Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameEleanor Bohun 
Birth1366
Death2 Oct 1399, Barking Abbey, Essex, England
BurialWestminster Abbey, London, England
FatherHumphrey Bohun , 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th of Essex, 2nd of Northampton (1342-1372)
MotherJoan Fitzalan (<1351-1419)
Misc. Notes
Eleanor became a nun after her husband Thomas was murdered.
A character in Shakespeare's play, Richard II.
Eleanor says to John of Gaunt, after noting that he bears some complicity for the murder of her husband, Thomas of Woodstock: "Finds brotherhood in thee no sharper spur? Hath love in thy old blood no living fire?... Call it not patience, Gaunt, it is despair. In suff'ring thus thy brother to be slaughtered, Thou show'st the naked pathway to thy life, Teaching stern murder how to butcher thee." Richard II Act 1, scene 2
A character in Shakespeare's play, Richard II.
Eleanor says to John of Gaunt, after noting that he bears some complicity for the murder of her husband, Thomas of Woodstock: "Finds brotherhood in thee no sharper spur? Hath love in thy old blood no living fire?... Call it not patience, Gaunt, it is despair. In suff'ring thus thy brother to be slaughtered, Thou show'st the naked pathway to thy life, Teaching stern murder how to butcher thee." Richard II Act 1, scene 2
Spouses
Birth7 Jan 1355, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England
Death8 Sep 1397, Calais, France
BurialWestminster Abbey, London, England
FatherEdward III Plantagenet , King of England (1312-1377)
MotherPhilippa of Hainault (~1314-1369)
Marriage1374
ChildrenAnne (1383-1438)