Eleanor (Bohun) Dagworth (abt. 1310 - 1363)

Born about 1310 in England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of James (Butler) Boteler KB — married 1327 (to 1338) in England

Wife of Thomas Dagworth — married 1344 in Surrey, England

Descendants

Died 7 Oct 1363 at about age 53 in England

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Biography

Birth, Family and Earlier Life

Eleanor de Bohun was the daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford and Essex, and Elizabeth, daughter of Edward I.^[1][2][3] She was probably born in about 1310.^[4] (See Research Notes below.)

In her father's will, dated 11 August 1319, Eleanor was bequeathed £200 for apparel for her marriage.^[5][6]

On 10 October 1327 a licence was granted for Joan de Bohun of Kilpek to enfeoff Eleanor of the castle and manor of Kilpek, the manor of Trivel and the bailiwick of the forestry of the king's 'hay' of Hereford.^[1][2][7] This indicates that she must have been at least 16 by then.^[4] Before 14 February, 2 Edward III (1327/1328) Eleanor had passed on the bailiwick of the forestry of the king's hay of Hereford to a Philip Lambright, who received a pardon on that date for the transaction.^[8]

Marriages and Children

Eleanor married twice. Her first husband was James le Boteler, who was created Earl of Ormonde in November 1328.^[1][2] Cokayne^[9] and Douglas Richardson^[1][2] give a marriage year of 1327. (Brad Verity interprets the Patent Rolls entry for 14 February 1328 as indicating that she was unmarried then^[4] but this is not the case: what it indicates is that she was called Eleanor de Bohun at the time the transaction referred to in that entry took place.^[8]) They were definitely married before 21 November 1328 when James was given a pardon and acquittance for the arrears of a fine of 2000 marks in respect of their marriage.^[10] Eleanor and James had the following children:

• John,^[1][2] born on 6 November 1330 and died young^[11]
• James,^[1][2][9] born on 4 October 1331^[11]
• Pernel, who married Gilbert Talbot^[1][2]

James le Boteler died on 6 January 1337/8.^[1][2] Writs for his Inquisitons Post Mortem were issued on 18 February 1338.^[12] Eleanor was granted her dower rights on 2 April 1338.^[9][13] After James le Boteler's death, Eleanor rendered an account for his expenses in Brittany.^[9]

On 24 January 1344 Eleanor had a licence to marry again, the second husband being Thomas Dagworth, and the marriage to be at the manor she held at Vachery, Cranleigh, Surrey.^[4][14] Entries in the Close Rolls for 20 April 1344 refer to Thomas as having married Eleanor, countess of Ormond.^[15] Eleanor and Thomas Dagworth had one daughter:

• Eleanor, who married Walter FitzWalter^[1][2][16]

Thomas Dagworth died in 1350.^[1][2][16]

Later Life

In 1357 Eleanor was granted permission for an oratory for a year at her home in Cranleigh, Surrey.^[1][2]

In 1361 Eleanor was mentioned in the will of her brother Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, as Countess of Ormond.^[17][18]

In 1361 and 1362 Eleanor was one of those with Irish lands ordered to send deputies to Westminster to confer about Ireland.^[19][20]

On 20 May 1362 a recognisance of £1000 was levied on Eleanor and her son-in-law Gilbert Talbot: it was paid by Eleanor. It is not clear from the Calendars of the Close Rolls why the recognisance was demanded.^[21]

Death

Eleanor died on 7 October 1363.^[1][2] The Inquisition Post Mortem for Eleanor, late the wife of James le Botiller, late earl of Ormond, in 37 Edward III, concerned lands in Gloucestershire and Herefordshire. The Inquisition recorded that she had died on 7 October last (7 Oct 1363), and that James le Botiller her son, of full age, was her heir.^[22]

Her place of death is unknown. As her will was written at Shere, Surrey (see below), she may have died there.

Her place of burial is also unknown although there is a monument to James 1st Earl of Ormonde and his wife in the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Gowran, County Kilkenny: "Two uninscribed effigial monuments in low relief, attired in the costume of the fourteenth century, occupy early English niches in the north side aisle. Male figure occupies western niche, and both face towards the east".^[23]

1363 Will

Eleanor's will (dated at Shere, Surrey, 20 August 1363) was proved at Southwark on 18 October 1363. She was recorded as Eleanor, Countess of Ormond. She made a number of bequests to religious houses in England and Ireland. She also made other bequests including to her aunt Lady Mary, nun of Amesbury, daughter of the King of England; her cousin the Countess of Warenne; her daughter Talbot; her daughter Eleanor; her son Talbot; her son Walter; and her son the Earl of Ormond. It was then sworn before the "Baron of this Exchequer" on 13 July (presumably 1364) by her Executors James, Earl of Ormond, Gilbert Talbot and John de Kyngefeld.^[24]

Eleanor's Executors paid a debt of 800 marks to the Queen for the marriage of Lord Fitz Wauter, and 30l. for the rebuilding of Gumshulve mill; bequests to the friars of Oxenford, London, Cauntebrugg, Guldeford, Lewes, Shorham, Salesbury, Hereford, Nenaugh, Thorl', Carryk, Knoktofre, Telagh, Arclow, and Cloncurry, the convents of Luttle, Certeseye, and Notle, the nuns of Stratford and Aeorbury, and the altar of Shire, and to Lady Talbot, Richard Pollefowel, and others; funeral expenses and the expenses of Lady Fitz Walter, her daughter. One of the witnesses was Eleanor's son-in-law Sir Gilbert de Talbot.^[25]

Eleanor's goods were valued at £2912.^[9]

Research Notes

Birth Date

In 1857, Mary Anne Everett Green, in her not always accurate Lives of the Princesses of England from the Norman Conquest, suggested that she was born in early October 1304 at Knaresborough, Yorkshire.^[26] Marlyn Lewis postulates a birth date of before 17 October 1304, but this is not supported by the sources he gives.^[27] Wikipedia gives a birth date of 17 October 1304 with no good source.^[28]

In 2014 Brad Verity demonstrated that the 1304 birth date was really for Eleanor's brother Humphrey, who died in infancy.^[29] He suggested that the evidence pointed to her birth date being about 1310.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), , Vol. I, pp. 377-379, BUTLER 6, Google Books
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. II, pp. 47-48, BUTLER 7
3. ↑ William Dugdale. Monasticon Anglicanum, Vol. VI Part I, London, 1846, p135, Lanthony Cartulary, Internet Archive
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4} Brad Verity. The Children of Elizabeth, Countess of Hereford, Daughter of Edward I of England, in 'Foundations' (Journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy), Vol. 6, 2014, pp. 8-9
5. ↑ Melville M Bigelow, . "The Bohun Wills I", in 'The American Historical Review', vol. 1, no. 3, 1896, p. 430, JSTOR, accessed April 10, 2021
6. ↑ Andrews-Reading M (2014) The Will of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford & Essex, 1319. Foundations (2014) 6: 11-12.
7. ↑ Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edward III, AD 1327-1330, HMSO, 1891, p. 181, Internet Archive
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} Calendar of the Patent Rolls. Edward III, AD 1327-1330, p. 230. Internet Archive: "Pardon to Philip Lambriht for acquiring from Eleanor de Bohun, for life, York. the bailiwick of the forestry of the king's 'hay' of Hereford, held in chief, without licence ; and licence for him to hold the same for life."
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4} G E Cokayne. Complete Peerage, new edition, Vol. X, St Catherine Press, 1945, pp. 118-119
10. ↑ Calendar of the Patent Rolls. Edward III, AD 1327-1330, p. 340, Internet Archive
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1} Brad Verity. Descendants to the Third Generation of Eleanor, Countess of Ormond (c.1310-1363) in 'Foundations' (Journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy), Vol. 8, 2016, p. 76
12. ↑ Inquisition Post Mortem of James Le Botiller, Earl of Ormond. J. E. E. S. Sharp, E. G. Atkinson and J. J. O'Reilly, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 55', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 8, Edward III (London, 1913), pp. 117-127, entry 184, British History Online, accessed 19 August 2019
13. ↑ Calendar of the Close Rolls, Preserved in the Public Record Office. Edward III. AD 1337-1339, HMSO, 1900, pp. 341-342, Internet Arcive
14. ↑ G E Cokayne. Complete Peerage, new edition, Vol. IV, St Catherine Press, 1916, pp. 28-29, Internet Archive
15. ↑ 'Close Rolls, Edward III: April 1344', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 7, 1343-1346, ed. H C Maxwell Lyte (London, 1904), pp. 298-311, British History Online, accessed 10 April 2021
16. ↑ ^{16.0 16.1} Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry by Clifford J Rogers for "Dagworth, Thomas, first Lord Dagworth", online 2005, revised 2007
17. ↑ Nicholas Harris Nicolas. Testamenta Vetusta, Vol. I, Nichols and Son,1826, pp. 66-68, Will of Humphrey de Bohun, Internet Archive
18. ↑ Melville M Bigelow, Melville M. The Bohun Wills, II in 'The American Historical Review', vol. 1, no. 4, 1896, p. 635, JSTOR, accessed 10 Apr. 2021
19. ↑ 'Close Rolls, Edward III: March 1361', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 11, 1360-1364, ed. H C Maxwell Lyte (London, 1909), pp. 249-256, entries for 15 March 1561, British History Online, accessed 11 April 2021
20. ↑ 'Close Rolls, Edward III: February 1362', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 11, 1360-1364, ed. H C Maxwell Lyte (London, 1909), pp. 382-388, entries for 10 February 1362, British History Online, accessed 11 April 2021
21. ↑ 'Close Rolls, Edward III: May 1362', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 11, 1360-1364, ed. H C Maxwell Lyte (London, 1909), pp. 397-405, entries for 20 May 1362, British History Online, accessed 11 April 2021
22. ↑ M. C. B. Dawes, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 177', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 11, Edward III (London, 1935), pp. 363-382, entry 483, British History Online, accessed 14 August 2019
23. ↑ Rev A V Hogg The Collegiate Church of St Mary, Gowran, County Kilkenny, and Its Monuments, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Vol. 40, 1910, p.340-341, 344. Internet Archive.
24. ↑ Jessica Lutkin and Jonathan Mackman (translators). Will of Eleanor, Countess of Ormond, 1363 in 'Foundations', Journal of the Foundation for Medieval genealogy, Vol. 8, 2016, pp. 73-74. The original of this will may be located in Exchequer: Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer: Memoranda Roll, Trinity Term, 41 Edward III, Recorda, m.15; TNA Reference E 368/139.
25. ↑ 'Deeds: C.6801 - C.6900', in A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Volume 6, ed. H C Maxwell Lyte (London, 1915), pp. 389-401, entry C.6894, British History Online, accessed 19 August 2019
26. ↑ Mary Anne Everett Green. Lives of the Princesses of England from the Norman Conquest, Vol III, Longman, Brown, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1857, p42, Google Books
27. ↑ Marlyn Lewis. 'Our Royal, Titled, Noble and Commoner Ancestors', entry for Eleanor de Bohun
28. ↑ Wikipedia: Eleanor de Bohun, Countess of Ormonde
29. ↑ Brad Verity. The Children of Elizabeth, Countess of Hereford, Daughter of Edward I of England, in 'Foundations' (Journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy), Vol. 6, 2014, pp. 4-5

• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City: the author, 2011. See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.'
• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author, 2013. See also WikiTree's source page for ‘’Royal Ancestry’’.
• Verity, Brad. The Children of Elizabeth, Countess of Hereford, Daughter of Edward I of England in "Foundations' (Journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy), Vol. 6, 2014, especially pp. 8-9
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry by Clifford J Rogers for "Dagworth, Thomas, first Lord Dagworth", online 2005, revised 2007
• Wikipedia: Eleanor de Bohun, Countess of Ormonde
• Wikipedia: James Butler, 1st Earl of Ormond
• Wikipedia: Thomas Dagworth
• Graves, James. A Roll of the Proceedings of the King's Council in Ireland for a Portion of the Year of the Reign of Richard II 1392-93, London: HMSO, 1877, pp. ix-x, Google Books.

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was developed for the Magna Carta Project by Michael Cayley, finishing on 11 April 2021 and approved by Thiessen-117.

Eleanor (Bohun) Dagworth is in a trail between Gateway Ancestor Amy Wyllys and Magna Carta Surety Baron Henry de Bohun that was badged by the Magna Carta Project 11 Apr 2021. This trail is set out in the Magna Carta Trails section of Bridget Young's profile.

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