Elizabeth Arundel

Elizabeth is usually called “Elizabeth FitzAlan” in secondary sources.

Events

Date of Birth: before 1375.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Aged 40 and upwards in 1415 (Complete Peerage 1:253), when she was eldest coheir to her brother Thomas (Complete Peerage 9:604 fn d). The birth date of her first son suggests she must have been born at least a few years before 1375.

Date of Death: 8 July 1425.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date comes from the Complete Peerage (9:604 fn h), which cites Ch. Inq.p.m., 3 Hen. VI, no. 25.

Date of Burial: unknown.

Place of Burial: possibly Hoveringham, Nottinghamshire.

Thoroton (pp. 61- 64) describes the tomb. (Photographs are linked to in the References section below.) The Complete Peerage (9:604 fn f) notes that the tomb “is said to be that of Sir Robert and the Duchess of Norfolk” (my italics).

Relationships

Father: Richard (III) FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel and 9th Earl of Surrey (1346 - 21 September 1397).

The Complete Peerage (1:246 fn d) gives this relationship. Dugdale (6:1:321) quotes from a manuscript history of the Mowbray descendants of the founders of Newburgh Abbey which gives describes Elizabeth as a daughter of the earl of Arundel. The rest of the manuscript contains several errors, however.

Mother: Elizabeth de Bohun (died 3 April 1385).

The Complete Peerage (1:246 fn d) gives Elizabeth Arundel as a daughter of this marriage.

Spouse: Sir William de Montagu (died 6 August 1382). Sir William was said to have been killed by his own father at a joust. (Cawley, citing Annals of Lacock Abbey, Appendix I, Book of Lacock, p. iii.)

Spouse:Thomas de Mowbray, 1st and 3rd Duke of Norfolk (22 March 1365/6 - 22 September 1399). Married 6 or 7 July 1384 at Arundel Castle, in the presence of the King and Queen.

The Complete Peerage 9:604 gives July 1384 for the marriage. Brad Verity (post to SGM) narrowed this down to 6 or 7 July, based on Richard II’s only known visit to Arundel.

Spouse: Sir Robert Goushill, Knight (died 20 or 21 July 1403). Married between 23 February 1400 and 19 August 1401.

The Calendar of Patent Rolls (for example, 1 Henry IV, Part V, page 207) makes it clear that Robert and Elizabeth had not yet married in 23 February 1400. In September 1401, Robert and Elizabeth were pardoned for marrying without the king’s permission (Calendar of Patent Rolls, 2 Hen. IV, Part IV, pp. 544, 545), (Calendar of Close Rolls, Hen. IV 1:379-383).

Spouse: Sir Gerard Usflete, Knight (died between 13 September 1420 and 12 February 1420/21) . Married by 1408.

The 1408 date is given by Richardson, citing a presentation to the church of Forncett, Norfolk. The Calendar of Patent Rolls (Hen. V 1:209) shows that Sir Gerard and Elizabeth were married by 3 July 1414. Sir Gerard’s will was made 13 September 1420 and proved 12 February 1420/21 (Testamenta Eboracensia 1:397-398).

Children (by Thomas de Mowbray):

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

Thomas de Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk (17 September 1385 - executed 8 June 1405) married to Constance Holland before August 1400.

Elizabeth Mowbray (died after 1 December 1423) married Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk before 24 November 1403. Later became a nun.

Isabel Mowbray (died 27 September 1452) married (1) Sir Henry Ferrers before 13 July 1416; (2) James Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley in about 1423.

Margaret Mowbray (died after 1437) married (1) Sir Robert Howard; married (2) Sir John Grey.

John Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (1392 - 19 October 1432) married Katherine Neville (licence 1412).

Children (by Robert Goushill):

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

Joan Goushill (1400 or 1401 - after 1460) married Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley.

Elizabeth Goushill (born 1401 or 1402) married Robert Wingfield.

Joyce Goushill probably died young. (There is some question as to whether she is in fact a child of this marriage.)

Evidence

from the Calendar of the Close Rolls:

Sept. 26. [1401]

Westminster

To the escheator in Yorkshire. Order to make restitution and give Robert de Gousille esquire and Elizabeth his wife livery of all lands of Thomas late duke of Norffolk sometime her husband which by command of the king were lately assigned to the said Elizabeth in dower, and the issues and profits thereof taken since her marriage, meddling no further therewith, although lately hearing that without his licence she was married to the said Robert, the king ordered the escheator to take the same again into his hand, and the issues etc. aforesaid, causing answer to be made for them to the king; as for a fine of 2,000 marks payable at certain terms the king has pardoned the said Robert his trespass in so taking her to wife, and the said Elizabeth her trespass in so marrying, further granting them restitution of the said lands, and the issues and profits aforesaid.

Like writs to the escheators in the following counties:

Lincolnshire.

Warwickshire.

Leycestershire.

Norhamptonshire and Roteland.

Bedfordshire.

Bukinghamshire.

Sussex.

Norffolk.

Notynghamshire.

Cambridgeshire.

Huntingdonshire.

Salop and the march of Wales adjacent.

Also to the mayor of Calais, being escheator in that town.

To the escheator in Derbyshire. Like order, mutatis mutandis, concerning the castle and manor of Bretby, the manors of Rostlaston and Coton, twelve messuages, fourteen bovates of land and 10l. of rent in Repyngton, Lynton, Meleton, Wylyngton, Asshburne and Howes granted to the said Elizabeth in dower with her assent in recompense for the castle and manor of Framelyngham to her assigned, which for particular causes the king took again into his hand.

To the escheator in Suffolk. Order to make restitution and give the said Robert and Elizabeth livery of the manors of Walton, Soham, Kenet, the manor and borough of Bungeye, the manors of Stonham, Donyngworth, Kelshale, Staverton, Holislee, the manor of Hoo with the hundred of Loose and the manor of Pesenhale, which among other castles, lands etc. of Margaret duchess of Norffolk descended to Thomas duke of Norffolk as her cousin and heir, were in the late king's hand by reason of the nonage of Thomas de Moubray knight son and heir of the said duke, and were by the king assigned in dower to the said Elizabeth, meddling no further therewith; as the king took of her an oath etc., and ordered the late escheator to give her livery of the same, and the rents, farms and issues thereof arising since Easter 1 Henry IV, and learning after that without his licence she was married to Robert Gousille esquire, the king ordered the escheator to take the said manors, borough and hundred again into his hand, and the issues and profits thereof arising since that marriage, answering to the king for the same, but for a fine of 2,000 marks payable at set terms the king has pardoned the said Robert his trespass in taking her to wife, and the said Elizabeth her trespass in marrying him without such licence, granting that they shall have restitution and livery as aforesaid, and the issues etc. since their marriage.

To the escheator in Leycestershire. Like order, mutatis mutandis, in respect of the manor of Wytherderley. By K.

To the escheator in Cambridgeshire. Like order concerning the manor of Kenet and Kentforde. By K.

To the escheator in Essex. Like order concerning the manors of Cesterforde, Dovercourt and Rumford. By K.

To the escheator in Salop. Like order concerning the manors of Stodesdoun and Kyngeswode. By K.

References

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), Volume 1 page 246 fn.d, page 253, page 256 fn.d; Volume 2 page 132; Volume 9 page 604.

Dugdale, William. “Progenies Moubraiorum, hujus Abbatiæ Fundatorum” (Num. VI. in “Cartae ad Abbatiam de Novo Burgo, in agro Eboracensi, spectantes”) in Monasticon Anglicanum. Volume 6, Part 1, page 321.

...Thomas duxit in uxorem filiam comitis de Arundell, nomine Elizabetham; de qua genuit filium nomine Thomam anno 1386...

[Dugdale is citing a manuscript account of the Mowbray descendants of the founders of Newburgh Abbey (“Ex MS. Cod. in bibliotheca Cottoniana (sub effigie Cleopatræ C.3.) f. 301 a.”), apparently written in the early 1500s. This source is cited by Cawley, below, but it is not clear how reliable it is. There seem to be errors in names and dates in the succeeding generations.]

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

Brad Verity, post of 9/29/03 to soc.genealogy.medieval.

'Hoveringham', Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire: volume 3: Republished with large additions by John Throsby (1796), pp. 61-64. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=76929 Date accessed: 16 March 2014.

Bruce Morrison gives photographs of the possible Goushill - Fitz-Alan tomb at Hoveringham:

https://sites.google.com/site/goushilltomb/goushill-tomb/

Great Britain. Public Record Office. Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office--Henry IV. [Vol.1, pp.379-383]

Great Britain. Public Record Office. Calendar of the patent rolls preserved in the Public Record Office--Henry IV. 1 Henry IV Part V, Volume 1, page 207; 2 Henry IV Part IV p. 544, p. 545.; 2 Hen. V Volume 1, page 209; Digital images are provided by Professor G.R. Boynton and the Univeristy of Iowa Libraries (http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/patentrolls/ ).

Richardson, Douglas, and Kimball G. Everingham. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2005), p. 195.

Testamenta Eboracensia or Wills Registered at York Illustrative of the History, Manners, Language, Statistics &c. of the Province of York, from the Year MCCC Downwards (London: J.B. Nichols and Son. 1836).