Isabel le Despenser was the posthumous daughter and eventually the sole heiress of Thomas le Despenser and his wife, Constance of York. She was born several months after her father had been beheaded for plotting against King Henry IV of England. Isabel married Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester who died in 1422 after being mortally wounded at the siege of Meaux. They had a daughter, Elizabeth de Beauchamp, Lady of Abergavenny, born 1415.

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  • Isabel le Despenser was the posthumous daughter and eventually the sole heiress of Thomas le Despenser and his wife, Constance of York. She was born several months after her father had been beheaded for plotting against King Henry IV of England. Isabel married Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester who died in 1422 after being mortally wounded at the siege of Meaux. They had a daughter, Elizabeth de Beauchamp, Lady of Abergavenny, born 1415. After her first husband's death, Isabel married again, to Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick (her 1st husband's cousin), by whom she had two children: Henry, who succeeded his father as Earl of Warwick, and later became Duke of Warwick; Anne Beauchamp, who was theoretically Countess of Warwick in her own right after the death of her infant niece and namesake, who married Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick.
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  • Isabel le Despenser was the posthumous daughter and eventually the sole heiress of Thomas le Despenser and his wife, Constance of York. She was born several months after her father had been beheaded for plotting against King Henry IV of England. Isabel married Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester who died in 1422 after being mortally wounded at the siege of Meaux. They had a daughter, Elizabeth de Beauchamp, Lady of Abergavenny, born 1415.
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  • Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester and Warwick
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