Lady Beaumont
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
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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
:
Second marriage
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On 5 February 1345 at Ditton Church,
Stoke Poges
,
Buckinghamshire
, she married
Richard FitzAlan, 3rd Earl of Arundel
.
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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 1345, was required because his first and second wives were first cousins).
The children of Eleanor's second marriage were:
- Richard
(1346?1397), who succeeded as
Earl of Arundel
- John Fitzalan
(bef 1349 - 1379)
- Thomas Arundel
,
Archbishop of Canterbury
(c. 1353 - 19 February 1413)
- Lady Joan FitzAlan
(1347/1348 - 7 April 1419), married
Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford
- Lady Alice FitzAlan
(1350 - 17 March 1416), married
Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent
(Thomas Holand)
- Lady Mary FitzAlan (died 29 August 1396), married John Le Strange, 4th Lord Strange of Blackmere, by whom she had issue
- Lady Eleanor FitzAlan (1348 - d 29 Aug 1396) married Sir Anthony Browne.
Later life
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The
memorial
effigy
of Eleanor and Richard Fitzalan in
Chichester Cathedral
.
Eleanor died at
Arundel
and was buried at
Lewes Priory
in
Lewes
,
East 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 raised to Eleanor and her husband
Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel
, now in
Chichester Cathedral
, are the subject of the celebrated
Philip Larkin
poem "
An Arundel Tomb
."
Ancestry
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Ancestors of Eleanor of Lancaster
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Sources
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- Fowler, Kenneth.
The King's Lieutenant
, 1969
- Nicolas, Nicholas Harris
.
Testamenta Vetusta
, 1826.
- Weis, Frederick Lewis,
Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700
, Lines: 17-30, 21-30, 28-33, 97-33, 114-31
Notes
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- ^
The surname "Plantagenet" has been retrospectively applied to the descendants of
Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou
and
Empress Matilda
without historical justification: it is simply a convenient, if deceptive, method of referring to people who had, in fact, no surname. The first descendant of Geoffrey to use the surname was
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York
(father of both
Edward IV of England
and
Richard III of England
) who apparently assumed it about 1448.
- ^
Burke's Guide to the Royal Family
. Burke's Peerage Ltd., London. 1973. p.
196
.
ISBN
0220662223
.
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- ^
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, 1st series, Vol. 12, No. 321.
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also called Richard de Arundel