Richard le Despenser, 4th Baron Burghersh, K.B (30 November 1396 – 7 October 1414) was the son and heir of Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester (1373–1400), by Constance of York.
Constance was a daughter of Edmund of Langley, Duke of York, fourth surviving son of Edward III of England, and Isabella of Castile, a daughter of Peter of Castile. His ancestry and marriage placed him in influential circles of the English nobility and he was appointed Knight, Order of the Bath, on 8 April 1413.
Life Richard married his second cousin Lady Eleanor NevilleHicks, Michael. (2012) “Crossing Generations: Dower, Jointure and Courtesy.” In: The Fifteenth-Century Inquisitions "Post Mortem": A Companion, edited by Michael Hicks. Boydell & Brewer, pp. 25–46. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt81dzk.9. Accessed 14 September 2024. (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.Bennett, James (1850). A Tewkesbury Guide, etc. An abridgment of "The History of Tewkesbury.". James Bennett. p. 94.
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.
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