Ancestry of
Lizzie Borden

Accused Murderess

Hugh le Despencer

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• • 20th Great-grandfather of Lizzie Borden — 23rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 7232200 
  • Father:
  • Hugh le Despencer 
  • Mother:
  • Isabella de Beauchamp   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1286 
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Nov 1326 
  • Death Location:
  • Hereford, Herefordshire, England 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Eleanor de Clare
  • Marriage Date:
  • May 1306 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Westminster, London, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  Edward le Despencer (Ahnentafel No:3616100 )

  Isabel le Despencer

  Elizabeth le Despencer

  • Notes: 

  • Hugh le Despencer, the younger, was hanged as a traitor in 1326.

• Sources for Hugh le Despencer

  • ¹ thePeerage.com: A Genealogical Survey of the Peerage of Britain as Well as the Royal Families of Europe, (accessed 10/01/2011).
  • ² Mosley, Charles, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. (1999), 1030.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 291, 296, 363.
  • ⁴ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 48.
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "Hugh Despencer the Younger", (accessed 05/03/2011).