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Eleanor Neville, Countess of Northumberland

Eleanor Neville, Countess of Northumberland

English countess


Eleanor Neville (c.1398–1472)[1] was the second daughter of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland (died 1425), by his second wife, Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, and Katherine Swynford.

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Marriage and children

She was married first to Richard le Despenser, 4th Baron Burghersh, a grandson of Gaunt's younger brother Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York. After his early death without issue, she married Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (killed at the First Battle of St Albans, 1455).

Eleanor and Henry had ten children:

Ancestry

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References

  1. "Person Page". thepeerage.com.



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