Abt 1400 - 1454 (52 years)
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| Name |
COBHAM, Eleanor De |
| Suffix |
of Sterborough, Duchess of Gloucester |
| Birth |
Abt 1400 |
| Gender |
Female |
| _COLOR |
3 |
| Death |
Between 1452 and 1454 |
| Person ID |
I5422 |
Puffer 062124 |
| Last Modified |
7 Mar 2014 |
| Father |
COBHAM, Reginald 3rd Baron Cobham, b. 1381, Sterborough, Lingfield, Surrey, England  d. Aft 1446, Lingfield, Surrey, England (Age > 66 years) |
| Mother |
COLEPEPER, Eleanor, b. Abt 1389, Pembury, Kent, England d. 5 Nov 1422, Lingfield, Surrey, England (Age 33 years) |
| Family ID |
F2481 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
PLANTAGENET, Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, b. 3 Oct 1390 d. 23 Feb 1447, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England (Age 56 years) |
| Children |
| | 1. PLANTAGENET, Antigone Countess of Tankerville, b. Abt 1414, Westminster, London, Essex, England d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 2. PLANTAGENET, Arthur of Gloucester, b. Bef 1428, Glocestershire, England d. 1447 (Age > 19 years) |
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| Family ID |
F4590 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
25 Aug 2024 |
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| Notes |
- In 1441 three priests, Roger Bolingbroke, Eleanor's secretary; John Hun ne, her chaplain; and Thomas Southwell were executed for conspiring to k ill the king by practising witchcraft. Margery Jourdain, also known as t he Witch of Eye, was also executed, as she had been accused of witchcra ft once before. Eleanor was tried on the same charges and admitted five o f the twenty-eight counts. The accused admitted to acts that included melting a wax effigy of the k ing and balancing swords on the legs of an upended chair. The authorities convicted her and sentenced her to do public penance in L ondon, divorced her from Humphrey and imprisoned her for life. She was exiled to the Isle of Man and imprisoned in Peel Castle, Peel. S he lived there for five years before her death, reported to have died b etween 1446 and 1452[4]. Guards were stationed at the castle to prevent h er from killing herself. Other sources say her death was on 7 July 1452 a t Beaumaris Castle, Beaumaris, Anglesey, Wales. She married Humphrey three years after his marriage was declared invali d, c. 1431. She was an attendant to Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut, fi rst wife of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester. She was also Humphrey's mistr ess during his first marriage. In 1432 she was created a Lady Companion o f the Order of the Garter.
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