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Subject: Re: C.P. Addition: Marriage date of Hugh le Despenser & Isabel deBeauchamp
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:20:21 -0700
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On Oct 28, 7:46 pm, Douglas Richardson <> wrote:
> Dear Newsgroup ~
>
> The authoritative Complete Peerage, 4 (1916): 262-266 (sub Despenser)
> includes a good account of the notorious Sir Hugh le Despenser, Earl
> of Winchester, who was executed with his son, Hugh the younger, in
> 1326. On page 265, the following information is given regarding the
> elder Hugh's marriage to Isabel de Beauchamp, widow of Sir Patrick de
> Chaworth:
>
> "[He] married in or before 1286, without the King's license (fine of
> 2,000 marks, afterwards remitted), Isabel, widow of Sir Patric de
> Chaurces or Craworces, of Kidwelly, co. Carmarthen, Somborne, Hants,
> etc. (who died shortly before 7 July 1283), and daughter of William
> (de Beauchamp), Earl of Warwick, by Maud, ... 1st dau. of Sir John
> Fitz Geoffrey, of Shere and Fambridge. She died shortly before 30 May
> 1306." END OF QUOTE.
>
> As indicated by Complete Peerage, Sir Hugh le Despenser and Isabel de
> Beauchamp were married sometime between 7 July 1283 (death of her
> first husband) and 1286 (month and day not given). This range in the
> date of marriage can be tightened. According to the published
> Highworth Hundred Rolls, Isabel de Beauchamp was called Lady Isabel de
> Chaworth (or Isabel widow of Sir Patrick de Chaworth) on various dates
> after her first husband's death, namely 8 December 1283, 10 August
> 1285, and 10 September 1285 [Reference: Brenda Farr, The Rolls of
> Highworth Hundred 1275-1287, 2 (Wiltshire Arch. & Natural Hist. Soc.
> Recs. Branch 22) (1968): 251-252, 294-297]. Thus, it would appear
> that Sir Hugh le Despenser and Isabel de Beauchamp were not married
> until sometime after 10 September 1285.
>
> Because Sir Hugh and Isabel were married without royal license, they
> suffered the penalty of a fine. According to a letter from William de
> Valence to John de Kirkby, the Queen exacted 1,000 marks from Hugh
> because of this marriage [Reference: SC 1/10/109]. On 27 January 1287
> Hugh le Despenser acknowledged that he owed the Queen 1,000 marks to
> be paid by 29 November following [Reference: E 159/60, m. 15d.]. This
> is doubtless the 1,000 marks relating to Sir Hugh and Isabel's
> marriage mentioned by William de Valence.
>
> Thus, it would appear that Sir Hugh le Despenser and Isabel de
> Beauchamp were married sometime between 10 September 1285 and 27
> January 1287.
>
> For interest's sake, the following is a list of the numerous 17th
> Century New World colonists that descend from Sir Hugh le Despenser
> and his wife, Isabel de Beauchamp. For the connecting links down to
> the individual colonists, please see my book, Magna Carta Ancestry
> (2005), which is available for purchase directly through me.
>
> Robert Abell, Elizabeth Alsop, Samuel Argall, William Asfordby,
> Charles Barham, Anne Baynton, Marmaduke Beckwith, Essex Beville,
> Joseph Bickley, William Bladen, George & Nehemiah Blakiston, Thomas
> Booth, Elizabeth Bosvile, Mary Bourchier, George, Giles & Robert
> Brent, Nathaniel Burrough, Elizabeth Butler, Charles & Leonard
> Calvert, Edward Carleton, Kenelm Cheseldine, Grace Chetwode, James &
> Norton Claypoole, William Clopton, St.Leger Codd, James Cudworth,
> Francis Dade, Humphrey Davie, Frances, Jane & Katherine Deighton, Anne
> Derehaugh, Edward Digges, William Farrer, Henry Filmer, John Fisher,
> Henry Fleete, Edward Foliot, Muriel Gurdon, Mary Gye, Katherine Hamby,
> Elizabeth & John Harleston, Warham Horsmanden, Anne Humphrey, Henry
> Isham, Edmund Jennings, Edmund & Matthew Kempe, Mary Launce, Thomas
> Ligon, Anne Lovelace, Anne, Elizabeth & John Mansfield, Anne &
> Katherine Marbury, Anne Mauleverer, Thomas Owsley, John Nelson, Philip
> & Thomas Nelson, Thomas Owsley, John Oxenbridge, Richard Palgrave,
> Herbert Pelham, Robert Peyton, William Rodney, Thomas Rudyard,
> Katherine Saint Leger, Richard Saltonstall, Anthony Savage, William
> Skepper, Diana & Grey Skipwith, Mary Johanna Somerset, Rose Stoughton,
> Samuel & William Torrey, Jemima Waldegrave, Olive Welby, John West,
> Thomas Wingfield, Amy Wyllys.
>
> Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
http://www.genealogical.com/products/Magna%20Carta%20Ancestry/4887.html
Looks fascinating.
Thank You
PK
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world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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