Isabel le Despenser (noblewoman, around 1290)

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Isabel le Despenser (also Isabel de Clare , Isabel Hastings or Isabel Monthermer ) (* around 1290; † December 4, 1334 ) was an English noblewoman.

Isabel le Despenser was a daughter of Hugh le Despenser the Elder and his wife Isabella de Beauchamp . Presumably in 1306 she married the Anglo-Irish nobleman Gilbert de Clare, Lord of Thomond , who died in November 1307. The marriage had remained childless. Around 1308, Isabel married the English Baron John Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings . She had at least three children with him:

  • Thomas Hastings († 1333)
  • Margaret Hastings (around 1309-1359)
  1. ∞ William Martin, 2nd Baron Martin
  2. ∞ Robert de Waterville

After Hasting's death in 1313, Isabel married Ralph de Monthermer, 1st Baron Monthermer , widower of the king's daughter Johanna von Akkon , the third marriage in 1318 . The marriage had taken place without the king's permission, which is why Isabel's Wittum was confiscated. After paying a fine of 1,000 marks , the king recognized the marriage on August 12, 1319.

Isabel's father and her brother Hugh le Despenser had risen to become the king's leading favorites. After Queen Isabelle traveled to France in 1324 and did not return to England, Isabel and Monthermer were entrusted with the education of Eleanor and Johanna , the king's two daughters. They also lived in Pleshy and Marlborough Castle, among others . Monthermer died in 1325, after which the two princesses came into the care of Hugh le Despenser the Younger. In the fall of 1326, a rebellion led by Queen Isabelle and Roger Mortimer broke out in which the king was overthrown while Isabella's father and brother were captured and executed as traitors.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 196
  2. ^ Mary AE Green: Lives of the princesses of England from the Norman conquest, Vol. 3. Colburn, London 1851, p. 67
  3. ^ Mary AE Green: Lives of the princesses of England from the Norman conquest , Vol. 3. Colburn, London 1851, p. 69
personal data
SURNAME Despenser, Isabel le
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Le Despenser, Isabel; De Clare, Isabel; Hastings, Isabel; Monthermer, Isabel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobles
DATE OF BIRTH around 1290
DATE OF DEATH December 4, 1334