Eleanor Plantagenęt of Lancaster
- Born: Abt 1313, Grismond Castle, Monmouth 1078
- Marriage: Sir Richard Fitz Alan Earl of Arundel, Earl of Surrey 141,1078
- Died: 11 Jan 1372, Arundel Castle, Sussex, England about age 59 141,1078
- Buried: Lewes Priory, Lewes, Sussex 1078
 Information about this person:
• Background Information. 141
Eleanor was the daughter of Henry, Earl of Lancaster & Leicester and his wife Maud, daughter and heir of Sir Patrick de Chaworth & Isabella de Beauchamp. Eleanor married as her first husband, John, Lord Beaumont, and married as her second husband, Richard, Earl of Arundel.
~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. VII, (Lancaster), footenote (b) pp. 400-401
• Background Information. 1078
Eleanor Plantagenęt, daughter of Henry de Plantagenęt and his wife Maud de Chaworth, married as her first husband, John de Beaumont, second Baron Beaumont, son of Sir Henry Beaumont, Earl of Buchan and his wife Alice Comyn. Eleanor had a son, Sir Henry Beaumont, who married Margaret de Vere, daughter of John de Vere and his wife Maud de Badlesmere, second daughter of Bartholomew de Badlesmere.
Eleanor married as her second husband Richard II "Copped Hat" Fitz Alan, with whom she was a mistress in the life time of her first husband. Sir Richard Fitz Alan was a member of the Knights of the Garter, the 9th Earl of Arundel and Warenne, and the son of Edmund Fitz Alan and his wife Alice de Warenne.
Children of Eleanor and her husband Richard Fitz Alan were:
• Richard III Fitz Alan, married to Elizabeth de Bohun, daughter of William de Bohun and his wife Elizabeth de Badlesmere, daughter of Bartholomew de Badlesmere & Margaret de Clare.
• John Fitz Alan, married to Eleanor Maltravers, daughter of John Maltravers and Gwenthlin.
• Thomas Fitz Alan, aka. Thomas de Arundel, third and youngest son.
• Joan Fitz Alan, married Humphrey IX Bohun, Earl of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton.
• Alice Fitz Alan, married to Thomas Holand, second Earl of Kent
• Mary Fitz Alan, died in the lifetime of her father
• Eleanor Fitz Alan, died in the lifetime of her father.
~ Blood Royal, Issue of the Kings and Queens of Medieval England, 1066-1399, pp. 87-90
Eleanor married Sir Richard Fitz Alan Earl of Arundel, Earl of Surrey, son of Edmund Fitz Alan Earl of Arundel and Alice de Warenne 141.,1078 (Sir Richard Fitz Alan Earl of Arundel, Earl of Surrey was born about 1313 in Arundel Castle, Sussex, England,141 died on 24 Jan 1376 in Arundel, Sussex, England 141,737 and was buried in 1376 in Lewes Priory, Lewes, Sussex 141.)
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