Agnes of Eltham (1498–1530) was an English woman rumored to have been the illegitimate daughter of Princess Bridget of York.
[1][better source needed][2] Bridget of York was a nun and the daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville.
A Dominican house located sixteen miles outside of London in Kent, known to be Dartfort Priory, is described by Paul Lee, author of Nunneries, Learning and Spirituality in Late Medieval English Society: the Dominican Priory of Dartford, as one of the ten wealthiest and largest nunneries in England.
Agnes would have called the Priory home at a time when the Priory was also the home of Princess Bridget of York, the younger sister to Elizabeth, queen consort to Henry VII and daughter of Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville.
[5] Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville patronized Agnes by providing for her financial needs until her death in 1507.