Eleanor de Bohun, Countess of Ormonde

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About Eleanor de Bohun, Countess of Ormonde

"Eleanor de Bohun, Countess of Ormond (17 October 1304 – 7 October 1363) was an English noblewoman born in Knaresborough Castle to Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford and Elizabeth daughter of King Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile. 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. Edward II of England gave the priory a generous allowance of 100 marks annually for the upkeep of Eleanor and her younger cousin, Joan Gaveston."

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Lady Eleanor de Bohun was born in 1304.1 She was the daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford and Lady Elizabeth Plantagenet.1 She married, firstly, James Butler, 1st Earl of Ormonde, son of Sir Edmond Butler and Lady Joan FitzGerald, in 1327.2 She married, secondly, Sir Thomas de Dagworth, Lord Dagworth

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Citations / Sources:

[S2] the Norman conquest till the close of the fifteenth century, Paget, Gerald, (Manuscript, filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1957), chart no. 73 Bohun, Earls of Hereford, Essex and Northampton, FHL microfilm 170063, chart no. 111 Butler, FHL microfilm 170063, 2/2.

[S2] the Norman conquest till the close of the fifteenth century, Paget, Gerald, (Manuscript, filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1957), chart no. 165 Dagworth, FHL microfilm 170063, 2/2.

[S2] the Norman conquest till the close of the fifteenth century, Paget, Gerald, (Manuscript, filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1957), chart no. 73 Bohun, Earls of Hereford, Essex and Northampton, FHL microfilm 170063.

[S4] #230 [5th edition, 1999] The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215 (5th edition, 1999), Adams, Arthur, (5th edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1999), FHL book 973 D2aa 1999., p. 25 line 18:5 (Reliability: 3).

[S6] Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-century Colonists: the Descent from the Later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, and Edward III, of Emigrants from England and Wales to the North American Colonies Before 1701 (2nd ed., 1999), Faris, David, (2nd edition. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999), FHL book 973 D2fp., p. 33 BOHUN:12 (Reliability: 3).

[S6] Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-century Colonists: the Descent from the Later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, and Edward III, of Emigrants from England and Wales to the North American Colonies Before 1701 (2nd ed., 1999), Faris, David, (2nd edition. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999), FHL book 973 D2fp., p. 59 BUTLER:10 (Reliability: 3).

[S8] #44 Histoire de la maison royale de France anciens barons du royaume: et des grands officiers de la couronne (1726, reprint 1967-1968), Saint-Marie, Anselme de, (3rd edition. 9 volumes. 1726. Reprint Paris: Editions du Palais Royal, 1967-1968), FHL book 944 D5a; FHL microfilms 532,231-532,239., vol. 7 p. 87.

[S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 84. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Family.

[S23] Magna Carta Ancestry: A study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Richardson, Douglas, (Kimball G. Everingham, editor. 2nd edition, 2011), vol. 1 p. 378.

[S27] #849 Burke's Guide to the Royal Family (1973), (London: Burke's Peerage, c1973), FHl book 942 D22bgr., p. 197.

[S29] #798 The Wallop Family and Their Ancestry, Watney, Vernon James, (4 volumes. Oxford: John Johnson, 1928), FHL book Q 929.242 W159w; FHL microfilm 1696491 items 6-9., vol. 1 p. 106-107, 163, vol. 2 p. 247, 330.

[S72] English Ancestry of Anne Marbury Hutchinson, Colket, Meredith B., Jr., (The Magee Press, Philadelphia, 1986.), 929.242 H971c., p. 39.

[S81] #242 [1831 edition] A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, Extinct, Dormant, and in Abeyance (1831), Burke, John, (London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831), FHL book 942 D22bg 1831; FHL microfilm 845,453 item 2., p. 65.

[S100] #125 The Royal Daughters of England and Their Representatives (1910-1911), Lane, Henry Murray, (2 voulmes. London: Constable and Co., 1910-1911), FHL microfilm 88,003., vol. 1 p. 200.

[S103] #662 The Genealogists' Magazine: Official Organ of the Society of Genealogists (1928-), Society of Genealogists (London), (London: Society of Genealogists, 1928-), FHL book 942 B2gm; FHL microfilm 176,665., vol. 8, March, 1938, to December, 1939, p. 204.

[S126] #4500 Memoir of the Butlers, Burke, John Bernard, Sir, (Original manuscript in The Castle, Dublin, Ireland.), FHL microfilm 257807 item 4., p. 14, 15.

[S1862] #379 [8th edition, 2004] Ancestral roots of certain American colonists who came to America before 1700 (8th edition, 2004), Weis, Frederich Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard, William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004), FHL book 974 D2w 2004., Line 7.

[S2411] #11915 British Genealogy (filmed 1950), Evans, Alcwyn Caryni, (Books A to H. National Library of Wales MSS 12359-12360D. Manuscript filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1950), FHL microfilms 104,355 and 104,390 item 2., book 6 p. F3*, 60*.

[S3448] Irish Pedigrees: or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation (1915), O'Hart, John, (2 volumes. New York: P. Murphy & Son, 1915.), FHL microfilms 295,810-295,811., vol. 2 p. 84 fn..


  • Eleanor and James were married in 1327.
  • Upon her marriage, she became Countess of Ormond.
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Eleanor de Bohun, Countess of Ormonde's Timeline

1304
October 17, 1304
Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England
1330
November 6, 1330
1331
October 4, 1331
Kilkenny Castle, Kildare, Kilkenny, Ireland
1332
1332
Castle Ormonde, Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, Munster, Ireland
1344
1344
Raby, Durham, , England
1346
1346
Yorkshire, England
1363
October 7, 1363
Age 58
Aldgate, Middlesex, England
1896
October 20, 1896
Age 58