and son, especially when the younger Despenser strove to procure for himself the earldom of Gloucester in right of his wife Eleanor de Clare, daughter of Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford and Joan of Acre and niece of Edward II.
		On 24 September 1326 Isabella landed with a large force in Essex accompanied by Mortimer and her son, declaring that she was come to avenge the murder of Lancaster and to expel the Despensers.
		His wife and her army followed Edward and the Despensers, and after a futile effort to escape by sea, Edward and a handful of supporters were captured on 16 November and escorted to Monmouth Castle.
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