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Personal data Lady Eleanor de Braose 

• She was born in the year 1230 in Brecknock, Breconshire, Wales.Sources 11, 12
• She died before 1264 in Huntington Castle, Kington, Herefordshire, England.Sources 11, 12
• She is buried in Llanthony-by-Gloucester Priory, Gloucestershire, England.
• A child of William de Braose and Eve Marshall
• This information was last updated on April 5, 2023.

Household of Lady Eleanor de Braose

She is married to Humphrey VI de Bohun.

They got married before February 15, 1247/1248 at 1st wife.

Child(ren):

1. Eleanor (Alianore) de Bohun  ± 1247-???? 
2. Humphrey VII Bohun  1248-???? 
3. Margery (Margaret) (Eleanor) de Bohun  ± 1252-???? 

Notes about Lady Eleanor de Braose

Eleanor Braose, born in Brecknock, Huntington. Co-heiress of her father. Married Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford and Essex. Died 1275.

!Dau. of William de Braose and Eva Marshall; m. Humphrey de Bohun VI; mother of Humphrey de Bohun VII. [Ped. of Charlemagne, Vol. III, p. 109]

Dau. of William de Braiose and Eve Marshal; m. Sir Humphrey de Bohun VI; mother of Alianore de Bohun. [Ancestral Roots, p. 69]

Dau. of William de Braiose of Brecknock, 6th Baron de Braiose, and Eva Marshal; m. Humphrey de Bohun VI, Earl of Hereford and Essex; mother of Humphrey de Bohun VII, Earl of Hereford & Essex. [Charlemagne & Others, Chart 2916b]

m. Humphrey VI de Bohun. [GRS 3.03, Automated Archives, CD#100]

Dau. of William de Braose of Brecknock; m. Humphrey de Bohun; mother of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford & Essex. [Magna Charta Barons, p. 307] Dau. of William de Braose; m. Humphrey, eldeston son of the second earl of Hereford. [The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Herefordshire, p. 363]

Eleanor de Braoise, daughter of Eva Marshal. [Magna Charta Sureties]-------------He [Humphre de Bohun] married, 1stly, Eleanor, daughter and coheir of William DE BRIOUZE, of Brecknock, &c., lord of Abergavenny, by Eve, daughter and (in her issue) coheir of William (MARSHAL), EARL OF PEMBROKE (n). She was buried at Llanthony by Glouccster... He died v.p., at Beeston Castle, co. Chester, 27 October 1265 (c), and was buried in Combermere Abbey (d). [Complete Peerage VI:462-3, XIV:381, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)](n) They had restitution of the lands of Walter (Marshal), Earl of Pembroke, and of the lands of William de Briouze 15 Feb 1247/8, the other coheirs mentioned being Maud, wife of Roger de Mortimer, and Eve, wife of William de Cauntelo, to whom came the lordship of Abergavenny, while Eleanor inherited Brecknock and Hay. No mention is made in the Patent Roll of the other coheir, Isabel, who m. David ap Llywellyn and afterwards Piers FitzHerbert. On 24 Feb 1251/2 appears also a commission for the partition of the lands of William de Briouze to his 3 daughters and coheirs.(c) Vigil of SS Simon and Jude after the battle of Evesham.(d) An IPM taken 51 Hen III shows Humphrey, his son and heir by Eleanor, as heir to Hay and Huntingdon castles, &c, co. Hereford. On 12 Nov 1265 Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, and his heirs had a grant of manors in cos. Gloucester, Huntingdon, and Essex, which the Earl by fine had granted to Humphrey de Bohun, his son and heir, to hold to his death to him and his heirs by Joan, daughter of Robert de Quincy, his wife, and which appertained to the King by reason of the trespass and forfeiture which Humphrey made against the King and his son Edward, in adhering to Simon de Montfort, sometime Earl of Leicester, and his partisans, the King's enemies.

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