Thomas Le DESPENSER, Earl Of Gloucester, Kg^[1]

1373 - 1400  (26 years)

• Name	Thomas Le DESPENSER  [2, 3]
  Suffix	Earl Of Gloucester, Kg
  Birth	22 Sep 1373	Essendine, Rutlandshire, England   [3]
  Gender	Male
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  _UID	E862DEED6BA24766AC63465DBA1403A4F619
  Death	13 Jan 1399-1400	Beheaded At Bristol, Gloucestershire, England   [3]
  Burial	Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire, England
  Person ID	I13235	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	11 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	Edward II 1St Baron Le DESPENSER, Kg, Sir,   b. 24 Mar 1335-1336, Essendine, Rutlandshire, England d. 11 Nov 1375, Llanbethian, Glamorganshire, Wales (Age 39 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth De BURGHERSH,   b. 1342, Ewyas Lacy, Herefordshire, England d. 26 Jul 1409, Glouchestershire, England (Age 67 years)
  Marriage	2 Aug 1354  [3]
  Alt. Marriage	Bef Dec 1364  [4, 5, 6]
  	Alt. Marriage
  Family ID	F6738	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Constance PLANTAGENET, Princess Of England,   b. Abt 1374, Castle Conisbrough, Yorkshire, England d. 28 Nov 1416, Reading Abbey, Reading, Berkshire, England (Age ~ 42 years)
  Marriage	Aft 16 Apr 1378  [3]
  Children	1. Richard Le DESPENSER, Baron Burghersh,   b. 30 Nov 1396, Elmley, Worcestershire, England d. 7 Oct 1414, Merton, Surrey, England (Dsp) (Age 17 years)   2. Isabel Le DESPENSER, Baroness Burghersh,   b. 26 Jul 1400, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales d. 27 Dec 1439, Friars Minoresses, London, Middlesex, England (Age 39 years)
  Family ID	F3805	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Thomas le Despenser, 2nd Lord (Baron) le Despenser of both the 1295 and 1314 creations, also 2nd and last Lord Despenser of the 1357 creation and 1st and last Earl of Gloucester, so created in Parliament 29 Sep 1397 (in which same Parliament he got the forfeiture of his great grandfather and great-great grandfather (the Elder and Younger Hugh le Despensers) lifted, thereby becoming rightful holder of their baronies--also presumably the Earldom of Winchester of the 1322 creation, though he seems not to have been referred to under such a title), KG (1399); and was beheaded 13 Jan 1399/1400 (after an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow Henry IV following the latter's usurpation of the throne from Richard II the previous year (when Thomas was degraded from his Earldom), so that when Parliament met in Jan 1400/1 all his remaining titles were declared forfeited inasmuch as he had been a traitor). [Burke's Peerage]

  
  

• Sources

  [S579] Jim Weber. [S25] Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 47-8 (Reliability: 3). [S289] Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles M o s l e y Editor-in-Chief, 1999, 1030, 26 May 2003. (Reliability: 3). [S845] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999, 70-35 (Reliability: 3). [S25] Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 13-9, 14-8 (Reliability: 3). [S63] Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000, II:427 (Reliability: 3).