Isabel le Despenser (noblewoman, around 1313)

Isabel le Despenser (also Isabel FitzAlan, Countess of Arundel ; * around 1313, † 1375 ) was an English noblewoman.

Isabel le Despenser was a daughter of Hugh le Despenser and Eleanor de Clare . Her father was a favorite of King Edward II, who was overthrown in 1326, and was executed in November 1326. Isabel was married on February 9, 1321 to Richard FitzAlan , the eldest son of Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel and Alice de Warenne. Her husband became the heir of his father, who was also executed, in 1326, and in 1331 he received the restored title of Earl of Arundel . Since his marriage to the daughter of a traitor had become politically worthless executed Despenser, he tried to marriage under the pretext that they had been married against her will as children, cancel to leave. Although Richard FitzAlan had at least three children with Isabel, the marriage was eventually broken by papal dispensation on December 4, 1344. With the annulment of the marriage, Isabel's children lost their right of inheritance. She received six goods from her husband to support her, and she lived in seclusion until her death. Richard FitzAlan, however, married Eleanor in February 1345 , daughter of Henry of Lancaster and widow of John de Beaumont, 2nd Baron Beaumont .

Isabel had several children from their marriage, including:

• Sir Edmund FitzAlan (around 1327 – after 1377) ∞ Sibyl de Montagu

Web links

• Isabel le Despenser on thepeerage.com , accessed August 25, 2015.