Margaret (Despenser) le Despenser (abt. 1310 - 1337)

Born about 1310 in Stoke, Gloucestershire, England

Ancestors

Died 1337 at about age 27 in Watton Abbey, Watton, Yorkshire, England

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Biography

Margaret, a nun at Whaton Priory, was the daughter of Hugh "the Younger," 2nd Lord le Despenser, by his wife Eleanor (Clare).^[1]

Note: This Margaret's aunt - Margaret, dau. of Hugh and Isabel - married John St. Armand.

Margaret Despenser, daughter of Eleanor de Clare and Hugh le Despenser, was not married. She was a nun at Whatton Priory. ^[2]

Research Notes

This profile is involved in what the great genealogist J H Round called the "The Carington Imposture", a famous fraudulent pedigree. See his Peerage and Pedigrees Vol. II, starting at page 134. At least some of the people in that pedigree never existed and others are represented inaccurately.

Sources

1. ↑ Sir Hugh le Despenser, 2nd Lord le Despenser, "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors & Cousins" (website, compiler Mr. Marlyn Lewis, Portland, OR; accessed April 27, 2015). Hugh le Despenser married Alianore de Clare, daughter of Gilbert de Clare the surety baron, the powerful Earl of Gloucester.
2. ↑ Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, page 67

• Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, (2011), Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), volume II, page 67.