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Eleanor de Clare, suo jure 6th Lady of Glamorgan (October 1292 – 30 June 1337) was a powerful Anglo-Welsh noblewoman who married Hugh Despenser the Younger, the future favourite of Edward II of England, and was a granddaughter of Edward I of England.
- Baroness le Despenser, Baroness la Zouche
- Joan of Acre
Brief Life History of Eleanor. When Eleanor de Clare was born on 3 October 1292, in Caerphilly Castle, Glamorgan, Wales, her father, Gilbert de Clare 7th Earl of Gloucester, was 49 and her mother, Joan of Acre, was 20. She married Sir Hugh le Despenser 2nd Lord Despenser on 14 June 1306, in Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom.
Eleanor de Clare, suo jure 6th Lady of Glamorgan (3 October 1292 – 30 June 1337) was a powerful Anglo-Welsh noblewoman who married Hugh Despenser the Younger and was a granddaughter of Edward I of England. [2] [3] She was born in 1292 at Caerphilly in Glamorgan, Wales.
3 de ago. de 2018 · This must have caused some head scratching as Hugh Despenser the Younger’s wife, Eleanor, was another member of the de Clare family. Eleanor was the 8 th earl’s sister. She and her two other sisters became co-heiresses after the 8 th earl died at Bannockburn.
Bibliography. References. de Clare. The House of Clare was a prominent Anglo-Norman noble house that ruled the Earldoms of Pembroke, Hertford and Gloucester in England and Wales throughout its history, playing a prominent role in the Norman invasion of Ireland .
- Earls, Barons, and Knights
- Richard fitz Gilbert
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- House of Normandy
Marriage. In May 1306 Despenser was knighted at the Feast of the Swans at Westminster Abbey alongside Prince Edward, and in that summer he married Eleanor de Clare, daughter of powerful noble Gilbert de Clare, and Joan of Acre. Eleanor's grandfather, Edward I, had owed the elder Despenser 2,000 marks, a debt which the marriage settled.
10 de dez. de 2006 · Today, Edward's niece, Eleanor de Clare. Eleanor was born in the great castle built by her father, Caerphilly in Glamorgan, in October or November 1292. Her mother was Joan of Acre, the second oldest of Edward I's five surviving daughters, and her father was Gilbert 'the Red' de Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford.
