Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester
Daughter of Sir Reynold Cobham, 3rd Lord Cobham of Stenborough and Eleanor Culpeper, granddaughter Sir Reynold cobham and Eleanor Maultravers, Sir Thomas Culpeper and Eleanor Greene.
Second wife of Humphrey of Lancaster, son of Henry IV, the King of England and Mary de Bohun. They were married in 1428 and had no issue.
"Eleanor was beautiful, intelligent, and ambitious and Humphrey was cultivated, pleasure-loving, and famous."
Eleanor served as Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut and Dauphine of France's attendant in 1422 after she fled Brabant in 1421. Jacqueline would marry Sir Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester in secret in 1423, only forced to return to Brabant in 1425, leaving Humphrey to return to his affair with Eleanor, whom he married in 1428 having annulled his marriage to Jacqueline. It is thought their marriage was happy, their home was full of poets, musicians and artists.
In July 1441, Eleanor was named along with astrologers, Thomas Southwell and Roger Bolingbroke, Margery Jourdemayne, a priest named John Hume and Thomas Southwel the Canon of St Stephens, accused of witchcraft and sorcery, then indicted of high treason. Eleanor fled to Westminster for sanctuary but was arrested and held at Leeds Castle until the trial in October. She confessed to have used charms to attract her husband to love and marry based on her consultation of the astrologers, who predicted she would bear him a legitimate male heir, and accepting magic potions from Margery Jourdemayne, "the Witch of Eye", to help her conceive. It is believed the charges against her were exaggerated to help temper her husband's ambitions for the throne.
Southwell died in the tower, Bolingbroke was executed by hanging, drawing and quartering, Jourdemayne was burnt at the stake at Smithfield.
When Eleanor was convicted, she was required to perform humiliating public penances in London, her marriage was annulled and she was sentenced to a life of imprisonment. Eleanor's imprisonment began under the supervision of Sir Thomas (John?) Stanley at Chester Castle, Cheshire in 1442, continued at Kenilworth in 1443, the Isle of Man in 1446, then finally in March 1449 to Beaumaris Castle, where she died on 7 July 1452. Some reports say she was locked away in the crypt under the chancel of the cathedral at Peel Castle, Isle of Man.
Humphrey had two illegitimate children, whom some say were children of Eleanor's; Arthur and Antigone Plantagenet.
Humphrey had insulted King Henry VI at the assembly at Westminster Abbey 28 August 1440, continually losing influence at court until he himself was arrested at Parliament Feb 1447, just before he died mysteriously on 23 Feb 1447 at St Saviour's Hospital Bury, St Edmunds.
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From Humphrey's daughter, Antigone of Gloucester Plantagenet d'Amancy's memorial:
Although she was the illegitimate daughter of Humphrey, he acknowledged her by rearing her in his household & providing for marriage with an exceptionally large dowery of 800 pounds. The Directory of Royal Genealogical Data states that she was the daughter of his 2nd wife, Eleanor! (Perhaps he did marry the mother of his children.)
In June of 1451, she was presented papers of Legitimization by King Charles VII of France. (Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, by Douglas Richardson, 2011, page 418)
Daughter of Sir Reynold Cobham, 3rd Lord Cobham of Stenborough and Eleanor Culpeper, granddaughter Sir Reynold cobham and Eleanor Maultravers, Sir Thomas Culpeper and Eleanor Greene.
Second wife of Humphrey of Lancaster, son of Henry IV, the King of England and Mary de Bohun. They were married in 1428 and had no issue.
"Eleanor was beautiful, intelligent, and ambitious and Humphrey was cultivated, pleasure-loving, and famous."
Eleanor served as Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut and Dauphine of France's attendant in 1422 after she fled Brabant in 1421. Jacqueline would marry Sir Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester in secret in 1423, only forced to return to Brabant in 1425, leaving Humphrey to return to his affair with Eleanor, whom he married in 1428 having annulled his marriage to Jacqueline. It is thought their marriage was happy, their home was full of poets, musicians and artists.
In July 1441, Eleanor was named along with astrologers, Thomas Southwell and Roger Bolingbroke, Margery Jourdemayne, a priest named John Hume and Thomas Southwel the Canon of St Stephens, accused of witchcraft and sorcery, then indicted of high treason. Eleanor fled to Westminster for sanctuary but was arrested and held at Leeds Castle until the trial in October. She confessed to have used charms to attract her husband to love and marry based on her consultation of the astrologers, who predicted she would bear him a legitimate male heir, and accepting magic potions from Margery Jourdemayne, "the Witch of Eye", to help her conceive. It is believed the charges against her were exaggerated to help temper her husband's ambitions for the throne.
Southwell died in the tower, Bolingbroke was executed by hanging, drawing and quartering, Jourdemayne was burnt at the stake at Smithfield.
When Eleanor was convicted, she was required to perform humiliating public penances in London, her marriage was annulled and she was sentenced to a life of imprisonment. Eleanor's imprisonment began under the supervision of Sir Thomas (John?) Stanley at Chester Castle, Cheshire in 1442, continued at Kenilworth in 1443, the Isle of Man in 1446, then finally in March 1449 to Beaumaris Castle, where she died on 7 July 1452. Some reports say she was locked away in the crypt under the chancel of the cathedral at Peel Castle, Isle of Man.
Humphrey had two illegitimate children, whom some say were children of Eleanor's; Arthur and Antigone Plantagenet.
Humphrey had insulted King Henry VI at the assembly at Westminster Abbey 28 August 1440, continually losing influence at court until he himself was arrested at Parliament Feb 1447, just before he died mysteriously on 23 Feb 1447 at St Saviour's Hospital Bury, St Edmunds.
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From Humphrey's daughter, Antigone of Gloucester Plantagenet d'Amancy's memorial:
Although she was the illegitimate daughter of Humphrey, he acknowledged her by rearing her in his household & providing for marriage with an exceptionally large dowery of 800 pounds. The Directory of Royal Genealogical Data states that she was the daughter of his 2nd wife, Eleanor! (Perhaps he did marry the mother of his children.)
In June of 1451, she was presented papers of Legitimization by King Charles VII of France. (Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, by Douglas Richardson, 2011, page 418)
Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester
Daughter of Sir Reynold Cobham, 3rd Lord Cobham of Stenborough and Eleanor Culpeper, granddaughter Sir Reynold cobham and Eleanor Maultravers, Sir Thomas Culpeper and Eleanor Greene.
Second wife of Humphrey of Lancaster, son of Henry IV, the King of England and Mary de Bohun. They were married in 1428 and had no issue.
"Eleanor was beautiful, intelligent, and ambitious and Humphrey was cultivated, pleasure-loving, and famous."
Eleanor served as Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut and Dauphine of France's attendant in 1422 after she fled Brabant in 1421. Jacqueline would marry Sir Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester in secret in 1423, only forced to return to Brabant in 1425, leaving Humphrey to return to his affair with Eleanor, whom he married in 1428 having annulled his marriage to Jacqueline. It is thought their marriage was happy, their home was full of poets, musicians and artists.
In July 1441, Eleanor was named along with astrologers, Thomas Southwell and Roger Bolingbroke, Margery Jourdemayne, a priest named John Hume and Thomas Southwel the Canon of St Stephens, accused of witchcraft and sorcery, then indicted of high treason. Eleanor fled to Westminster for sanctuary but was arrested and held at Leeds Castle until the trial in October. She confessed to have used charms to attract her husband to love and marry based on her consultation of the astrologers, who predicted she would bear him a legitimate male heir, and accepting magic potions from Margery Jourdemayne, "the Witch of Eye", to help her conceive. It is believed the charges against her were exaggerated to help temper her husband's ambitions for the throne.
Southwell died in the tower, Bolingbroke was executed by hanging, drawing and quartering, Jourdemayne was burnt at the stake at Smithfield.
When Eleanor was convicted, she was required to perform humiliating public penances in London, her marriage was annulled and she was sentenced to a life of imprisonment. Eleanor's imprisonment began under the supervision of Sir Thomas (John?) Stanley at Chester Castle, Cheshire in 1442, continued at Kenilworth in 1443, the Isle of Man in 1446, then finally in March 1449 to Beaumaris Castle, where she died on 7 July 1452. Some reports say she was locked away in the crypt under the chancel of the cathedral at Peel Castle, Isle of Man.
Humphrey had two illegitimate children, whom some say were children of Eleanor's; Arthur and Antigone Plantagenet.
Humphrey had insulted King Henry VI at the assembly at Westminster Abbey 28 August 1440, continually losing influence at court until he himself was arrested at Parliament Feb 1447, just before he died mysteriously on 23 Feb 1447 at St Saviour's Hospital Bury, St Edmunds.
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From Humphrey's daughter, Antigone of Gloucester Plantagenet d'Amancy's memorial:
Although she was the illegitimate daughter of Humphrey, he acknowledged her by rearing her in his household & providing for marriage with an exceptionally large dowery of 800 pounds. The Directory of Royal Genealogical Data states that she was the daughter of his 2nd wife, Eleanor! (Perhaps he did marry the mother of his children.)
In June of 1451, she was presented papers of Legitimization by King Charles VII of France. (Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, by Douglas Richardson, 2011, page 418)
Daughter of Sir Reynold Cobham, 3rd Lord Cobham of Stenborough and Eleanor Culpeper, granddaughter Sir Reynold cobham and Eleanor Maultravers, Sir Thomas Culpeper and Eleanor Greene.
Second wife of Humphrey of Lancaster, son of Henry IV, the King of England and Mary de Bohun. They were married in 1428 and had no issue.
"Eleanor was beautiful, intelligent, and ambitious and Humphrey was cultivated, pleasure-loving, and famous."
Eleanor served as Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut and Dauphine of France's attendant in 1422 after she fled Brabant in 1421. Jacqueline would marry Sir Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester in secret in 1423, only forced to return to Brabant in 1425, leaving Humphrey to return to his affair with Eleanor, whom he married in 1428 having annulled his marriage to Jacqueline. It is thought their marriage was happy, their home was full of poets, musicians and artists.
In July 1441, Eleanor was named along with astrologers, Thomas Southwell and Roger Bolingbroke, Margery Jourdemayne, a priest named John Hume and Thomas Southwel the Canon of St Stephens, accused of witchcraft and sorcery, then indicted of high treason. Eleanor fled to Westminster for sanctuary but was arrested and held at Leeds Castle until the trial in October. She confessed to have used charms to attract her husband to love and marry based on her consultation of the astrologers, who predicted she would bear him a legitimate male heir, and accepting magic potions from Margery Jourdemayne, "the Witch of Eye", to help her conceive. It is believed the charges against her were exaggerated to help temper her husband's ambitions for the throne.
Southwell died in the tower, Bolingbroke was executed by hanging, drawing and quartering, Jourdemayne was burnt at the stake at Smithfield.
When Eleanor was convicted, she was required to perform humiliating public penances in London, her marriage was annulled and she was sentenced to a life of imprisonment. Eleanor's imprisonment began under the supervision of Sir Thomas (John?) Stanley at Chester Castle, Cheshire in 1442, continued at Kenilworth in 1443, the Isle of Man in 1446, then finally in March 1449 to Beaumaris Castle, where she died on 7 July 1452. Some reports say she was locked away in the crypt under the chancel of the cathedral at Peel Castle, Isle of Man.
Humphrey had two illegitimate children, whom some say were children of Eleanor's; Arthur and Antigone Plantagenet.
Humphrey had insulted King Henry VI at the assembly at Westminster Abbey 28 August 1440, continually losing influence at court until he himself was arrested at Parliament Feb 1447, just before he died mysteriously on 23 Feb 1447 at St Saviour's Hospital Bury, St Edmunds.
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From Humphrey's daughter, Antigone of Gloucester Plantagenet d'Amancy's memorial:
Although she was the illegitimate daughter of Humphrey, he acknowledged her by rearing her in his household & providing for marriage with an exceptionally large dowery of 800 pounds. The Directory of Royal Genealogical Data states that she was the daughter of his 2nd wife, Eleanor! (Perhaps he did marry the mother of his children.)
In June of 1451, she was presented papers of Legitimization by King Charles VII of France. (Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, by Douglas Richardson, 2011, page 418)
