Thurcytel de Neufmarche

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ada de Hugleville. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sybil married Earl of Hereford Miles Fitzwalter in Apr 1121. Miles (son of Sheriff of Gloucester Walter FitzRoger and Emma de Ballon) was born in 1092 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England; died on 24 Dec 1143 in Shot while hunting in Forest of Dean, Gloustershire, England; was buried in Llanthony Priory, Gloustershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Miles de Pitres. Miles was born in 1099 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Bertha married 1st Baron of Gwentland William de Braose about 1150 in England. William (son of Sir Baron Philip de Braose and Aenor de Toteneis) was born in 1112 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales; died before 1193 in Weobley, Herefordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Baron of Trowbridge II in 1139 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England. Humphrey (son of Humphrey I "The Great" de Bohun, 3rd Baron of Trowbridge and Maud d'Evereaux) was born about 1113 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England; died on 6 Apr 1187 in Wickham, Suffolk, England; was buried in Hempsted, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Walter Beauchamp. Walter (son of William Beauchamp and Joan de Walene) was born in 1173 in Elmley Castle, Worcester, England; died in 1235 in Elmley Castle, Worcester, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sybil married 3rd Earl of Derby William de Ferrers about 1167 in Sussex, England. William (son of 2nd Earl of Derby Robert de Ferrers and Margaret Peverel) was born in 1130 in Tutbury, Stafforshire, England; died on 31 Dec 1189 in Siege of Acre, Jerusalem, Palestine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

At his peak Lord of Bramber, Gower, Abergavenny, Brecknock, Builth, Radnor, Kington, Limerick, and the three castles of Skenfrith, Grosmont, and Whitecastle.

William inherited Bramber, Builth, and Radnor from his father, Brecknock and Abergavenny through his mother. He was the strongest of the Marcher Lords involved in constant war with the Welsh and other lords. He was particularly hated by the Welsh for the massacre of three Welsh princes, their families and their men which took place during a feast at his castle of Abergavenny in 1175. He was sometimes known as the "Ogre of Abergavenny". One of the Normans' foremost warriors, he fought alongside King Richard at Chalus in 1199 (where Richard was killed).

William received Limerick in 1201 from King John. He was also given custody of Glamorgan, Monmouth, and Gwynllwg in return for large payments.

William captured Arthur, Count of Brittany at Mirebeau in 1202 and was in charge of his imprisonment for King John. He was rewarded in February 1203 with the grant of Gower. He may have had knowledge of the murder of Prince Arthur and been bribed to silence by John with the city of Limerick in July. His honors reached their peak when he was made Sheriff of Herefordshire by John in 1206-7. He had held this office under Richard from 1192-1199.

His fall began almost immediately. William was stripped of his office as bailiff of Glamorgan and other custodies in 1206-7. Later he was deprived of all his lands and, sought by John in Ireland, he returned to Wales and joined the Welsh Prince Llewelyn in rebellion. He fled to France in 1210 via Shoreham "in the habit of a beggar" and died in exile near Paris. Despite intending to be interred at St John's, Brecon, he was buried in the Abbey of St Victorie, Paris by Stephen Langton, the Archbishop of Canterbury, another of John's chief opponents who was also taking refuge there.

His wife and son were murdered by King John-starved to death at Windsor Castle.

See Castle of Grosmont

William de Braose inherited the large estates of his grandmother, Bertade Gloucester, and besides possessed the Honor of Braose, in Normandy. This feudal lord was a personage of great power and influence during the reigns of Henry II and Richard I, from the former of whom he obtained a grant of the "whole kingdom of Limerick, in Ireland," for the service of sixty knight's fees, to be held of the king and his younger son, John. For several years after this period, he appears to have enjoyed the favor of King John and his power and possessions were augmented by divers grants from the crown. In the 10th of the king's reign [1209], when the kingdom labored under an interdiction and John deemed it expedient to demand hostages from his barons to ensure their allegiance should the Pope proceed to the length of absolving them from obedience to the crown, his officers who came upon the mission to the Baron de Braose were met by Maud, his wife, and peremptorily informed that she would not entrust any of her children to the king, who had so basely murdered his own nephew, Prince Arthur. de Braose rebuked her for speaking thus, however, and said that if he had in anything offended the king, he was ready to make satisfaction according to the judgment of the court and the barons, his peers, upon an appointed day and at any fixed place without, however, giving hostages. This answer being communicated to the king, an order was immediately transmitted to seize upon the baron's person, but Braose having notice thereof fled with his family into Ireland.

This quarrel between de Braose and King John is, however, differently related by other authorities. The monk of Llanthony stated that King John disinherited and banished him for his cruelty to the Welsh in his war with Gwenwynwyn, and that his wife Maud and William, his son and heir, died prisoners in Corfe Castle. Another writer relates, "that this William de Braose, son of Philip de Braose, Lord of Buelt, held the lands of Brecknock and Went for the whole time of King Henry II, Richard I, and King John without any disturbance until he took to wife the Lady Maud de St. Walerie, who, in revenge of Henry de Hereford, cause divers Welshmen to be furthered in the castle of Bergavenny as they sat at meat; and that for this, and for some other pickt quarrel, King John banished him and all his out of England. Likewise, that in his exile, Maud his wife, with William, galled, Gam, his son, were taken and put into prison where she died the 10th year after her husband fought with Gwenwynwyn and slew three thousand Welch." From these various relations, says Dugdale, it is no easy matter to discover what his demerits were, but what usage he had at last, take here the credit of these two historians who lived near that time. "This year, viz. anno 1240," quoth Matthew of Westminster, "the noble lady Maud, wife of William de Braose, with William, their son and heir, were miserably famished at Windsor by the command of King John; and William, her husband, escaping from Scorham, put himself into the habit of a beggar and, privately getting beyond sea, died soon after at Paris, where he had burial in the abbey of St. Victor." And Matthew Paris, putting his death in anno 1212 (which differs a little in time), says, "That he fled from Ireland to France and, dying at Ebula, his body was carried to Paris and there honorably buried in the abbey of St. Victor." "But after these great troubles in his later days," continues Dugdale, "I shall now say something of his pious works. Being by inheritance from his mother, Lord of Bergavenny, he made great grants to the monks of that priory, conditionally, that the abbot and convent of St. Vincent, in Maine (to which this priory of Bergavenny was a cell) should daily pray for the soul of him, the said William, and the soul of Maud, his wife."

This great but unfortunate personage had issue by his wife, Maud de St. Walerie, I. William; II. Giles: III. Reginald; IV. Sir John; I. Joane; II. Loretta; III. Margaret; IV. Maud.

When the contest between King John and the barons broke out, Giles de Braose, bishop of Hereford, arraying himself under the baronial banner, was put in possession by the people of Bergavenny and the other castles of the deceased lord, and eventually King John, in the last year of his reign, his wrath then being assuaged, granted part of those lands to the bishop's younger brother and heir. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p.72, Braose, Baron Braose, of Gower]

Buried:
Abbey of St Victorie, Paris, Seine, France

William married Maud de St. Valery in 1169. Maud was born about 1155 in Bramber, Sussex, England; died in 1210 in Corfe, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Humphrey married Margaret de Huntingdon in Apr 1175 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England. Margaret (daughter of 3rd Earl of Huntingdon Henry Dunkeld and Ada (Adelaide) de Warenne) was born in 1145 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England; died in 1201 in Richmond, Yorkshire, England; was buried in Sawtry, Huntingdonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ralph de Mortimer. Ralph (son of Roger de Mortimer and Hawise de Vexin) was born about 1055 in Wigmore, Herfordshire, England; died in 1100. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gather married King of England John I "Lackland" Plantagenet in 1188. John (son of King of England Henry II "Curtmantlel" Plantagenet and Duchess of Aquitaine Eleanor) was born on 24 Dec 1166 in Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; died on 19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England; was buried in Cathedral, Worcester, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

This nobleman, upon the return of King Richard from captivity, took arms in his behalf and, joining the Earl of Chester, besieged Nottingham Castle, which, after a brief resistance, surrendered. For this and other acts of fidelity, he was chosen by the king to sit with the rest of the peers in the great council held at the said castle in Nottingham in the ensuing March. Moreover, at Richard's second coronation he was one of the four that carried the canopy over the king's head. Upon the accession of King John, his lordship, with the Earls of Clare and Chester, and other great men, swore fealty to the new monarch but upon the condition that each person should have his right. His lordship was present at the coronation of King John and 7 June following, being solemnly created Earl of Derby by special charter dated at Northampton, he was girt with a sword by the king's own hands (being the first of whom in any charter that expression was used). He had also a grant of the third penny of all the pleas before the sheriff throughout the whole country whereof he was earl, to hold to him and his heirs as amply as any of his ancestors had enjoyed the same. Moreover, in consideration of 4,000 marks, he obtained another charter from the king of the manor of Higham-Ferrers, Northampton, with the hundred and park; as also of the manors of Bliseworth and Newbottle, in the same shire; which were part of the lands of his great grandfather, William Peverel of Nottingham. King John also conferred upon him a mansion-house situated in the parish of St. Margaret within the city of London, which had belonged to Isaac, a Jew, at Norwich, to hold by the service of waiting upon the king (the earl and his heirs), at all festivals yearly without any cap, but with a garland of the breadth of his little finger upon his head. These liberal marks of royal favor were felt so gratefully by the earl that in all the subsequent struggles between the king and the refractory barons, his lordship never once swerved from his allegiance, but remained true to the monarch; and loyalty to the interests of his son, King Henry III. His lordship assisted at the coronation of the new monarch and immediately after the ensuing Easter, he took part with the famous William Marshall(governor of the king and kingdom), the Earls of Chester and Albemarle, and many other great men in the siege of Mountsorell Castle in Leicestershire, then held by Henry de Braybroke and ten other stout knights. And the same year was likewise with those noble persons at raising the siege of Lincoln, which place the rebellious barons with Lewis, King of France, had invested. His lordship m. Agnes, sister and one of the co-heirs of Ranulph, Earl of Chester, by whom he had two sons, William and Thomas. He died of the gout in 1246 and his countess d. in the same year after a union, according to some authorities, of seventy-five, and by others, of fifty-five years. His lordship was s. by his elder son, William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 196, Ferrers, Earls of Derby]

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There is substantial confusion over his name. See The Complete Peerage Vol. 4, p 193 for an account. Personally, I feel there could have been two brothers, William and Robert, Robert being the Earl and when he died at Acre his nephew William son of his brother William succeeded, but no documents support this theory either! In The Complete Peerage vol. XIV, p.250 it is suggested that Robert is a fabrication by Vincent, Earl of Ferrieres. [Brian Tompsett, Directory of Royal Genealogical Data]

William married Agnes de Meschines on 2 Nov 1192. Agnes (daughter of 3rd Earl of Chester Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester and Bertrade de Montfort) was born about 1174 in Chester, Cheshire, England; died on 2 Nov 1247. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: 4th Earl of Leicester Robert IV de Beaumont. Robert (son of 3rd Earl of Leicester Robert III de Beaumont and Petronella de Grandmesnil) was born about 1150 in Leicestershire, England; died in 1204 in Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

William did not accompany King Richard on Crusade but fought with King John against Philip in Normandy (1203/4). King John demanded William as a hostage for his father's loyalty in 1208. His mother Maud refused and they fled to Ireland. In 1210 John prepared an expedition to Ireland. Maud and William escaped Ireland, but were apprehended in Scotland. William the father was in Wales at the time. It is believed that Maud and William were starved to death at Windsor Castle (Some say Corfe).

William, who perished by starvation with his mother at Windsor m. Maud, dau. of the Earl of Clare, with whom he had the town of Buckingham, in frank marriage, and left a son, John. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, ENG, 1883, p. 72, Braose, Baron Braose, of Gower]

William married Maud de Clere in 1197. Maud (daughter of 4th Earl of Hertford Richard de Clare and Countess of Gloucester Amicia) was born about 1176 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England; died in 1213. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Giles' younger brother, Reginald, s. him in the representation of the family. Eventually King John, in the last year of his reign, his wrath being then assuaged, granted part of those [confiscated] lands to Reginald, which grant was confirmed by King Henry III, and he had livery of the castle and honour of Totness, with the honour of Barnstaple, having had previous possession of other estates. He m. GoÅicia, dau.... offff William de Bruere, and dying in 1221, waaas sss. by his son, William de Braose. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 72, Braose, Baron Braose, of Gower]

Family/Spouse: Princess of Wales Gwladys "The Dark" verch Llewelyn. Gwladys (daughter of Llywelyn Fawr ap Iowerth, Prince of Wales and Tangwystl verch Lywarch) was born in 1205 in Caerarvonshire, Wales; died in 1251 in Winsor, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Countess of Essex Maud de Mandeville. Maud (daughter of 1st Earl of Essex Geoffrey FitzPiers and Beatrix de Say) was born in 1177 in Saffron Walden, Essex, England; died on 27 Aug 1236 in of Warwick, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Waleran de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Warwick before 1190. Waleran (son of 2nd Earl of Warwick Roger de Beaumont and Gundred de Warenne) was born in 1153 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England; died on 12 Dec 1204. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Isabel de Mauduit in 1231/1258. Isabel (daughter of Baron of Hanslape William de Mauduit and Alice de Beaumont) was born in 1210/1226 in Elmley, Gloucestershire, England; died about 1268 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Maud de Meschines. Maud (daughter of Earl of Cambridge William de Meschines and Cecily de Romilly) was born about 1120 in Gernons Castle, Normandy, France; died after 1190 in Skipton in Craven, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Stephen de Aumale. Stephen (son of Count of Troyes Odo (Eudes), III and of Normandy Adeliza) was born before 1070; died in 1127. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Burial: Merevale, Warwickshire, England
• Name: William de Ferrers

Notes:

William de Ferrers, 7th Earl of Derby, upon doing homage in the 32nd Henry III [c. 1248], had livery of Chartley Castle and the other lands of his mother's inheritance; and the same year he sat in the parliament held in London wherein the king made so stout an answer to the demands of his impetuous barons. His lordship m. 1st, Sibel, one of the daus. and co-heirs of William Mareschal, Earl of Pembroke, by whom he had seven daus., viz., Agnes, m. to William de Vesci; Isabel m. 1st to Gilbert Basset, of Wycombe, and 2ndly, to Reginald de Mohun; Maud, m. 1st to William de Kymes; 2ndly to William de Vyvon, and 3rdly, to Emerick de Rupel Carnardi; Sibil m. 1st to John de Vipont, 2ndly to Franco de Mohun; Joane m. to William Aguillon, and 2ndly to John de Mohun; Agatha m. to Hugh Mortimer of Chelmersh; Eleanor m. 1st to William de Vallibus, 2ndly to Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winton, and 3rdly to Roger de Leybourne, but had no issue. The earl m. 2ndly Margaret, one of the daus. and co-heirs of Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, and had issue: Robert, his successor; William, upon whom his mother conferred the lordship of Groby, co. Leicester; Joan, m. Thomas, Lord Berkeley; and Agnes, m. to Robert de Muscegros, Lord of Deerhurst.

His lordship, who from his youth had been a martyr to the gout, and in consequence obliged to he drawn from place to place in a chariot, lost his life by being thrown through the heedlessness of his driver over the bridge at St. Neots, co. Huntingdon, in 1254. He was survived by his eldest son, Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 197, Ferrers, Earls of Derby]

William married Sibyl Marshal before 14 May 1219. Sibyl (daughter of 1st Earl of Pembroke William Marshal and Isabel FitzGilbert de Clare) was born about 1191 in Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died before 1238. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret de Quincy. Margaret (daughter of Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester and Helen "of Galloway") was born in 1218 in England; died in 1281 in England; was buried in Merevale, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lord of Appleby John de Vipont. John (son of Robert de Vipont and Idonea de Busli) was born in 1210 in Brougham Castle, Appleby, Westmorland, England; died in 1241. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Eva Marshal on 2 May 1230. Eva (daughter of 1st Earl of Pembroke William Marshal and Isabel FitzGilbert de Clare) was born in 1194 in Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died before 1246 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Nicknamed "Tadody" by the Welsh when he was hidden in Gower as a child after King John had his father and grandmother killed. He was later in the custody of Engelard de Cigogny (castellan of Windsor) along with his brother Giles. Cigogny was ordered to give the two boys up to William de Harcourt in 1214. At this time John became separated from his brother. He was present at the signing of the Magna Charta in 1215.

John disputed his uncle Reginald's claim to the Braose lands, sometimes resorting to arms. Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, helped him to secure Gower(1219). In 1221, with the advice and permission of Llewelyn, he repaired his castle of Abertawy (Swansea). He purchased the Rape of Bramber from Reginald and his son William in 1226. In that year John confirmed the family gifts to Sele Priory, near Bramber, and to the Abbey of St Florent, Saumur, and added others. After the death of Reginald(1228) he became Lord of Skenfrith, Grosmont, and Whitecastle, the three Marcher castles, by charter from the king but he lost these in 1230 to Hugh de Burgh at the same time as Gower became a subtenancy of de Burgh's Honor of Carmarthen and Cardigan.

See Castle of Abertawy, Swansea

Joan de Braose, surnamed Tadody, had been privately nursed by a Welshwoman at Gower. This John had grants of lands from King Henry III and was also possessed of the Barony of Brembye, in Sussex, where he died in 1231, by a fall from his horse, his foot sticking in the stirrup. He married, it is stated, Margaret, dau. of Llewellyn, Prince of Wales, by whom (who m. afterwards Walter de Clifford) he had a son, his successor, William de Braose. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 72, Braose, Baron Braose, of Gower]

John married Margaret verch Llewelyn in 1219 in Wales. Margaret (daughter of Llywelyn Fawr ap Iowerth, Prince of Wales and Joan Plantagenet, daughter of Joan Plantagenet) was born in 1210 in Caernarvonshire, Wales; died in 1263 in Clifford Castle, Herefordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Maud de Lusignan. Maud (daughter of Count of Eu Raoul de Lusignan and Alice d'Eu) was born in 1168/1211; died on 14 Aug 1241. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Baron of Hanslape William de Mauduit. William (son of Robert de Mauduit) was born about 1196 in Hanslape, Buckinghamshire, England; died in Apr 1257. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Maud FitzGeoffrey in 1255/1284. Maud (daughter of Sheriff of Yorkshire, Justiciar of Ireland John FitzGeoffrey and Isabell (Isabella) Bigod) was born about 1237 in Shere, Surrey, England; died about 18 Apr 1301 in Grey Friars, Worcestershire, England; was buried on 7 May 1301 in Grey Friars, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Isabel de Ferrers. Isabel (daughter of Walkelin de Ferrers and Alice Leche) was born about 1036. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Adam II de Brus. Adam (son of Jueta Ivetta d'Arches) was born in 1125 in Skelton, Yorkshire, England; died in 1196 in Skelton, Yorkshire, England; was buried in Priory, Guisborough, Yorkshire North Riding, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester. Roger (son of Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester IV and Margaret de Beaumont) was born about 1195 in Winchester, Hamptonshire, England; died on 25 Apr 1264 in Buckley, Northamptonshire, England; was buried in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alianore de Bohun. Alianore (daughter of Humphrey de Bohun and Eleanor de Braose) died in 1313. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Death: 24 Jan 1288, Groby, Leicestershire, England

Family/Spouse: Anna Durward. Anna (daughter of Alan Durward and Marjory) was born in 1248 in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England; died in 1280 in Groby, Leicestershire, England; was buried in Groby, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Isabel FitzJohn. Isabel (daughter of Sheriff of Yorkshire, Justiciar of Ireland John FitzGeoffrey and Isabell (Isabella) Bigod) was born about 1230 in Shere, Farnbridge, Surrey, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Humphrey de Bohun. Humphrey (son of 2nd Earl of Hereford Humphrey de Bohun and Maud de Lusignan) died on 27 Oct 1265 in Beeston Castle, Chesire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married 1st Baron Wigmore Roger de Mortimer in 1247. Roger (son of Ralph de Mortimer and Princess of Wales Gwladys "The Dark" verch Llewelyn) was born in 1231 in Cwmaron Castle, Radnorshire, Wales; died on 27 Oct 1282 in Kingsland, Herefordshire, England; was buried in Wigmore Abbey, Herefordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Isabel de Clare. Isabel (daughter of 6th Earl of Hertford, 2nd Gloucester Richard de Clare and Maud de Lacy) was born about 1240; died about 1271. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester about 1250. Roger (son of Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester IV and Margaret de Beaumont) was born about 1195 in Winchester, Hamptonshire, England; died on 25 Apr 1264 in Buckley, Northamptonshire, England; was buried in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Eleanor de Braose. Eleanor (daughter of Lord of Abergavenny William V de Braose and Eva Marshal) was born in 1218/1238; died in 1253/1325. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married William Beauchamp in 1231/1258. William (son of Walcheline Beauchamp) was born in 1210 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England; died in 1269 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married Lord of Kidwelly Patrick de Chaworth in 1275/1282. Patrick was born about 1250 in Kempsford, Gloucestershire, England; died about 7 Jul 1283. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: 1st Earl of Winchester Hugh le Despenser. Hugh (son of 1st Baron le Despencer Hugh le Despenser and Aline Bassett) was born on 1 Mar 1261 in Louchborough, Leicestershire, England; died on 27 Oct 1326 in Bristol, Gloucester, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick (d. August 10, 1315) was an English nobleman, and one of the principal opponents of Edward II's favorite Piers Gaveston.

He was the son of William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick and Maud FitzGeoffrey, and succeeded his father as earl in 1298. Later that year he distinguished himself at the Battle of Falkirk, and he subsequently served in other campaigns in Scotland. He also received grants of land in Scotland and, in 1309, he married Alice de Toeni, a Scots heiress.

Warwick had no great like for Piers Gaveston, who had called Warwick "the black cur of Arden" (an allusion to Warwick's dark complexion and to the Forest of Arden in Warwickshire). Not long after Edward II's accession, he helped arrange for Gaveston's banishment, and refused to be reconciled when Gaveston returned the next year.

Warwick was one of the great peers who petitioned the king for reform of the government in 1310. The peers were successful in getting Gaveston banished again, and when he returned to England in 1312, Warwick was one of the 5 nobles who arrested him. Gaveston was placed in the custody of the Earl of Pembroke, but then on June 10 Warwick, with a force of 140 men seized him and carried him off to Warwick castle. After the arrival of the confederate nobles, Gaveston was executed, though the Warwick declined to be present.

Warwick, along with his allies, was eventually pardoned for the Gaveston affair in 1313. He and the others nevertheless refused to serve in the king's Scottish campaign of 1314. The next year Warwick suddenly fell ill and died. As was inevitable in such cases, there were rumors of poison.

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Guy married Isabel de Clare on 11 May 1297 in Warwick Castle, Warwickshire, England. Isabel (daughter of 7th Earl of Hertford, 3rd Earl of Gloucester Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester and Alice de Lusignan) was born on 10 Mar 1262 in Worcestershire, England; died in 1333 in Elmley, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alice de Toeni. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ralph married Princess of Wales Gwladys "The Dark" verch Llewelyn about 1230. Gwladys (daughter of Llywelyn Fawr ap Iowerth, Prince of Wales and Tangwystl verch Lywarch) was born in 1205 in Caerarvonshire, Wales; died in 1251 in Winsor, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Joan Grammaire. Joan (daughter of Richard le Grammaire) was born about 1155 in Skelton, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ellen de Menteith. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1254, Ricester, Oxfordshire
• Birth: 1254, Oxfordshire, England

Isabel married Justice of Forests Roger III de Clifford in 1269 in England. Roger (son of Justice of Wales Roger II de Clifford and Countess of Lorraine Hawise de Botterell) was born in 1243 in Tenbury, Worcestershire, England; died on 6 Nov 1282 in Menai Bridge, Isle of Anglesey, Wales; was buried in Shap, Eden District, Cumbria, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Humphrey married Maud de Fiennes about 1275. Maud was born in 1235/1258; died before 1298. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: 6th Earl of Derby Robert de Ferrers. Robert (son of William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby III and Margaret de Quincy, son of William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby III) was born in 1239; died in 1279. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabella married 7th Earl of Arundel John FitzAlan in 1261/1271. John (son of 6th Earl of Arundel John FitzAlan and Maud le Botiller) was born on 14 Sep 1246 in Arundel, Sussex, England; died on 18 Mar 1272 in Clun, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret de Fiennes. Margaret (daughter of William II de Fiennes and Blanche de Brienne) was born about 1270 in France; died on 7 Feb 1333 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married 6th Earl of Oxford Robert de Vere in 1282 in Hedingham Castle, Essex, England. Robert (son of 5th Earl of Oxford Robert de Vere and Alice de Sanford) was born on 24 Jun 1257 in Hedingham Castle, Essex, England; died on 17 Apr 1331 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

William de Braose, in the 22nd of Edward I [1293], had summons to attend the king with other great men to advise regarding the important affairs of the realm. And about the beginning of the ensuing September, he was one of those who embarked at Portsmouth with horse and arms in the king's service for Gascony. In the 28th and 29th of the same reign,he was in the wars of Scotland, and in the latter year he had summons to parliament as a baron. In the 32nd [1304], he was again in the Scottish wars and then enjoyed so much favour that the king not only confirmed to him and his heirs the grant of Gower Land, made by King john to his ancestor, but granted that he and they should thenceforth enjoy all regal jurisdiction, liberties, and privileges there in as ample a manner as Gilder de Clare, son of Richard de Clare, sometimes Earl of Gloucester, had in all his lands of Glamorgan. For several years afterwards, his lordship appears to have been constantly engaged upon the same theatre of war and was always eminently distinguished. In the 14th Edward II [1321], according to Thomas of Walsingham, being "a person who had a large patrimony but a great unthrift," his lordship put up for sale his noble territory of Gower Land, and absolutely sold it under the king's license to the Earl of Hereford; but its contiguity to the lands of the younger Spencer (who was then high in royal favour, and the king's chamberlain), attracting the attention of that minion, he forcibly possessed himself of the estate and thus gave rise to the insurrection headed by Thomas Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster. Lord Braose m. Aliva, dau. of Thomas de Moulton, and had issue, Aliva, m. 1st, to John de Mowbray, and 2ndly, to Sir Richard de Pershall, and Joan, m. to John* de Bohun, of Midhurst. His lordship, who had regular summons to parliament to 18 September, 1322, d. in that year, when the Barony of Braose, of Gower, fell into abeyance between his daus. and co-heirs, and it so continues with their representatives. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, England, 1883, pp. 72-73, Braose, Barons Braose, of Gower]

* The Bohun entry on pg. 58 in the same source cited above, states it was James de Bohun, younger brother of John de Bohun, who d.s.p., that Joan married.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth de Sully. Elizabeth (daughter of Raymond de Sully) was born in 1263 in Sully, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales; died in 1328. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Maud FitzGeoffrey in 1255/1284. Maud (daughter of Sheriff of Yorkshire, Justiciar of Ireland John FitzGeoffrey and Isabell (Isabella) Bigod) was born about 1237 in Shere, Surrey, England; died about 18 Apr 1301 in Grey Friars, Worcestershire, England; was buried on 7 May 1301 in Grey Friars, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Lancaster before 2 Mar 1297. Henry (son of Edmund "Crouchback" Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster and of Artois Blanche Capet) was born about 1281 in Grosmont Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales; died on 22 Sep 1345 in Monastry of Cannons, Leicester, Leicestershire, England; was buried in Leicester, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Hugh (1286 – November 26, 1326) was sometimes referred to as "the younger Despenser". He was the son and heir of Hugh le Despenser, Earl of Winchester, by Isabel Beauchamp, daughter of William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick.

He was knight of Hanley Castle, Worcestershire, King's Chamberlain, Constable of Odiham Castle, Keeper of the castle and town of Dryslwyn, and Cantref Mawr, Carmarthenshire, Keeper of the castle and town of Portchester, Keeper of the castle, town and barton of Bristol. He was also Keeper of the castles, manor, and lands of Brecknock, Hay, cantref Selyf, etc., co. Brecon, and Huntington, Herefordshire. He was given Wallingford Castle although this had previously been given to Queen Isabella for life.

In May 1306 Hugh was knighted, and that summer he married Eleanor de Clare, a granddaughter of King Edward I of England. Her grandfather owed Hugh's father vast sums of money, and the marriage was intended as a payment of these debts. When Eleanor's brother was killed at the Battle of Bannockburn, she unexpectedly became one of the three co-heiresses to the rich Gloucester earldom, and in her right Hugh inherited Glamorgan and other properties. In just a few short years Hugh went from a landless knight to one of the wealthiest magnates in the kingdom.

Eleanor was also the niece of the new king, Edward II of England, and this connection brought Hugh closer to the English royal court. He joined the baronial opposition to Piers Gaveston, the king's favorite, and Hugh's brother-in-law, as Gaveston was married to Eleanor's sister. Eager for power and wealth, Hugh seized Tonbridge Castle in 1315. The next year he murdered Llywelyn Bren, a Welsh hostage in his custody.

Hugh Despenser became royal chamberlain in 1318. As a royal courtier, Hugh manoeuvred into the affections of King Edward, displacing the previous favorite, Roger d'Amory. By 1320 his tyranny was running free. Hugh seized the Welsh lands of his wife's inheritance, ignoring the claims of his two brothers-in-law. He forced Alice de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln, to give up her lands, cheated his sister-in-law Elizabeth de Clare out of Gower and Usk, and allegedly had Lady Baret's arms and legs broken until she went insane. He also supposedly vowed to be revenged on Roger Mortimer because Mortimer's grandfather had murdered Hugh's grandfather, and once stated (though probably in jest) that he regretted he could not control the wind. By 1321 he had earned many enemies in every strata of society, from Queen Isabella to the barons to the common people. There was even a bizarre plot to kill Hugh by sticking pins in a wax likeness of him.

Finally the barons prevailed upon King Edward and forced Hugh and his father into exile in 1321. His father fled to Bordeaux, and Hugh became a pirate in the English channel, "a sea monster, lying in wait for merchants as they crossed his path". The pair returned the next year and King Edward quickly reinstated Hugh as royal favorite. His time in exile had done nothing to quell his greed, his rashness, or his ruthlessness. While Queen Isabella was in France to negotiate between her husband and the French king, she formed a liaison with Roger Mortimer and began planning an invasion. Hugh supposedly tried to bribe French courtiers to assassinate Queen Isabella. When Mortimer and the queen invaded England in October 1326, King Edward was deposed, Hugh's father was executed, and Hugh himself was captured.

Hugh tried to starve himself before his trial, but face trial he did on November 24, 1326, in Hereford. He was judged a traitor and a thief, and sentenced to public execution by hanging, drawing and quartering. Immediately, he was dragged behind four horses to his place of execution, where a great fire was lit. He was hanged from a gallows fifty feet high, but cut down before he could choke to death and tied to a ladder, in full view of the crowd. A man climbed up beside him, and sliced off his penis and testicles which were then burnt before him, still alive and conscious. Subsequently, the executioner plunged his knife into his abdomen, and cut out his entrails and heart, which were likewise burnt before the delighted crowd. Finally, he was beheaded, and his body cut into four pieces, and his head was mounted on the gates of London.

No book-length biographical study of Hugh Despenser exists, although The Tyranny and Fall of Edward II: 1321-1326 by historian Natalie Fryde is a study of Edward II's reign during the years that the Despensers' power was at its peak. Fryde pays particular attention to the subject of the Despensers' ill-gotten landholdings. The numerous accusations against the younger Despenser at the time of his execution have never been the subject of close critical scrutiny, although historian Roy Martin Haines called them "ingenuous" and noted their propagandistic nature.

Despite the crucial and disastrous role he played in the reign of Edward II, Despenser is almost a minor character in Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II, where as "Spencer" he is little more than a substitute for the dead Piers Gaveston.

Trivia
In 2006, he was selected by the BBC History Magazine as the 14th century's worst Briton. (BBC)

In 2006, he was selected by the BBC History Magazine as the 8th worst Briton in the last 1000 years.

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Hugh married Eleanor de Clare on 14 Jun 1306 in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England. Eleanor (daughter of 7th Earl of Hertford, 3rd Earl of Gloucester Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester and Joan "of Acre" Plantagenet) was born on 16 Sep 1292 in Caerphilly Castle, Caerphilly, Glamorganshire, Wales; died on 30 Jun 1337 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1311, Alnwick, Northumberland, England

Notes:

Buried:
Collegiate Church of St. Mary

Family/Spouse: Katherine de Mortimer. Katherine (daughter of Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March and Joan de Greneville) was born in 1314 in Ludlow Castle, Shropshire, England; died on 4 Aug 1369 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England; was buried in Warwick, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married on 22 Feb 1326. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Roger married Maud de Braose in 1247. Maud (daughter of Lord of Abergavenny William V de Braose and Eva Marshal) was born about 1226 in Bramber Castle, Breconshire, Wales, England; died on 20 Mar 1301 in Ludlow, Herefordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lord Audley Hugh (Alditheley) d'Audley. Hugh was born in 1267 in Stratton Audley, Oxfordshire, England; died on 1 Apr 1325 in Wallingford, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Peter married Helewise de Lancaster in 1213 in England. Helewise (daughter of Gilbert FitzRoger and Helewise de Lancaster) was born about 1198 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Isabel de Verdun. Isabel (daughter of 2nd Lord Verdon Theobold de Verdon and Elizabeth de Clare) was born on 21 Mar 1316/17 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England; died on 25 Jul 1349. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Matilda (Maud) de Clare on 13 Nov 1295 in Clifford's Castle, Herefordshire, England. Matilda (daughter of Governor of London Lord of Thormond Thomas de Clare and Juliana FitzMaurice) was born in 1279 in Thormond, Connaught, Clare, Ireland; died on 4 May 1327 in Badlesmere, Swale Borough, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

http://battle-of-boroughbridge.wikiverse.org/

The Battle of Boroughbridge was a small but important battle in the conflicts between Edward II of England and his rebellious barons. The battle took place near at important bridge across the Wye called Boroughbridge, northwest of York .

Early in 1322, King Edward took forces north in England to subdue his cousin Thomas, Earl of Lancaster . Lancaster was pushed further north, where he may have been hoping to join up with forces from Scotland. However on March 16, he found his way across the river Wye barred by forces of Sir Andrew Harclay. Sir Andrew used the infantry tactics which were later to prove so effective against the French at Crecy, and the rebels were defeated.

Of the rebel leaders, Humphrey de Bohun , 4th Earl of Hereford, was killed, and the rest captured. The prisoners were later convicted of treason and executed.

Humphrey married Elizabeth "of Rhuddlan" Plantagenet on 14 Nov 1302 in Westminster Cathedral, London, Middlesex, England. Elizabeth (daughter of Edward "Longshanks" Plantagenet, King of England and Eleanor "of Castile", Countess de Ponthieu) was born on 7 Aug 1282 in Rhuddlan Castle, Carnarvon; died on 5 May 1316 in Quendon, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Alasia di Saluzzo in 1280/1299. Alasia (daughter of 4th Marquess di Saluzzo Thomas I di Saluzzo and Marquess of Ceva Luisa di Ceva) was born about 1271 in Saluzzo, Piedmont, Italy; died on 25 Sep 1292. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Roger married Joan de Greneville on 6 Oct 1306 in Shropshire, England. Joan (daughter of Piers de Greneville) was born on 2 Feb 1285 in Ludlow, Shropshire, England; died on 19 Oct 1356 in Kings Stanley, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Maud Fitz John. Maud was born in 1244 in Bernard Castle, Warwickshire, England; died on 16 Apr 1301 in Grey, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Death: 4 Jan 1360

Family/Spouse: Maud de Badlesmere. Maud (daughter of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord of Badlesmere and Margaret de Clare) was born in 1310 in Badlesmere, Swale Borough, Kent, England; died on 23 May 1366 in Earls Colne, Essex, England; was buried in Earls Colne, Braintree District, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: 2nd Baron Mowbray John de Mowbray. John (son of 1st Baron Mowbray Roger de Mowbray and Rohese de Clare) was born on 4 Sep 1286 in Thirsk, North Ride, Yorkshire, England; died on 23 Mar 1321/22 in York, Yorkshire, England; was buried in His corpse left dangling at York for 3 years.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married Lord of Kidwelly Patrick de Chaworth in 1275/1282. Patrick was born about 1250 in Kempsford, Gloucestershire, England; died about 7 Jul 1283. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: 1st Earl of Winchester Hugh le Despenser. Hugh (son of 1st Baron le Despencer Hugh le Despenser and Aline Bassett) was born on 1 Mar 1261 in Louchborough, Leicestershire, England; died on 27 Oct 1326 in Bristol, Gloucester, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick (d. August 10, 1315) was an English nobleman, and one of the principal opponents of Edward II's favorite Piers Gaveston.

He was the son of William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick and Maud FitzGeoffrey, and succeeded his father as earl in 1298. Later that year he distinguished himself at the Battle of Falkirk, and he subsequently served in other campaigns in Scotland. He also received grants of land in Scotland and, in 1309, he married Alice de Toeni, a Scots heiress.

Warwick had no great like for Piers Gaveston, who had called Warwick "the black cur of Arden" (an allusion to Warwick's dark complexion and to the Forest of Arden in Warwickshire). Not long after Edward II's accession, he helped arrange for Gaveston's banishment, and refused to be reconciled when Gaveston returned the next year.

Warwick was one of the great peers who petitioned the king for reform of the government in 1310. The peers were successful in getting Gaveston banished again, and when he returned to England in 1312, Warwick was one of the 5 nobles who arrested him. Gaveston was placed in the custody of the Earl of Pembroke, but then on June 10 Warwick, with a force of 140 men seized him and carried him off to Warwick castle. After the arrival of the confederate nobles, Gaveston was executed, though the Warwick declined to be present.

Warwick, along with his allies, was eventually pardoned for the Gaveston affair in 1313. He and the others nevertheless refused to serve in the king's Scottish campaign of 1314. The next year Warwick suddenly fell ill and died. As was inevitable in such cases, there were rumors of poison.

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Guy married Isabel de Clare on 11 May 1297 in Warwick Castle, Warwickshire, England. Isabel (daughter of 7th Earl of Hertford, 3rd Earl of Gloucester Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester and Alice de Lusignan) was born on 10 Mar 1262 in Worcestershire, England; died in 1333 in Elmley, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alice de Toeni. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married 3rd Earl of Ulster William "The Brown" de Burgh on 1 May 1327 in Carrickfergus Castle, Antrim, Northern Ireland. William (son of John de Burgh and Elizabeth de Clare) was born on 13 Sep 1312 in Ulster, Ulster, Ireland; died on 6 Jun 1333 in Le Ford, Belfast, Antrim, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married 3rd Baron Mowbray John de Mowbray about 28 Feb 1326/27. John (son of 2nd Baron Mowbray John de Mowbray and Aline de Braose) was born on 29 Nov 1310 in Hovingham, Malton, North Ride, Yorkshire, England; died on 4 Oct 1361 in York, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Mary Percy

Family/Spouse: Henry de Percy, 3rd Baron Percy. Henry (son of 2nd Baron Percy Henry de Percy and Lady Alnwick Idonea de Clifford) was born in 1320 in Seamer, North Riding, Yorkshire, England; died about 18 May 1368 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England; was buried in Alnwick, Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Abt 1318, Arundel, Sussex, England

Notes:

Died:
Age: 54

Eleanor married John de Beaumont on 23 Aug 1337 in Marr, Yorkshire, England. John (son of Henry de Beaumont and Alice Comyn) was born about 1318 in Falkenham, Suffolk, England; died on 14 Apr 1342 in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland; was buried in Lewes, East Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married 10th Earl of Arundel Richard FitzAlan on 5 Feb 1345 in Ditton Church, Stoke Poges, Buckingham. Richard (son of Edmund FitzAlan, 2nd Earl of Arundel and Alice de Warenne) was born about 1313 in Arundel, Sussex, England; died on 24 Jan 1376 in Arundel, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Isabel de Beaumont about 1335. Isabel (daughter of Henry de Beaumont and Alice Comyn) was born in 1298/1322; died in 1361 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Anne de Ferrers on 20 Apr 1334 in Groby, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married 10th Earl of Arundel Richard FitzAlan on 9 Feb 1321. Richard (son of Edmund FitzAlan, 2nd Earl of Arundel and Alice de Warenne) was born about 1313 in Arundel, Sussex, England; died on 24 Jan 1376 in Arundel, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philippa married Hugh de Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford on 1 Mar 1351 in Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucestershire, England. Hugh (son of Ralph de Stafford, 2nd Baron Stafford 1st Earl of Stafford and Margaret de Audley, 2nd Baroness Audley) was born about 1344 in Stafford, Staffordshire, England; died on 16 Oct 1386 in Rhodes, Greece; was buried in Stone, Staffordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret de Ferrers. Margaret (daughter of 3rd Baron Ferrers of Groby William de Ferrers and Margaret de Ufford) was born in 1355 in Groby, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Joan FitzAlan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabella married 7th Earl of Arundel John FitzAlan in 1261/1271. John (son of 6th Earl of Arundel John FitzAlan and Maud le Botiller) was born on 14 Sep 1246 in Arundel, Sussex, England; died on 18 Mar 1272 in Clun, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret de Fiennes. Margaret (daughter of William II de Fiennes and Blanche de Brienne) was born about 1270 in France; died on 7 Feb 1333 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married 6th Earl of Oxford Robert de Vere in 1282 in Hedingham Castle, Essex, England. Robert (son of 5th Earl of Oxford Robert de Vere and Alice de Sanford) was born on 24 Jun 1257 in Hedingham Castle, Essex, England; died on 17 Apr 1331 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Ralph Neville 2nd Baron Neville de Raby on 14 Jan 1324 in Hadley, Staffordshire, England. Ralph (son of Ranulph Neville 1st Baron Neville and Euphemia de Clavering) was born about 1291 in Raby, Durham, England; died on 5 Aug 1367 in Raby, Durham, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married 3d Baron Of Greystoke Ralph FitzRobert de Greystoke on 25 Nov 1317. Ralph was born on 15 Aug 1299 in Greystoke, Cumberland, England; died on 14 Jul 1332 in Gateshead, Durham, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hugh married Margaret de Clare on 28 Apr 1317 in Winsor, England. Margaret (daughter of 7th Earl of Hertford, 3rd Earl of Gloucester Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester and Joan "of Acre" Plantagenet) was born on 16 Sep 1292 in Caerphilly Castle, Caerphilly, Glamorganshire, Wales; died on 9 Apr 1342. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married Walter de Faiucomberge in 1243 in England. Walter (son of Peter de Faiucomberge and Margaret de Montfichet) was born about 1212 in Rise, Yorkshire, England; died on 1 Nov 1304 in Rise, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret de Ufford. Margaret was born in 1335 in Thurston, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: 12th Earl of Atholl David Strathbogie. David was born about 1332; died on 10 Oct 1369. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Catherine married Thomas Waller about 1333. Thomas was born in 1303 in Lamberhurst, Sussex, England; died in 1390 in Groombridge, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Abt 1300, Clifford Castle, Herefordshire

Family/Spouse: 2nd Baron Percy Henry de Percy. Henry (son of 1st Baron Percy Henry de Percy and Eleanor FitzAlan) was born on 6 Feb 1300 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England; died on 27 Feb 1351 in Warkworth, Northumberland, England; was buried . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 21 Mar 1299, Clifford Castle, Herefordshire

Notes:

Conflict here:

In Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage books it states that Roger was "b. 21 Jan or 2 Feb. 1299/1300; joined rebellion of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, against Edward II and his favorites and was taken prisoner at the Battle of Boroughridge 16 March 1321/2: dsp, being executed at York 23 March 1322."

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From this site:
Roger Clifford, 2nd Lord of Skipton

He was involved in a rebellion against King Edward I's favourite Huge Lord de Despencer, and ultimately against the King him self. The rebel forces were brought to battle by the King's forces in Boroughbridge in March 1322 at which Roger Clifford received severe wounds. Forced to surrender, he was condemned to death and held captive in York. Reprieved, probably because of his wounds, he survived until 1326. His estates were forfeited, including Skipton castle. They were restored to Robert, 3rd Lord of Skipton in 1327.

All this is from The Skipton Castle Teachers Resource Pack.

http://battle-of-boroughbridge.wikiverse.org/

The Battle of Boroughbridge was a small but important battle in the conflicts between Edward II of England and his rebellious barons. The battle took place near at important bridge across the Wye called Boroughbridge, northwest of York.

Early in 1322, King Edward took forces north in England to subdue his cousin Thomas, Earl of Lancaster. Lancaster was pushed further north, where he may have been hoping to join up with forces from Scotland. However on March 16, he found his way across the river Wye barred by forces of Sir Andrew Harclay. Sir Andrew used the infantry tactics which were later to prove so effective against the French at Crecy, and the rebels were defeated.

Of the rebel leaders, Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, was killed, and the rest captured. The prisoners were later convicted of treason and executed.

Family/Spouse: Juliann de Bower. Juliann was born in 1303 in Whinfield, Westmorland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Death: 20 May 1344, Skipton-In-Craven, Yorkshire

William married Elizabeth de Badlesmere in 1335 in Castle Badlesmere, Kent, England. Elizabeth (daughter of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord of Badlesmere and Margaret de Clare) was born in 1313 in Castle Badlesmere, Kent, England; died on 9 Jun 1378 in Blackfriars, London, England; was buried in Ludgate, Greater London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married 1st Earl of Ormonde James Butler in 1327. James died on 6 Jan 1337. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married 10th Earl of Devon Hugh Courtenay 2nd Earl of Devon on 11 Aug 1325 in Exeter, Devonshire, England. Hugh (son of 9th Earl of Devon Hugh Courtenay and Agnes de Saint John) was born on 12 Jul 1303 in Okehampton, Devonshire, England; died on 2 May 1377 in Exeter, Devonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Alice FitzAlan in 1325. Alice (daughter of Edmund FitzAlan, 2nd Earl of Arundel and Alice de Warenne) died in 1326. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Margaret Basset on 19 Feb 1331. Margaret died in 1355. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
beheaded

Edmund married Alice de Warenne in 1305. Alice (daughter of William de Warenne and Joanna (Joane) de Vere) was born on 15 Jun 1287 in Warren, Sussex, England; died on 23 May 1338. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: 1st Baron Percy Henry de Percy. Henry (son of 7th Baron Percy Henry de Percy and Eleanor de Warenne) was born on 25 Mar 1273; died in Oct 1314; was buried in Fountain Abbey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edmund married Elizabeth de Badlesmere on 27 Jun 1316 in Earnwood, Kinlet, Shropshire, England. Elizabeth (daughter of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord of Badlesmere and Margaret de Clare) was born in 1313 in Castle Badlesmere, Kent, England; died on 9 Jun 1378 in Blackfriars, London, England; was buried in Ludgate, Greater London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Katherine Mortimer

Notes:

Buried:
St. Mary's Church

Family/Spouse: Thomas Beauchamp 11th Earl of Warwick. Thomas (son of 10th Earl of Warwick Guy Beauchamp and Alice de Toeni) was born on 14 Feb 1313 in Warwick Castle, Warwickshire, England; died on 13 Nov 1369 in Calais, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; was buried in Warwick, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alice FitzWalter. Alice was born about 1343 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England; died on 29 Apr 1401. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Courtenay. Elizabeth (daughter of 10th Earl of Devon Hugh Courtenay 2nd Earl of Devon and Margaret de Bohun) was born in Norfolk, Exeter, Devon, England; died on 7 Aug 1395 in Dunster, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Joan Plantagenet about 28 Feb 1326/27. Joan (daughter of Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud de Chaworth) was born in 1306 in Grismond Castle, Monmouth, England; died on 7 Jul 1349 in Bur Byland Abbey, Yorks, Land, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Lancaster before 2 Mar 1297. Henry (son of Edmund "Crouchback" Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster and of Artois Blanche Capet) was born about 1281 in Grosmont Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales; died on 22 Sep 1345 in Monastry of Cannons, Leicester, Leicestershire, England; was buried in Leicester, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Hugh (1286 – November 26, 1326) was sometimes referred to as "the younger Despenser". He was the son and heir of Hugh le Despenser, Earl of Winchester, by Isabel Beauchamp, daughter of William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick.

He was knight of Hanley Castle, Worcestershire, King's Chamberlain, Constable of Odiham Castle, Keeper of the castle and town of Dryslwyn, and Cantref Mawr, Carmarthenshire, Keeper of the castle and town of Portchester, Keeper of the castle, town and barton of Bristol. He was also Keeper of the castles, manor, and lands of Brecknock, Hay, cantref Selyf, etc., co. Brecon, and Huntington, Herefordshire. He was given Wallingford Castle although this had previously been given to Queen Isabella for life.

In May 1306 Hugh was knighted, and that summer he married Eleanor de Clare, a granddaughter of King Edward I of England. Her grandfather owed Hugh's father vast sums of money, and the marriage was intended as a payment of these debts. When Eleanor's brother was killed at the Battle of Bannockburn, she unexpectedly became one of the three co-heiresses to the rich Gloucester earldom, and in her right Hugh inherited Glamorgan and other properties. In just a few short years Hugh went from a landless knight to one of the wealthiest magnates in the kingdom.

Eleanor was also the niece of the new king, Edward II of England, and this connection brought Hugh closer to the English royal court. He joined the baronial opposition to Piers Gaveston, the king's favorite, and Hugh's brother-in-law, as Gaveston was married to Eleanor's sister. Eager for power and wealth, Hugh seized Tonbridge Castle in 1315. The next year he murdered Llywelyn Bren, a Welsh hostage in his custody.

Hugh Despenser became royal chamberlain in 1318. As a royal courtier, Hugh manoeuvred into the affections of King Edward, displacing the previous favorite, Roger d'Amory. By 1320 his tyranny was running free. Hugh seized the Welsh lands of his wife's inheritance, ignoring the claims of his two brothers-in-law. He forced Alice de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln, to give up her lands, cheated his sister-in-law Elizabeth de Clare out of Gower and Usk, and allegedly had Lady Baret's arms and legs broken until she went insane. He also supposedly vowed to be revenged on Roger Mortimer because Mortimer's grandfather had murdered Hugh's grandfather, and once stated (though probably in jest) that he regretted he could not control the wind. By 1321 he had earned many enemies in every strata of society, from Queen Isabella to the barons to the common people. There was even a bizarre plot to kill Hugh by sticking pins in a wax likeness of him.

Finally the barons prevailed upon King Edward and forced Hugh and his father into exile in 1321. His father fled to Bordeaux, and Hugh became a pirate in the English channel, "a sea monster, lying in wait for merchants as they crossed his path". The pair returned the next year and King Edward quickly reinstated Hugh as royal favorite. His time in exile had done nothing to quell his greed, his rashness, or his ruthlessness. While Queen Isabella was in France to negotiate between her husband and the French king, she formed a liaison with Roger Mortimer and began planning an invasion. Hugh supposedly tried to bribe French courtiers to assassinate Queen Isabella. When Mortimer and the queen invaded England in October 1326, King Edward was deposed, Hugh's father was executed, and Hugh himself was captured.

Hugh tried to starve himself before his trial, but face trial he did on November 24, 1326, in Hereford. He was judged a traitor and a thief, and sentenced to public execution by hanging, drawing and quartering. Immediately, he was dragged behind four horses to his place of execution, where a great fire was lit. He was hanged from a gallows fifty feet high, but cut down before he could choke to death and tied to a ladder, in full view of the crowd. A man climbed up beside him, and sliced off his penis and testicles which were then burnt before him, still alive and conscious. Subsequently, the executioner plunged his knife into his abdomen, and cut out his entrails and heart, which were likewise burnt before the delighted crowd. Finally, he was beheaded, and his body cut into four pieces, and his head was mounted on the gates of London.

No book-length biographical study of Hugh Despenser exists, although The Tyranny and Fall of Edward II: 1321-1326 by historian Natalie Fryde is a study of Edward II's reign during the years that the Despensers' power was at its peak. Fryde pays particular attention to the subject of the Despensers' ill-gotten landholdings. The numerous accusations against the younger Despenser at the time of his execution have never been the subject of close critical scrutiny, although historian Roy Martin Haines called them "ingenuous" and noted their propagandistic nature.

Despite the crucial and disastrous role he played in the reign of Edward II, Despenser is almost a minor character in Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II, where as "Spencer" he is little more than a substitute for the dead Piers Gaveston.

Trivia
In 2006, he was selected by the BBC History Magazine as the 14th century's worst Briton. (BBC)

In 2006, he was selected by the BBC History Magazine as the 8th worst Briton in the last 1000 years.

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Hugh married Eleanor de Clare on 14 Jun 1306 in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England. Eleanor (daughter of 7th Earl of Hertford, 3rd Earl of Gloucester Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester and Joan "of Acre" Plantagenet) was born on 16 Sep 1292 in Caerphilly Castle, Caerphilly, Glamorganshire, Wales; died on 30 Jun 1337 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1311, Alnwick, Northumberland, England

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Buried:
Collegiate Church of St. Mary

Family/Spouse: Katherine de Mortimer. Katherine (daughter of Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March and Joan de Greneville) was born in 1314 in Ludlow Castle, Shropshire, England; died on 4 Aug 1369 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England; was buried in Warwick, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married on 22 Feb 1326. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]