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Petitions to the Pope
… Granted. Avignon, 13 Kal. Dec. (f. 49 d.) Hugh le Despenser. On behalf of Edmund de Grymesby. For a canonry and …
Petitions to the Pope
… Kenneyth Mann, in the diocese of St. Davids, to Robert le Despenser. 19 Kal. Sept. Woodhull, in the diocese of Lincoln, …
Petitions to the Pope
… as above. Ibid. The same. On behalf of his kinsman, Henry Despenser, S.C.L. aged nineteen, for a dispensation to hold a …
A History of the County of Essex
… Morant, Essex, i. 31; D.N.B. s.v. Dashwood, F., baron le Despenser. Named on Rocque's map (17446); cf. D.N.B. s.v. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 1322 James de Broughton 32 1322-5 Robert de Sapy (Hugh le Despenser the younger given superior custody 1322) 33 1325-6 … in right of grantof castle and Forest) 39 1397-9 Thomas le Despenser, earl of Gloucester (as preceding) 40 1399 Hugh …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in 1322. 53 Warminster was immediately granted to Hugh le Despenser the elder, 54 but on the accession of Edward III …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… It then passed with Somerford Keynes manor to Hugh Despenser the elder. 72 In the early 1320s the right of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… granted the manor to be held as 1/4; knight's fee, William Despenser holding it in 1166. 76 The Ely overlordship was … 77 but not later. Ely's immediate tenant in 1199 was Alan Despenser, who was demanding possession from John the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… one 'of a rather superior description' built for Lord le Despenser and later part of William Weeden's estate. On a …