Eleanor|Alianor [Plantagenet], of Lancaster^{[1, 2, 3, 4]}

1318 - 1372  (54 years)

• Birth	1318
  Gender	Female
  Lived In	England
  Death	11 Jan 1372	Arundel Castle
  Siblings	6 siblings
  1. of Lancaster, Blanche,   b. Abt 1305   d. 10 Jul 1380  (Age ~ 75 years) + 2. of Lancaster, Maud,   b. Abt 1310   d. 5 May 1377, Campsey Abbey  (Age ~ 67 years) + 3. of Lancaster (Plantagenet), Joan,   b. Abt 1312   d. Aft 6 Feb 1345, (7 Jul 1349)  (Age ~ 33 years) + 4. Duke of Lancaster Henry,   b. 1314, Grosmont Castle d. 23 Mar 1361, Leicester  (Age 47 years)   5. of Lancaster, Prioress of Amesbury Isabel,   b. Abt 1317   d. Aft 1 Feb 1347  (Age ~ 30 years) + 6. [Plantagenet], of Lancaster, Eleanor|Alianor,   b. 1318   d. 11 Jan 1372, Arundel Castle  (Age 54 years) + 7. of Lancaster (Plantagenet), Mary,   b. Abt 1320   d. 1 Sep 1362  (Age ~ 42 years)
  Person ID	I00005202	Leo
  Links To	This person is also Eleanor of Lancaster at Wikipedia
  Last Modified	15 Oct 1997

  
  

  Father	Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Leicester ,   b. Abt 1281, Grosmont Castle d. 22 Sep 1345, Leicester (Age ~ 64 years)
  Mother	Maud de Chaworth,   b. 2 Feb 1282, Kidwelly, Carmarthen, Wales d. Abt 19 Feb 1317/3 Dec 1322 (Age 35 years)
  Marriage	Abt 2 Mar 1297
  Family ID	F00002941	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	John de Beaumont, 2nd Lord Beaumont ,   b. Abt 1318   d. 24 Feb 1342/25 May 1342 (Age ~ 24 years)
  Marriage	Bef Jun 1337
  Children	+ 1. Henry de Beaumont, 3rd Lord Beaumont ,   b. Abt 1339, Gent, Brabant d. 25 Jul 1369 (Age ~ 30 years)
  Family ID	F00051869	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Jun 2009

  
  

  Family 2	Richard 'Copped Hat' FitzAlan, 10th/3rd Earl of Arundel ,   b. Abt 1307, Arundel, Sussex, England d. 24 Jan 1375/6 Arundel Castle (Age ~ 68 years)
  Marriage	5 Feb 1344/5 Ditton
  Children	+ 1. Richard Fitzalan, 11th/4th Earl of Arundel ,   b. 1346   d. 21 Sep 1397, Cheapside, London (Age 51 years) + 2. Sir John de Arundel, of Buckland, 1st Baron Arundel, 'jure uxoris' Lord Mautravers ,   b. Abt 1351   d. 15 Dec 1379, in the Irish sea (Age ~ 28 years) + 3. Lady Joan FitzAlan (Arundel)   d. 17 Apr 1419 + 4. Lady Alice Fitzalan,   b. Abt 1352, Arundel Castle d. 17 Mar 1416 (Age ~ 64 years)   5. Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop of York   d. 19 Feb 1413
  Family ID	F00007997	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Oct 1997

  
  

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  BIOGRAPHY Eleanor of Lancaster was born on 11 September 1318, the fifth daughter of Henry, 3rd earl of Lancaster and Leicester, and Maud de Chaworth. About 23 August 1337 Eleanor married John de Beaumont, 2nd lord Beaumont, son of Henry de Beaumont, 1st baron Beaumont, 8th earl of Buchan, and Alice Comyn. They had two children, Henry and Matilda, of whom Henry would have progeny. Eleanor was a lady-in-waiting to Philippa of Holland and Hainault, queen-consort of King Edward III, and she was in service to the queen in Ghent when her son Henry was born. John de Beaumont died in a tournament on 14 April 1342. On 5 February 1345 at Ditton Church, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, Eleanor married Richard Fitzalan, 9th earl of Arundel, son of Edmund Fitzalan, 8th earl of Arundel, and Alice de Warren. Richard's previous marriage, to Isabel le Despenser, had taken place when they were children. It was annulled by papal mandate as since her father's attainder and execution, she had ceased to be of any importance to him. Pope Clement VI obligingly annulled the marriage, bastardised their son Edmund, and provided a dispensation for Richard's second marriage to Eleanor, 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). Eleanor and Richard had five children of whom four, their sons Richard and John, and daughters Joan and Alice, would have progeny. Eleanor died at Arundel Castle on 11 January 1372, and was buried at Lewes Priory in Lewes, Sussex. Her husband died three years later and was buried beside her; in his will Richard requested to be buried 'near 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, or other pomp, be used at my funeral, but only five torches...as was about the corpse of my wife, be allowed.'

  
  

• Sources

  [S00011] ~Burke's Guide to the Royal Family, London, 1973 . 197. [S02828] ~Biogr. details drawn from Wikipedia . [S01260] Faris, David, Plantagenet Ancestry of seventeenth-century Colonists 1999, 2nd Edition. 143-4 [S02081] ~Wikipedia Website .

  
  

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