Skip to main content

Despenser, Isabel le (1400 - 1439)

Tag this record

Other Last Name

Beauchamp

Born / Died

Birth Date: 1400-07-26
Death Date: 1439-12-27

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Beauchamp, Richard (1397 - 1421/2)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: exactly 1411-7-27
    Union ended: exactly
  2. Beauchamp, Richard de (1381/2 - 1439)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: exactly 1423-11-26
    Union ended: n.d.

Siblings

Offspring

Primary Title

  • Lady Bergavenny
  • 7th Baroness Burghersh

Titles

  • Lady Bergavenny
    Assumed: 1411-07-27 (date of 1st marriage)
    Vacated: 1423-11-26 (date of 2nd marriage)
  • Countess of Warwick
    Assumed: 1423-11-26 (date of 2nd marriage)
    Vacated: 1439-12-27
  • Countess of Worcester
    Assumed: 1420/1-02 (date 1st husband created to the earldom)
    Vacated: 1439-12-27
  • 7th Baroness Burghersh
    Assumed: 1414-04-16

General Lands Note

Sister and heir of Richard le Despenser (d by 16 April 1414)

Details of Offices

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Elmley Castle, Worcestershire
    (Performance Venue)
    Acquired: 1411-04
    Divested: 1439-12
    Family residence; inherited from brother Richard
  • London (city-county)
    Acquired: 1423-03
    Divested: 1439-12
    A residence of 2nd husband
  • Warwick Castle, Warwickshire
    Acquired: 1423-03
    Divested: 1439-12
    A residence of 2nd husband
  • Hanley Castle, Worcestershire
    Acquired: 1423-03
    Divested: 1439-12
    Residence after 2nd marriage

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Guildhall, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Lady de Bergavenny's Minstrel/s
Performance - Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire Lady de Bergavenny's Minstrels
Performance - Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire Lady de Bergavenny's Minstrels

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Lady de Bergavenny's Minstrels Despenser, Isabel le (1400 - 1439) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Lady de Bergavenny's Minstrels Despenser, Isabel le (1400 - 1439) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Lady de Bergavenny's Minstrel/s Despenser, Isabel le (1400 - 1439) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Elmley Castle Worcestershire Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

View a list of abbreviations.

  • The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.