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HUGH LE DESPENSER (d. 1265)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 101 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUGH LE See also:DESPENSER (d. 1265)  , See also:chief See also:justiciar of See also:England, first plays an important See also:part in 1258, when he was prominent on the baronial See also:side in the Mad See also:Parliament of See also:Oxford . In 126o the barons See also:chose him to succeed See also:Hugh See also:Bigod as justiciar, and in 1263 the See also:king was further compelled to put the See also:Tower of See also:London in his hands . On the outbreak of See also:civil See also:war he joined the party of See also:Simon de See also:Montfort, See also:earl of See also:Leicester, and led the Londoners when they sacked the See also:manor-See also:house of Isleworth, belonging to See also:Richard, earl of See also:Cornwall, king of the See also:Romans . Having fought at See also:Lewes (1264) he was made See also:governor of six castles after the See also:battle, and was then appointed one of the four arbitrators to mediate between Simon de Montfort and See also:Gilbert de See also:Clare, earl of See also:Gloucester . He was summoned to Simon de Montfort's parliament in 1264, and acted as justiciar throughout the earl's dictatorship . See also:Despenser was killed at See also:Evesham in See also:August 1265 . See C . See also:Bemont, Simon de Montfort (See also:Paris, 1884) ; T . F . Tout in See also:Owens See also:College See also:Historical Essays, pp . 76 if . (See also:Manchester, 1902) .

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