Eleanor de Bohun, Countess of Ormonde
| Eleanor de Bohun | |
|---|---|
| Countess of Ormond | |
| Born |
17 October 1304 Knaresborough Castle, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England |
| Died |
17 October 1363 (aged 59 years) Aldgate, Middlesex, England |
| Burial | Chapel of Saint Edmunds, Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England |
| Spouse | James Butler, 1st Earl of Ormond |
| Issue |
John Butler Petronilla Butler James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond Eleanor de Dagworth |
| Father | Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford |
| Mother | Elizabeth of Rhuddlan |
Eleanor de Bohun, Countess of Ormond (17 October 1304 – 7 October 1363) was an English noblewoman born in Knaresborough Castle to Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, and Elizabeth, daughter of King Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile. After the deaths of her parents, she was placed in the care of her aunt Mary Plantagenet and brought up at Amesbury Priory alongside various cousins including Joan Gaveston, Isabel of Lancaster and Joan de Monthermer. Edward II of England gave the priory a generous allowance of 100 marks annually for the upkeep of Eleanor and her younger cousin, Joan Gaveston.[1]
Eleanor was married twice; first in 1327 to James Butler, 1st Earl of Ormond, (son of Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick and Lady Joan FitzGerald) who died in 1337 and secondly, six years later in 1343, to Thomas de Dagworth, Lord Dagworth who was killed in an ambush in Brittany in 1352.
By her first marriage, Eleanor was an ancestress of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Parr,[2] Queens consort of King Henry VIII of England. Other descendants include the Dukes of Beaufort, Newcastle, Norfolk, Earls of Ormond, Desmond, Shrewsbury, Dorset, Rochester, Sandwich, Arundel, and Stafford.[1]
Children
By James Butler:
- John Butler (born 6 November 1330, died young)
- Petronilla (or Perina) Butler, Baroness Talbot (died 1387) who married Gilbert Talbot, 3rd Baron Talbot and had a daughter, Elizabeth Talbot, who married Sir Henry de Grey of Wilton, 5th Baron Grey de Wilton.[3]
- James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond (4 October 1331 – 18 October 1382) who married Elizabeth Darcy
By Thomas de Dagworth:
- Eleanor de Dagworth who married at Vachery (in Cranley), Surrey by licence dated 23 June 1362 Walter Fitz Walter, Knt, 3rd Lord Fitz Walter. Eleanor was living 29 Nov 1375. At her death, she was buried in Dunmow Priory.[4]
See also
References
- 1 2 http://edwardthesecond.blogspot.com/2007/02/eleanor-and-margaret-de-bohun.html
- ↑ Weis, Frederick; Sheppard, Walter; Beall, William Ancestral roots of certain American colonists who came to America before 1700: lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and other historical individuals, pg 20.
- ↑ Richardson, Douglas (2011). Magna Carta ancestry : a study in colonial and medieval families (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City, UT.: Douglas Richardson. pp. 165–166, 345–346. ISBN 9781460992708.
- ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, p.347
- thepeerage.com Accessed 22 March 2008
- Eleanor de Bohun Accessed 23 March 2008