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Eleanor, often called Eleanor de Lancaster or Eleanor of Lancaster, was the daughter of Henry Plantagenet/of Lancaster[1][2] and Maud Chaworth.[3][4][5][6] Eleanor's birth date is uncertain. Wikipedia, citing Burke's Guide to the Royal Family, gives a birth date 11 September 1318[7] and this date is widely found in trees on the web, but there appears to be no reliable source for it. Medlands gives an uncertain birth date of 1318.[8] Her parents had interests in England and Wales, and her birthplace is not known.
Before June 1337 Eleanor married John de Beaumont.[1][2][3][5][9] (Wikipedia gives the marriage date as 6 November 1330, with no sourcing, and should not be trusted.[7]) They had one son:
John de Beaumont died during a tournament on 14 April 1342.[3][5]
Eleanor became the second wife of Richard FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel[1][2][10] on 5 February 1344/5 . They married at Ditton, Buckinghamshire in the presence of Edward III. Papal dispensations were issued for the marriage because of their consanguinity.[4][6] They had five children:
In 1339 Eleanor was granted the lands and marriage of John Botetourt during his minority.[3][5]
In the 1330s Eleanor became one of the attendants on Queen Philippa, Edward III's wife. In 1341 she was awarded an annuity of £100 for her services to Philippa. That year she was also given hunting rights in the royal forests in England.[3][5]
In December 1343 Eleanor lodged a complaint about disturbances in which she had been robbed and her servants attacked.[3][5]
In March 1344 attorneys were appointed for her affairs while she went on a pilgrimage to Santiago da Compostella.[3][5]
In 1345 Eleanor was named as Eleanor, Countess of Arundel in her father's will.[11]
In 1364 and 1366 Eleanor was granted papal permission to enter monasteries of the Minoresses once a year, accompanied by four honest matrons of forty [or more] years.[4][6]
Eleanor died at Arundel, Sussex on 11 January 1371/2 and was buried at Lewes Priory, Sussex. Her second husband survived her, dying on 24 January 1375/6.[4][6][10] In his will he asked to be buried at Lewes Priory near to the tomb of his wife Eleanor of Lancaster, with his tomb no tighter than hers.[12]
There is also a monument in Chichester Cathedral, Sussex which is probably of Eleanor and her husband. This monument inspired a poem, An Arundel Tomb, by Philip Larkin.[13]
Writs for Inquisitions Post Mortem were issued on 16 January 1472/3. The resulting IPMs show her holding extensive dower lands, from her first marriage, in Berkshire, Lincolnshire and Oxfordshire.[14]
Wikipedia's article on Eleanor ascribed another daughter to Eleanor - Mary who married John le Strange,[7] This derives from an error in Cokayne's Complete Peerage.[15] Medieval Lands says that the Mary who married John le Strange was daughter of Richard FitzAlan's first marriage, to Isabel le Despenser.[16] Mary was sister of Eleanor's second husband.[17] Medieval Lands also says that Richard FitzAlan had a second daughter called Mary, from his marriage to Eleanor, but gives no details and no sourcing.[16]
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edited by Michael Cayley
see same entry in MCA, vol I, pp 30-32 ARUNDEL #8. Eleanor Maltravers
see Google Books MCA (search for Mautravers)