Eleanor Villiers^{[1, 2]}

• Name	Eleanor Villiers  [1]
  Gender	Female
  Person ID	I20461	DBH Twigs
  Last Modified	7 Jan 2026

  
  

  Father	Sir Edward Villiers,   b. 1585   d. 7 Sep 1626, Yougal, Co Cork, Ireland (Age 41 years)
  Mother	Viscountess Grandison of Limerick Lady Barbara St John,   b. Est 1590, Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, England d. Sep 1672 (Age 82 years)
  Marriage	6 Oct 1610	Stanford on Avon, Leicestershire, England   [1, 3]
  Family ID	F7256	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Eleanor, a maid of honour at Queen Henrietta Maria’s court, spent time in the Tower of London in 1633 following her affair with the Queen’s favourite Henry Jermyn. The Villiers family called upon the King to force Jermyn to marry the pregnant girl and both were sent to the Tower where Eleanor admitted there had been no promise of marriage between them.

  
  

• Sources

  [S539] http://lydiardhouse.blogspot.co.uk/2012_01_01_archive.html. [S797] DBHT (exported from Ancestry).ged. Record originated in... [S7] Find My Past.