Eleanor de Clare

Eleanor de Clare
Suo jure Lady of Glamorgan[1][2]
Eleanor de Clare
Other titlesBaroness le Despenser
Baroness la Zouche
Born3 October 1292[1]
Caerphilly Castle, Glamorgan, Wales[1]
Died30 June 1337 (age 44)[1]
Monmouth Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales
BuriedTewkesbury Abbey[1]
51°59′25″N 2°09′37″W / 51.9903°N 2.1604°W / 51.9903; -2.1604
Spouse(s)
(m. 1306; died 1326)
William la Zouche
(m. 1329)
IssueHugh 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
FatherGilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester
MotherJoan 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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