Lady Eleanor Talbot
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We published “A mystery from 1468” nearly two months ago, pointing out that Lady Eleanor Talbot owned some land after 1461 and trying to explain how. It wasn’t from her first marriage or as a dowry. It wasn’t inherited. She couldn’t have afforded to buy it. It seems to have come from Edward IV but…
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Lady Eleanor Butler (born Talbot) probably knew that she was dying. In the early months of 1468, she transferred the lands that were hers to transfer to her sister, Elizabeth, Duchess of Norfolk. Where these lands came from is something of a mystery. John Ashdown-Hill has demonstrated that they were not dower lands, could not…
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I was going to write a review of this fascinating volume and may well do soon, but here is one by a lady whose stepbrother is a Clarence descendant: http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/9024951/royal-marriage-secrets-by-john-ashdown-hill-review/
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