Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II tells the story of the
greatest villain of the fourteenth century', his dazzling rise as
favourite to the king and his disastrous fall. Born in the late
1280s, Hugh married King Edward I of England's eldest granddaughter
when he was a teenager. Ambitious and greedy to an astonishing
degree, Hugh chose a startling route to power: he seduced his
wife's uncle, the young King Edward II, and became the richest and
most powerful man in the country in the 1320s. For years he
dominated the English government and foreign policy, and took
whatever lands he felt like by both quasi-legal and illegal
methods, with the king's connivance. His actions were to bring both
himself and Edward II down, and Hugh was directly responsible for
the first forced abdication of a king in English history; he had
made the horrible mistake of alienating and insulting Edward's
queen Isabella of France, who loathed him, and who had him slowly
and grotesquely executed in her presence in November 1326.
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