Birth of Eleanor Talbot, daughter of John Talbot, 1st earl of Shrewsbury, and Margaret Beauchamp at Blakemere, Shropshire. She is said to have entered probably some time after March 1461 into a clandestine marriage with Edward IV, which made his subsequent, also clandestine, marriage to Elizabeth Woodville bigamous.
John Ashdown-Hill, Eleanor – The Secret Queen, The History Press. ISBN 978-0752448664
Death of Eleanor Talbot probably at East Hall, Kenninghall, Norfolk, buried in the Carmelite Priory Church, Norwich.
Bibliography: John Ashdown-Hill, Eleanor: The Secret Queen. The History Press, Stroud, 2009. ISBN 978 0 75244866 4,
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Public statement outside St Paul’s Cathedral that Edward IV had been married to Eleanor Talbot when he married Elizabeth Woodville, declaring the children of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville illegitimate. This meant that Richard was the next legitimate heir to the throne. He was offered the crown by the Commons and became King Richard III.
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