Eleanor St Clere was the heiress of a substantial number of manors and grandmother of the Tudor courtier Sir John Gage KG.
Records of the investigations that took place after then are not totally consistent about Eleanor’s age but indicate that she was the second of the daughters and about 11 or 12 years old when her father died.
It is quite feasible that the marriage took place in 1438, when John (the son) and his widowed mother conveyed their lands to trustees.
[3] John and Eleanor were definitely married by 16 December 1445, when the properties that had been held by her father were released by the King who had evidently asserted his rights despite Thomas' attempts to frustrate them.
[4] Sir John and Eleanor were the parents of: A deed dated 8 July 1446 set out the agreed partition of Thomas St Clere’s lands between his three daughters along with their respective husbands.