Richard le Despenser, 4th Baron Burghersh

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Richard le Despenser, 4th Baron Burghersh, was an early 15th-century English nobleman and peer connected to the royal House of York through his mother, Constance of York.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Baron Burghersh
English nobleman
medieval English peer
associatedWithMonarch Henry IV of England NERFINISHED
Henry V of England NERFINISHED
buriedIn Tewkesbury Abbey NERFINISHED
centuryOfBirth 14th century
centuryOfDeath 15th century
connectedTo House of Neville NERFINISHED
House of York NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of England
dateOfBirth 1396
dateOfDeath 1414
deathCause unknown
era Late Middle Ages
familyName le Despenser NERFINISHED
father Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester NERFINISHED
fatherInLaw Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland NERFINISHED
givenName Richard
hadIssue no
heldPeerageOf Burghersh NERFINISHED
inheritedTitleFrom Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester NERFINISHED
languageOfUse Middle English NERFINISHED
maternalGrandfather Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York NERFINISHED
maternalGreatGrandfather Edward III of England NERFINISHED
mother Constance of York NERFINISHED
motherInLaw Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland NERFINISHED
nobleFamily Despenser family NERFINISHED
nobleRank baron
nobleTitle 4th Baron Burghersh NERFINISHED
notableFor being a grandson of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York
holding the title of 4th Baron Burghersh in the early 15th century
paternalGrandfather Edward le Despenser, 1st Baron Despenser NERFINISHED
placeOfBurial Tewkesbury Abbey NERFINISHED
predecessor Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester NERFINISHED
region England
relative House of York NERFINISHED
religion Roman Catholicism
sibling Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester and Warwick NERFINISHED
socialClass high nobility
spouse Eleanor Neville NERFINISHED
Lady Eleanor Neville NERFINISHED
successor Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester and Warwick NERFINISHED
titleHeld Baron Burghersh NERFINISHED

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Constance of York child Richard le Despenser, 4th Baron Burghersh