¿Quién se casó con Eduardo le Despencer (m. 1375)?

Eduardo le Despencer, I barón le Despencer, KG (también llamado Despenser; h. 24 de marzo de 1335 o 1336 – 11 de noviembre de 1375) fue el hijo de otro Eduardo le Despenser y Anne, hermana de Henry, Lord Ferrers de Groby. Sucedió como Lord of Glamorgan en 1349.

Le Despencer fue con el príncipe de Gales a Francia, y estuvo presente en la batalla de Poitiers. En reconocimiento a su conducta en las guerras de Francia, fue llamado al Parlamento como barón en 1357. Al mismo tiempo, también se convirtió en caballero de la jarretera.

Fue amigo y mecenas de Jean Froissart​ y hermano mayor de Henry le Despenser, obispo de Norwich.

Hay una estatua de rodillas que lo representa en lo alto de la capilla de la Santísima Trinidad en la abadía de Tewkesbury. Es el famoso "Caballero arrodillado".

Elizabeth Despencer, 3rd Baroness Burghersh (c. 1342 – August 1402) was an English noblewoman born to Bartholomew de Burghersh, 2nd Baron Burghersh and Cicely, de Weyland.

Some recently constructed genealogies purport that she was first married, some time after 1347, to Maurice FitzGerald, 4th Earl of Kildare (d. 25 August 1390) and by him had at least four children. Yet it is more consistent with known dates of death of the 4th Earl of Kildare that he married instead Margaret, a daughter of the 1st Baron Burghersh. Otherwise there would be record of Kildare's divorce from Elizabeth and probably a mention in the original records of her 'remarriage' rather than of her 'marriage' to le Despencer.

But these 'recently constructed genealogies' appear to be incorrect. It is impossible that Elizabeth, wife of Maurice FitzGerald is the lady who remarried 2ndly Edward le Despencer. The reason is that Maurice died on 25 August 1390, well before Edward le Despencer's marriage. This makes it more certain that le Despencer married Elizabeth, daughter of Bartholomew de Burghersh the younger, 2nd Baron Burghersh.

She was married (it is said for the second time) some time before 1373, to Edward le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer (c. 24 March 1335-6 – 11 November 1375) and they had six children. Upon the death of her father on 5 April 1369, she inherited the title of Baroness Burghersh.