DESPENSER 273 July 1346, captured the town of Crotoy 24 Aug.,(*) and was in the King's retinue at the battle of Crecy.() For his good services in France he re- ceived a pardon, 30 Oct. 1346, for all homicides, robberies, i^c, for all trespasses of vert and venison, and of any consequent outlawries. (") On 14 May 1347 he was sum. to join the King before Calais. C^) He was sum. for Military Service against the Scots, 6 Oct. (1337) n Edw. Ill, to Councils from 15 June (1338) 12 Edw. Ill to 18 Feb. (1346/7) 21 Edw. Ill, and to Pari, from 15 Nov. (1338) 12 Edw. Ill to i Jan. (1348/9) 22 Edw. Ill, by writs directed Hugoni le Despenser, whereby he is held to have become LORD LE DESPENSER.(^) He ?«., before 27 Apr. 1341,0 Elizabeth, da. of William (de Mountagu), Earl of Salisbury, by Katherine, da. of Sir William de Grandson, of Lambourn, Berks, Eaton, CO. Hereford, {jfc. [Lord Grandson]. She had m., istly, Sir Giles DE Badlesmere, of Badlesmere and Chilham, Kent, Castle Combe, Wilts, i^c. [Lord Badlesmere], who was i^. and bap. 18 Oct. 13 14, at Hambleton, Rutland,(^) and d. s.p., 7 June 1338, (^) aged 23: and whose will, dat. at Hambleton, Thursday, 4 Dec. 1337, was pr. at Lincoln, 20 June 1338. (') Lord le Despenser d. s.p., 8 Feb. 1 348/9, (J) and was bur. in Tewkesbury (*) Letter of Michael de Northburgh. (Avesbury, p. 368). (•>) French Roll, 20 Edw. Ill, p. i, m. 14. With 2 bannerets, 40 knights, 86 esquires, and 105 archers. (Wetewang, Accounts, p. 194). At his death the King owed him ^2,770, wages of war. [Close Roll, 23 Edw. Ill, />. I, m. 1 1). (<=) Patent Roll, 20 Edw. Ill, p. 4, m. 19. (d) French Roll, 21 Edw. Ill, />. 1, m. 10. (') He is mentioned as being present in Pari., 13, 15, 17, and 18 Edw. III. [Pari. Rolls, vol. ii, pp. 103, 126, 135, 147). (') Papal mandate to the Bishop of Worcester, dated 5 kal. Maii 7 Benedict XII [27 Apr. 1341], to grant a dispensation to Hugh le Despenser, Lord of Tewkesbury, son of the late Hugh, and Elizabeth, da. of William de Mountagu, Earl of Salisbury, to remain in the marriage they had contracted in order to allay the strife between the said Ead and the late Hugh [sic], although Giles de Badlesmere, Elizabeth's former husband, was related to Hugh in the 3rd-3rd degrees of consanguinity: and to declare their offspring legitimate. {Papal Letters, vol. ii, p. 553). (6) Proof of age of Giles, s. and h. of Bartholomew de Badelesmere. (Ch. Inq. p. m., Edw. Ill, file 45, no. 2). C") Ch. Inq. p. m. (on Giles de Badelesmere kt.), Edw. Ill, files 56, 57. (') Lincoln Reg., vol. v, ff". 80V-81. "Egidius de Badlesmere miles . . . corpus meum ad sepeliendum in ecclesia fratrum de ordine minorum Cant' juxta patrem meum si contingat me mori infra regnum Anglie Scocie vel Wallie Et si in partibus transmarinis ad sepeliendum alibi ad disposicionem executorum meorum." (') " Hugo le Despenser." Writs of diem cl. ext. 8 Feb. 23 Edw. in England and 10 in France. Inq., Devon, Wilts, Berks, city of London, Tuesday before St. Gregory [10 Mar.], 13, 17 Mar. 1348/9, 22 Apr. 1349: Hants (2), 3 Mar. and Thursday 5 Mar.; co. Worcester (2), 4, 6 Mar.; Sussex (2), 5, 6 Mar.; co. Glou- cester (3), ID, ID, 12 Mar.; Bucks (2), 15, 15 Mar.; March of Wales (10), 14 to 19, 21, 23, 23, 23 Mar.; all 1348/9: Oxon (3), 19, 20 Mar. 1348/9, 26 Mar. 1349- "Et dicunt quod predictus Hugo obiit octavo die Februarii proximo preterite [die dominica proxima post festum Purificacionis beate Marie — co. Devon] Et dicunt quod 35
