Lady Eleanor# Beaufort

  Notes:

1st Husband was 5th Earl of Ormonde (his second wife) who left him a widow with no children.

"Henry VII not only embraced terms of amity (with James of Scotland) but in 1493, to bind this monarch still closer to him, proferred a marriage between him and "the most serene Princess Catherine, his cousin, dau of Eleanor, Countess of Ormnonde and Wiltshire, dau of Edmund Beaufort, his great uncle" but James and his council treated this proposition with contempt, as a marriage beneath his dignity, and probably it was made because she was the only lady of the Royal Blood of the Lancastrian branch, who was of a suitable age".

"THE TENURE OF KINGSDON ": "On 16 May, in the year of Clarence’s death, Edward IV made a grant for life to Eleanor, countess of Wilts, of Kingsdon, Somerton Erleigh and the other manors which had been sometimes hers and sometimes snatched away (Ib., 1478, p. 106). She had taken as her second husband in or before 1470, Sir Robert Spencer of Spencercomb in Devon, and is believed to have avoided the court, but her stairs had been enhanced by the death of her brothers whose co-heir she had become, Her eldest brother, Henry, Duke of Somerset, was beheaded in 1471 after the battle of Tewksbury, where he had commanded the Lancastrian vanguard. Her third brother, John Beaufort, was killed at the battle of Tewksbury; and her fourth brother, Thomas has died unmarried. On the accession of Henry VII, her position became more secure, for she was cousin german of Lady Margaret Beaufort, the king’s mother. "

Eleanor# married Sir Robert# Spencer ~1470.