Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873, William Pickering (Firm) · London : William Pickering · leaf 151
ctivity among the royalists, mainlybrought on the disaster at Evesham, in which battle he commanded adivision of the Kings army. The curious old song, in Anglo-Norman, onthat battle, points him out as the principal cause of the barons defeat on thisoccasion:— Sire Hue le fer, ly Despencer,tresnoble… … He afterwards returned during a short time to the cause of his old confederates,but he remained unshaken in his fidelity to the crown through the reign ofEdward I. The son of this Gilbert, also named Gilbert de Clare, was the last maleheir of the family, and is the person represented in our…
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