Eleanor was the daughter of Ralph Neville[1] and his second wife Joan Beaufort.[2][3][4] Her birth date is uncertain, but her parents married before 29 November 1396[5][6] and it has been guesstimated as about 1400. Her birthplace is not known.
Eleanor married twice. Her first husband was Richard le Despenser.[2][3][4] A licence for their marriage at Raby Castle, County Durham was issued on 12 January 1412 and a dispensation for it (as they were related in the third degree) was dated the next day.[7] They had no children:[1] he died, age 16, on 11 October 1413, and his Inquisition Post Mortem names his heir as his sister Isabel.[8] On 1 February 1415 Eleanor was confirmed in her right to dower property from her first marriage.[9] The extent of her dower rights in Worcestershire was determined by an Inquisition Post Mortem on 29 August 1415, pursuant to a writ issued on 22 February that year.[10]
Anne, who married Thomas Hungerford, Laurence Raynsford and Hugh Vaughan[2][3][11][12]
In March 1416 the intervention of Eleanor's mother helped her second husband gain the title of Earl of Northumberland, which had not previously passed to him because of his father's rebellion; he was granted associated estates.[2][3][13]
In 1440 Eleanor received a minor bequest under the will her father.[2][3][15]
In 37 Henry VI (1 September 1458 - 31 August 1459) Eleanor made a gift of the advowson of Leconfield, Yorkshire to the Abbey of Alnwick, Northumberland, reserving to herself lands at Leconfield.[16]
Eleanor's husband died fighting for Henry VI in the 1st Battle of St Albans on 22 May 1455.[4] Eleanor survived him.[2][3] She was presumably alive on 29 February 1472 when her daughter-in-law Eleanor Poynings was referred to in the Patent Rolls as "Eleanor, countess of Northumberland, the younger" to distinguish her from the Eleanor of this profile.[17] A writ of diem clausit extremum (to protect the king’s interests in her estate) was dated 6 February 1473, so the likelihood is she died shortly before that.[18] The record of her Inquisition Post Mortem appears to have been lost.[19]
Research Notes
Death Date
Weis's Ancestral Roots gives Eleanor's death date as 1463, with no clear sourcing.[20] His Magna Carta Sureties gives no death date for her.[21]
Sources
↑ 1.01.11.21.3 John Fetherston (ed.). The Visitation of the County of Warwick in the year 1619, Harleian Society, 1877, p. 284, Internet Archve
↑ 4.04.14.24.34.4 G E Cokayne. Complete Peerage, revised edition, Vol. IX, St Catherine Press, 1936, pp. 715-716, viewable on Familysearch
↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 246, NEVILLE 9, Google Books
↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, p. 233, NEVILLE 13
↑Testamenta Eboracensia, Vol. III, Surtees Society, 1865, p. 321, Internet Archive
↑ J L Kirby, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry V, Entries 250-299', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 20, Henry V (London, 1995), pp. 81-96, British History Online, entry 279, accessed 26 May 2022
↑Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Henry V, A.D. 1413-1416, HMSO, 1910, pp. 286-287, Hathi Trust
↑ J L Kirby, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry V, Entries 608-653', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 20, Henry V (London, 1995), pp. 198-207, British History Online, entry 632, accessed 26 May 2022
↑ 13.013.113.2 Egerton Brydges. Collins's Peerage, greatly enlarged and continued to the present time, Vol. II, 1812, pp. 273ff., Internet Archive
↑ 14.014.1Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, Vol. VI, John Bowyer Nicholas and Son, 1840, p. 275, Internet Archive
↑Wills and Inventories illustrate of the History, Manners, Language, Statistics &c of the Northern Counties of England, Part I, Surtees Society, 1835, p. 72, InternetArchive
↑List of Inquisitions Ad Quod Damnum, Part II, HMSO, 1906 (Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1963), p. 758, Internet Archive
↑Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edward IV and Henry VI, A.D. 1467-1477, HMSO, 1900, p. 312, Internet Archive
↑ Great Britain. Calendar of the Fine Rolls, vol. 21, Edward IV, Edward V, Richard III: 1471-1485. (London, 1961): page 38.
↑ Frederick Lewis Weis. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America before 1700, 8th edition, Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, p. 30, line 19.33
↑ Frederick Lewis Weis. The Magna Carta Sureties, 1215, 5th edition, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1999, p. 65, line 45.8
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July 3, 1472: Posited date that Eleanor Neville, Countess of Northumberland, died at Raby Castle in Durham. The second daughter of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and Joan Beaufort, she was an older sister of Cecily Neville, Duchess of York. She first married Richard le Despenser, 4th Baron Burghersh but had no children with him before his death. Her second marriage was to Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, and they had ten children. Four of her sons, not to mention her husband, were killed during the Wars of the Roses, fighting on the Lancastrian side as opposed to the rest of her family. One can imagine Eleanor's grief and struggle as she watched her families tear themselves apart in the conflict.
Thanks. That webpage just says she died in 1472, which is the year given in this profile, and does not give a day as far as I can see, nor a death place. FYI. thehistoryjar is someone's blog - it can be a helpful pointer but is not itself a particularly reliable source. The suggested death place of Raby Castle is almost certainly just a guess.
She has an inquisition post mortem which you might expect to provide her exact death date. It is unfortunately in that time period which has not been published. Still, if the date appeared in her IPM you would think it would be a well-established fact. Complete Peerage implies the date is not known saying she "appears to have died about 1472/3 (12 Edw. IV)". Her writ of diem clausit extremum was issued 6 Feb. 1473 - you would not expect a 7 month delay between her death and her writ of DCE. I have not found the document which even says she was definitely dead in 1472 and I would place her death at shortly before 6 Feb 1473 at this point.
Lewis has birth as 1398 & only le Despenser & Percy as husbands. Percy died 1455. Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry shows only le Despenser & Percy as her husbands (p 249).
Only place I could find that she married John Locke was in Wikipedia's sidebar for her - not in the article, just the sidebar. And no references or sources for either.
So... unless anyone objects (and/or provides a source), I'm going to disconnect John Locke as husband #3.
Neville-1988 and Neville-49 appear to represent the same person because: birth years differ - 1407 is marked with "Citation needed" in text for Neville-49 & Neville-1988's 1398 has no citation. However, these are duplicate profiles that should be merged (both married to Henry Percy, attached profiles for dads are in a proposed merge & their mom's the same). Thanks!
Neville-1861 and Neville-49 appear to represent the same person because: I just merged duplicate profiles for son Ralph. These profiles should be merged too. Thanks!
July 3, 1472: Posited date that Eleanor Neville, Countess of Northumberland, died at Raby Castle in Durham. The second daughter of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and Joan Beaufort, she was an older sister of Cecily Neville, Duchess of York. She first married Richard le Despenser, 4th Baron Burghersh but had no children with him before his death. Her second marriage was to Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, and they had ten children. Four of her sons, not to mention her husband, were killed during the Wars of the Roses, fighting on the Lancastrian side as opposed to the rest of her family. One can imagine Eleanor's grief and struggle as she watched her families tear themselves apart in the conflict.
https://thehistoryjar.com/2018/04/03/joan-beauforts-descendants-eleanor-neville-countess-of-northumberland
edited by Michael Cayley
Lewis has birth as 1398 & only le Despenser & Percy as husbands. Percy died 1455. Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry shows only le Despenser & Percy as her husbands (p 249).
Only place I could find that she married John Locke was in Wikipedia's sidebar for her - not in the article, just the sidebar. And no references or sources for either.
So... unless anyone objects (and/or provides a source), I'm going to disconnect John Locke as husband #3.