8. | of WINCHESTER Hugh DESPENCER Earl was born about 01 Mar 1260 in Winchester, Hampshire, England (son of Sir Hugh Le DESPENCER and of NORFOLK lline "Aliva-Alice" BASSETT Countess); died on 27 Oct 1326 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. Notes:
Hugh - supported King Edward I in the war against his rival, the Earl of Lancaster. He served in the Welsh war but was fined 2,000 marks because he married, without the king's license, Isabel, daughter of William Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, the widow of Patrick of Chaworth.
He accompanied Edward to Scotland and fought in the Battle of Dunbar (I) and the expediition against Flanders in 1297. The King used him to negotiate for peace between Edward I and the King of the Romans and the King of France.
He served again in Scotland and then was sent to negociate with France which led to the peace of 1303. In 1305 he was sent to see Pope Clement V at Lyons and obtained a Papal bull which absolved King Edward from the oaths he had been forced to take to his people. When Edward II was coronated as King, Hugh carried part of the royal insignia. He defended the king's favorite, Gaveston, in 1308 against the league of barons, which alienated him from the barons who regarded him as a deserter from their cause.
Then Isabel married William Blount about 1261 while living in Belton, Rutland, England. William was born about 1223, lived in Belton, Rutland, England. He was the son of Robert Blount and Isabel Odingsells. He died in 1316 while living in Timberlake, Worcestershire, England .
Birth:
1 MAR 1260/61
Hugh married de BEAUCHAMP Isabel before 1286. Isabel (daughter of de BEAUCHAMP William and FITZJOHN Maud) was born about 1267; died on 30 May 1306 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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