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Eleanor de Clare, suo jure 6th Lady of Glamorgan (October 1292 – 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.
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.
When Eleanor de Clare was born on 3 October 1292, in Caerphilly Castle, Glamorgan, Wales, her father, Gilbert de Clare 7th Earl of Gloucester, was 49 and her mother, Joan of Acre, was 20. She married Sir Hugh le Despenser on 14 June 1306, in Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom.
The family in question is that of the de Clares, now remembered through the surname Clare and it's derivatives. Originally a Norman family, they took their name from Clare in Suffolk where their first castle, and the seat of their barony, was situated.
Eleanor de Clare was the eldest daughter of Gilbert de Clare (the 6th Earl of Hertford, 7th Earl of Gloucester and Lord of Glamorgan), and his second wife Joan of Acre, who was the daughter of Edward I and Eleanor of Castile.
Clare, Eleanor de (1292–1337) English noblewoman. Name variations: Alienor or Eleanor Despenser; Eleanor Zouche. Born 1292; died 1337; dau. of Gilbert de Clare, 7th earl of Hertford, 3rd of Gloucester, and Joan of Acre (1272–1307); m. Hugh Despenser the Younger, 1306 (executed, Nov 24, 1326); m. William Zouche, 1327; children (1st m.)
Today, Edward's niece, Eleanor de Clare. Eleanor was born in the great castle built by her father, Caerphilly in Glamorgan, in October or November 1292. Her mother was Joan of Acre, the second oldest of Edward I's five surviving daughters, and her father was Gilbert 'the Red' de Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford.
