'Seeking the genes of Lady Eleanor Talbot': 1998 article

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'Seeking the genes of Lady Eleanor Talbot': 1998 article

Legg inn av Gjest » 25 okt 2005 19:42:24

As mentioned in the archives, the Genealogists' Magazine, Vol 26 No 3
published in September 1998, contains an interesting article by John
Ashdown-Hill, seeking to trace the mitochondrial DNA of Lady Eleanor
Talbot (c1436-1468), to whom King Edward IV was alleged to have been
pre-contracted.

Mr Ashdown-Hill was seeking to identify other matrilineal descendants
from Lady Eleanor's matrilineal line in order to test his hypothesis
that bones found at Norwich were Lady Eleanor's.

The latest he was able to identify was one George Littleton of Grovely,
c1528-1600 (who of course possessed the required lineage but could not
transmit it). George Littleton was, through the Talbot, Paston and
Beaufort families, a matrilineal great-great grandson of Edmund, Duke
of Somerset (d 1455) and his wife Eleanor Beauchamp, sister of Lady
Eleanor Talbot's mother.

I did some idle digging at the time, and came up with some matrilineal
descendants of a female-line granddaughter of the said Duke & Duchess,
viz Katherine, Countess of Northumberland, who were born between 1560
and 1573, but could not show that they were still living so late as
1600, nor did I get past that generation.

I have wonder since - does anyone know if Mr Ashdown-Hill was
successful in tracing this line further - or is anyone up for the
sport?

Michael

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