Hugh Despenser the Younger
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Stained glass panel (1338-1340) depicting Hugh Despenser the Younger who was married to Eleanor the sister of Gilbert de Clare. Hugh Despenser became the favourite of Edward II but was especially disliked by Queen Isabella, and executed when Edward II was deposed in 1326.
Some believed that this hostility was because he was having a sexual relationship with Edward, though there is no evidence that Edward II was homosexual. When Isabella along with Roger Mortimer raised an army in France, siezed power and deposed Edward, Hugh was arrested and tried and sentenced for treason, theft and for having procured discord between the King and Queen. He was was hanged, drawn, quartered, castrated, and beheaded in Hereford market place on the 24th November 1326.1
