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DESPENCER. 93 which it was created became vested in him. He upheld King Richard II against the party of Thomas " of Woodstock," Duke of Gloucester, and of the Earls of Arundel and Warwick, joiuing, 21 Aug. 1307, in the appeal of treason against them. Eleven days after the murder of the Duke of Gloucester he was himself «*., 29 Sep. 130", EARL OK GLOUCESTER, a title to which (in right of his representation of his great-grandmother Eleanor, above named, the senior coheir of the family of Clare, Earls of Gloucester) he had some claim. He was in command of the rear guard of the army that in 1399 went with the King into Ireland. On 30 Sep. 1399 he was joint Commissioner for the deposition of the King. He was, however, tried (with the other appellants) for his conduct in 1397, and, on 6 Oct 1399, was degraded from his £arhlum[ a ). He m. before April 138ti( b ) the Lady Constance Plantagenet, da. of Edmund, Duke of York (f>th s. of King Edward III), by his first wife Isabel, da. of Peter, King of Castile and Leon. He joined in the conspiracy of theEarlsof Rutland, Kent, Salisbury, and Huntingdon ; was taken prisoner to Bristol, and there beheaded 17 Jan 1399; 1400, when, having been attainted on the 5th iust., all his honours became forfeited. He was bur. at Tewkesbury. His widow, for whom robes of the Garter were issued in April 1386 (as " Lady Le Despencer"), and again (as Countess) in April 1399, accused her br. Edward, Duke of York, of treason in 1-105. She is said herself to have beeti the paramour( c ) of Edmund (Holand), Earl of Kent, who d. IS Sep. 1408. She d. 28 Nov. 1416. The following persons would have been entitled to the Barony of Le Despencer had it not have been for the attainder of 1400. 17/. UfOO. 7. Richard Le Despencer, only s. and h. of] the last Lord. He indeed was styled Loud Le DEsrEXCER, v.p., as the s. and h. np. of an Earl. On the death Aug. 1 109, of his grand- mother, Elizabeth, Lady Le Despencer (nee liurghersh) above named he became, apparently, dc jure, LORD BURGH ERSH. He d. s.p. and under age 14 Oct. 1114. VIII. l-'/l-'f. S. Isabel, apparently sua jure Baroness Burghersh, only surv. sister and solo heir. She m. firstly Richard (Beauchami>), Earl of Worcester and Lord Auer- oavknxv, wlio d. s.p.m. 1422. She m. secondly Richard (Beaucuv Mr), Earl of Warwick, and d. Jany. 1439/40. 5 O " 3 j ^ IX. L'/J/O. 9. Henry (Beauciiamp), Earl of Warwick,") m "s and, apparently, Lord Burghersh, only s. and h. of his mother, by her 2d husband, lie was b. 1 124, sue. as Earl of Warwick 1439, and was, in 1414, or. Duke of Warwick. He d. s.p.m. 11 June 1145. Z. 1445, 10. Anne, tsuo jure Countess op Warwick, to and, apparently, Baroness Burghersh, only da. aud h. 1440. She d. an infant 3 June 1449, when the right to the Barony of Burghersh, as also [subject to the attainder) to the Barony of Le Despencer fell into abeyancc.{ a ) to S o a a u 5 o «n ( a ) The sudden death in 1399 of Humphrey Plantagenet, styled Earl of Buckingham, only 3. and h. ap. of Thomas, Duke of Gloucester (who appears never to have assumed his Father's dignities*, was attributed to, but altogether denied by him. ( b ) See p. 92, note "e." («) See Vol. I, p 199, note "b," sub. " Audley," Eleanor, wife of James (Touchet), Lord Audley [1 108-59], was said to be a bustard da. of the said Constance by the said Earl of Kent. ( ll ) The two coheirs were (1) George (Nevill), Lord Abergavenny, s. and h. of Edward, Lord A., by Elizabeth, eldest da. of Isabel suo jure Baroness Burghersh nbove named and her only child by her first husband, Richard, Earl of Worcester; and