Eleanor of Lancaster (sometimes called Eleanor Plantagenet¹) (about 1315 - 11 January 1372) was born in Arundel, West Sussex, England, the fifth daughter of Henry, Earl of Lancaster (c. 1281-1345) and his wife Maud Chaworth (1282-1322). Angevin is the name applied to two distinct medieval dynasties which originated as counts (from 1360, dukes) of the western French province of Anjou (of which angevin is the adjectival form), but later came to rule far greater areas including England, Hungary and Poland (see Angevin Empire). ... Events August 13 - Louis X of France marries Clemence dAnjou. ... January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events Births March 13 - Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, son of king Charles V of France Princess Beatrice of Portugal, heiress to the throne during the 1383-1385 Crisis Deaths Categories: 1372 ... Arundel is a town in the South Downs of West Sussex in the south of England. ... West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering onto East Sussex (with Brighton and Hove), Hampshire and Surrey. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ... Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Maud de Chaworth, Countess of Leicester (1282-1322), was the daughter of Patrick de Chaworth and Isabel Beauchamp, daughter of William Beauchamp and Maud Fitz-John. ...

First marriage and offspring

Sometime between September 1 and November 6, 1330, she married John 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: September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). ... November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 55 days remaining. ... Events The Bulgars under Michael III are beaten by the Serbs at Velbuzhd, and large parts of Bulgaria fall to Serbia. ...

1. Henry Beaumont, 3rd Lord Beaumont, born late 1339
2. 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. Philippa of Hainault (~1314 - August 15, 1369) was the Queen consort of Edward III of England. ... April 14 is the 104th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (105th in leap years). ... Events May - Pope Clement VI elected John III Comnenus becomes emperor of Trebizond Louis becomes king of Sicily and duke of Athens Constantine IV becomes king of Armenia Patriarch of Antioch transferred to Damascus under Ignatius II Kitzbühel becomes part of Tyrol Louis I becomes king of Hungary Births...

Second marriage

On 5 February 1344 at Ditton Church, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, she married Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel, 4th Earl of Surrey, known by the soubriquet of "Copped Hat", Justiciar of North Wales, Governor of Carnarvon Castle, Admiral of the West.² February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events English king Edward III introduces three new gold coins, the florin. ... Stoke Poges is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. ... Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a county in South East England. ... Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel (c. ...

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). Isabel le Despenser married Sir Richard Serjeaux ... Annulment is a legal procedure for declaring a marriage null and void. ... An attainder, in British law, is the ending of a persons civil rights after he has been sentenced to death or to outlawry, as an additional penalty. ... Clement VI, né Pierre Roger (1291 – December 6, 1352), pope (1342-1352), the fourth of the Avignon popes, was elected in May 1342. ... For an illegitimate child, see Illegitimacy. ... Dispensation is the act of an authority making an exception to laws, standards, or customs. ... March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). ... Events English king Edward III introduces three new gold coins, the florin. ... Events Miracle of the Host Births October 31 - King Fernando I of Portugal (died 1383) Agnès of Valois, daughter of John II of France (died 1349) Eleanor Maltravers, English noblewoman (died 1405) Deaths April 14 - Richard Aungerville, English writer and bishop (born 1287) September 16 - John IV, Duke of...

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 York (c. 1350-February 19, 1413)
4. Joan Fitzalan (bef. 1351-April 17, 1419), married Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford
5. Alice Fitzalan (1352-March 17, 1416), married Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent

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." Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel and 10th Earl of Surrey (1346 - September 21, 1397, beheaded) was an English nobleman and military commander. ... The oldest extant Earldom (and perhaps the oldest extant title) in the English peerage is the Earldom of Arundel currently held by the Duke of Norfolk, and used as a courtesy title by his heir. ... John Fitzalan (c. ... Thomas Arundel (1353-1414) was Archbishop of Canterbury in 1397 and from 1399 until his death, an outspoken opponent of the Lollards. ... The Archbishop of York, Primate of England, is the metropolitan of the Province of York, and is the junior of the two archbishops of the Church of England, after the Archbishop of Canterbury. ... February 19 is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... // Events March 20 - Henry V becomes King of England Project of Annals of Joseon Dynasty began. ... April 17 is the 107th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (108th in leap years). ... Events January 19 - Hundred Years War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England which brings Normandy under the control of England. ... Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex and 2nd Earl of Northampton (1342 – 1373) was an important English noble during the reign of King Edward III of England. ... Events June 4 - Glarus joins the Swiss Confederation. ... March 17 is the 76th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (77th in Leap years). ... Events May 30 - The Catholic Church burns Jerome of Prague as a heretic. ... Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent (1350-1397) was an English nobleman and a councilor of his half-brother Richard II. He was the son of Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent and Joan of Kent, daughter of Edmund of Woodstock and granddaughter of Edward I. After his fathers... Arundel is a town in the South Downs of West Sussex in the south of England. ... Location within the British Isles Lewes is the county town of East Sussex, England. ... Sussex is a traditional county in southern England, divided for administrative purposes into West Sussex and East Sussex and the city of Brighton and Hove. ...

Sources

• Fowler, Kenneth. The King's Lieutenant, 1969
• Nicolas, Nicholas Harris. Testamenta Vetusta, 1826.

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.