Eleanor de Clare, suo jure 6th Lady of Glamorgan

Eleanor de Clare, suo jure 6th Lady of Glamorgan (3 October 1292 – 30 June 1337) was a powerful Anglo-Welsh noblewoman who married Hugh Despenser the Younger and was a granddaughter of Edward I of England.[2][3] She was born in 1292 at Caerphilly in Glamorgan, Wales. She was the eldest daughter of Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford and 7th Earl of Gloucester, and Joan of Acre, daughter of Edward I and Eleanor of Castile; thus she was a granddaughter to Edward I of England. With her sisters, Elizabeth de Clare and Margaret de Clare, she inherited her father's estates after the death of her brother, Gilbert de Clare, 4th Earl of Gloucester at Bannockburn in 1314.

Heiress sisters

https://www.medievalwomen.org/elizabeth-de-clare-11th-lady-of-clare...

In 1317, twenty-two years after their father’s death, ten after their mother’s, the Clare inheritance was finally equally partitioned between Elizabeth the youngest daughter, who by then was married to Roger d’Amory, and her two sisters, Eleanor wife to Hugh Despenser the Younger and Margaret widow of Piers Gaveston, wife to Hugh de Audley. The total valuation of the inheritance just over £6,500.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_de_Clare

Family

Spouse(s) 1) Hugh le Despenser the Younger ​(m. 1306)​ 2) William la Zouche ​(m. 1329)​

Issue

1. Hugh le Despenser, Baron le Despenser
2. Edward le Despenser
3. Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Arundel
4. Joan le Despenser
5. Gilbert le Despenser
6. John le Despenser
7. Eleanor le Despenser
8. Margaret le Despenser
9. Elizabeth le Despenser, Baroness Berkeley
10. William la Zouche

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From < Hidden historical heroines (#14: Eleanor de Clare) > POSTED ON NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Legend holds Eleanor as the most beautiful and accomplished de Clare girl, the one most like her royal mother. As the eldest, she was married first; in 1306, when she was just thirteen, she was given to the son and heir of the Despenser family, ignominiously in lieu of a debt of money owed by Edward I to Hugh Despenser the Elder. Although the Depensers were an old and noble house, they had no titles or land; to have the opportunity to unite their bloodline with that of the king was a great prize indeed, even though Eleanor de Clare didn’t have any titles or lands either.

Eleanor presumably rests in the traditional resting place of the de Clares, Tewkesbury Abbey, which she and Hugh had financially aided during their height. If you ever chance to visit, take a look at the stained glass window above the choir, which shows both Hugh Despenser and William de la Zouche (as well as some of Eleanor’s de Clare ancestors). In the corner of the eastern-most window there is a naked woman, on her knees, praying; traditionally, this is held to be a portrait of Eleanor herself.

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Links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_de_Clare

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=16441442

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http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I603&tree=Nixon

http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I2085&tree=P...

http://www.mathematical.com/clareeleanor1292.html

http://thepeerage.com/p10485.htm

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