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to Henry. After fleeing to the western counties, a number of the Epiphany Rising conspirators were captured and killed by mobs of townspeople loyal to the king; Despenser was captured by a mob and beheaded at
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on his return to England to become King Henry IV, only to be
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Thomas Despenser, 2nd Baron Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester
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Arms of Sir Thomas Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester, KG
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Ancestors of Thomas Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester
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Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester

KG
Edward le Despenser, 1st Baron le Despencer
Richard II
Thomas of Woodstock
Lords Appellant
Earl of Gloucester
Gilbert de Clare
Ireland
Henry Bolingbroke
attainted
Thomas of Woodstock
Epiphany Rising
Henry IV
Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York
Bristol
Constance
Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York
Isabella of Castile, Duchess of York
Richard Despenser, 4th Baron Burghersh
Isabel Despenser
Richard Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester
Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick
Hugh le Despenser, Earl of Winchester
Hugh Despenser the Younger
Isabella de Beauchamp
Edward le Despenser
Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford
Eleanor de Clare

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