Eleanor Neville | |
Countess of Northumberland | |
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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: | Neville |
Father: | Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland |
Mother: | Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland |
Birth Place: | Raby, Durham, England |
Death Place: | Raby, Durham, England |
Eleanor Neville (–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 Katherine Swynford.
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 ten children: