Background
Her mother was Lady Joan Fitzalan, daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and his second wife Eleanor of Lancaster. Thomas was the youngest son of Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault.
Her mother was Lady Joan Fitzalan, daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and his second wife Eleanor of Lancaster. Thomas was the youngest son of Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault.
Together Eleanor and Thomas had five children: Humphrey, 2nd Earl of Buckingham (c 1381 – 2 September 1399) Anne of Gloucester (c 1383 – 1438) married (1st) Thomas Stafford, 3rd Earl of Stafford. (2nd) Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford. And (3rd) William Bourchier, Count of Eu.
Her son by 3rd marriage, John Bourchier, 1st Baron Berners, was grandfather of Richard Neville, 2nd Baron Latimer of Snape.
Richard"s granddaughter, Anne Dawney, was ancestress of Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States of America Joan (1384 – 16 August 1400) married Gilbert Talbot, 5th Lord Talbot (1383–1419). Died in childbirth. Isabel (12 March 1385/1386 – April 1402) Philippa (c 1388) Died young She became a nun sometime after 1397 at Barking Abbey.
She died on 3 October 1399 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.