Hugh le Despenser, Baron le Despenser (1338)

Hugh le Despenser, 3rd Baron le Despenser (1308–1349), Lord of Glamorgan, was the eldest son and heir of Hugh Despenser the Younger and grandson of Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester.[2] His father and grandfather were both executed in 1326. His mother was Eleanor de Clare, suo jure 6th Lady 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 (d.1359), and both are buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire, which abbey was founded by Robert Fitzhamon (d.1107), the first Norman feudal baron of Gloucester and Lord of Glamorgan.

Arms of Despenser: Quarterly 1st & 4th: Argent; 2nd & 3rd: Gules fretty or, over all a ribbon sable

1338 seal of Hugh le Despenser, 3rd Baron le Despenser, recto and verso, showing on his shield and horse's caparison the arms of Despenser. National Library of Wales. Legend: S(IGILLUM) HUGONIS LE DESPENSER D(OMI)NI GLAMORGANCIE ET MORGANCIE ("Seal of Hugh le Despenser Lord of Glamorgan and Morgan")[1]

Arms of Despenser in stained glass, Tewkesbury Abbey, burial place of Hugh le Despenser, Baron le Despenser

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

Ancestors of Hugh le Despenser, Baron le Despenser (1338)

16. Hugh le Despenser 8. Hugh le Despenser, 1st Baron le Despenser 4. Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester 18. Philip Basset 9. Aline Bassett 19. Hawise de Gray 2. Hugh Despenser the Younger 20. William de Beauchamp 10. William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick 21. Isabel Mauduit 5. Isabella de Beauchamp 22. John Fitzgeoffrey 11. Maud FitzJohn 23. Isabel Bigod 1. Hugh le Despenser 24. Gilbert de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford 12. Richard de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford 25. Isabel Marshal 6. Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford 26. John de Lacy, 1st Earl of Lincoln 13. Maud de Lacy 27. Margaret de Quincy, Countess of Lincoln 3. Eleanor de Clare 28. Henry III of England 14. Edward I of England 29. Eleanor of Provence 7. Joan of Acre 30. Ferdinand III of Castile 15. Eleanor of Castile 31. Joan, Countess of Ponthieu

Notes

1. Text of charter and description of seal see George Thomas Clark, Cartae et Alia Munimenta Quae ad Dominium de Glamorgancia Pertinent, Vol.4, Cardiff, 1910, Charter no. DCCCCLXVIII, pp.1213-18, "INSPEXIMUS BY HUGH LE DESPENSER (son and heir of Hugh le Despenser and Alianora de Clare his wife), OF CERTAIN CHARTERS TO MARGAM ABBEY.
2. Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). "Despenser, Hugh le (d.1326)" . Dictionary of National Biography. 14. London: Smith, Elder & Co.