Eleanor of Lancaster

Events

Date of Birth: about 1318.

The estimated date is given by Cawley.

Date of Death: 11 January 1372.

Place of Death: Arundel.

The date and place are given by the Complete Peerage (1:244). Her inquisitions post mortem (CIPM vol. 13, no. 239) give 12 January.

Place of Burial: Lewes.

The place is given by the Complete Peerage (1:244).

Relationships

Father: Henry (about 1280 - 1345), earl of Lancaster and of Leicester.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (1:244).

Mother: Maud Chaworth (1282 - about 1322).

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (1:244).

Spouse: John, lord Beaumont (died May 1342).

This relationship is given by Given-Wilson (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (1:244).

Spouse: Richard (II) FitzAlan (about 1313 - 1375/6), earl of Arundel and of Surrey. Married 5 February 1344/5 at Ditton.

This relationship is given by Given-Wilson (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (1:243-244).

Children (by John):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. There are inconsistencies in sources about the children. )

Henry Beaumont (about 1339/40 - 17 June 1368) married Margaret de Vere.

Children (by Richard):

Richard (III) FitzAlan, earl of Arundel and of Surrey, married Elizabeth, daughter of William de Bohun, earl of Northampton, in 1359.

John Arundel married Eleanor, daughter of Sir John Maltravers. John became marshal of England.

Thomas Arundel became archbishop of Canterbury.

Joan married Humphrey (IX) de Bohun in 1359.

Alice married Thomas Holland, earl of Kent, in 1365.

Mary.

Eleanor.

References

Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem Vol. 13, 44-47 Edward III

Cawley, Charles. “Eleanor” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Given-Wilson, C. “Fitzalan, Richard (II), third earl of Arundel and eighth earl of Surrey (c. 1313 - 1376)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn. September 2013).

Waugh, Scott L. “Henry of Lancaster, third earl of Lancaster and third earl of Leicester (c. 1280-1345)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn. May 2006).