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Eleanor de Clare
(3 October 1292 – 30 June 1337) was the wife of the powerful
Hugh Despenser the younger
. She was born in 1292 at
Caerphilly
in
Glamorgan
,
Wales
. She was the eldest daughter of
Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford
and 7th
Earl of Gloucester
, and
Joan of Acre
, daughter of
Edward I
and
Eleanor of Castile
; thus she was a granddaughter to
Edward I of England
. With her sisters,
Elizabeth de Clare
and
Margaret de Clare
, she inherited her father's estates after the death of her brother,
Gilbert de Clare, 4th Earl of Gloucester
at Bannockburn in 1314.
Marriage to Hugh Despenser the younger
In May 1306 at
Westminster
, Eleanor married
Hugh le Despenser the Younger
, the son of
Hugh le Despenser, Earl of Winchester
and
Isabella de Beauchamp
, daughter of
William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick
. Her grandfather, King
Edward I of England
, granted Eleanor a maritagium of 2,000 pounds sterling. Eleanor and Hugh had nine children:
Hugh le Despencer, 2nd Baron le Despencer
(1308–1349)
Gilbert le Despenser
, (1309–1381).
Edward le Despenser
, (1310–1342), soldier, killed at the siege of
Vannes
;http://patp.us/genealogy/bio/spencer.aspx; also said to have......
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