Charlie Fenton’s Reviews > Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II: Downfall of a King’s Favourite > Status Update
Charlie Fenton
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‘The royal favourite’s greed was insatiable. By the time of his downfall in late 1326, Hugh held estates worth over £7,150 a year, and this was even wealthier than his enormously rich brother-in-law the earl of Gloucester had been. Even this huge figure is incomplete as the income from his Welsh lands is impossible to calculate, and they were far more extensive than his English estates.’
— Jun 08, 2019 05:50PM
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Charlie Fenton
is on page 154 of 218
‘There had, of course, never been the slightest doubt that Hugh would be sentenced to death, and a gallows had already been built for him, a staggering 50 feet high. He was roped to four horses which dragged him through the streets to the gallows, and there he suffered his drawn-out and atrocious death of strangulation, castration, disembowelment and beheading’
— Jun 10, 2019 02:59PM
Charlie Fenton
is on page 124 of 218
‘Isabella loathed Hugh so much she could not bring herself to utter his name. Not only did she dress and portray herself as a widow in mourning for her husband who had been taken from her by a third party, she informed the French court that she was frightened of Hugh, and threatened - in a letter or speech which does not survive - to destroy him with the help of Charles IV’
— Jun 09, 2019 04:44PM
Charlie Fenton
is on page 62 of 218
‘Hugh in fact acted in a very different way from the previous great royal favourite, Piers Gaveston, who enjoyed the riches which came from being the beloved of the king, but who had no interest in government or in ruling through Edward. Some of the English magnates had killed Gaveston to remove him from the king’s side... they had merely opened the door to someone far more dangerous.’
— Jun 07, 2019 05:12PM
Charlie Fenton
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‘On 26 May, four days after the knighting, came an even greater honour for Hugh: marriage to the king’s eldest granddaughter Eleanor Clare, daughter of the late Gilbert ‘the Red’ Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford, and Edward I’s second daughter Joan of Acre.’
— Jun 05, 2019 05:53PM
