Eleanor BEAUFORT [6689] 1577
- Born: 1432, London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom 1577
- Marriage (1): Sir Robert SPENCER [6688] in 1465 in England 1576
- Marriage (2): James BUTLER 5th Earl of Ormond [6698] about 1458 1578
- Died: 16 August 1501, Spencercombe, Devon, England at age 69 1577
- Buried: 26 August 1501 1577
FamilySearch ID: M6SJ-QLS.
General Notes:
ELEANOR BEAUFORT was born about 1431 of London, Westminister, Greater London, England, to Sir Edmund Beaufort (1406-1455) and Eleanor de Beauchamp (1407-1467.) She married (1) Sir James Butler August 1457; (2) *Sir Robert Spencer 1465, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England; (3) Sir James 11th Chief Butler of Ireland.
She was known as Countess of Wiltshire.
Eleanor Beaufort passed away 16 August 1501, Spencercombe, Devonshire, England, age 71.
Eleanor Beaufort
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Lady Eleanor Beaufort (1431 \endash 16 August 1501) was the daughter of Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset (1406-1455), KG, and was a sister of the 3rd and 4th Dukes of Somerset.
Origins[edit]
She was the daughter of Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, KG (1406-1455), by his wife, Lady Eleanor Beauchamp, daughter of Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick by his first wife, Elizabeth de Berkeley, daughter and heiress of Thomas de Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley by his wife Margaret de Lisle, 3rd Baroness Lisle. Eleanor Beauchamp was an elder half-sister of Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick and Anne Neville, 16th Countess of Warwick.
Marriages & progeny[edit]
Eleanor Beaufort married twice:
•Firstly in about April 1458[1] she married James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormond, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (d.1461), Lieutenant of Ireland in 1453. When civil conflict broke out, the lieutenant fought on the Lancastrian side. He was present at the first battle of St. Albans in 1455, Mortimer's Cross in 1461 and at the Battle of Towton. Ormond also held the post of councillor to the Lancastrian Prince of Wales. After Towton, he was a proscribed as a traitor and was captured in the same year at Cockermouth and executed there in 1461.[citation needed]
•Secondly she married Sir Robert Spencer[2] of Spencer Combe in the parish of Crediton, Devon,[3] by whom she had two daughters and co-heiresses:
oMargaret Spencer (1472-1536), (or Eleanor Spencer[4]) wife of Thomas Carey of Chilton Foliot, Wiltshire, second son of Sir William Carey (1437-1471) of Cockington, Devon.[5] She had two sons:
?Sir John Carey (1491\endash 1552) of Plashey, eldest son, ancestor to the Carey Viscounts Falkland.[6]
?William Carey, her 2nd son, the first husband of Anne Boleyn's sister Mary Boleyn and ancestor to the Carey Barons Hunsdon, Barons Carey of Leppington, Earls of Monmouth, Viscounts Rochford and Earls of Dover.[7]
oCatherine Spencer (1477\endash 1542), wife of Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland and mother to Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland, an early love interest of Anne Boleyn.
Children of Sir Robert Spencer and Eleanor Beaufort:
1.Martha Matilda Spenser (1460-1535)
2.Anne Spencer (1470-1479)
3.*MARGARET SPENCER (1471-1536)
4.Eleanor de Spencer (1473-1540)
5.Martha Spencer (1473-)
6.Henry Spencer (1473-1567)
7.John Spencer (1474-1530)
8.Catherine Spencer (1477-1542)
9.Alice Spencer (1480-)
10. John Spencer (1486-1532)
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Noted events in her life were:
1. Royal House: Plantagenet, on an unknown date,. 1578
2. Title Of Nobility: Countess of Wiltshire, on an unknown date,. 1578
3. Title Of Nobility: 1st Baroness of Spencercombe, on an unknown date,. 1578
4. She has conflicting burial information of After 17 September 1496 and Ludgate, London, England. 1578
5. She has conflicting burial information of After 17 September 1496 and London, , Greater London, England. 1578
6. Title Of Nobility: Countess of Ormond, in April 1458,. 1578
Eleanor married Sir Robert SPENCER [6688] [MRIN: 5440], son of John SPENCER Esq. [6690] and Joan [6691], in 1465 in England.1576 (Sir Robert SPENCER [6688] was born in 1435 1577 and died in 1510 in England 1577.)
Eleanor next married James BUTLER 5th Earl of Ormond [6698] [MRIN: 5444] about 1458.1578 (James BUTLER 5th Earl of Ormond [6698] was born about 1420 in Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland,1578 died on 1 May 1461 in Towton, Yorkshire, England 1578 and was buried in May 1461 in Mercers Chapel, City of London, England 1578.)
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