Past Life Patterns -Lady Eleanor Talbot
Can we inherit emotional ill health and bad luck from a past life?
Betrayal and Abandonment
There are three leading medieval characters in ‘Past Lives That Matter - how to remember, heal & transform them.’ In my first blog in this series I told you the story of a radical nun, Julian of Norwich. Today, I will tell you a little about Rose’s second incarnation, born not long afterwards;
Lady Eleanor Talbot of Norwich, Norfolk
The Secret Queen b.1436-died 30 June 1468
Do you find health issues and relationship problems re-occurring in your life? There could be a shocking but little-known reason for this. I discovered this over the last eight years when researching and following keys and clues to the past lives of Rose, the main character in my book.
Lady Eleanor Talbot was a widow who became secretly betrothed to King Edward IV not long after he came to the throne in 1461. 1961 is Rose's year of birth, so this is a numerology synchronicity that Rose would typically pick up on.
Edward was a tall and very good looking man and wore his splendid clothes well. He also knew how to charm the ladies. It was well known that he had three upper class affairs, some unnamed due to their aristocracy. Eleanor was the religious one of the three. Evidently she would not jump in his bed unless it was consecrated in the eyes of God. Edward was a crafty fellow and promised her his heart, but had arranged their pre-contract in secret with no witnesses except for the Bishop that presided over their clandestine ceremony. The passion they shared seemed to dwindle and before too long he had jilted her, vowed her to secrecy and married Elizabeth Woodville. Again, knowing he was committing bigamy, this tryst was conducted in secret, but fortunately for her, was witnessed by Elizabeth’s mother.
We don’t know the reason that Edward lost interest in Eleanor, apart from his fickle nature, but we can assume she may have been heartbroken. She had already lost her first husband and now she was being abandoned by the second and she was not more than 25. This is one clue to her emotional health that may have led to her physical demise. Also keeping such a secret, especially on pain of death or at the very least losing her home and means of living, was not good for her mental health.
We presume that Edward bribed Eleanor to keep her quiet, by bequeathing her properties in Savernake Forest. Rose noticed that Savernake Walk is the place that her mother and step-father live. A location name synchronicity. This only came to light upon Eleanor’s death when it was revealed in her will, which still survives today in the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College in Cambridge. Her psychic friend Karen had channelled the name Parker for her previously, but she had not connected the dots to this name synchronicity until the important discovery of this library. We know these riches did not come from her family or previous marriage, which were all meticulously listed. Unusually, these particular properties were on the King’s land!
Back in 1464 her successor, Elizabeth Woodville aka The White Queen, was oblivious to this melodrama when she married Edward. Eleanor died four years later taking her secret to the grave. The King must have breathed a sigh of relief and they had become a devoted couple. Many years and seven children later, the King died unexpectedly in 1483 when he was 40. Then the dark secret of his prior betrothal to Eleanor Talbot came out of the woodwork. This was courtesy of Robert Stillington, Bishop of Bath and Wells, who had conducted the secret tryst with Eleanor all those years ago. What we do know is that Eleanor died around the age of thirty-two in Norwich, in June 1468 and a young child was buried next to her, therefore there was no legitimate heir to the throne.
I quote from Dr John Ashdown-Hill’s website: “it is significant that Eleanor Talbot was a very religious lady. Indeed, towards the end of her short life, she became linked as a lay woman to the Carmelite Order in Norwich – where her body was buried in 1468, and where the CF2 bones were found in the 1950s.”
Another synchronicity was that Rose had led a very religious life until she was 32. Likewise, Eleanor (who died at 32) had been devoted to the church and had kept the secret of her engagement to the fickle king at his behest and became an oblate nun at Whitefriars Monastery, next to the River Wensum in Norwich. Rose had worked on that very spot and the office block is called Carmelite House, Whitefriars, a nod to the monks.
This is a location synchronicity, which seemed to happen often with her past lives. Just nearby, there is a restored medieval undercroft dedicated to Lady Eleanor Talbot . It is assumed that she died rapidly of the plague (the rest of her family lived long healthy lives), but she did have time to write her will and assign everything in her inheritance to her sister Elizabeth, before her death. This was a common practice amongst aristocratic women, in order to keep the females in their families financially secure.
Taking both the emotional nature of the situation and the repeating waves of the Black Death in the Middle Ages into consideration, we can imagine the distress that Eleanor would have lived through in her last days when she and her child were mortally sick. She must have had many regrets around her involvement with the King and felt truly unloved and abandoned in her final moments in quarantine. Rose felt that this past life trauma was still affecting her down through the timelines into her present incarnation.
The pattern that kept repeating was abandonment, first when her father left the family at age seven, never to be seen for twenty years. Then when she left the religious cult that her mother and step-father were devoted to and was permanently shunned. Further to this her half-brother had also cut her off.
Rose lacked a foundation of trust and had not been able to settle in a long-term relationship over the years. Then not long ago she had her heart broken by someone who said he loved her but had really no intention of being with her long-term. Within a few weeks, her health collapsed with chronic fatigue and she found herself grieving the loss of the love she had found so exhilarating and passionate. She had been hit by the pandemic and her health deteriorated yet further with not one, but two doses of the virus. Her immune system had been weakened by her emotional state and left her vulnerable, as Eleanor had been, to the ravages of the Black Death pestilence. Life was repeating itself.
Once Rose awoke to this realisation, she worked at understanding the release work she needed to do in order to break the pattern of mistrust, heal and move forward. She wasn’t ready to die, not even in a figurative sense, but wanted to thrive again and find new and enduring love. She developed a protocol taking herself through meditation, then visualising the person facing her. Looking into their eyes, she then imagined saying to them that “this relationship has taught us what we needed to know, I thank you for your love, but this no longer serves us. From now on, the vows and promises we made shall be broken.” She saw in her mind’s eye a huge pair of scissors with which she cut any cords that were attached between them and pulled them out by the roots, filling the gaps with golden white light and sealing them shut. Then she invoked ArchAngel Michael’s sword of the violet flame to cut these contracts into pieces and burn them in a nearby well filled with the light of the violet flame, where they were consumed and purified to the good of all.
Slowly, Rose felt that she could move forward and leave the past behind her. The test of whether she had truly broken the patterns of these past experiences would be when she met someone new. This time though, she would be aware of any repeating behaviour and be more cautious in her progress. She would allow time in order to see if there was steadfastness, loyalty and long-lasting love, before she committed her heart for what she hoped would be forever.
This thought spurred her on and it became her wish that others would find solace in discovering their own past life patterns of ill health and trauma and begin their own healing journey, as she had.
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Of course, you could always just ask a person's emotional body. Physical clues satisfy the mental/rational side of self. But healing from past-life issues is located in the emotional body. Past lives become real for us when we re-experience the emotions of those lives. Healing those emotions involves finding the self-judgments and/or vows attached to the emotions and releasing them.