Talk:Eleanor Brandon, Countess of Cumberland ... Eleanor Brandon Clifford was herself a legal heir to Henry VIII for only a very brief few months of her life. We have created a browser extension. Unfortunately the inscription on the right which might have provided a check (Margaret would have been aged 25â28 at the time of this portrait) has been truncated; although the Roman numerals of the year can apply only to 1565-8, the age of the sitter cannot be ascertained with any useful accuracy.
But thank you for this article on Eleanor Brandon. Lady Jane Grey or Dudley as she was by then was executed by her cousin Queen Mary whilst Catherine and Mary became in turn “heir presumptive”; each married for love and each in turn was imprisoned by their other cousin Elizabeth I, one starved to death and neither was allowed to see her husband again. She did not live long enough to become involved in the quarrel over the succession, but she passed her dangerous inheritance of royal blood on to her daughter.
He also had the common good sense not to get tangled up in the plots of the Duke of Northumberland who initially tried to arrange a marriage between his own son Guildford Dudley and Lady Margaret Clifford, Eleanor’s only surviving child. He’d previously married secretly in 1508 and had two daughters. Her place in line was taken by her daughter. National Portrait Gallery ^ The Tate Gallery 1984-86: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions Including Supplement to Catalogue of Acquisitions 1982-84, Tate Gallery, London 1988, pp.66-8. Child of Lady Eleanor Brandon and Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eleanor Clifford, Countess of Cumberland. Half sister of Sir Charles Brandon; Frances Brandon; Mary Brandon; Mary Brandon; Anne Brandon and 2 others; Henry Brandon, 2nd Duke of Suffolk and Charles Brandon, 3rd Duke of Suffolk « less, Lady Eleanor Brandon was born in 1519/20.3, She was the daughter of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Mary Rose Tudor.1, She married Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland, son of Henry Clifford, 1st Earl of Cumberland and Lady Margaret Percy, circa June 1537 at Southwark, London, England.1. The Cliffords had sold off some of their estates to pay for the rebuilding work and also to pay for the wedding. The Will of Henry VIII, excluding the argument that it was signed with a dry stamp rather than by hand, defined that Eleanor was in line to succeed her maternal uncle Henry VIII. At my lodge at Carlton, the 14th of February. Eleanor Clifford, Countess of Cumberland (1519 – 27 September 1547) was the third child and second daughter of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Mary Tudor, the former Queen consort of France. The coat of arms in the top left corner, which may have been added later, are the impaled arms (those of a husband and wife) of Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland, and his wife Lady Eleanor, daughter of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and Mary Tudor, Dowager Queen of France. To install click the Add extension button. Her paternal grandparents were Sir William Brandon and Elizabeth Bruyn. Daughter of Charles Brandon and Mary Rose Tudor, Queen consort of France Lady Eleanor Brandon (1519 – 27 September 1547) was the third child and second daughter of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Princess Mary Tudor, the Dowager Queen consort of France. Prince Edward became King Edward VI.
Eleanor mentions on of her elder half sisters in the only letter that survives from her: “Dear heart, I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like. As a result, the painting has been frequently exhibited in the past as a portrait of Lady Eleanor, regardless of the fact that she died in 1547, well before the date of this portrait. She was a younger sister of Henry Brandon, 1st Earl of Lincoln and Lady Frances Brandon, and an elder half-sister of Henry Brandon, 2nd Duke of Suffolk and Charles Brandon, 3rd Duke of Suffolk. Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Benedictine Monasteries in Alphabetical Order. She married Henry Clifford, 2nd earl of Cumberland (1517-January 2,1570) in 1537, by whom she had a daughter, Margaret (1540-September 29,1596) and two sons, Henry and Charles, who died young. There is not much known about her later life and she left only one letter: "Dear heart, After my most hearty commendations, this shall be to certify you that since your departure from me I have been very sick and at this present my water is very red, whereby I suppose I have the jaundice and the ague both, for I have none abide [no appetite for] meat and I have such pains in my side and towards my back as I had at Brougham, where it began with me first.