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 276 DESPENSER 26 Mar. 1357, his homage being respited, as he was still on the King's service in Gascony with Prince Edward. (") He was sum. to Councils from 20 June (1358) 32 Edw. Ill to 10 Feb. (1361/2) 36Edw. Ill, and to Pari. from 15 Dec. (1357) 31 Edw. Ill to 6 Oct. (1372) 46 Edw. Ill, by writs directed Edwardo le Despenser, whereby he is held to have become LORD LE DESPENSER. C") The King having taken his homage, he had livery, 6 July 1359, of the lands which Elizabeth, late the wife of his uncle, Hugh, had held in dower or for life, together with a gift of the issues of these lands since her death. ("=) He was with the King in the invasion of France, Oct. 1359 to i36o.('') Nom. K.G. in 1361. He went with the Duke of Clarence to Milan in 1368, and took part in the war in Lombardy, returning to England about Aug. I372.(') He accompanied the King in his attempted invasion of France in Sep. 1372,0 was Constable of the Army in the Duke of Lancaster's unsuccessful expedition to France in 1373-74,(0 ^^'^ assisted the Duke of Brittany in his campaign in that province in I375.(^) He w., before 2 Aug. i354,C') Elizabeth, da. and h.(') of Sir Bartholomew DE BuRGHERSH, of Ewias Lacy, co. Hereford, Stert and Colerne, Wilts, 6fc. [Lord Burghersh], by his ist wife. Cicely, da. of Sir Richard de Weyland, of Blaxhall and Cockfield, Suffolk. Her mother's lands were liberated to them, 9 July i369.(') He ^. 11 Nov. I375,() at Llanblethian, (») Close Roll, 31 Edw. Ill, m. 22. () He was a trier of petitions, 37, 38, 40, and 46 Edw. III. {Pari. Rolls, vol. ii, pp. 275, 283, 289, 309). (<=) Ch. Privy Seals, I, file 378, no. 24226: Close Roll, 33 Edw. Ill, m. 19. (<i) French Rolls, 33 Edw. Ill, p. 1, m. 6, p. 2, m. 17; 34 Edw. Ill, ;w. 4: he was still in France, Oct. 1361 {Idem, 35 Edw. Ill, mm. 16, 5): Froissart, lib. i, cap. 207. The historian elsewhere relates that he spent three days at Berkeley Castle in Sep. 1366 "en la compagnie de messire Edouwart le Espensier." (') French Rolls, 42 Edw. Ill, m. 4; 43 Edw. Ill, m. 2; 44- Edw. Ill, m. 27; 45 Edw. Ill, m. 14. He was at Viterbo, 8 May 1370, and at Cologne, when on his way home, 26 July 1372. {Patent Rolls, 2 Hen. IV, p. 2, m. 30; 4 Ric. II, /. I, m. 2). On 10 Mar. 1369/70 the Pope wrote to the Duke of Lancaster asking him to commend Edward, Lord of Despenser kt., to the King, as having won a glorious name in the battles of Lombardy. {Papal Letters, vol. iv, p. 28). Almoin Roll, 47 Edw. Ill, m. ii: Froissart, lib. i, cap. 312, 317, 320. (8) French Roll, 48 Edw. Ill, m. 8: Walsingham, Hist., vol. i, p. 318: Froissart, lib. i, cap. 322, 323. C") Papal Letters, vol. iii, p. 528. ('J She was also heir to any Barony of Burghersh that may be held to have existed. (i) Close Roll, 43 Edw. Ill, m. 10. C*) "Edwardus le Despenser chivaler." Writs oi diem cl. ext. 18 Nov. 49 Edw. in England and 36 in France. Inq., cos. Sussex, Berks, Wilts, Oxon, Hants, Suffolk, Hereford, York, Friday the Feast of St. Andrew [30 Nov.], 11,13 Dec, Friday after St. Lucy [14 Dec], 28 Dec. 1375, Thursday after the Circumcision [3 Jan.], 4 and 12 Jan. i375/6;co. Gloucester (2), Thursday the vigil of St. Thomas the Apostle [20 Dec] 1375 and 20 Jan. 1375/6; March of Wales (2), i Dec. 1375 and 10 Jan. 1375/6. "Et dicunt quod idem Edwardus obiit xj™° [xij — cos. Suffolk, Tori] die mensis Novembris ultimo preterito Et dicunt quod Thomas filius predicti Edwardi