Philip Basset
Philip Basset( c. 1185 – 19 October 1271) was the Justiciar of England.
Philip was the son of Alan Basset of High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire and his wife, Aline Degai.
His elder brothers were Gilbert, a baronial leader, and Fulk, who became bishop of London.
He inherited the manor of Wycombe; the town received market borough status in 1237.
Basset served as the Justiciar of England between the two terms served by his son-in- law, Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer.
He served during the period that Henry III regained control of the government from the barons.
He was married twice.
By Hawise, granddaughter of Godfrey of Louvain( d.1226), he had two daughters.
Robert de Ferrers, 4th Baron Ferrers of Chartley
Robert de Ferrers, 4th Baron Ferrers of Chartley( 1358 – 1413) was the son of John de Ferrers, 3rd Baron Ferrers of Chartley and Elizabeth de Stafford, a daughter of Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford and Margaret de Audley.
He inherited the title of Baron Ferrers of Chartley upon his father's death at the Battle of Nájera on 3 April 1367 but was never summoned to parliament.
Robert married Margaret Le Despenser( born around 1360) a daughter of Edward le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer, KG, and Lady Elizabeth Burghersh.
The couple had one son Edmund, who became Edmund de Ferrers, 5th Baron Ferrers of Chartley upon the death of his father around 1412, and one daughter Philippe, who married Sir Thomas Greene, Sheriff of Northamptonshire( 10 February 1399 – 18 January 1462), by whom she was the grandmother of Sir Thomas Green.
Philippe and Sir Thomas are ancestors to Queen consort Catherine Parr, the last wife of King Henry VIII.
Robert de Ferrers, 4th Baron Ferrers of Chartley died sometime around 1413 and is buried at Merevale Abbey in Warwickshire.
Hugh Despenser (justiciar)
Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer( 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.
Hugh Le Despenser, chief justiciar of England, 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 Lord Despencer Dec. 14, 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 the Mortimer families.
By his wife, Aline Bassett, he was father of Hugh Despenser' the elder', Earl of Winchester.
Aline was the daughter of Philip Basset, who had also served as Justiciar.
They also had a daughter named Eleanor le Despencer, who married Sir Hugh de Courtenay, feudal baron of Okehampton.
Edward Despenser, 1st Baron Despenser
Edward le Despenser, 1st Baron Despenser (24 March 1336, Essendine – 11 November 1375) was the son of another Edward le Despenser and Anne Ferrers, sister of Henry, Lord Ferrers of Groby.
He succeeded as Lord of Glamorgan in 1349.
Le Despencer went with Edward the Black Prince to France, and was present at the Battle of Poitiers.
In recognition of his conduct in the French wars, he was summoned to Parliament as a baron in 1357.
At the same time, he also became a Knight of the Garter.
He was a friend and patron of Jean Froissart and the eldest brother of Henry le Despenser, Bishop of Norwich.
There is a statue of him on the top of the Holy Trinity Chantry Chapel in Tewkesbury Abbey, renowned as the "KNEELING KNIGHT".
Elizabeth le Despenser
Elizabeth Despenser( died 10 April/ 11 April 1408) was an English noblewoman of the late 14th century.
She should not be confused with Elizabeth le Despenser, Baroness Berkeley who was her great- aunt and who was the daughter of her great- grandmother, Eleanor de Clare.
She was the daughter of Sir Edward le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer, by Lady Elizabeth Burghersh, daughter and heiress of Bartholomew de Burghersh, 2nd Baron Burghersh.
Elizabeth de Burghersh, 3rd Baroness Burghersh
Elizabeth Despencer, 3rd Baroness Burghersh( c. 1342 – August 1402) was an English noblewoman born to Bartholomew de Burghersh, 2nd Baron Burghersh and Cicely Weyland.
Some recently constructed genealogies purport that she was first married, some time after 1347, to Maurice FitzGerald, 4th Earl of Kildare( d. 25 August 1390) and by him had at least four children.
Yet it is more consistent with known dates of death of the 4th Earl of Kildare that he married instead Margaret, a daughter of the 1st Baron Burghersh.
Otherwise there would be record of Kildare's divorce from Elizabeth and probably a mention in the original records of her' remarriage' rather than of her' marriage' to le Despencer.
She was married( it is said for the second time) some time before 1373, to Edward le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer( c. 24 March 1335- 6 – 11 November 1375) and they had six children.
Upon the death of her father on 5 April 1369, she inherited the title of Baroness Burghersh.
John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel
John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, 2nd Baron Maltravers" jure matris", also called John de Arundel( 30 November 1364 – 14 August 1390), of Buckland, Surrey, was the son of John FitzAlan, 1st Baron Arundel and Eleanor Maltravers.
John was with the army in Scotland in 1383 and with the English Fleet in the western coast of France.
He married Elizabeth le Despenser, daughter of Edward le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer( Despenser), by Elizabeth Burghersh, daughter and heiress of Bartholomew de Burghersh, 2nd Baron Burghersh.
They had: Sir John de Arundel, 2nd Lord Arundel, died on 14 August 1390, and was buried at Missenden Abbey, Buckinghamshire.
Edward Despenser (died 1342)
Edward le Despenser (died 1342) was a son of Hugh le Despenser the Younger by his wife Eleanor de Clare.
His father, a favourite of Edward II of England, was executed in 1326.
Through his mother, he was a great-grandson of Edward
I of England.
Thomas Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester
Thomas le Despenser, 2nd Baron Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester KG( 22 September 1373 – 13 January 1400) was the son of Edward le Despenser, 1st Baron le Despencer, whom he succeeded in 1375.
Margery le Despencer
Margery( Margaret) le Despencer, de jure suo jure 3rd Baroness le Despenser( 1387 creation), was the daughter and heiress of Philip le Despencer, 2nd Baron le Despencer.
She was born about 1397 in Nettlestead, Suffolk, England, and married John de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros.
He died without heirs, and she married secondly Roger Wentworth of Nettlestead, Esq.( d.1452), son of John Wentworth of North Elmsall.

Question: Who is the paternal grandmother of Edward Despenser, 1St Baron Despenser?
Answer: Eleanor de Clare