Eleanor Clifford | |
|---|---|
| Countess of Cumberland | |
 Portrait by Hans Eworth of either Lady Eleanor or her daughter, Lady Margaret. | |
| Born | 1519 Westhorpe Hall, Westhorpe, Suffolk, Kingdom of England |
| Died | 27 September 1547 (aged 27–28) Brougham Castle, Westmorland, Kingdom of England |
| Buried | Skipton, Yorkshire |
| Noble family | Brandon |
| Spouse(s) | |
| Issue | Margaret Stanley, Countess of Derby Henry Clifford Charles Clifford |
| Father | Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk |
| Mother | Mary Tudor |
Eleanor Clifford, Countess of Cumberland, also known as Elyanore Clifford[1] (née Lady Eleanor Brandon; b. 1519 – d. 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.[2] She was a younger sister of Lady Frances Brandon and an elder sister of Henry Brandon, 1st Earl of Lincoln. She was also a younger paternal half-sister of Lady Anne Brandon and Lady Mary Brandon from her father's second marriage. After her mother's death in 1533, her father remarried to Catherine Willoughby and Eleanor became an elder half-sister of Henry Brandon, 2nd Duke of Suffolk and Charles Brandon, 3rd Duke of Suffolk.
Her paternal grandparents were Sir William Brandon and Elizabeth Bruyn. Her maternal grandparents were Henry VII of England and his queen consort Elizabeth of York. She was thus a niece of Henry VIII.
- ^ Tudorsociety.com Transcript of Henry VIII's will, copied from: The King is Dead by Susannah Lipscomb, published 2016.
- ^ Cokayne, George (1982). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant. Vol. III. Gloucester England: A. Sutton. p. 567. ISBN 978-0-904387-82-7.