Holinshed's Chronicles

Eleanor Beaufort, Duchess of Somerset

Also known as: Elenor duchesse of Summerset · Family: House of Lancaster · Role: duchess · First appears: Henry VI 53

Life events

  • c. 1458 · York granted Eleanor and Henry Somerset five thousand marks in assigned royal debts.(Henry VI 53)

Henry VI 53

  • child: Henry Beaufort, Duke of Somerset “Moreouer it was decréed, that the duke of Yorke should giue to Elenor duchesse of Summerset, and to Henrie duke of Summerset hir sonne, the summe of fiue thousand markes”
  • with Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York (interaction) “Moreouer it was decréed, that the duke of Yorke should giue to Elenor duchesse of Summerset, and to Henrie duke of Summerset hir sonne, the summe of fiue thousand markes of good assignements of debts”

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