Eleanor (Holland) de Cherleton (1370 - 1405)

Born 13 Oct 1370 in Wales

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Biography

Eleanor was the daughter of Thomas de Holand^[1] and Alice FitzAlan/de Arundel. She was born on 13 October 1370. She was probably born in Wales where her father's main lands lay, though he had some English property too.^[2][3][4][5]

Eleanor married twice. Her first husband was Roger Mortimer (a ward of her father)^[6] whose titles included 4th Earl of March,^[7][8] making her Countess of March: they wed about 7 October 1388.^[2][4] They had four children:

• Edmund^[2][4][8]
• Roger^[2][4]
• Anne, who married Richard of York^[2][4]
• Eleanor, who married Edward Courtenay^[2][4]

Roger Mortimer was killed in Ireland in 1398.^[2][4] Dower was assigned to Eleanor on 29 November 1398^[7][9] and included the lordships and castles of Usk and Caerleon.^[10] Soon after 19 June 1399 (when she had licence to marry whom she wished^[11]) Eleanor married Edward Cherleton.^{[1][3][5][8][10]} They had two children:

• Joan, who married John Gray^[3][5]
• Joyce, who married John Tiptoft^[3][5]

On 21 November 1403, after her and her second husband's Welsh lands had been "burnt, wasted and destroyed", Henry IV made provision for her out of the inheritance of her sons from that marriage during their minority, in view of the "no small expense" she incurred in supporting her two daughters from her first marriage.^[12]

Eleanor died in childbirth^[3][5] in October 1405.^[11][10] Douglas Richardson gives her death date as 23 October 1405.^[3][5] Inquisitions Post Mortem give three different death dates: 6, 23 and 30 October 1405.^[13]

Eleanor's IPMs record her holding lands in Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and the adjacent Welsh march, and Somerset. Her heir was found to be Edmund Mortimer, one of her sons by her first marriage.^[13]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Frederic Thomas Colby (ed.). The Visitation of the County of Devon in the Year 1620, Harleian Society, 1872, p. 346, Internet Archive
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. III, pp. 195-197, MORTIMER 10, Google Books
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5} Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, Vol. I, pp. 427-428, CHERLETON 9
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. IV, 176-178, MORTIMER 14
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5} Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, pp. 142-143, CHERLETON 13
6. ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry for 'Mortimer, Roger, fourth earl of March and sixth earl of Ulster', print and online 2004, revised online 2008
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} G E Cokayne. Complete Peerage, revised edition, Vol. VIII, St Catherine Press, 1932, pp. 448-450, viewable on Familysearch
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} G Wrottesley. Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls, 1905, pp. 226-227, Internet Archive
9. ↑ Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Richard II, Vol. VI, A.D. 1392-1399, HMSO, 1909, p. 457, Hathi Trust
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1 10.2} Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry for 'Charlton, Edward, fifth Baron Charlton of Powys', print and online 2004
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1} G E Cokayne. Complete Peerage, revised edition, Vol III, St Catherine Press, 1913, p. 161, Internet Archive
12. ↑ Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Henry IV, Vol. II, A.D. 1401-1405, HMSO 1905, p. 318, Internet Archive
13. ↑ ^{13.0 13.1} J. L. Kirby, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry IV, Entries 1-51', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 19, Henry IV (London, 1992), pp. 1-13, British History Online, entries 47-49, accessed 21 December 2021

• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Vol. 10, pp. 123-124, entry for 'CHARLTON or CHERLETON, EDWARD, fifth and last Lord Charlton of Powys', Wikisource
• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Vol. 39, pp. 145-146, entry for 'MORTIMER, ROGER (VI) de, fourth Earl of March and Ulster', Wikisource
• Cawley, Charles. "Medieval Lands": A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families © by Charles Cawley, hosted by Foundation for Medieval Genealogy (FMG). See also WikiTree's source page for MedLands. Entry for Eleanor de Holand
• Wikipedia: Eleanor Holland, Countess of Salisbury

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was developed for the Magna Carta Project by Michael Cayley on 21 December 2021 and was reviewed 23 December 2021 by Thiessen-117.

Eleanor appears in a trail between Gateway Ancestor Thomas Lloyd and Magna Carta Surety Baron Robert de Vere. This trail was badged by the Magna Carta Project in December 2021. See the trail in the Magna Carta Trails section of the Gateway's profile.

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