Can you tell me anything about Hugh le Despenser the younger (1286 to 1326)?
He was executed: Hugh le Despenser (d. 1349), son of Hugh le Despenser the younger and Eleanor de Clare, is overshadowed by his notorious father and grandfather, who were executed a month apart and who shared their names with Hugh. (One lavishly illustrated book even confuses Hugh’s tomb with that of his father—and then adds insult to injury by describing the son’s effigy as that of an extortionist.) http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/hugh134… More Nothing in Hugh’s early life gives a hint of his later notoriety. He was born sometime between 1286 and 1290 (by way of comparison, Edward II was born in 1284), the son of Hugh le Despenser the Elder and Isabel, daughter of William Beauchamp, earl of Warwick. Although not of the highest rank, Hugh was a nobleman; his grandfather and uncle were earls of Warwick, his paternal grandmother was countess of Norfolk, and his half-sister Maud was married to Henry of Lancaster
