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222: 1431: 1301: 443:, born after her father's execution. She married, firstly, Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Worcester (d. 1422). A daughter, Elizabeth, Lady Abergavenny (b. 1415) was the sole product of this union. Following Worcester's death, she married 356:, where he was beheaded on 13 January 1400. After her husband's death, Constance was granted a life interest in the greater part of his lands and custody of her son due her close kinship to the king. 352:; however, contemporary English chronicles make no mention of Edward's alleged role. Gloucester escaped immediate capture, but was eventually turned in to the authorities at 1332: 440: 348:) to assassinate King Henry and restore King Richard to the throne. According to a French chronicle, the plot was betrayed to the king by Constance's brother, 1398: 1259: 1216: 344:
some of Thomas's lands were seized and he was degraded from the earldom. In consequence, he and others joined in a plot in December 1399 (known as the
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Constance died in 1416 after the accession of Henry V, outliving both her siblings, but she was buried at the
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After her husband's death, Constance was either betrothed to or lived as the mistress of
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on 29 September 1397, but after Richard's deposition and the accession of King
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and also eventually had her seized property returned.
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Constance was born in about 1375, the only daughter of
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Ancestors of Constance of York, Countess of Gloucester
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Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester and Warwick
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Index

Constance of York
Baroness le Despencer
Countess of Gloucester
Conisburgh Castle
Yorkshire
Kingdom of England
Reading Abbey
Berkshire
Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester
Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent
Issue
Richard le Despenser, 4th Baron Burghersh
Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester and Warwick
Eleanor de Holland
House
York
Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York
Isabella of Castile
Roman Catholicism
Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York
Isabella of Castile
Peter of Castile
María de Padilla
English Royalty
House of York

Arms of Plantagenet
Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke
Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke
Constance, Countess of Gloucester

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