Hugh le Despenser, Baron le Despenser (1338)


Hugh le Despenser, 2nd Baron le Despenser, Lord of Glamorgan, was the eldest son and heir of Hugh Despenser the Younger and grandson of Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester. His father and grandfather were both executed in 1326. His mother was Eleanor de Clare, suo jure Lord of Glamorgan, daughter of Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford and Joan of Acre. Through his mother, Hugh was a great grandson of King Edward I. He married Elizabeth Montague, and both are buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire, which abbey was founded by Robert Fitzhamon, the first Norman feudal baron of Gloucester and Lord of Glamorgan.

Death and inheritance

Hugh was summoned to Parliament as Baron le Despenser in 1338, while the attainder of his father and grandfather were still in force. He died without issue in 1349. His heir was his nephew, Edward Despenser, who was created Baron le Despenser of a new creation in 1357.

Ancestry