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 1223 - 1265 (42 years)
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| Name |
Hugh LE DESPENCER |
| Suffix |
1st Lord DeSpencer |
| Born |
1223 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
4 Aug 1265 |
| Person ID |
I1763 |
Young Kent Ancestors |
| Last Modified |
26 Oct 2021 |
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| Notes |
- Justiciary of England.
Hugh le Despenser, 1st Baron le Despenser (1223 – 4 August 1265) was an important ally of Simon de Montfort during the reign of Henry III. He served briefly as Justiciar of England in 1260 and as Constable of the Tower of London.
Despenser first played an important part in 1258, when he was prominent on the baronial side in the Mad Parliament of Oxford. In 1260 the barons chose him to succeed Hugh Bigod as Justiciar, and in 1263 the king was further compelled to put the Tower of London in his hands.
He was the son of Hugh le Despenser and was summoned to Parliament by Simon de Montfort. Hugh was summoned as Baron le Despenser on 14 December 1264 and was Chief Justiciar of England and a leader of the baronial party, and so might be deemed a baron, though the legality of that assembly is doubtful. He remained allied with Montfort to the end, and was present at the Battle of Lewes. He was killed fighting on de Montfort's side at the Battle of Evesham in August 1265. He was slain by Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Wigmore; this caused a feud to begin between the Despencer and Mortimer families.
By his wife, Aline Basset, he was father of Hugh Despenser 'the elder', who became an advisor to Edward II and was made Earl of Winchester. Aline was the daughter of Philip Basset, who had also served as Justiciar. They also had a daughter named Eleanor le Despenser, who married Sir Hugh de Courtenay, feudal baron of Okehampton.
References
Susan Higginbotham. "The Last Justiciar: Hugh le Despenser in the Thirteenth Century". Archived from the original on 29 June 2008. Retrieved 15 February 2008.
External links
Inquisition Post Mortem of Aline wife of Hugh Despencer #389, dated 1280.
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Inquisitions Post Mortem
C. Edw. I. File 27. (7.)
389. Aline la Despensere, daughter and heir of Philip Basset, alias Aveline countess of Norfolk, alias Aline countess Marescall.
Northampton. Extent, Wednesday the morrow of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, 9 Edw. I.
Bernewelle. The manor (extent given), whence are paid to the king by the hands of the bailiff of the hundred of Hokeslowe, 3s. 8d. yearly. Sir Philip Bassett gave the manor in free marriage to Hugh le Despenser, with Aline his daughter, and it is held of the fee of the earl [of] Ferrar', service unknown.
Hugh, son of Hugh le Despenser, age unknown, is next heir.
[Buckingham.] Extent, Monday the feast of Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr, 9 Edw. I.
Wycumbe. A capital messuage, 255⅓a. arable, 7a. meadow, 28a. pasture, 60a. wood, rent of assize of the borough of Wycumbe 30l. 13s. 4d., in the suburb 63s. 4d., of foreign free tenants 4l. 19s. 9d., and of customers 10l. 3s. 10d., works &c. of customers worth 37s. ½d., two water-mills with a virgate of land demised to farm to Thomas de la Lude for life for 65s. 8d., three other water-mills worth 10l. yearly, and pleas of court &c. worth 20s., from which are due yearly at the king's exchequer for the said borough 20l., and to the Knights of the Temple for the land of Okrugge, which is held of them in socage, 16s. And she held a foreign messuage with a carucate of land of the king by service of 1 knight's fee; 45a. arable of John de Assewell for 1/16 knight's fee; and 48a. land with 10a. wood in socage of the Knights of the Temple by the aforesaid service of 16s.
Hugh le Despenser, aged 20 in the first week of March last, is her next heir.
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