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Facts and Events
Name |
Eleanor de Clare |
Alt Name |
Alianore _____ |
Gender |
Female |
Alt Birth? |
Bet 30 Apr 1290 and 7 Dec 1295 |
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Birth? |
3 Oct 1292 |
Caerphilly, Glamorgan, Wales |
Alt Marriage |
1 May 1306 |
Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, Englandto Hugh le Despenser, The Younger |
Marriage |
28 May 1306 |
to Hugh le Despenser, The Younger |
Alt Marriage |
14 Jun 1306 |
Westminster, Middlesex, Englandto Hugh le Despenser, The Younger |
Marriage |
Abt Jan 1329 |
to William La Zouche |
Death? |
30 Jun 1337 |
Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England |
Burial? |
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Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England |
Reference Number? |
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Q2160835? |
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
Eleanor de Clare, suo jure 6th Lady of Glamorgan (3 October 1292 – 30 June 1337) was a Anglo-Welsh noblewoman who married Hugh Despenser the Younger and was a granddaughter of Edward I of England.[1] With her sisters, Elizabeth de Clare and Margaret de Clare, she inherited her father's estates after the death of her brother, Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Gloucester, 7th Earl of Hereford at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314.[2][1][3] She was born in 1292 at Caerphilly Castle in Glamorgan, Wales and was the eldest daughter of Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, 7th Earl of Gloucester, 5th Lord of Glamorgan and Princess Joan of Acre.
References
- Lady Eleanor de Clare, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
- Eleanor de Clare, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
- ELEANOR de Clare ([1292]-1337), in Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
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