Thomas le Despenser

✓ Thomas le Despenser (Dispensator), dispensator of the Earls of Chester, father of Thomas (d. by Oct 1218), of Hugh of Loughborough (d. 1238) and of Roese, wife of Stephen de Segrave: Complete Peerage IV p.259 note (c), from the Segrave Cartulary (Harl. MS 4748) - 'Thomas Dispensator gave to Stephen de Segrave with Roese his daughter in free marriage a rent in Burton', and Hugh confirmed it 'to Stephen de Segrave and Roese sister of the said Hugh'. CP adds that Elyas Dispensator, enfeoffed in Arnesby by Hugh de Beauchamp, 'must be an ancestor of this family', but does not place him - FLOOR. Wife unknown. Source: Complete Peerage (2nd ed.) IV, DESPENSER, p.259 n.(c) (G. W. Watson), read on archive.org 25 Oct 2026. [DIRECT ANCESTOR OF THE COMPILER: flag added 25 Oct 2026 by walking the tree from Aynsley, so that this marker is reliable and can be searched.]

Death: his son Thomas was his heir and himself dead by Oct 1218