Amaury le Despencer

• Preferred Name: Amaury le Despencer^{[1] [2] [3]}
  
• Alternate Name: Almeric Le Despenser
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: 24 APR 1204 in Gloucestershire, England at LATI: N1.8842 LONG: E2.1446 with note: Standardized.
  
• FSID: LJ1B-4T3
  
• Birth: 1145 in Ryhall, Rutland, England at LATI: N2.6885 LONG: E0.4639
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  
  Aymer le DESPENSER 1 was born 1150 in Kings Stanley, Gloucestershire, England. He died 1189 in Kings Stanley, Gloucestershire, England. Aymer married Amabel de CHESNEY on 1174 in Kings Stanley, Gloucestershire, England.
  Amabel de CHESNEY was born 1154 in Addington, Surrey, England. She married Aymer le DESPENSER on 1174 in Kings Stanley, Gloucestershire, England.
  They had the following children:
  i Juliane le DESPENSER was born 1183.
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  === Initiatory work done 19 Aug 1992 by Gilb ===
  Initiatory work done 19 Aug 1992 by Gilbert Lowry.
  
  === !Almeric was steward to Richard Coeur de ===
  !Almeric was steward to Richard Coeur de Lion. The 2nd Lord Stanley was a son of Thurston. In the 8th year of the reign of Richard I he was acquitted to the 3rd scutage of Normandy, etc. !He was of 1189. He succeeded his brother, and was steward to Richard Coeur de Lion. He was sheriff of Rutlandshire, in the 34th year of Henry II and under Richard I, and was possessed of King's Stanley, in Gloucestershire, which had belonged to his brother, Lord Stanley.
  
  === Almeric served the office of Sheriff of ===
  Almeric served the office of Sheriff of Rutland in the 34th of Henry II, 1188, and again in 1st of Richard I in 1189. From the latter monarch, to whom he was also steward, he obtained a confirmation in fee of the lordships of Wurdie and Stanley, in the vale of Gloucester. The former of which King Henry II had given to Walter, the Usher of his Chamber, son of Thurstan and uncle of Almaric, for his homage and service reserving a pair of gilt spurs, or twelve pence, to be yearly paid for the same into the exchequer. In the 6th of King John, 1205, this Almaric paid a fine of 120 marks and one palfrey to be exempted from attending upon the king in an expedition then proposed to be made beyond the seas. He married Amabil, daughter of Walter de Chesnei, by whom he had 2 sons, Thurstan and Almaric, and was succeeded by the elder.
  
  === Almeric was Sheriff of Rutland in 1188 i ===
  Almeric was Sheriff of Rutland in 1188 in the reigns of Henry II andRichard I. He was also steward to Richard I and succeeded his brother, Walter, asLord of Stanley, in addition to which he was possessed of several parcels ofother land which had been granted him by the crown. Married Annabell, daughterof Sir Walter de Chenie (or Cheshie).
  
  === !Eng AM vol I p 39-40 ===
  !Eng AM vol I p 39-40
  
  === History of Rutland p 19 ===
  History of Rutland p 19
  
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  {|cellpadding="5" border="1" |bgcolor="#E5FFE5"|'''Date Estimated''' ''based on historical events and/or calculated by ages of other family members.''||'''Note:''' Birthdate of 1150 is a guess based on daughter's first husband's death in 1196.[http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1792.htm#i53862 William Bardolph] ([[#Lewis]]) It also fits with his wife's birth (guess) of 1154.
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  == Biography ==
  Amaury le Despenser was the son of Thurston (and unknown wife), son ofSimon.[http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL2.htm#Thurstandied1177A Thurstan le Despenser], son of Simon, died 1177 ([[#MedLands]]) He married (1) Amabel (Amabilis) de Chesney,[http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3.htm#AmabilisChesneyMAmauryDespencer Amabilis de Chesney] ([[#MedLands]]) daughter of Walter de Chesneyfrom ''Royal Ancestry,'' Vol III, pp 653-4 LUCY #7 Geoffrey de Lucy([[#Richardson]]) and Eva le Broc, (2) Ada____ after 1219.
  
  Amaury and his wife Amabel had two children:
  * Thurston le Despenser (died after 1219)* Juliane le Despenser, married (1) William Bardolf, (2) Peter de Stokes (dead by August 1206), and (3) in 1207, Geoffrey de Lucy (unnamed daughter of "Aumaric Despensatoris" was shown as wife of Peter de Stokes in a charter dated 1 May 1205)
  Amaury le Despenser was living in 1198, but not in 1212 (died 1203from a profile created by [[Rose-3933 | Greg Rose]], April 16, 2014, based on genealogy worksheets compiled by [[Pryor-355 | Ralph Pryor]] (Greg's grandfather) during his 40 years of research, traveling extensively in the military and in retirement (no other source citation)).
  
  == Sources ==
  * Douglas Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestory.net Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families],'' 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013)* [http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p194.htm#i5817 Amaury le Despenser, Dispensator Regis], "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" (website, compiled by Mr. Marlyn Lewis, Portland, OR; accessed October 22, 2015)
  :'''Note''': [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL2.htm#_Toc321390406 Earls of Winchester] ([[#Medlands]]) states: "No indication has been found that the families of Simon and Thurstan Le Despencer, and of Richard Le Despencer, both shown below, were related to the Despencer family whose head was later created earl of Winchester." The Simon and Thurstan family first mentioned is the family of this [[Despenser-62|Amaury]] (m [[Chesney-4|Amabel de Chesney]]).
  :'''Note''': The following citation appears to be for a different set of Depensers, with "Almericus" son of Thurston son of Hugo (if [[Noland-165|I]]'m following the Latin correctly):*William Camden's 1619 ''Visitations of the county of Warwick'' (see [https://archive.org/stream/visitationcount01britgoog#page/n309/mode/1up p 283] and [https://archive.org/stream/visitationcount01britgoog#page/n316/mode/1up p 284] - note that the scanned pages are out of order)
  :[[#MedLands]] notes that "No indication has been found that the families of Simon and Thurstan Le Despencer [the grandfather/father of Amabel's husband Amaury]... were related to the Despencer family whose head was later created earl of Winchester [the family of Hugh le Despenser m Isabel de Beauchamp]." - see MedLands: [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL2.htm#_Toc321390406 Earls of Winchester (Le Despencer)]
  ::[http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL2.htm#Thurstandied1177A MedLands] has Thurston, father of Almaricus/Amaury (- [1198/1212]) as son of Simon.
  ::[[#1619_Visitations]] appears to show Thurston as son of Hugo and his children as Almericus, who married Eldae' Blewett, and Walter. (Chart is in pseudo-Latin, so between chart layout & the Latin, [[Noland-165|I]] may have mis-interpreted something). Sons of Almericus were Philip m Isabella "fil. et haer. Rici de Euens." (parents of "Ricus", father of "Clara filia et haer.") and "Thurstanus le Despensor filius Almerici.", whose son "Galfridus le Despensor miles ob. 1251 et 36 H.3." was father of both "Hugo" m "Alicia filias et haer. Phillippi Basset...et relict Rog. Bigot." (Hugh and Alice Basset are the parents of the Hugh le Despenser who married Isabella Beauchamp, widow of Patrick Chaworth) and "Galfridus Dn's de Mardley in Com. Wygorn" m "Emma ux. eius.
  
  
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• m. BEF 1169 in England

1. Philip le Despenser, b. ABT 1182 in King's Stanley, Gloucestershire, England     d. in Abbey Dore, Herefordshire, England
2. Juliana le Despencer, b. 1181 in Dallington, Northamptonshire, England     d. ABT 1230

1. Title: Geni: Amaury Despenser
   Author: Geni
   Publication: Name: https://www.geni.com/people/Aymaury-Despenser-Sheriff/6000000004194980565;
   Note: Information for Amaury Despenser
   
2. Title: Cokayne's "Complete Peerage" Vol. 4, p. 287
   
3. Title: Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors & Cousins
   Publication: Name: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p194.htm#i5817;