Eleanor Cobham (-1452)
Died circa 1452 /1454
Married circa 1431
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester,
son of Henry IV, King of England 1399-1413 and Mary de Bohun
Born 1390
Died 23 February 1447 Bury St.Edmunds
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An attendant to Jacoba of Bavaria, wife of Humphrey, Duke of
Gloucester, she may have borne this Duke two bastards. In 1431, three
years after the Duke's marriage was declared invalid, she married the
Duke. In 1435, after the death of the Duke of Bedford, Humphrey became
the heir of Henry VI, King of England.
In 1441 three priests, Roger Bolingbroke, Eleanor's secretary;
John Hunne, her chaplain; and Thomas Southwell were executed for
conspiring to kill the king by witchcraft. Eleanor was tried on the
same charges and admitted five of the twenty-eight counts. The
authorities sentenced her to do public penance in London, divorced
her
from Humphrey and imprisoned her for life.
Source: Leo van de Pas |
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