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Eleanor Beaufort (1431–16 Aug 1501) was the daughter of Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset and his second wife, Lady Eleanor Beauchamp, Duchess of Somerset. She was one of the sisters of the 3rd and 4th Dukes of Somerset.

Eleanor first married James Butler, 1st Earl of Wiltshire and 4th Earl of Ormond, K.G., on around April 1458. In 1453, her husband was Lieutenant of Ireland. When confilct broke out, he fought on the Lancastrian side. He was present at the 1st battle of St. Albans in 1455, Mortimer's Cross in 1461 and at the battle of Towton. Ormond also held the post of councilor to the Lancastrian Prince of Wales. After Towton he was a proscribed traitor. He was captured the same year at Cockermouth and executed there in 1461.

Eleanor next married Sir Robert Spencer in about 1470. They had two daughters,
 * Catherine Spencer (1477-1542), who married Henry Algernon Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland, and
 * Margaret Spencer (c 1472) who married Thomas Carey.