Eleanor CORNWALL [15740]

  General Notes:

The wife of Sir Richard Croft was Eleanor, the only daughter of Sir Edmund Cornewall, Baron of Burford by his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas de la Barre. (Barr's Court Station, Hereford, is named after their manor on which it stands.)

" Eleanor Cornwall married as her first husband Sir Hugh Mortimer of Kyre Wyard (a cadet of the house of Richard's Castle, whose monument is in Martley Church, Co. Worcester, and whose brother, Sir John Mortimer, married the Duchess of Suffolk) by whom she had a daughter and heyre, who was married unto Sir Thomas West, Knight, ancestor to the Lord Delaware now living, who had by her a daughter married to Sir Edward Guildford, Knight, who had issue by her Ann, the most beautiful lady wife unto the valiant Duke of Northumberland father and mother to the noble Ambrose, Earl of Warwick, and the Right Excellent Robert, Earl of Leicester, and to the Lady Gatheryne, wife of Henry, Lord Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon and to Lady Mary, wife of Sir Henry Sidney, Knight of the Garter, by whom she had issue Sir Philip Sidney, Knight, and Sir Robert Sidney, created Earl of Leycester ; and secondly (she married) Sir Richard Groft of Croft Castle. She was governess to the young Princes in Ludlow Castle and her tomb in Croft church is one of great beauty." (The House of Cornwall by the Earl of Liverpool and Compton Reade.)
It is said that at her death in 1520 at the age of nearly 90,
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Eleanor married Sir Richard CROFT Knt. of Croft Castle [15739] [MRIN: 5605]. (Sir Richard CROFT Knt. of Croft Castle [15739] died on 29 Jul 1509.)

Eleanor next married Sir Hugh MORTIMER Knt. [15741] [MRIN: 5606].