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Isabel LE DESPENSER

Isabel LE DESPENSER

Female 1400 - 1439  (38 years)

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  • Name Isabel LE DESPENSER 
    Born 26 Jul 1400 
    Gender Female 
    Occupation Countess of Worcester 
    Died 1439 
    Person ID I43334  Main
    Last Modified 3 May 2019 

    Father Earl Thomas LE DESPENSER,   b. 22 Sep 1373,   d. 13 Jan 1400  (Age 26 years) 
    Mother Countess Constance DE YORK,   b. Abt 1375,   d. 28 Nov 1416  (Age ~ 41 years) 
    Married Bef 7 Nov 1379 
    Family ID F31548  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Richard BEAUCHAMP,   b. Abt 1394,   d. 18 Mar 1422, Meaux, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 28 years) 
    Married
    • MH:FF164
    Children 
    +1. Baroness Elizabeth BEAUCHAMP,   b. 16 Sep 1415, Hanley Castle, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Jun 1448, Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 32 years)
    Last Modified 19 Dec 2023 
    Family ID F30553  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester and Warwick, LG (26 July 1400 – 1439) was the posthumous daughter and eventually the sole heiress of Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester (died 1399) by his wife, Constance of York, daughter of Edmund of Langley (son of King Edward III of England). She was born six months after her father had been beheaded for plotting against King Henry IV of England (1399–1413).
      Isabel married twice, successively to two identically named first-cousins, grandsons of Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick:
      1. Firstly to Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester (1394–1422) who died at the Siege of Meaux. They had one daughter:
      • Elizabeth de Beauchamp, born 1415, who married Edward Neville, 1st Baron Bergavenny (died 1476), and had children.
      1. Secondly to Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick (1382–1439), her 1st husband's first-cousin from a senior Beauchamp line, by whom she had two children:
      • Henry de Beauchamp (1425–1446), who succeeded his father as 14th Earl of Warwick, and later was created 1st Duke of Warwick. He married Cecille Neville, daughter of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, and had by her one daughter Anne Beauchamp, 15th Countess of Warwickwho died as a child.
      • Anne de Beauchamp, who became 16th Countess of Warwick, following the deaths of her brother and his infant daughter. Anne married Richard Neville, the Kingmaker, eldest son of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, and who became jure uxoris 16th Earl of Warwick. Her husband therefore was the brother of her own brother's wife. They had two daughters who married at the highest level: Isabel Neville (1451–1476), who married George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence (1449–1478), and Anne Neville (1456–1485), who married firstly Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, and secondly King Richard III (1483–1485). [1]

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Notes

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Updated 23 Dec 2023