Eleanor FitzHugh - Thomas Tunstall

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Woodman Mark Lowes Dickinson, OBE sent a message with this question addressed to the Curator Private User, which I'm posting here for public discussion:

I am contacting you about this profile: Eleanor de Tunstall

I've not completed the merge because of your curator note which states flatly that she was not married to Thomas Tunstall. The Complete Peerage and Wikipedia say that she was (there's even a date for the marriage: 02 1427). Personally I would have thought that if there was any doubt about any of her three alleged marriages it would have been to Henry Bromflete: Burke (1883) identified that Eleanor Fitzhugh as being daughter of William Lord Fitzhugh although later research seems to have confirmed that she was the daughter of Henry.

What are you reasons for thinking that the Tunstall marriage is false?

Here is the Master Profile for Sir Thomas Tunstall, Kt., of Thurland and a listed spouse Eleanor FitzHugh (Unknown Profile).

c-tag Pam Wilson (on hiatus)

Eleanor Fitzhugh as being married to Henry 1st lord Vessy Bromflete Born 1412 @ she was also married to Philip Darcy 6th Lord born 1398

My problem is with conflicting information from http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/FITZHUGH.htm#Eleanor FITZHUGH1

Cut and pasted:
Eleanor FITZHUGH
Notes: wife of Sir Thomas De Tunstall, a knight, and the feudal lord of Thurland Castle. In Browning's "Americans of Royal Descent," the following is listed with reference to his coat of arms: "Arms, Sa., 3 Cock's Combs, Ar., 2 and 1. Crest, a Cock, Ar., combed, etc., Or; in beak a scroll with motto, "Droit." Browning also wrote: "He served, 'armed and attended,' by indenture with Henry V, dated 29 Apr, 1415, as a knight in France, and was at Agincourt, and was rewarded with the honor of Ponthieu... There was an effigy of him in St. Michael's (St. John the Baptist), Tunstall.
Father: Henry FITZHUGH FITZHENRY (2° B. Fitzhugh of Ravensworth)
Mother: Joan SCROPE (B. Fitzhugh of Ravensworth)
Married: Thomas TUNSTALL of Thurland Castle (Sir Knight) (son of Thomas Tunstall and Isabel Harrington)
Children:
1. Alice TUNSTALL (m. Thomas Parr)
2. Richard TUNSTALL of Thurland Castle (Sir Knight) (m.1 Elizabeth Frank - m.2 Eleanor ?)
3. William TUNSTALL
4. Thomas TUNSTALL (m. Margaret Pudsey) (grand-Father of Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of Durham)
5. Margaret TUNSTALL (m. Ralph Pudsay)
6. Joan TUNSTALL (m.1 Roger Ward - m.2 William Stapleton)

The only dates are for Thomas Parr, Alice's husband, b. 1411, d. 1464

I’ve posted a document from Plantagenet Ancestry

https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000078897578951&

Identifying Alianor FitzHugh as mother of Joan Tunstall.

Based on that & other notes I would like to remove “speculative” from her profile name.

Opinions ?

Might mention that the Curator's Box claims that she had a daughter named Margaret in each of her 3 marriages. Only Margery Darcy and Margaret Bromflete are listed, so where's the 3rd?

With Richardson, Cokayne & Burke's, et al, Eleanor has a better pedigree than most profiles that aren't labeled speculative

Yes, we should put together a more complete child list for the profile. I’ve removed the “speculative.”

Here’s a Marriages / parents reference:

http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/fitzhugh1321.htm?z...

Henry [FitzHugh], 3rd Baron FitzHugh, KG
born c. 1358 mar. Elizabeth de Grey

3. Eleanor FitzHugh (d. 30 Sep 1457), mar. (1) as his first wife Philip [Darcy], 6th Baron Darcy de Knayth, (2) Sir Thomas Tunstall, of Thurland, co. Lancaster, and (3) as his second wife Henry [Bromflete], 1st Baron Vesci, and had issue by her first husband

The interesting thing is that most of the sources quote Douglas Richardson, yet they don't agree.

Geni About Me: 8 children
Marriage 1 - Sir Philip Darcy of Knaith - 2 daughters
......................Elizabeth m. Sir James Strangeways
......................Margery* m. Sir John Conyers
* Wikipedia refers to her as Margaret

Marriage 2 - Sir Thomas Tunstall - 3 sons/2 daughters**
......................Sir Richard KG
......................Thomas
......................William
......................Elizabeth/Isabel m. Sir Simon Norwich
......................Joan m. 1. Sir Roger Warde, 2. Sir William Stapleton
** WikiTree adds 2 kids: Alice Parr (Tunstall) & John de Tunstall

Marriage 3 - Sir Henry Bromflete - 1 daughter
......................Margaret m. 1. Sir John, 9th Lord Clifford, 2. Sir Lancelot Threlkeld

Some sources only give her 5 children & some only 3, omitting the Tunstall progeny.
WikiTree cites Richardson & "Lewis, M....Eleanor FitzHugh 12935, b. Ca. 1391, d. 30 Sep 1457 (there are 3 different birth dates for Eleanor)"

Margaret / Mary Tunstall (m. Ralph Pudsay) (as quoted on Tudor place)

She's actually controversial. RD (2004) has her as a daughter of Thomas Tunstall, MCA (Richardson) her as sister & wrote he's advised Boyd of the correction. So Eleanor "lost" one of her Margarets.

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