BORN_SHORT ‎± 1223 Ryhall, Rutland, England, DIED_SHORT ‎4 aug 1265 battle of, Evesham, Worcestershire, England‎, approximately -958 years
KINSHIP: Son and heir.

BIRTH: Date> In or before 1223.

MILITARY: Present at the battle of Lewes, 1264; summoned for Military Service against the Welsh, 1257/1258, 1263; joined the Earl of Leicester in his last campaign, and was with him at the battle of Evesham.

OFFICE: Constable of Horston Castle, 1255 till about 1260.
OFFICE: Appointed Justiciar of England, being the nominee of the Barons, Oct 1260; deprived of said office by the King, May or Jun, 1261.
OFFICE: Appointed Justiciar of England and Constable of the Tower of London by the Barons, and with the assent of the King, about Jul 1263.
OFFICE: Appointed, by the counsel of the Barons, Constable of the Castles of Devizes and Oxford, of Orford Castle, of Nottingham Castle, 1264.
ASSIGNMENTS: Summoned to Parliament, 1264.

HONORS: Had respite of knighthood, 1244.
TITLES: Possibly created Baron le Despenser when summoned to Parliament by writ, 1264.

POLITICS: At the Parliament of Oxford, in June 1258, he was one of the twelve elected by the Barons to redress grievances, and also one of the twelve elected to treat with the King's Council in Parliament; attended Montfort's Parliament at Oxford, 1263; when Constable of the Tower, he led the rioters who sacked the mansion at Isleworth of the King of the Romans; appointed an arbiter to consider the peace between the King and the Barons, 1264; appointed an arbiter between the Earls of Leicester and Gloucester, 1265.

RESIDENCE: Of Ryhall, Rutland {Ryhall, Rutland, England}.
RESIDENCE: Of Loughborough, co. Leicester {Loughborough, Leicestershire, England}.
RESIDENCE: Of Burton, co. Leicester {Burton-on-the-Wolds, Prestwold, Leicestershire, England}.
RESIDENCE: Of Hugglescote, co. Leicester {Hugglescote, Ibstock, Leicestershire, England}.
RESIDENCE: Of Freeby, co. Leicester {Freeby, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England}.
RESIDENCE: Of Arnesby, co. Leicester {Arnesby, Leicestershire, England}.
RESIDENCE: Of Parlington, co. York {Parlington, Aberford, Yorkshire, England}.
RESIDENCE: Of Hillam, co. York {Hillam, Monk Fryston, Yorkshire, England}.
RESIDENCE: Of Sibsey, co. Lincoln {Sibsey, Lincolnshire, England}.
RESIDENCE: Of Aukborough, co. Lincoln {Alkborough, Lincolnshire, England}
RESIDENCE: Of Belmesthorp, Rutland {Belmisthorpe, Ryhall, Rutland, England}.

DEATH: Cause> Slain at the battle of Evesham.