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Eleanor de Clare | |
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| Suo jure Lady of Glamorgan[1][2] | |
 Eleanor de Clare | |
| Other titles | Baroness le Despenser Baroness la Zouche |
| Born | 3 October 1292[1] Caerphilly Castle, Glamorgan, Wales[1] |
| Died | 30 June 1337 (age 44)[1] Monmouth Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales |
| Buried | Tewkesbury Abbey[1] 51°59′25″N 2°09′37″W / 51.9903°N 2.1604°W |
| Spouse(s) | |
| Issue | Hugh le Despenser, Baron le Despenser Edward le Despenser Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Arundel Joan le Despenser Gilbert le Despenser John le Despenser Eleanor le Despenser Margaret le Despenser Elizabeth le Despenser, Baroness Berkeley William la Zouche |
| Father | Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester |
| Mother | Joan of Acre |
Eleanor de Clare, suo jure 6th Lady of Glamorgan (October 1292[3] – 30 June 1337) was a powerful Anglo-Welsh noblewoman who married Hugh Despenser the Younger, the future favourite of Edward II of England, and was a granddaughter of Edward I of England.[2][4] 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, 8th Earl of Gloucester, 7th Earl of Hereford at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314.[1][2][4] She was born in 1292 at Caerphilly Castle in Glamorgan, Wales and was the eldest daughter of Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, 7th Earl of Gloucester, 5th Lord of Glamorgan and Princess Joan of Acre.
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on or about 14 October
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