{{short description|English noble}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox noble |name =Eleanor de Braose |birth_date =c.1228 |birth_place = |death_date =1251 |spouse =Humphrey de Bohun |issue =Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford<br />Gilbert de Bohun<br />Alianore de Bohun<br />Margery de Bohun |father =William de Braose |mother =Eva Marshal |noble family = de Braose |}} '''Eleanor de Braose''' (c. 1228–1251) was a Cambro-Norman noblewoman and a wealthy co-heiress of her father, who was the powerful Marcher lord William de Braose, and of her mother, Eva Marshal, a co-heiress of the Earls of Pembroke. Her husband was Humphrey de Bohun, heir of the 2nd Earl of Hereford, by whom she had children, including Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford and Gilbert de Bohun.
==Family== Eleanor was born in about 1228.{{citation needed|date=November 2012}} She was the youngest of four daughters{{sfn|Dugdale|1894|p=134}} and a co-heiress of the powerful Marcher lord William de Braose, and Eva Marshal,<ref>{{harvnb|Cokayne|2000a|p=462}}.</ref> both of whom held considerable lordships and domains in the Welsh Marches and Ireland.{{citation needed|date=November 2012}} Eva was one of the daughters of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke by Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke, daughter of Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, "Strongbow".<ref name=Dugdale-134-135>{{harvnb|Cokayne|2000|p=22}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Dugdale|1894|pp=134,135}}</ref> Eleanor's three sisters were Isabella de Braose, Maud de Braose, Baroness Mortimer, and Eva de Braose, wife of William de Cantelou.<ref name=Dugdale-134>{{harvnb|Dugdale|1894|p=134}}.</ref>
While Eleanor was a young girl, her father - known to the Welsh as ''Gwilym Ddu'' (''Black William'') - was hanged on the orders of Llewelyn the Great, Prince of Wales for alleged adultery with Llewelyn's wife, Joan, Lady of Wales.<ref>''Brut y Tywysogion'' (Williams), p. 319.</ref> Following the execution, her mother held de Braose lands and castles in her own right.{{citation needed|date=November 2012}}
==Marriage and issue== On an unknown date after August 1241, Eleanor became the first wife of Humphrey de Bohun,<ref name=Dugdale-134/> the son of Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford and Maud de Lusignan. The marriage took place after the death of Humphrey's mother, Maud.<ref name=Dugdale-134-135/>
Humphrey and Eleanor had the following children: * Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford (c.1249- 31 December 1298), married Maud de Fiennes, daughter of Enguerrand II de Fiennes and Isabelle de Conde, by whom he had issue, including Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford.<ref> {{harvnb|Cokayne|2000a|p=463}}.</ref> * Gilbert de Bohun (b.1251 - 1297) married Margarite and had issue, Gilbert (b.1302 d. 1381). His brother granted him Eleanor's lands in Ireland.<ref>{{harvnb|Cokayne|2000a|p=463}} footnote g, citing Lambeth Library, Carew MS, no. 613, fol. 66.</ref> * Eleanor de Bohun (died 20 February 1314, buried Walden Abbey). She married Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby on 26 June 1269. They had at least two sons and one daughter.<ref>{{harvnb|Richardson|2004|p=307}}</ref> *Margery de Bohun (fl.1265 – 1280) married Theobald de Verdun and had a son also Theobald de Verdun, both of whom were hereditary Constables of Ireland.<ref>{{harvnb|Richardson|2004|p=734}}</ref>
Eleanor died in 1251,{{citation needed|date=November 2012}} and was buried at Llanthony Secunda Priory.<ref>''Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica'', Vol. I (1834), XX, p. 168.</ref> She passed on her considerable possessions in the Welsh Marches to her eldest son Humphrey.<ref>{{harvnb|Cokayne|2000a|p=464}}</ref> Her husband survived her, married Joan de Quincy,<ref>''Inquisitions Post Mortem'', Vol. I, Henry III, 587, p. 187.</ref> and died in 1265.<ref>{{harvnb|Dugdale|1894|p=135}}</ref>
==Notes== {{Reflist|30em}}
==References== *{{Citation |last=Cokayne |first=George E |authorlink=George Cokayne |title=The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant |edition=new, 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes|location=Gloucester, U.K.|publisher=Alan Sutton Publishing |year=2000 |volume=I |page=22}} *{{Citation |last=Cokayne |first=George E |authorlink=George Cokayne |title=The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant |edition=new, 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes|location=Gloucester, U.K.|publisher=Alan Sutton Publishing |year=2000a |volume=VI |page=462}} *{{Citation|last=Dugdale |first=William, Sir |authorlink=William Dugdale |year=1894|title=Monasticon Anglicanum |volume=6 |chapter=Lanthony Abbey, Gloucestershire: Num. II: ''Fundatorum Progenies'' |publisher= T.G. March |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=WmtPAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA134 134], 135}} *{{Citation|last=Richardson |first=Douglas |title=Plantagenet Ancestry |location=Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. |publisher=Genealogical Publishing Company |year=2004 |page=734}}
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