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Eleanor BEAUFORT

Eleanor BEAUFORT[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16]

Female 1445 - 1501  (56 years)


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  • Name Eleanor BEAUFORT  [17
    Birth 1445  London, Middlesexshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [13, 14, 15, 16, 17
    Gender Female 
    AFN 921S-JL 
    Title Apr 1458  [18
    Countess of Ormond 
    Alt. Burial Aft 17 Sep 1496  London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [18
    FamilySearch ID M6SJ-QLS 
    Royal House   [18
    Plantagenet 
    Title (Nobility)   [18
    Countess of Wiltshire 
    Name Beteles  [18
    _UID FD64862DA60D4CA3AD77998C1D807D738CAF 
    Death 16 Aug 1501  Spencercombe, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [13, 14, 15, 16, 18
    Person ID I4971  Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 24 Nov 2024 

    Father Duke Edmund De BEAUFORT, 2nd Duke of Somerset,   b. 25 Mar 1406, East Barnet, London Borough of Barnet, Greater London, England, Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 May 1455, Slain At Battle Of St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 49 years) 
    Mother Lady Eleanor De BEAUCHAMP,   b. Sep 1407, Walthamstow, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Mar 1467, Baynard's Castle, London Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 59 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1432  [13, 14, 15, 17, 19
    Family ID F1013  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Robert SPENCER,   b. 1450, Spencercombe, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1510, Chilton Foliat Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1470  France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. John SPENCER   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Margaret SPENCER,   b. 1466, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     3. Henry SPENCER,   b. Abt 1471, Somerset, Somersetshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     4. Eleanor SPENCER,   b. Abt 1473   d. Yes, date unknown
     5. Catherine SPENCER,   b. 1477, Northumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Oct 1542, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years)
    Family ID F2495  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 

    Family 2 Sir John PASTON, III,   b. 28 May 1434, Paston, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Aug 1504, Norwich, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years) 
    Family ID F536732793  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 24 Nov 2024 

    Family 3 James V BUTLER, Earl Of Ormund,   b. 24 Nov 1420, Kilkenny Castle, Kildare, Leinster, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 May 1461, Beheaded After Yorkist Victory At Towton, Yorkshire, England (Dsp) Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 40 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1458 
    Family ID F536732794  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 24 Nov 2024 

  • 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
      From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

      Arms of Beaufort, Earls and Dukes of Somerset: The Royal Arms of England within a bordure compony argent and azure
      Lady Eleanor Beaufort (1431 – 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– 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– 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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    18. [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 24 Nov 2024), entry for Eleanor BEAUFORT, person ID M6SJ-QLS. (Reliability: 3).

    19. [S30] Brøderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 4, Ed. 1, (Release date: August 23, 1996 Customer pedigree.).