The late earl's sisters, Eleanor, Margaret (now widowed after the death of Piers Gaveston) and Elizabeth were by 1317 all married to favourites of Edward II: Hugh Despenser the Younger, Hugh de Audley and Roger d'Amory respectively.
By the mid-1320s, however, England was in the grip of the oppressive rule of the Marcher lords Hugh le Despenser the older and his son Hugh Despenser the younger, the royal favourites of King Edward II.
Hugh Masekela | Hans Holbein the Younger | Hugh Jackman | Hugh Grant | William Pitt the Younger | Hugh Laurie | Seneca the Younger | Hugh Hefner | Hugh | Hugh O'Brian | Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster | Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland | Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland | George Dance the Younger | Pliny the Younger | Hugh Martin | Hugh Dennis | Hugh Walpole | Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone | Hugh de Lacy | Cato the Younger | Antonio da Sangallo the Younger | St Hugh's College, Oxford | Lucas Cranach the Younger | Hugh Wheeler | Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard | Hugh Trenchard | Hugh Pughe Lloyd | Hugh MacDiarmid | Hugh Lloyd |