Individual

Go to List of Family Names Go to List of People    < Previous Next >

Birth:          ABT 1311 Grismond Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales
Death:          11 Jan 1372 Arundel, Sussex, England
Burial:         Lewes, Sussex, England

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_of_Lancaster
Eleanor of Lancaster, Countess of Arundel (sometimes called Eleanor Plantagenet;[1] 
11 September 1318[2] – 11 January 1372) was the fifth daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl of 
Lancaster and Maud Chaworth.
First marriage and issue[edit]

Eleanor married first on 6 November 1330 John de Beaumont, 2nd Baron Beaumont (d. 
1342), son of Henry Beaumont, 4th Earl of Buchan, 1st Baron Beaumont (c.1288-1340) 
by his wife Alice Comyn (1289-3 July 1349). He died in a tournament on 14 April 1342. 
They had one son, born to Eleanor in Ghent whilst serving as lady-in-waiting to Queen 
Philippa of Hainault:
Henry Beaumont, 3rd Baron Beaumont, (4 April 1340 – 25 July 1369[3]), the first 
husband of Lady Margaret de Vere (d. 15 June 1398), the daughter of John de Vere, 
7th Earl of Oxford by his wife Maud de Badlesmere. Henry and Margaret had one son, 
John Beaumont, 4th Baron Beaumont KG (1361-1396).

Second marriage[edit]

On 5 February 1344 at Ditton Church, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, she married 
Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel.[4]

His previous marriage, to Isabel le Despenser, had taken place when they were 
children. It was annulled by Papal mandate as she, since her father's attainder and 
execution, had ceased to be of any importance to him. Pope Clement VI obligingly 
annulled the marriage, bastardized the issue, and provided a dispensation for his 
second marriage to the woman with whom he had been living in adultery (the 
dispensation, dated 4 March 1344/1345, was required because his first and second 
wives were first cousins).

The children of Eleanor's second marriage were:
1.Richard (1346–1397), who succeeded as Earl of Arundel
2.John Fitzalan (bef 1349 - 1379)
3.Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury (c. 1353 - 19 February 1413)
4.Lady Joan FitzAlan (1347/1348 - 7 April 1419), married Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl 
of Hereford
5.Lady Alice FitzAlan (1350 - 17 March 1416), married Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of 
Kent (Thomas Holand)
6.Lady Mary FitzAlan (died 29 August 1396), married John Le Strange, 4th Lord 
Strange of Blackmere, by whom she had issue
7.Lady Eleanor FitzAlan (1356 - before 1366)

Later life[edit]

Eleanor died at Arundel and was buried at Lewes Priory in Lewes, Sussex, England. 
Her husband survived her by four years, and was buried beside her; in his will Richard 
requests to be buried "near to the tomb of Eleanor de Lancaster, my wife; and I desire 
that my tomb be no higher than hers, that no men at arms, horses, hearse, or other 
pomp, be used at my funeral, but only five torches...as was about the corpse of my 
wife, be allowed."

The memorial effigies attributed to Eleanor and her husband Richard Fitzalan, 10th 
Earl of Arundel in Chichester Cathedral are the subject of the Philip Larkin poem "An 
Arundel Tomb."

Parents
PLANTAGENET Henry (1281 - 22 Sep 1345)
DE CHAWORTH Maud (2 Feb 1282 - 3 Dec 1322)

Siblings
PLANTAGENET Maud "of Lancaster" (ABT 1310 - 5 May 1377)
PLANTAGENET Eleanor (ABT 1311 - 11 Jan 1372)
PLANTAGENET Joan "of Lancaster" (ABT 1312 - 7 Jul 1349)
PLANTAGENET Mary "of Lancaster" (1320 - 1 Sep 1362)

Marriage To DE BEAUMONT John (1318 - 14 Apr 1342)
    m. 6 Nov 1330 

Notes

Parents
DE BEAUMONT Henry (ABT 1285 - 10 Mar 1339)
COMYN Alice (1289 - 3 Jul 1349)

Children by DE BEAUMONT John 1318 - 14 Apr 1342
BEAUMONT Maud (Matilda) (ABT 1342 - )

Marriage To FITZ ALAN Richard "Cropped Hat" (ABT 1313 - 24 Jan 1376)
    m. 5 Apr 1345 Dutton, England

Notes

Parents
FITZ ALAN Edmund (1 May 1283 - 17 Nov 1326)
DE WARREN Alice (15 Jun 1287 - 23 May 1338)

Children by FITZ ALAN Richard "Cropped Hat" ABT 1313 - 24 Jan 1376
FITZ ALAN Richard II (1346 - 21 Sep 1397)
FITZ ALAN John (ABT 1347 - 16 Dec 1379)
FITZ ALAN Alice (ABT 1348 - 17 Mar 1416)

Produced by Fzip 1.7 6/20/2017