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DESPENCER. 91 ho was sum. as a Baron (LORD LE DESPENCER) to Montfort's Pari, ou whose side hi: was slain 1 Aug. 1265 at tho battle o£ Evesham. His widow, Aliva, da. and h. of Philip li asset, of Wycombe, Bucks, also Justiciary of England, by Helewise, his wife, in. before 1271 when she was aged 26 (as his 1st wife) Roger (Biood), Eabl ok Norfolk, who survived her and d. 11 Dec. 1306. II. 1265, 2. Hugh Lb Despknoeb (generally called "Senior"), to s. and h., b. 1262, being aged 21 ou 1 March 1283, shortly after 132G. which date (before 8 Nov. 12S6), ho m. Isabel, widow of Patrick Cli.vwortTn, da. of William (Beauchami'), Earl ok WARWICK, by Maud, da. and coheir of Richard Eitz-Joum, He served iu the Welsh and Scotch wars, being one of the warriors at the siege of Caerlaverock iu 1300. He was, with 60 others, sum. to attend the King, 8 June (1294), 22 Ed. I,(») and was sum. to Pari, as a Baron (LORD LE DESPENCER from 23 June (1295)( b ) 23 Ed. L to 14 March (1321/2) 15 Ed. II.,(«) P.O. both to Edward L and Edward II. At the coronation of Edward II. (25 Feb. 1308) he bore part of the royal insignia. His well-known fideiity to that King, who indeed loaded him with favours, was the cause of his being banished iu July 1321. He however returned next year and having assisted at the King's victory at Borough- bridge, was on 10 May 1322 cr. EARL OE WINCHESTER^') for life, with rem. to his sou Hugh and his heirs, other royal grants and offices following. When the Queen consort, Isabella (whose iiillueuce he had always opposed) lauded iu England in Sep. 1326, he was taken by her forces aud hanged, 27 Oct. 1326, outside the city of Bristol aged 61 (his head being sent to Winchester) when having been declared a traitor by Pari, all his honours became forfeited. III. 1314, 3. Hugh Le Despencer (Junior), 1st son and h. of ^ 0 the above, made K.B. at the oreatun of the Prince of Wales in 1301, having hi. in May 1306 at the Friars Minors, London, Eleanora (then 132G. aged but 13), 1st da. of Gilbert (De Clake), Haul OX Gloucester and Heiitkohd, (by the Lady Joan Plantaqenet, 3rd da. of King Edward I aud sister to the reigning King), which Lady, iu 1314, having become coheir to the vast estates of her br., Gilbert, the last Earl, was sum. v.p. to Pari, as a Baron (LOUD LE DESPENCER) by writs directed " Hugoni Lc JJcspcncer, Juniori" from 29 July (1311) 8 Ed. II to 10 Oct (13251 19 Ed. II. He had previously (iu 1312) beeu one of the Godparents to Prince Edward (afterwards Edward III) and (in 1313) been made Chamberlain to the King, in room of Gaveston, to whose place, in the King's favour, he eventually succeeded. He obtained (in right of his wife) nearly the whole County of Glamorgan, aud is accordingly sometimes spoken of as " Lord of Glamorgan" and even as " Earl of Gloucester " {•). Together with his father he was accordingly; (2) De Roos, which is ranked "in Garter's Roll" of 1S90, above Mowbray is placed sixth while (3) Mowbray is placed second, (the Barony of Wake being placed first). The Barony of (4) Scgraie is placed twenty-eighth; that of Lc Despencer placed twenty-sixth ; aud that of Hastings (with Abergavenny '!) twenty-third ; so that if aticA placing be taken as a test of their ranking, they should be placed as (1) Mowbray ; (2) De Roos ; (3) Hastings ; (4) Le Despencer ; and (5) Segrave, which last Barony is indeed generally held to have been cr. by this writ of 1295. As to the pre-eminence of Le Despcucer, under the patent restoring it in 1601, see infra. (") As to the writ of 1294 not constituting a regular summons to Pari, see vol. i., 1>. 259, sub. "Basset deSapcote." ( ') This date (1295) would in all probability be, iu these days, considered as that of the origin of the Barony, but the patent of 25 May (1601) 2 Jac. i. gives it the pre-eminence of (1261) 49 Hen. III. r? l T1 1 leru " l' r °of in the rolls of Pari, of his sitting. P ) " The words of creation aro ipsumquc Ilugoncm gladio cinximus in Comitcm, nijntun. There is no extension of the dignity, but the anuuity given with it extended to Hugh Le Despencer, junior, son of thu grantee" [Courtkopc.] (') ' It is evident that he never bore that title, for not only is he not called so by