Eleanor Percy, Countess of Northumberland

Lady Eleanor Percy
(nee Neville)
Countess of Northumberland
Spouse(s) Richard le Despenser, 4th Baron Burghersh
Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland
Issue
John Percy
Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland
Thomas Percy, 1st Baron Egremont
Lady Katherine Percy
George Percy
Sir Ralph Percy
Sir Richard Percy
William Percy, Bishop of Carlisle
Anne Percy
Joan Percy
Noble Family House of Neville
Father Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland
Mother Katherine Roet
Born c.1397
Died 1472

Lady Eleanor Neville (c. 1397 - 1472)[1] was the second daughter of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland (died 1425) by his second wife, Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and his third wife, Katherine Roet.

Marriage and children

She was married first to Richard le Despenser, 4th Baron Burghersh, a grandson of Gaunt's younger brother Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York. After his early death without issue, she married Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (killed at the first battle of St Albans, 1455).

Eleanor and Henry had 10 children:

Ancestry

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