Elizabeth Talbot, Duchess of Norfolk

Elizabeth de Mowbray, Duchess of Norfolk (née Talbot; c. December 1442/January 1443 – between 6 November 1506 and 28 June 1507) was a daughter of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and his wife Lady Margaret Beauchamp. Her exact date of death is uncertain, and based only on the references to "her will dated the 6th of November, 1506, which was proved the 28th of June, 1507" ^[1]

Family

Lady Elizabeth Talbot was a daughter of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and his wife Lady Margaret Beauchamp.^[2] Her older sister was Lady Eleanor Talbot, believed to have been King Edward IV's wife or mistress.^[3] Elizabeth's maternal grandparents were Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick and Elizabeth de Berkeley. One of her brothers was John Talbot, 1st Viscount Lisle, a nobleman and soldier.

Marriage

She was married to John de Mowbray. He succeeded his father as Duke of Norfolk in 1461, making her the Duchess of Norfolk by marriage. They had only one surviving daughter, who inherited the Warwick estates.

Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk (10 December 1472 – 1481), married Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, a son of Edward IV of England and one of the Princes in the Tower. Anne died at the age of 8.^[4]

Ancestry

References

^ Charles Botolph Joseph, Lord Mowbray, The History of the Noble House of Stourton, of Stourton, in the County of Wilts (Elliot Stock, 1899) p.803
^ a b c Richmond 2004.
^ a b c d e f Pollard 2004.
^ Weir 2008, p. 141.

Works cited

Pollard, A.J. (2004). "Talbot, John, first earl of Shrewsbury and first earl of Waterford (c.1387–1453)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/26932. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Richmond, Colin (2004). "Mowbray, John (VII), fourth duke of Norfolk (1444–1476)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/19455. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Weir, Alison (2008). Britain's Royal Families, The Complete Genealogy. Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0-09-953973-5.