Thurstan le Despenser1

M, b. 1199, d. 1249
FatherLord Amaury le Despenser b. c 1156, d. 14 Feb 1205
MotherAlda Bluet
     Thurstan was born in 1199 in Great Rollright, Oxfordshire, England.2,3 In 1205, his custody being the heir of his father,Amaury, & his father's land & heir, was committed to Peter de Stokes. Peter was his uncle & died in 1207. In 1210, he was under the guardianship of Rowland Bluet.4 Thurstan married Lucy (?). He was the Despenser to King Henry III. In 1234, he issued a charter transferring property to the Godstow Abbey where his father and son were buried. In the charter, his mother Alda Bluet is named. The witnesses were Ralph and Adam le Despenser, Gilsbert of Biam and Roeland Bluet. He was at the Coranation of the Queen in 1236.5,6,7,8 Thurstan departed this life in 1249 in Great Rollright, Oxfordshire, England. He was holding lands in 5 counties.9

Family

Lucy (?)
Children

Citations

  1. [S936] British History Online - Victoria County History: Victoria County History, A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 10: Westbury and Whitstone Hundreds, C R Elrington, N M Herbert, R B Pugh (Editors), Kathleen Morgan, Brian S Smith, 1972, Pages 245-250 - Aumary was dead by 1215 when custody of the manor was given to Rowland Blewett, guardian of Aumary's heir Thurstan le Despenser. In 1216 the Crown granted the manor to Hugh Mortimer who was disputing it in 1221 and 1227 with Thurstan; in 1229 the manor was confirmed to Thurstan, but Ralph Mortimer was claiming it in 1230. Thurstan held the manor in 1235, and by 1253 it had passed to his son Adam, who obtained a grant of a market and fair; it was probably then that Adam created the borough, first recorded in 1295 after his death, in part of the manor - www.british-history.ac.uk.
  2. [S1417] William Farrer, Honors and Knights' Fees, Volume 2: pages 259 - He was of age in 1219.
  3. [S936] British History Online - Victoria County History: Victoria County History, A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 10: Westbury and Whitstone Hundreds, C R Elrington, N M Herbert, R B Pugh (Editors), Kathleen Morgan, Brian S Smith, 1972, Pages 245-250 - Aumary was dead by 1215 when custody of the manor was given to Rowland Blewett, guardian of Aumary's heir Thurstan le Despenser - www.british-history.ac.uk.
  4. [S1436] Frederic Madden Bulkeley, Collectanea Topographica Et Genealogica, Volume IV: page - The wife of Almaric Lord le Despenser, who was Steward to King Richard the First, and father of Thurstan Lord le Despenser, has been said to be Elizabeth, daughter of Adam and again of Rowland Bluet, the latter of whom had custody of the said Thurstan in 11 John. [1210]
  5. [S1426] , page 196.
  6. [S1417] William Farrer, Honors and Knights' Fees, page 258 - In 1242-3 Thurstan Despenser held of the honor of Peverel of Nottinghamshire in Ewelme 1/10 fee. He died in 1249. His son and successor, Adam le Despenser, had free warren in Ewelme in 1276.


  7. [S1434] News Group - Medieval - transcribed by Karen Repko & Others Douglas Richardson - http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/…
  8. [S1426] , page 188 - This Thurstan, we shall find, was that "Turstanus Dispensarius" who contested, at Queen Eleanor's coronation in 1236, the right of Henry de Hastings to the table clothes.
  9. [S1426] , page 195 - Left land in five counties & a wife, Lucy.