Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester

Eleanor Cobham
Duchess of Gloucester
Eleanor and her husband Humphrey in a 1431 illustration
Bornc. 1400
Sterborough Castle, Surrey, English
Died7 July 1452 (aged c. 52)[1]
Beaumaris Castle, Anglesey, Wales [1]
SpouseHumphrey, Duke of Gloucester
(m. bet. 1428–1431; ann. c. 1441)
FatherSir Reynold Cobham
MotherEleanor Culpeper

Eleanor Cobham (c.1400 – 7 July 1452) was an English noblewoman, first the mistress and then the second wife of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester. In 1441 she was forcibly divorced and sentenced to life imprisonment for treasonable necromancy, a punishment likely to have been politically motivated.[1]