Alianore de Lovayne

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Alianore de Lovayne (27 March 1345^[1]- 5 October 1397) was an English noblewoman, heiress, and wife of Sir William Bourchier.

[edit] Life

Alianore was born on 27 March 1345 at Little Easton, Essex, England. She was the only surviving child of Sir John de Lovayne, of Little Easton, Broxted, Essex, and Bildeston, Suffolk,^[2] and his wife, Margaret Weston. Her paternal grandparents were Thomas de Lovain and Joan de Basing. Her mother was the daughter of Thomas Weston. Shortly before her second birthday on 30 January 1347, her father died at Bildeston, leaving Alianore as the sole heiress to his many properties in the counties of Essex and Suffolk.^[3] She had an elder sister Isabel who is presumed to have died in early infancy. In 1359^[4] at the age of 14, Alianore married Sir William Bourchier (1330-1375), the son of Robert Bourchier, 1st Lord Bourchier and Margaret Prayers. The couple had a son, William Bourchier, Count of Eu (1386-28 May 1420.^[5] He married Anne of Gloucester ( April 1383- 16 October 1438) in 1405. William was Anne's second husband. They had five childern, one of whom was the Cardinal Thomas Bourchier.^[6]He died at Troyes, France while in the service of King Henry V. Through her son William, Alianore is the ancestress of the notorious 16th century heiress Anne Bourchier, 7th Baroness Bourchier^[7], sister-in-law to Queen-Consort Catherine Parr^[8]. Alianore died on 5 October 1397^[9] at the age of 52.