Thomas le Despenser, Earl of Gloucester

Also known as: earle of Glocester / lord Spenser · Family: England · Role: earl · First appears: Richard II 69

Life events

• 1398 · Richard II elevated eleven nobles to dukedoms, a marquessate, and earldoms.(Richard II 69 · 📍 Shrewesburie)
  • With: Richard II Henry IV Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk Edmund Langley, Duke of York Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent John Holland, Duke of Exeter Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk John Beaufort, Marquess of Dorset Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland William Scrope, Earl of Wiltshire Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester
  • “He held also a roiall feast, kéeping open houshold for all honest commers, during the which feast, he created fiue dukes and a duchesse, a marquesse, and foure earles. The earle of Derbie was created duke of Hereford, the earle of Notingham that was also earle marshall duke of Norfolke, the earle of Rutland duke of Aubemarle, the earle of Kent duke of Surrie, and the earle of Huntington duke of Excester; the ladie Margaret marshall countesse of Norfolke, was created duchesse of Norfolke; the earle of Summerset marques Dorset, the lord Spenser earle of Glocester, the lord Neuill surnamed Daurabie earle of Westmerland, the lord William Scroope lord chamberleine earle of Wiltshire, and the lord Thomas Persie lord steward of the kings house earle of Worcester.”
• 1398 · Richard II granted the newly elevated nobles lands formerly belonging to attainted nobles.(Richard II 69)
  • With: Richard II Henry IV Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk Edmund Langley, Duke of York Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent John Holland, Duke of Exeter Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk John Beaufort, Marquess of Dorset Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland William Scrope, Earl of Wiltshire Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester
  • “And for the better maintenance of the estate of these noble men, whome he had thus aduanced to higher degrees of honour, he gaue vnto them a great part of those lands that belonged to the duke of Glocester, the earles of Warwike, and Arundell.”
• c. 1398 · Richard II granted selected nobles and knights broad authority over both parliamentary houses.(Richard II 69 · 📍 Shrewesburie)
  • With: Richard II John of Gaunt Edmund Langley, Duke of York Edmund Langley, Duke of York Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent John Holland, Duke of Exeter John Beaufort, Marquess of Dorset Roger Mortimer, Earl of March John Montagu, Earl of Salisbury Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland William Scrope, Earl of Wiltshire John Hussey Henry Cheyne Robert Tey John Golafre
  • “The king so wrought & brought things about, that he obteined the whole power of both houses to be granted to certeine persons, as to Iohn duke of Lancaster, Edmund duke of Yorke, Edmund duke of Aumarle, Thomas duke of Surrie, Iohn duke of Excester, Iohn marquesse Dorset, Roger earle of March, Iohn earle of Salisburie, and Henrie earle of Northumberland, Thomas earle of Glocester, and William earle of Wiltshire, Iohn Hussie, Henrie Cheimeswike, Robert Teie, and Iohn Goulofer knights, or to seauen or eight of them.”

Richard II 69

• sworn: Richard II “the lord Spenser earle of Glocester”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.