The Despensers were a baronial English family who rose to great
prominence in the reign of Edward II (1307-27) when Hugh Despenser
the Younger became the king's chamberlain, favourite and perhaps
lover. He and his father Hugh the Elder wielded great influence,
and Hugh the Younger's greed and tyranny brought down a king for
the first time in English history and almost destroyed his own
family. Rise and Fall tells the story of the ups and downs of this
fascinating family from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries,
when three Despenser lords were beheaded and two fell in battle. We
begin with Hugh the justiciar, who died rebelling against King
Henry III and his son in 1265, and end with Thomas Despenser,
summarily beheaded in 1400 after attempting to free a deposed
Richard II, and Thomas's posthumous daughter Isabella, a countess
twice over and the grandmother of Richard III's queen. From the
medieval version of Prime Ministers to the (possible) lovers of
monarchs, the aristocratic Despenser family wielded great power in
medieval England. Drawing on the popular intrigue and infamy of the
Despenser clan, Kathryn Warner's book traces the lives of the most
notorious, powerful and influential members of this patrician
family over a 200 year span.
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