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Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester

English noblewoman, mistress and convicted sorceress · Historical Figures · Lived 1400 to 1452 · aged 52

Eleanor Cobham 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.

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Historical Figures
Type
Historical Figure
Status
Deceased
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Lived 1400 to 1452 · aged 52