Sir Knight Hugh I le Despencer High Sheriff of Berkshire

• Preferred Name: Sir Knight Hugh I le Despencer High Sheriff of Berkshire
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: GKY8-GQS
  
• Death: 23 FEB 1237 in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England at LATI: N2.7727 LONG: E1.2068 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Birth: 1197 in Ryhall, Rutland, England at LATI: N2.6885 LONG: E0.4639 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Sir Hugh was the son of Thomas Despencer, and brother to both Thomas, who died before October 1218. He was a descendant of a noble family who came to England from the same location as William the Conqueror and at the same time. This family, surnamed De Albetot, became William's Stewards. Sir Hugh was appointed High Sheriff of Staffordshire and Shropshire in 1222 and High Sheriff of Berkshire in 1226 and 1238.
  
  BIO
  BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL2.htm#RoheseDespencerMStephenSegrave as of 7/13/2016
  
  HUGH (-[23 Feb/30 May] 1238). The Red Book of the Exchequer records "Hugo
  
  === An extensive Marcher lord, he curried in ===
  An extensive Marcher lord, he curried influence with Edward II after Gaveston's death.
  
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  ==Biography==
  He was married twice, but the names of his wives are unknown.
  :Sir Hugh le Despenser was born at Hugglescote, Freeby, & Arnesby, Leicestershire, England. He died between 23 February 1238 and 30 May 1238at Sibsey & Aukborough, Lincolnshire, Ryhall & Belmesthorp, Rutlandshire, England.[http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p817.htm#i24545 Hugh le Despenser], "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" (website, compiled by Mr. Marlyn Lewis, Portland, OR; accessed June 29, 2015), citing "Unknownauthor, The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. IV, p. 259, notes, Vol. XI, p. 348; Some Early English Pedigrees, by Vernon M. Norr, p. 59; Wallop Family, p. 270."
  
  '''Children'''
  
  * (Miss) le Despenser* Sir Hugh le Despenser, 1st Lord Despenser, Justiciar of England+ b. c 1223, d. 4 Aug 1265
  
  == Court Records ==:15 Nov 1224 - "The honour of Wallingford. The king has granted to Hugh Despenser a moiety of the manor of Chalgrove with the capital messuage, and to Hugh de Plessetis, Drogo de Barentin and Nicholas de Boleville the other moiety with appurtenances formerly of Peter de Maulnay, in order to sustain them in the king's service for as long as it pleases the king. Order to the keeper of the honour of Wallingford that, bythe view and testimony of trustworthy and law-worthy men of his bailiwick, he is to cause Hugh Despenser to have full seisin of a moiety ofthe same manor with the aforesaid capital messuage, and the abovesaidHugh, Drogo and Nicholas to have full seisin of the other moiety of the aforesaid manor with appurtenances, saving to Alexander of Dorset the corn that he bought from Peter's bailiffs from the land that Peter had in Chalgrove, and saving to the king the rest of the same corn with the rest of the stock and chattels found in the same manor.
  :"Order to the same keeper to cause the corn formerly of the same Peter in Chalgrove to be valued, and if that corn ought to remain to the king, then he is to deliver it to the aforesaid Hugh Despenser, Hugh dePlessetis, Drogo de Barentin and Nicholas de Boleville so that they answer the king at the Exchequer for its value, and if it ought to remain to the said Peter, then it is to remain to him, saving to Alexanderof Dorset the corn that he bought from the bailiffs of the same Peterin Chalgrove." (Ref: Henry III Fine Rolls)
  
  ==Sources==
  * Henry III Fine Rolls Project - Fine Roll 9/19
  
  
  === Sir Hugh le Despenser, feudal Lord of Lo ===
  Sir Hugh le Despenser, feudal Lord of Loughborough, Burton, Hugglescote, Freeby and Arnesby , Leicestershire, Parlington and Hillam, Yorkshire, Sibsey and Aukborough, Lincolnshire and R yhall and Belmesthorp, Rutland. [Burke's Peerage]King Henry III, in the 8th year of his reig n [1224], constituted Hugh de Spencer sheriff of the counties of Salop and Stafford, and gove rnor of the castles of Salop and Bruges (Bridgnorth). He was subsequently sheriff of Berkshir e and governor of Wallingford Castle. To this Hugh Henry II gave the manor of Rithal, co. Rut land, and in the 21st of that monarch's reign, upon the death of John Scot, Earl of Chester , he was deputed with Stephen de Segrave and Henry de Aldithley to take charge of the castle s of Chester and Beeston. After this Hugh came his grandson, another Hugh Despencer. [Sir Ber nard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London , 1883, p. 165-6, Despencer, Earl of Winchester]
  
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  === !SOURCES: 1. Dugdale's Baronetage I 390 ===
  !SOURCES: 1. Dugdale's Baronetage I 390 on Jacob's Peerage I 258, 264 2. Wotton Eng. Baronetage I 199-200

• m. 1219 in Worcester, Worcestershire, England

1. Sir Hugh II Lord of Lands in Loughbrough Justiciar of England Le De Spencer Justiciar of England Knight, b. 5 AUG 1223 in Ryhall, Rutland, England     d. 16 AUG 1265 in Battle of Evesham, Worcestershire, England