Isabel le Despenser, 5th Baroness Burghersh
Isabel le Despenser, 5th Baroness Burghersh LG (born July 26, 1400 - † December 27, 1439 in London ), was an English noblewoman.
Life
Isabel was born at Cardiff Castle or Elmley , Worcestershire, to the posthumous daughter of Thomas le Despenser and Constance Langley . Her father was executed in January 1400 as a rebel against the king, but her mother was eventually returned to part of her husband's possessions. In 1404 her guardian, John Grove, became a guard of the king. After the childless death of her brother Richard le Despenser, 4th Baron Burghersh , Isabel inherited the title of Baroness Burghersh in 1414 . After her mother Constance's death in 1416, she inherited their lands, especially the Glamorgan reign in Wales.
Her first marriage was on July 27, 1411 in Tewkesbury with Richard de Beauchamp, 2nd Baron Bergavenny , married. Her husband was made Earl of Worcester in 1421 , but was fatally wounded in the war in France in 1422 . Isabel married Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick , a cousin of her first husband , on November 26, 1423 at Hanley Castle , Worcestershire, as the second marriage . Because of her close relatives, she needed a papal dispensation for the marriage .
She was accepted into the Order of the Garter in 1432 . She died a few months after her husband in the Minorite Convent in London and was buried on January 13, 1440 in Tewkesbury Abbey.
progeny
From her first marriage she had a daughter:
- Elizabeth Beauchamp, Baroness Bergavenny (September 16, 1415 - June 18, 1448) ∞ Edward Nevill, 1st Baron Bergavenny
She had two children from her second marriage:
- Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick (1425-1446)
- Anne Neville, 16th Countess of Warwick (1426–1492) ∞ Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick
Her son Henry became her heir.
Web links
- Isabel le Despenser on thepeerage.com , accessed July 28, 2015.
- Cracroft's Peerage: Burghersh, Baron (E, 1329/30 - abeyant 1449)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rosemary Horrox: Despenser, Constance, Lady Despenser (c.1375-1416). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB), Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X
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| SURNAME | Le Despenser, Isabel, 5th Baroness Burghersh |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beauchamp, Isabel, Countess of Worcester; Beauchamp, Isabel, Countess of Warwick |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English nobles |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1400 |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 1439 |
| Place of death | London |