Eleanor (Spine) Throckmorton (abt. 1380 - 1467)

Born about 1380 in Coughton, Warwickshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of John Throckmorton MP — married 1409 in Coughton, Warwickshire, England

Descendants

Died 1467 at about age 87 in Warwickshire, England

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Biography

Eleanor was the daughter and heiress of Guy de la Spine, lord of Coughton, Warwickshire. ^[1]

Her marriage to John Throckmorton took place in about 1409. According to his will, they had two sons and six daughters.^[1]

• Thomas^[2]
• John,^[2]
• Elizabeth, who married Robert Russell^[2] and is referred to as his eldest daughter in his will^[3]
• Agnes,^[2] who married Thomas Winslow and is referred to as his second daughter in his will^[3]
• Margaret, who married John Rowse^[2] and is referred to as his third daughter in his will^[3]
• A daughter who married Robert Gifford (not listed in the Visitation, but her husband is named in John Throckmorton's will, where she is said to be his fourth daughter^[3] She is named as Jane in Wedgwood's History of Parliament, and said to have gone on to marry Drewe Barentyne and then John Marny.^[4][5]
• Matilda, who married Thomas Greene^[2] and is referred to as his fifth daughter in his will^[3]
• Eleanor, who married Richard Knightley^[2] and is referred to as his sixth daughter on his will^[3]

She was named as "my wife, Eleanor" in the 1445 will of her husband. ^[6]

Eleanor procured letters of confraternity from the prior and chapter of Christ Church, Canterbury, for herself , John and their sons. In 1448 she obtained letters patent, granted in consideration of Throckmorton’s loyal service to each of the 3 Lancastrian kings, to found chantries at Fladbury, Worcestershire and in the monastic churches of Pershore and Evesham, in which prayers were to be said for the King and queen, and masses celebrated for the souls of John, his parents, Henry IV, Henry V and Queen Katherine. ^[7] The chantry was dissolved in 1549.

A brass memorial in the church at Fladbury commemorates Eleanor and her husband John.

Johannes Throkmorton et Alianora uxor ejus at Thomas filius eorum. Johannes fuit sub thesaurarius Angliae qui vero obijt vicesimo tertio die Aprilis anno domini millmo CCCC XLV. Quorum animabus pro-picietur deus. Amen

John Throckmorton and Eleanor his wife, & Thomas their son. John was Under-Treasurer of England, who died the 23rd day of April in the year of our Lord 1445. On whose souls may God have mercy. Amen

Research Notes

• It is unlikely to impossible that Eleanor was also the wife of John Bellers. According to History of Parliament, Bellers was last known to be living in 1414 and deceased by 1421, at which time his son John was a ward of John Mowbray and Bellers's wife had remarried to Thomas Seagrave. In comparison, Eleanor is mentioned as her husband John Throckmorton's wife and chief executor in his will in 1445, and according to History of Parliament they married circa 1409. This timeline means that Eleanor could not have been married to both John Throckmorton and John Bellers, and while there is clear evidence that she was certainly married to Throckmorton, there is none currently that links her to Bellers. Eleanor's profile has been disconnected from Bellers's based on this conclusion, and a reliable source should be provided before the two are connected again in the future. Utting-102 04:21, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} “Throckmorton Family.” The William and Mary Quarterly 4, no. 2 (1895): 128–29. pg 129 JSTOR
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6} The Visitation of the County of Gloucester, taken in the year 1623, Harleian Society, 1885, Throgmorton pedigree, p. 162, Internet Archive
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5} Jon Stallard. Butler of Droitwich: 1300-1700, Lulu.com, 2008, Appendix 12, pp. 275-276, Transcript of John Throckmorton's will, Google Books
4. ↑ Josiah C Wedgwood. History Of Parliament (1439-1509), HMSO, 1936, p. 40, Internet Archive
5. ↑ Tudor Place names her as Mary, but with no source - http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/THROCKMORTON1.htm#Mary%20THROCKMORTON6
6. ↑ Nicolas, Nicholas Harris. Testamenta Vetusta (Nichols & Son, London, 1826) Vol. 1, Page 248: Will of Sir John Throckmorton, Knt.
7. ↑ A genealogical and historical account of the Throckmorton family in England and the United States, with brief notes on some of the allied families: Throckmorton, Charles Wickliffe, 1868 pg 83 Internet Archive