Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II

This story of the greatest villain of the 14th century is “a fascinating account of a tangled web of deceit, turmoil, courtly life, war and rebellion” (Britain Express).

Born in the late 1280s, Hugh married King Edward I of England’s eldest granddaughter when he was a teenager. Ambitious and greedy to an astonishing degree, Hugh chose a startling route to power: he seduced his wife’s uncle, the you...