Eleanor de Segrave

Events 

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Nicholas de Segrave.

This relationship is recorded in the Book of Lacock.

Mother: Maud [Lucy].

The Complete Peerage (11:605) and Jewell give Maud as Nicholas’s wife.

Spouse: Sir Alan la Zouche.

The Complete Peerage (12B:936) states that Alan “is said to” have married Eleanor, citing Nichols (3:635). The relationship is recorded in The Book of Lacock, probably written in the mid-14th century, although it is a late 16th century copy which survives.

Children: 

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Ellen la Zouche (born about 1288) married (1) Nicholas de Saint Maur; married (2) Sir Alan de Cherleton.

Maud la Zouche (born about 1290) married Robert de Holand.

Elizabeth la Zouche (born about 1294).

Evidence

from The Book of Lacock (appendix, p. v):

De Stephano, 2 filio, et ejus sequela.

Stephanus Lungespee sub rege H.iii. Justiciarius in Hibernia et Dominus captialis erat ordinatus. Duxit in uxorem Emelinam Comitissam de Ulton, per quam erat Comes de Ulton; genuit ex ea (1) Elam de la Souch, quam duxit Rogerus de la Souch, de qua Alanus de la Souch, qui duxit in uxorem Alianorum filiam Nicholai de Segrave, de qua genuit Elam, Matildam, Elizabetham…

References

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Nichols, John. The History and Antiquities of the Count of Leicester (1795-1815).