Eleanor Holland, Countess of Salisbury

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Sir Thomas Montagu and his wife Eleanor Holland (from the Wrythe Garter Book, Buccleugh manuscript, 15th century)
Bisham Manor, the former home of Eleanor Holland and Thomas Montagu (2005)

Eleanor Holland (also Eleanor Holand ) (* 1386 in Upholland , Lancashire , † after 1413) was Countess of Salisbury by marriage . She was the second daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent , half-brother of the English King Richard II. She was the first wife of Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury . One of her brothers was Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent. She is not to be confused with her eldest sister, Alianore Holland , Countess of March .

family

Eleanor Holland was born one of ten children to Thomas Holland and Alice Holland , sister of Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel . Her oldest sister was Alianore Holland, who married Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March . Her eldest brother Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey , was attacked by an insurgent mob in Cirencester in 1400 for his role in the Epiphany Rising Rebellion against King Henry IV - who seized the throne of King Richard II , beheaded. Thomas' legacy as Earl of Kent went to her second oldest brother Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent and she herself as co- heir .

Her paternal grandparents were Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent and Joan of Kent . Her maternal grandparents were Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, and Eleanor of Lancaster .

Marriage and offspring

On May 23, 1399, at the age of about thirteen, she married Sir Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury , son of John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury and Maud Francis. Her husband later became one of the most important commanders in the Hundred Years War . Eleanor did not accept the title of Countess of Salisbury until June 14, 1409, when it was restored by name by Thomas. The previous revocation of her father's title and possessions because of his involvement in the Epiphany Rising rebellion was responsible for this. Eleanor's uncle John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter , who was also part of the conspiracy, managed to escape the angry mob, but was captured a little later in Essex and, at the behest of his maternal grandmother, Joan de Bohun, Countess of Hereford , the mother-in-law of King Henry IV , beheaded.

Thomas and Eleanor's home was Bisham Manor in Berkshire . Together they had a daughter, Alice Neville, 5th Countess of Salisbury (* 1407, † 1462), who married Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury in 1420 , with whom they had ten children.

Eleanor died on an unknown date after 1413. She was buried at Bisham Abbey.

Her widowed husband Thomas married a second time, this time Alice Chaucer around 1424, the granddaughter of Geoffrey Chaucer . The marriage remained childless.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, Earls of Kent 1352-1408 (Holand)
personal data
SURNAME Holland, Eleanor, Countess of Salisbury
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salisbury, Eleanor Holand Countess of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobles
DATE OF BIRTH 1386
PLACE OF BIRTH Upholland , Lancashire (England)
DATE OF DEATH 15th century