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Edmund "Crouchback" 1st Earl of Lancaster, Earl of Leicester
(1245-1296)
Blanche of Artois
(Between 1245/1250-1302)
Sir Patrick de Chaworth 5th Baron of Chaworth, Lord of Kidwelly
(Abt 1260-1283)
Isabella de Beauchamp
(Abt 1252-Bef 1306)
Henry 3rd Earl of Lancaster, Earl of Leicester
(Abt 1281-1345)
Maud de Chaworth Countess of Lancaster & Countess of Leicester
(1282-Bef 1322)
Eleanor of Lancaster
(Abt 1318-1372)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. John de Beaumont Earl of Buchan, 2nd Lord Beaumont

2. Sir Richard "Copped Hat" FitzAlan 10th Earl of Arundel and Warenne

Eleanor of Lancaster 2 3

  • Born: Abt 1318, England
  • Marriage (1): John de Beaumont Earl of Buchan, 2nd Lord Beaumont on 6 Nov 1330 1
  • Marriage (2): Sir Richard "Copped Hat" FitzAlan 10th Earl of Arundel and Warenne on 5 Feb 1345 in Ditton Church, Stokes Poges, Buckinghamshire, England
  • Died: 11 Jan 1372, Arundel Castle, West Sussex, England about age 54
  • Buried: Lewes Priory, Lewes, Sussex, England

   Another name for Eleanor was Eleanor Plantagenet.

  Research Notes:

Second wife of Richard (FitzAlan) d'Arundel.

From Wikipedia - Eleanor of Lancaster :

Eleanor of Lancaster (sometimes called Eleanor Plantagenet 1) (about 1315 - 11 January 1372 ) was born as the fifth daughter of Henry, Earl of Lancaster (c. 1281-1345) and his wife Maud Chaworth (1282-1322).


First marriage and offspring
Sometime between September 1 and November 6 , 1330 , she married John de Beaumont, 2nd Lord Beaumont , son of Henry Beaumont, 4th Earl of Buchan (c. 1288 - 1340) and his wife Alice Comyn (c. 1291-1349). They had two children:
Henry Beaumont, 3rd Lord Beaumont , born 1340
Matilda Beaumont (died July 1467), married Hugh de Courtenay
Eleanor was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Philippa , and was in service to her in Ghent when her son Henry was born. John de Beaumont died in a tournament on 14 April 1342 .

Second marriage
On 5 February 1344 at Ditton Church , Stoke Poges , Buckinghamshire , she married Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel (9th Earl of Arundel per Ancestral Roots), 4th Earl of Surrey, known by the soubriquet of "Copped Hat", Justiciar of North Wales, Governor of Carnarvon Castle, Admiral of the West.2

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:
Richard (1346-1397), who succeeded as Earl of Arundel
John Fitzalan (bef 1349-1379)
Thomas Arundel , Archbishop of York (c. 1345-February 19 , 1413 )
Joan Fitzalan (bef. 1351-April 17 , 1419 ), married Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford
Alice Fitzalan (1352 -March 17 , 1416 ), married Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent (Thomas Holand)

Eleanor died at Arundel and was buried at Lewes Priory in Lewes , Sussex , England. Her husband 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."

Sources
Fowler, Kenneth. The King's Lieutenant, 1969
Nicolas, Nicholas Harris. Testamenta Vetusta, 1826.
Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Lines: 17-30, 21-30, 28-33, 97-33, 114-31

Notes
1The 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.
2also called Richard de Arundel.


Eleanor married John de Beaumont Earl of Buchan, 2nd Lord Beaumont, son of Henry Beaumont 4th Earl of Buchan and Alice Comyn, on 6 Nov 1330.1 (John de Beaumont Earl of Buchan, 2nd Lord Beaumont was born in 1318 and died on 14 Apr 1342.)


Eleanor next married Sir Richard "Copped Hat" FitzAlan 10th Earl of Arundel and Warenne, son of Sir Edmund FitzAlan 9th Earl of Arundel and Alice de Warenne, on 5 Feb 1345 in Ditton Church, Stokes Poges, Buckinghamshire, England. (Sir Richard "Copped Hat" FitzAlan 10th Earl of Arundel and Warenne was born about 1313, died on 24 Jan 1376 in Arundel, West Sussex, England and was buried in Lewes Priory, Lewes, Sussex, England.)


  Marriage Notes:

Wikipedia

Sources


1 <i>Wikipedia.org</i>, Alice Comyn.

2 <i>Wikipedia.org</i>, Eleanor of Lancaster.

3 Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, <i>Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700</i> (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Line 17-30.


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