Background
She was born between the years 1011 and 1013 in Normandy, the daughter of Richard and his wife, Judith of Brittany.
She was born between the years 1011 and 1013 in Normandy, the daughter of Richard and his wife, Judith of Brittany.
King William I of England. In 1017, when Eleanor was still a child, her mother Judith died. Duke Richard married secondly Poppa of Envermeu, by whom he had two more sons.
Judith (1033 – 5 March 1094), married firstly Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria, by whom she allegedly had issue.
And secondly Welf I, Duke of Bavaria, by whom she had surviving issue. Eleanor died in Flanders sometime after 1071.
Despite her common nomenclature it is not certain that Eleanor was her proper name.