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Richard Despenser, 4th Baron Burghersh

Richard le Despenser, 4th Baron Burghersh, K.B was the son and heir of Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester (1373–1400), by Constance of York.

Life
Richard married to his second cousin Lady Eleanor Neville (a granddaughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (a brother of Edmund of Langley) and Katherine Swynford.) He died when he was just 17, on 7 October 1414, without leaving issue. His heir was his younger sister Isabel, who married successively Earl of Worcester, and then his cousin, Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick. His widow Eleanor, Lady Burghersh remarried to Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland. == Ancestry ==
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