Eleanor (St John) Zouche (abt. 1455 - 1519)

Born about 1455 in Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of John (Zouche) de la Zouche — married about 1475 in England

Descendants

Died 12 Feb 1519 at about age 64 in England

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Biography

Eleanor St John was a member of the aristocracy in England.

Father Sir John St. John^[1] b. c 1432, d. c 1514

Mother Alice Bradshaw^[2] b. c 1433

Eleanor St. John was born circa 1455 at of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England.^[3].^[4][5]

Eleanor St. John died on 12 February 1519.^[6][7][8]

Family 1 She married, firstly, John Zouche, Esq.,b. c 1450, d. 20 Oct 1501 son of John Zouche, Esq. and Elizabeth Grey, circa 1475. They had 3 sons & 4 daughters:^{[4][5][9][10][7][11][8][12]}

Children with John Zouche

1. Sir John
2. David
3. Lionel
4. Elizabeth, wife of Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare
5. Cecily
6. Margaret, wife of Sir Robert Sheffield
7. Agnes, a nun at Sempringham.^[13]

Family 2 Eleanor St. John married, secondly, Sir John Melton, 7th Lord Lucy, d. 11 Jun 1510, son of Sir John Melton and Margaret Clifford, after 20 October 1501; No issue.^{[7][8][12][14]}

Research Notes

The Visitation of Yorkshire in 1563-4 records her second husband as Sir John Melton, the son of John Melton and Margery, the daughter of Lord Fitzhugh.^[15] He died in 1510/11 (36 Henry VIII).^[16] She is the wrong age to have married Sir John Melton's grandfather, Sir John Melton, 7th Lord Lucy, who was born in about 1415. Speed-878 11:47, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Sources

1. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 485-486
2. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 628.
3. ↑ The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. VII, p. 234
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. VII, p. 234.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} The Wallop Family and Their Ancestry, by Vernon James Watney, p., 848.
6. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 16-17
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2} Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 16-17.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 277.
9. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 628.
10. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 478.
11. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 485-486.
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1} Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 531.
13. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 277.
14. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 79.
15. ↑ C B Norcliffe (ed), The Visitation of Yorkshire in the Years 1563 and 1564, Made by William Flower, Esquire, London, 1881, pages 202-3 Google Books (accessed 19 Mar 2020)
16. ↑ William Wheater, The history of the parishes of Sherburn and Cawood, 2nd ed, London: Longmann Green & Co, 1882, page 152 Google Books (accessed 19 Mar 2020)

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