23638992. Sir Hugh le Despenser
~1185, Hugh born in England, s/o §Thomas le Despenser.
1206, King John gave Isabel, the widow of Geoffrey of Chester,
to Hugh le Despenser, unaware that she had privately married Roger de Creisy [who
in 1207 obtained pardon for this offence]. In compensation Hugh got £20 annual
rent in the manor of Waltham. (S) Honors and Knights Fees, V3.
1210-12, Hugo Dispensator holding land from the honor of Peverelli,
Leicestershire. (S) FMG.
10/28/1216, Henry III, age 9, crowned king of England.
1219, Witnesses: Hugh Despenser (Dispensator), Walter le Pohar,
Henry de Segrave, Geoffrey Despenser, … (S) UKNA.
1/22/1221, Hugh granted a market and fair at Loughborough,
Leicestershire. (S) Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs.
1221, Henry III pardoned Hugh Despenser, for his faithful
service to the king’s father and to himself, 25s due for relief. (S) Honors and
Knights Fees, V3, Foss, 1923, P233.
3/1222, Geoffrey le Sauvage is quit his fines for admission to
his father’s lands at the intercession of Hugh le Despenser [who’s daughter Matilda
is Geoffrey’s wife.] (S) The Judges of England, V2, Foss, 1848, P464.
11/15/1224, The king has granted to Hugh Despenser a moiety of
the manor of Chalgrove with the capital messuage, and to Hugh de Plessetis,
Drogo de Barentin and Nicholas de Boleville the other moiety. (S) FRsHIII.
1/14/1226, Order to the keeper of the honour of Wallingford to
place in respite, …, the demand he makes … from Hugh Despenser, Drogo de
Barentin, and their associates for the scutages of Montgomery and Bedford ,
namely for three knights’ fees. (S) FRsHIII.
9/18/1226, Hugh Despenser, sheriff of Berkshire , has respite
from rendering his account. (S) FRsHIII.
1227, Philippa [Maubanc], plaintiff, and Henry de Aldithelegh and
Hugh Dispensator (Le Despencer), deforciants. (S) Plea Rolls for Staffordshire,
V4, 1883.
1228, Charter for a fair by Henry III to Hugh Le Despenser,
Lord of the Manor of Loughborough. (S) National Fairground Archive.
9/28/1228, Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire to place in
respite…, the demand he makes … from Geoffrey Savage, who is in the king’s army
with Hugh Despenser. (S) FRsHIII.
11/4/1230, Hugh Despenser has made fine with the king by 50 m.
for having custody of the land and heirs of Geoffrey Savage, who had Hugh’s
daughter [Matilda] to wife, and for having the marriage of the same heirs with
the marriage of his same daughter. (S) FRsHIII.
1232, Hugh instrumental in the repairs to Porchester castle.
10/12/1232, Hugh Dispensator witnessed a grant by King Henry.
(S) CPRs.
1/27/1233, Appointment, during pleasure, of Hugh le Despenser
(Dispens’) to keep the castle of Bollesovre, that was in the custody of Robert
de Tatteshale, … (S) CPRs.
11/20/1233, Aymer Butler, son and heir of William Butler, has
made fine with the king by £30 for his relief …, surety by the earl of Ferrers
and Hugh Despenser. (S) FRsHIII.
2/6/1234, Mandate to Hugh le Despenser (Dispensatoris) to
deliver to Henry … the hostage … (S) CPRs.
2/13/1234, J. earl of Lincoln and constable of Chester had made
fine with the king by 1000 m. for the custody of the lands and heir of Nigel de
Mowbray, …. By the justiciar and Hugh Despenser. (S) FRsHIII.
1/23/1235, The king has pardoned to Hugh Despenser the scutages
of the armies of Kerry, Painscastle, and of the king’s first passage to, and of
his return from, Poitou. (S) FRsHIII.
1235, King Henry granted Hillam Mill to Hugh le Despenser, Lord
of Parlington, and Barwick [tenants were compelled to grind their corn at the
mill].
10/23/1235, Charter of King Henry III to Jocelin bishop of
Bath, … witnesses, Hugh Despenser and Geoffrey Depenser, his brother, … (S)
CChRs, 11/15/1324.
6/14/1236, Hugh Dispensator chosen as a member of a group to
advocate a case of a cog captured by Philip de Albiniaco in the war between
King John and Louis, son of the king of France. (S) CPRs.
6/6/1237, To the constables of the castles of Chester and
Beeston. The king is sending them Stephen de Segrave [married to Hugh’s sister
Rohese], Henry de Aldithelegh and Hugh le Dispenser to provider for the custody
of those castles … (S) CPRs.
2/23/1238, Grant, for faithful service done by Hugh le
Despenser, to Hugh, his son and heir,
that by the counsel of his friends he may marry where it shall seem best. …
Grant to Geoffrey le Despenser that when the lot of mankind befall Hugh le
Despenser his brother, he shall hold as keeper until the age of the sons and
heirs of the said Hugh the manor of Ryhal, which he has of the king’s gift, and
also the lands which the same Hugh held of the earl of Chester in the county of
Chester and without. (S) CPRs.
Bef. 5/30/1238, Hugh died holding 11 manors in Leicestershire,
Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Rutland.
Child of Hugh and ?:
i. Hugh le Despenser (11819496), born 1223 in England.
