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 Abt 1312 - 1371 (~ 59 years)
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| Name |
Isabel LE DESPENCER |
| Born |
Abt 1312 |
Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England  |
| Gender |
Female |
| TitleOfNobility |
Between 1331 and 1344 [1] |
| Countess of Arundel |
| Divorced |
4 Dec 1344 [1] |
| FamilySearch ID |
L857-99H |
| _UID |
195CE92AC1AD47B8B8D43E606D83548CEFDE |
| Died |
11 Jan 1371 |
Arundel, Sussex, England [1] |
| Buried |
Aft 11 Jan 1371 |
Tewkesbury, Tewkesbury Borough, Gloucestershire, England [1] |
| Person ID |
I23708 |
Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
13 Dec 2022 |
| Father |
Lord Hugh "The Younger" LE DESPENCER, b. 1287, Barton, Gloucestershire, England , d. 24 Nov 1326, Hereford, Herefordshire, England (Age 39 years) |
| Mother |
Eleanore (Alianore) De CLARE, b. 3 Oct 1292, Caerphilly Castle, Caerphilly, Glamorganshire, Wales , d. 30 Jun 1337, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England (Age 44 years) |
| Married |
1 May 1306 |
Westminister, London, Middlesex, England |
| Family ID |
F7326 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Richard "Copped Hat" FITZALAN, b. Abt 1313, Of Arundel, Sussex, England , d. 24 Jan 1376, Arundel, Sussex, England (Age ~ 63 years) |
| Married |
9 Feb 1320 |
Kings Chapel, Havering-Atte-Bower, Essex, England |
| Annulled |
4 Dec 1344 |
Arundel, Sussex, England, United Kingdom [2] |
| Children |
| | 1. Mary (Isabel) FITZALAN, b. Abt 1323, Corfham, Shropshire, England , d. 29 Aug 1396 (Age ~ 73 years) |
| | 2. Edmund FITZALAN, b. 1327, Arundel, Sussex, England , d. Bef 12 Feb 1382, England (Age 55 years) |
| | 3. Philippa FITZALAN, b. Between 1327 and 1356, d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 4. Aline (Olive) FITZALAN, b. 1340, Arundel, Sussex, England , d. Yes, date unknown |
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| Last Modified |
29 Aug 2016 |
| Family ID |
F2972 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- She was the Countess of Arundel.
Isabel, daughter of 1st Lord (Baron) le Despenser of the 29 July 1314 creation, and had issue (bastardised by the papal annulment of 1344, [Burke's Peerage]
Isabel le Despenser (1312? 1356) was the eldest daughter of Hugh Despenser the Younger and Eleanor de Clare. She was descended from Edward I of England through her mother, while her father is famous for being the favorite of Edward II of England.
Though he had stood against Edward II in the past, Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel had loyally supported him since the 1320s. Thus it must have seemed to be politically prudent to Edmund to marry his heir Richard to the eldest daughter of the King's closest friend and adviser Hugh le Despenser. For Hugh's part, a large incentive for him must have been that he could expect his daughter Isabel would one day become Countess of Arundel.
On 9 February 1321 at the royal manor Havering-atte-Bower, Isabel was duly married to Richard FitzAlan, the heir to the earldom of Arundel. Isabel was only eight at the time, while Richard was fifteen (not seven as has been claimed). Their respective ages would come up later when Richard would try to seek an annulment.
Annulment
Richard and Isabel had one son, Edmund Fitzalan, born in 1327, and in 1331 Isabel's husband became earl of Arundel. However, in December 1344 Richard Fitzalan had their marriage annulled on the grounds that he had never freely consented to marry Isabel and that they both had renounced their vows at puberty but had been "forced by blows to cohabit, so that a son was born". Isabel retired to several manors in Essex that were given to her by her ex-husband. After receiving a papal dispensation, Richard married Isabel's first cousin Eleanor of Lancaster, with whom he had apparently been living.
Richard and Isabel's only child, Edmund Fitzalan, was rendered illegitimate by this annulment and so was unable to inherit his father's earldom. When his father died in 1376 Edmund quarreled with his half-siblings, the children of his father's second marriage, over inheritance rights. Edmund was imprisoned in the Tower of London until he was released in 1377 by request of his brothers-in-law.
Father's execution
After their father was executed for treason in 1326, Isabel and her youngest sister Elizabeth were the only daughters of Hugh the Younger to escape being confined in nunneries, Isabel because she was already married and Elizabeth because of her youth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_le_Despenser,_Countess_of_Arundel. Also see Source: The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom : extant, extinct, or dormant by G. E. Cokayne, 1910, Volume 1, with an account of the papal mandate.
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- [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 13 Dec 2022), entry for Isabel LE DESPENCER, person ID L857-99H. (Reliability: 3).
- [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 13 Dec 2022), entry for Richard "Copped Hat" FITZALAN, person ID LYK6-VQ2. (Reliability: 3).
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