Eleanor Cobham^[1]

Abt 1410 - 1452  (~ 42 years)

• Name	Eleanor Cobham  [2, 3]
  Birth	Abt 1410	Sterborough Castle, Lingfield, Kent, England
  Gender	Female
  Death	7 Jul 1452	Beaumaris Castle   [3]
  Person ID	I3951	Main
  Last Modified	30 Sep 2009

  
  

  Father	Sir Reynald Cobham, 3rd Baron,   b. 1381, Sterborough Castle, Lingfield, Kent, England d. 1446 (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Eleanor Colepeper,   b. Abt 1385, Rayel, Kent, England d. 5 Nov 1420 (Age ~ 35 years)
  Family ID	F1567	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Humphrey Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Gloucester,   b. 3 Oct 1390   d. 23 Feb 1447 (Age 56 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1431  [3]
  Children	+ 1. Antigone Plantagenet, (Bastard Child),   b. Bef 1421, Westminister, London, Middlesex, England d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F1559	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Jan 2011

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Abt 1410 - Sterborough Castle, Lingfield, Kent, England Death - 7 Jul 1452 - Beaumaris Castle  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  He [Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester] m. 2ndly, in 1428, Eleanor, daughter of Sir Reynold Cobham, by his 1st wife, Eleanor, daughter of Sir Thomas Colepepper. She, for whom robes of the Garter were provided in 1432, and later, was tried, Oct 1441, for witchcraft and sorcery, and indicted for treason as aiming at the King's life. She was condemned and put to public penance in London, and sentenced to perpetual imprisonment. She d. a prisoner in 1454, in Peel Castle, Isle of Man. Humphrey dsp. legit probably from natural causes, 23 Feb 1446/7, aged 56, though being found dead while under arrest, his end excited popular suspicion. His body was taken to the Friars Minor at Babwell, and thence by stages by way of Newmarket and Ware to St. Albans Abbey, of which he had been a benefactor and confrater, and buried 4 Mar 1446/7 in a tomb which he had prepared there. He d. intestate. At his death all his honours became extinct. [Complet Peerage V:730-7] [4]

  
  

• Sources

  [SAuth] John Spencer Howell, Jr., John Spencer Howell, Jr., (http://www.jhowell.com/ jhowell@jhowell.com). [S906] Gary Boyd Roberts, Gary Boyd Roberts - Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants, (GPC, 1993. (2nd edition scheduled for 2002)). [S915] Henry Churchyard, Royal Genealogies, (http://ftp.cac.psu.edu/~saw/royal/royalgen.html), http://ftp.cac.psu.edu/~saw/royal/r09.html#I1598. [S916] George E Cokayne, Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, The, (Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000), Page. V 730-7.