page_title: Hugh le Despenser, Baron le Despenser (1338)
hierarchical_section_title: Hugh le Despenser, Baron le Despenser (1338)
caption_attribution_description: English: Arms of Despencer: Quarterly 1st &amp; 4th: Argent; 2nd &amp; 3rd: Gules fretty or, over all a ribbon sable. Image based on arms depicted on seal of Hugh le Despencer, 2nd Baron le Despencer (1308–1349), Lord of Glamorgan, National Library of Wales NLW Penrice and Margam Deeds 212 (seal 1) front formerly attached to his 1338 charter, 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. [1][2]
context_page_description: Hugh le Despenser, 2nd Baron le Despenser, Lord of Glamorgan, was the eldest son and heir of Hugh Despenser the Younger and grandson of Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester. His father and grandfather were both executed in 1326. His mother was Eleanor de Clare, suo jure Lord of Glamorgan, daughter of Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford and Joan of Acre. Through his mother, Hugh was a great grandson of King Edward I. He married Elizabeth Montague, and both are buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire, which abbey was founded by Robert Fitzhamon, the first Norman feudal baron of Gloucester and Lord of Glamorgan.
context_section_description: Hugh le Despenser, 2nd 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. His father and grandfather were both executed in 1326. His mother was Eleanor de Clare, suo jure Lord of Glamorgan, daughter of Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford and Joan of Acre. Through his mother, Hugh was a great grandson of King Edward I.  He married Elizabeth Montague (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.
caption: Arms of Despenser: Quarterly 1st & 4th: Argent; 2nd & 3rd: Gules fretty or,  over all a ribbon sable
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