Eleanor De CLARE
- Married (1): Bef 1309, Barton St Mary, Gloucester, England
- Married (2): Aft 1326
 Another name for Eleanor was Alainore.
General Notes:
BOOKS
Kings and Queens of Great Britain, Genealogical Chart, AnneTaute and Romilly Squire, Taute, 1990: "Eleanor De Clare, Mar =1 Hugh Le Despenser the Younger, =2 (2) William La Zouche, Died 1337."
A History of the Plantagenets, Vol III, The Three Edwards, Thomas B Costain, 1958, Doubleday & Co
p194:"His son, Hugh le Despenser the younger, had married Eleanor, the oldest of the three daughters of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and wealthiest peer in England..."
p223: "Edward II was in the Tower of London when the news reached him of the landing of the queen and Prince Edward on the coast of Suffolk with an army of foreign knights and mercenaries. With him were the two Despensers, the wife of Nephew Hugh, who was a niece of the king, and Baldock, the chancellor. The news seemed to have dumfounded him..."
p237: "Never had there been such prodigal peculation, such insatiable seizure of honors and lands as when Roger Mortimer, given almost absolute power by his royal mistress, began to gather in the fruitfrom the medlar trees of Westminster...
"...Obtained the lands in Glamorgan which had belonged to the wife of the younger Despenser..." The Political History of England 1216-1377, Vol III, T F Tout, AMS Press, 1905,
p278: "...[1317]Neither a foreigner nor an adventurer, Despenser had the good sense to avoid the worst errors of his predecessor. As chamberlain, he was in constant attendance on the king; and having married Edward's niece Eleanor, the eldest of the Gloucesterco-heiresses, he sought to establish himself among the higher aristocracy..."
p292: "...In 1324 the king deprived Isabella of her separate estate, drove her favourite servants from court, and put her on an allowance of a pound a day. Thewife of the younger Hugh, her husband's niece, was deputed to watch her, and she could not even write a letter without the Lady Despenser's knowledge..."
INTERNATIONAL GENEALOGICAL INDEX
IGI Birth 7329602-13-822910 Hugh LE DESPENSER Father Hugh LE DESPENSER ?Mother < Wife = ?Alainore DE CLARE < Isabel DE BEAUCHCAMP 1287 Barton St Mary Gloucester England, 7403702-87-934338 Isabel LE DESPENSER Father Hugh LE DESPENSER Mother Alainore DE CLARE 1309 Barton St Mary Gloucester England.
Marriage Information:
Eleanor married Hugh Le DESPENSER, V, son of Earl Hugh Le Despenser WINCHESTER, IV and Isabel De BEAUCHAMP, before 1309 in Barton St Mary, Gloucester, England. (Hugh Le DESPENSER, V was born in 1287 in Barton St Mary, Gloucester, England and died in 1326 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.)
Marriage Information:
Eleanor also married William La ZOUCHE after 1326. (William La ZOUCHE died in 1337.)
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