Isabella de Beauchamp
Isabella de Beauchamp | |
|---|---|
| Lady Kidwelly Baroness Despenser | |
| Born | c. 1263 Matilda FitzJohn |
Isabella de Beauchamp, Lady Kidwelly, Baroness Despenser (c. 1263 – before 30 May 1306), was an English noblewoman and wealthy heiress.
Family
Lady Isabella, or Isabel de Beauchamp,
Marriages and issue
Sometime before 1281, she married firstly Sir Patrick de Chaworth, Lord of Kidwelly in Carmarthenshire, South Wales.[2] The marriage produced one daughter:
- Maud Chaworth (1282–1322), married Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster,[3] by whom she had seven children.
Following Sir Patrick's death in 1283, Lady Isabella had in her possession four manors in Wiltshire and two manors in Berkshire, assigned to her until her dowry should be set forth along with the livery of Chedworth in Gloucestershire and the Hampshire manor of Hartley Mauditt which had been granted to her and Sir Patrick in frankmarriage by her father.
In 1286, she married secondly
Together Lord and Lady Despenser had four children:
- Hugh le Despenser, Lord Despenser the Younger (1286 – executed 24 November 1326),[2] married Eleanor de Clare, by whom he had issue.
- Aline le Despenser (died before 28 November 1353), married Edward Burnell, Lord Burnell
- Isabella le Despenser (died 4/5 December 1334), married firstly as his second wife, John Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings, by whom she had three children. Their descendants became the Lords Hastings; she married secondly as his second wife, Sir Ralph de Monthermer, 1st Baron Monthermer.[4]
- Phillip le Despenser(died 1313), married as his first wife Margaret de Goushill, by whom he had issue.
Lady Despenser died sometime before 30 May 1306. Twenty years later, her husband and eldest son, favourites of King Edward II, were both executed by the orders of Roger Mortimer and Queen Isabella, who were by that time the de facto rulers of England; along with most of the people in the kingdom, they had resented the power both Despensers wielded over the King.
As her husband had been made Earl of Winchester in 1322, only after her death, Lady Despenser was never styled as the Countess of Winchester.
References
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 23 September 2004. Accessed 11 January 2019.
- ^ a b Fryde 1979, p. 29.
- ^ Fryde 1979, p. 30.
- ^ Richardson, D. (2011) Magna Carta Ancestry 2nd Edition, pg 325 (via Google)
Sources
- Fryde, Natalie (1979). The Tyranny and Fall of Edward II 1321-1326. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-54806-3.