father death_place death_date mother burial_place birth_date spouse article_title name
john talbot , 1st earl of shrewsbury norwich , england 30 june 1468 margaret beauchamp whitefriars , norwich c. 1436 sir thomas butler lady eleanor talbot
 lady eleanor talbot
lady eleanor talbot

lady eleanor talbot -lrb- c. 1436 - 30 june 1468 -rrb- , also known by her married name eleanor butler , was a daughter of john talbot , 1st earl of shrewsbury .
after the death of king edward iv of england it was claimed by his brother richard , the future richard iii , that she had had a legal precontract of marriage to edward , which invalidated the king 's later marriage to elizabeth woodville .
according to richard , this meant that he , rather than edward 's sons , was the true heir to the throne .
richard took the crown and imprisoned edward 's sons , who subsequently disappeared .
after the overthrow and death of richard at the hands of henry tudor , the precontract alleged by richard was presented as a fiction to justify richard 's usurpation of power and to cover his murder of the princes .
most subsequent historians have agreed with this view .
supporters of richard , however , have argued that the precontract was real and that it legitimated his ascent to the throne .
