Sir Knight Philip LE DESPENSER

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Sir Philip le Depenser [l] b 6 Apr 1313, of Lincolnshire, England, d Aug 1349, Lincolnshire, England. He md Joan de Cobham 1339/40, daughter of Sir John de Cobham. She was b abt 1323, prob Cobham, Kent, England, d bef 15 May 1357.
Children of Philip le Despenser and Joan de Cobham were:

Sir Philip le Despenser b 18 Oct 1342, d 4 Aug 1401, Goxhill, Lincolnshire, England; md Elizabeth.



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CP: Vol IV[259-278, 288-291], Vol XI[601]; AR: Line 8[30-31], Line 50[30], Line 58[30], Line 70[35-36], Line 74[31-34], Line 74A[31-34], Line 148A[31], Line 200[35-36]; SGM: Brad Verity

Philip married Joan Margaret DE COBHAM about 1340 in Goxhill, Lincolnshire, England. Joan (daughter of Baron John DE COBHAM and Joan BEAUCHAMP) was born about 1316 in Cobham, Strood, Kent, England; died on 20 Jan 1350. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Baron Philip LE DESPENCER was born on 18 Oct 1342 in Gedney, Lincolnshire, England; died on 4 Aug 1401 in Goxhill, Lincolnshire, England.
2. Hawise DESPENCER was born about 1345; and died.

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Source: Weis, Sheppard, Beal, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, 5th Ed., Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, [1999],
Sir Philip le Despenser [k] b abt 1289, Stoke, Gloucestershire, England, d 24 Sep 1313; md Margaret Goushill abt 1311, daughter of Sir Ralph de Goushill and Hawise Fitz Warin.
Child of Philip le Despenser and Margaret de Goushill was:

Sir Philip le Depenser [l] b 6 Apr 1313, of Lincolnshire, England, d Aug 1349, Lincolnshire, England. He md Joan de Cobham 1339/40, daughter of Sir John de Cobham. She was b abt 1323, prob Cobham, Kent, England, d bef 15 May 1357.
Children of Philip le Despenser and Joan de Cobham were:

Sir Philip le Despenser b 18 Oct 1342, d 4 Aug 1401, Goxhill, Lincolnshire, England; md Elizabeth.



SOURCES:
CP: Vol IV[259-278, 288-291], Vol XI[601]; AR: Line 8[30-31], Line 50[30], Line 58[30], Line 70[35-36], Line 74[31-34], Line 74A[31-34], Line 148A[31], Line 200[35-36]; SGM: Brad Verity
PHILIP LE DESPENCER 1290-1313 BIO
Sir Philip Le Despencer, Knt., of Goxhill, Lincolnshire was the son of Hugh Le Despencer, 1st Earl of Winchester and his wife, Lady Isabella Beauchamp, daughter of William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick and Maud FitzJohn. He was born ca. 1290 in Stoke, Gloucester, England. He married Margaret de Goushill, daughter of Ralph De Gousille and his wife Hawise Fitzwarine. Philip was brother to Hugh Despenser, the Younger, a favorite of King Edward II.
According to Douglas Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry, Philip and Margaret were parents to Sir Philip le Despenser of Goxhill, Lincolnshire (6 Apr 1313-Aug 1349) who married Hon. Joan de Cobham, daughter of John, 2nd Baron Cobham of Kent.
They were parents to:
Philip Le Despencer 1st Baron Le Despencer
Hawise Le Despenser (c.1345-10 April 1414), was the 2nd wife of Sir Andrew Luttrell, Lord Luttrell of Irnham by whom she had issue.

Philip married Margaret DE GOUSHILL about 1312. Margaret (daughter of Ralph DE GOUSILLE and Hawise FITZWARIN) was born on 12 May 1294 in Whittington, Oswestry, Shropshire, England; died on 29 Jul 1349. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Cause of Death: ; hung, beheaded and dismembered
• Death: ; He was hanged in his armour and then beheaded. His body was cut into pieces for the dogs, his head sent to Winchester and put on display there.
• FamilySearch ID: LB55-134
• Name: Earl OF WINCHESTER
• Name: Hugh DESPENSER
• Name: The Elder
• _UID: 70BF73754B6048E793411E243CC48BA335BB
• Knighted: 1306, with Edward II
• Owned: 1314, Cardiff, Wales

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DEATH: CAUS Executed via hanging, drawn & quartered.

Hugh Dispenser, senior, so called to distinguish him from his son, who bore the designation of Hugh Despencer, junior, both so well known in history as the favourites of the unfortunate Edward II. 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. Hugh Despencer paid a fine of 2,000 marks to the king, in the 15th of Edward I, for marrying without license Isabel, dau. of William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and widow of Patrick Chaworth; by this lady he had an only son, the too celebrated Hugh Dispenser, jun.

In the 22nd of the same reign, he was made governor of Odiham Castle, co. Southampton, and the same year had summons to attend the king at Portsmouth prepared with horse and arms for an expedition into Gascony. In two years afterwards he was at the battle of Dunbar in Scotland, where the English triumphed, and the next year he was one of the commissioners accredited to treat of peace between the English monarch and the kings of the Romans and of France. In the 26th and 28th years of Edward, he was again engaged in the wars of Scotland and was sent by his sovereign, with the Earl of Lincoln, to the papal court to complain of the Scots, and to entreat that his holiness would no longer favour them as they had abused his confidence by falsehoods. To the very close of King Edward I's reign, his lordship seems to have enjoyed the favour of that great prince, and had summons to parliament from him from 23 June, 1295, to 14 March, 13222, but it was after the accession of Edward's unhappy son, the second of that name, that the Spencers attained that extraordinary eminence from which, with their feeble-minded master, they were eventually hurled into the gulf of irretrievable ruin.

In the first years of Edward II's reign, we find the father and son still engaged in the Scottish wars. In the 14th year, the king hearing of great animosities between the younger Spencer and Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, and learning that they were collecting their followers in order to come to open combat, interfered and strictly commanded Lord Hereford to forebear. About the same time a dispute arising between the Earl of Hereford and John de Mowbray regarding some lands in Wales, young Spencer seized possession of the estate and kept it from both the litigants. This conduct and similar proceedings on the part of the elder Spencer exciting the indignation of the barons, they formed a league against the favourites and, placing the king's cousin, Thomas Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster, at their head, they marched with banners flying from Sherburne to St. Alban's, whence they despatched the bishops of Salisbury, Hereford, and Chichester to the king with a demand that they Spencers should be banish, to which mission the king, however, giving an imperious reply in the negative, the irritated nobles continued their route to London when Edward, at the instance of the queen, acquiesced, whereupon the barons summoned a parliament in which the Spencers were banished from England and the sentence was proclaimed in Westminster Hall. To this decision, Hugh the elder submitted and retired, but Hugh the younger lurked in divers places, sometimes on land, and sometimes at sea, and was fortunate enough to capture, during his exile, two vessels near Sandwich, laden with merchandise to the value of D40,000, after which, being recalled by the king, an army was raise which encountered and defeated the baronial forces at Boroughbridge, in Yorkshire. In this action, wherein numbers were slain, the Earl of Lancaster was taken prisoner, was carried to his own castle at Pontefract, and there, after a summary trial (the elder Spencer being one of his judges), beheaded.

The Spencers now became more powerful than ever and the elder was created Earl of Winchester, the king loading him with grants of forfeited estates. He was about the same time constituted warden of the king's forests on the south of Trent. Young Spencer obtained, like his father, immense grants from the lands forfeited after the battle of Boroughbridge, but not satisfied with those, and they were incredibly numerous, he extorted by force whatsoever he please. Amongst other acts of lawless oppression, it is related that he seized upon the person of Elizabeth Comyn, a great heiress, the wife of Richard Talbot, in her house at Kennington, in Surrey, and detained her for twelve months in prison until her compelled her to assign to him the manor of Painswike, in Gloucestershire, and the castle and manor of Goderich, in the marches of Wales, but this ill-obtained and ill-exercised power was not formed for permanent endurance and a brief space only was necessary to bring to to a termination.

The queen and the young prince, who had fled to France and had been proclaimed traitors through the influence of the Spencers, ascertaining the feelings of the people, ventured to return and landed at Harwich with the noblemen and persons of eminence who had been exiled after the defeat at Boroughbridge, raised the royal standard and soon found themselves at the head of a considerable force, when, marching upon Bristol where the king and his favourites then were, they were received in that city with acclamation, and the elder Spencer being seized (although in his ninetieth year), was brought in chains before the prince and the barons, and received judgment of death, which was accordingly executed by hanging the culprit upon a gallows in the sight of the king and of his son upon St. Dennis's day, in October, 1326. It is said by some writers that the body was then cut to pieces and given to the dogs. Young Spencer, with the king, effected his escape, but they were both soon afterwards taken and delivered to the queen, when the unfortunate monarch was consigned to Berkeley Castle where he was basely murdered in 1327. Hugh Spencer, the younger, it appears, was impeached before parliament and received sentence "to be drawn upon a hurdle with trumps and trumpets throughout all the city of Hereford," and there to be hanged and quartered, which sentence was executed on a gallows 50 feet high, upon St. Andrew's eve anno 1326 (20 Edward II), Thus terminated the career of two of the most celebrated royal favourites in the annals of England. 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. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 166, Despencer, Earl of Winchester]

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Hugh le Despenser ("The Elder Despenser"), 1st Lord (Baron) le Despenser of the 1295 Creation and 1st and last Earl of Winchester, so created 10 May 1322; called to Parliament by writ 24 June 1295, thus being deemed to have been created a baron; sole person of rank to take Edward II's part in the quarrel with his nobles over the notorious royal favourite Piers Gaveston, whom Edward was eventually induced to banish; later represented Edward in negotiating a treaty with his nobles at the time of Gaveston's murder by them in 1312; at Battle of Bannockburn 1314; banished from court by the machinations of his enemies Feb 1314/15; disinherited and exiled in perpetuity Aug 1321, through malign influence over Edward; this judgement reversed Jan 1321/2 and May 1322; and after Edward II had fled to Wales was convicted as a traitor and hanged 27 Oct 1326, when all his honours were forfeited. [Burke's Peerage]
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Hugh and his son were favorites of King Edward II (a weak king) and helped him throw off the mastery of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster. Edward's reliance on the Despencer's drew the ire of his wife Isabel. She had become the mistress of Roger de Mortimer while on a diplomatic mission to France. In September 1326 the couple invaded England, executed the Despencers, and deposed Edward II in favor of his son, Edward III. See Encyclopedia Britannica, Edward II.

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Hugh married Isabel De BEAUCHAMP before 1286. Isabel (daughter of Earl William DE BEAUCHAMP, of Warwick and Maud FITZJOHN) was born in 1255 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England; died on 30 May 1306 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Isabel m. Peter Chaworth. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 30, Beauchamp, Earls of Warwick]

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Ralph married Hawise FITZWARIN. Hawise (daughter of Lord Fulk FITZWARIN, V and Margred Ferch GRUFFYDD, Of Powys) was born about 1275 in Whittington, Oswestry, Shropshire, England; died in 1345 in Dunsby, Bourne, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Hawise FITZWARIN
• _UID: B2D76F4BE9424D0BA07957CDE42CA407BE7E

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Sir Robert de Hoo m. Hawise, apparently widow of Ralph de Goushill, anddaughter of Fulk FitzWarin. She is named as Dame Hawise de Goushill in agrant of Stopsley, and of a messuage and land in Wheathampstead in 1321,and as Hawise de Goushill, late wife of Sir Robert de Hoo, she and herheirs had a grant of the manor of Dunsby (Lincoln) in 1345, among thewitnesses being Thomas de Goushill. [Complete Peerage VI:565-7]

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• Death: ; Slain by Roger Mortimer the 1st Baron Wigmore at the Battle Evesham.
• FamilySearch ID: GNYM-NH4
• TitleOfNobility: ; Baron le Despencer, Justiciar of England
• Occupation: Of Ryhall, Rutlands. Kt: 1244. Justiciar Of England.
• Occupation: ; Knight, Justicar of England, 1st Baron le Despencer, Earl
• _UID: EE6400D187B44152A0D4FC212E6290C466F0
• Alt. Burial: Aft 4 Aug 1265, Evesham Abbey, Wychavon, Worcestershire, England

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BIOGRAPHY: Hugh, 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. During the period of truce (1258-63) between the barons and King Hernry III, Le Despenser became (1260) chief justiciar of England. Upon the ourbreak of the Barons' War, however, he sided with the barons' leader, Simon de Montfort, serving as Montfort's justiciar in 1264. 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. Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia, (Despenser)

Died:
Slain at battle of Evesham.

Hugh married Aline (Aliva) (Alice) BASSETT, Countess Of Norfolk about 1260 in Of Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. Aline (daughter of Sir Philip BASSETT and Hawise DE LOVAINE) was born in 1241 in Wooten Basset, Wiltshire, England; died before 11 Apr 1281; was buried before 11 Apr 1281. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: 9HGJ-H64
• Occupation: Sole Heir. No Children By Marr. To Roger Bigod.
• _UID: 353AC4857F004E28A8E4B1853CD832D58A83

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• FamilySearch ID: MHWK-NHZ
• Royal House: ; Beauchamp
• TitleOfNobility: ; Earl of Warwick, Elmley, Salwarpe, and Worcestershire.
• Occupation: ; Hereditary Pantler at the King Richard's coronation.
• _UID: 75E9035D04F9479FA8A74556D7261A8325BC
• Occupation: 1268; 9th Earl of Warwick
• Occupation: 1268; High Sheriff of Worcestershire

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He was the Earl of Warwick.

William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick (c. 1238 ? 1298) was the eldest of eight children of William de Beauchamp of Elmley and his wife Isabel de Mauduit. He was an English nobleman and soldier, described as a "vigorous and innovative military commander." He was active in the field against the Welsh for many years, and at the end of his life campaigned against the Scots.

His father was William (III) de Beauchamp of Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, and his mother was Isabel de Mauduit, sister and heiress of William Mauduit, 8th Earl of Warwick, from whom he inherited his title in 1268. He had a sister, Sarah, who married Richard Talbot.
He married Maud FitzJohn. Their children included:
1. Isabella de Beauchamp, who married firstly Sir Patrick de Chaworth and, secondly, Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester
2. Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick, who married Alice de Toeni, widow of Thomas de Leyburne.

He became hereditary High Sheriff of Worcestershire for life on the death of his father in 1268.
He was a close friend of Edward I of England, and was an important leader in Edward's invasion of Wales in 1277. In 1294 he raised the siege of Conwy Castle, where the King had been penned in, crossing the estuary. He was victorious on 5 March 1295 at the battle of Maes Moydog against the rebel prince of Wales, Madog ap Llywelyn. In a night attack on the Welsh infantry he used cavalry to drive them into compact formations which were then shot up by his archers and charged.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Beauchamp,_9th_Earl_of_Warwick

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William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick was born circa 1240.
He was the son of William de Beauchamp and Isabel Mauduit.
He married Maud fitz John, daughter of John fitz Geoffrey, Lord of Shere and Isabel le Bigod, circa 1270.
He held the office of Hereditary Sheriff of Worcestershire.
He held the office of Pantler at the King's Coronation.
He succeeded as the 9th Earl of Warwick [E., 1088] on 8 January 1267/68.
He held the office of Keeper of the Forest of Dean in 1270.
He held the office of Captain of Cheshire and Lancashire in 1276.
He fought in the Battle of Maes Moydog on 5 March 1294/95, where he led an English Army to defeat the Welsh.
He fought in the Battle of Dunbar in 1296, where he defeated the Scots.
He held the office of Steward of the forest between Oxford and Stamford in 1297/98.
He held the office of Constable of Rockingham Castle in 1297/98.
He died from 5 June 1298 to 9 June 1298.

Children of William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick and Maud fitz John
1. Isabella de Beauchamp d. c 30 May 1306
2. Sarah de Beauchamp
3. unknown daughter de Beauchamp
4. unknown daughter de Beauchamp
5. unknown daughter de Beauchamp
6. Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick b. c 1270, d. 12 Aug 1315

http://www.thepeerage.com/p2648.htm#i26478

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WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., of Elmley, Acton Beauchamp, Comberton, Naunton Beauchamp, Salwarpe, Stoulton, and Wadborough (in Pershore), Worcestershire, Hanslope and Hawridge, Buckinghamshire, etc., Keeper of the Forest of Dean, 1270, Captain of cos. Chester and Lancaster, 1276, Constable of St. Briavels and Rockingham Castles, Steward of the Forest between Oxford and Stamford, son and heir, born about 1238 /12 (aged 26 and 30 in 1268).
He married before 1270 MAUD FITZ JOHN, widow of Gerard de Furnival, Knt., of Sheffield, Yorkshire, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, etc. (died shortly before 18 October 1261), and daughter of John Fitz Geoffrey, Knt., of Shere, Surrey, Fambridge, Essex, etc., Justiciar of Ireland, Justice of the Forest south of Trent, by Isabel, daughter of Hugh le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk [see VERDUN 8 for her ancestry].
They had two sons,
1. John and
2. Guy, Knt. [10th Earl of Warwick]
and three daughters,
3. Isabel,
4. Anne (nun at Shouldham), and
5. Amy (nun at Shouldham).
He was heir in 1268 to his uncle, William Mauduit, 8th Earl of Warwick, by which he inherited the Earldom of Warwick, the office of Chamberlain of the Exchequer, and the baronies of Warwick, Warwickshire and Hanslope, Buckinghamshire.

"Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families," Douglas Richardson (2013)

William married Maud FITZJOHN before 1270 in Hanslape, Buckinghamshire, England. Maud (daughter of John FITZGEOFFREY, Sheriff Of Yorkshire and Isabel BIGOD) was born about 1237 in Shere, Surrey, England; died on 16 Apr 1301 in Grey Friars, Worcestershire, England; was buried on 7 May 1301 in Grey Friars, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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AKA FITZ GEOFFREY

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Fulke Fitz-Warine, having distinguished himself in the Welsh wars, was summoned to parliament as a baron, by King Edward I, 23 June, 1295, and he had summons from that period to 24 October, 1314. His lordship was afterwards equally eminent in the wars of Scotland and Flanders and was made a knight of the Bath prior to attending Prince Edward into the former kingdom in the expedition made against Robert Bruce. Lord Fitz-Warine m. the Princess Margaret, dau. (by Hawise, dau. of John le Strange, feudal Lord of Knockyn and Cheswardine, co. Salop) of Griffith ap Wenwynwyn, Prince of Powys-Wenwynwyn, 1274. By the Princess Margaret, Lord Fitz-Warine acquired the territory of Ballesley, and dying circa 1314, was s. by his son, Fulke Fitz-Warine. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 213, Fitz-Warine, Barons Fitz-Warine]

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Fulk married Margred Ferch GRUFFYDD, Of Powys before 25 Feb 1276-1277. Margred (daughter of Gruffydd Ap Gwenwynwyn Prince Of POWYS and Hawise Le STRANGE) was born about 1254; died on 11 May 1336. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Margred Ferch GRUFFYDD
• _UID: 45E8AD2E46234F24A226CA2239BB3A511731

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Margaret, Verch Griffith ap Gwenwynwyn m. Foulk Fitz-Warine, summoned to parliament as a Baron 23 June, 1295, and from that period to 12 October, 1314, and by him, who with her acquired the territory of Ballesley, was mother of Foulk Fitzwarine, 2nd baron, summoned to parliament from 6 October, 1315, to 22 January, 1336. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 115, Cherlton, Barons Cherlton, of Powys]


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