Eleanor de Bohun

  General Notes:

By her first marriage to Sir James Butler, Eleanor was an ancestress of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Parr, Queen consorts of King Henry VIII of England. Other descendants include the dukes of Beaufort, Newcastle, Norfolk, earls of Ormond, Desmond, Shrewsbury, Dorset, Rochester, Sandwich, Arundel, and Stafford.

After the deaths of her parents, she was placed in the care of her aunt Mary Plantagenet and brought up at Amesbury Priory alongside various cousins including Joan Gaveston, Isabel of Lancaster and Joan de Monthermer. King Edward II gave the priory a generous allowance of 100 marks annually for the upkeep of Eleanor and her younger cousin, Joan Gaveston.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Marriage: to Earl (Sir) James Butler, 1327, Kilkenny, Kilkenny, Ireland.

• Marriage: to Lord (Sir) Thomas de Dagworth, 24 January 1344, Cranley, Surrey.

Eleanor married Earl James Butler, son of Sir Edmund Butler and Lady Joan Fitz John, in 1327 in Kilkenny, Kilkenny, Ireland. (Earl James Butler was born in 1305 in Arklow, Wicklow, Ireland and died on 17 February 1338 in Gowran, Kilkenny, Ireland.)