SEVENTEENTH GENERATION


979. Baroness Eleanor Plantagenet was born in 1311 in Grismond Castle, Monmouthshire, England. She died on 11 Jan 1371/72 in Arundel Castle, Sussex, England. She was buried in Lewes, Sussex, England. Weir shows all the children as Eleanor's but the Compleat Peerage says otherwise.
She was the Baroness of Lancaster.

She was married to Baron John De Beaumont II (son of ) in 1339. Baron John De Beaumont II was born in 1300.(206) He died in 1342. Baroness Eleanor Plantagenet and Baron John De Beaumont II had the following children:

child1081 i. John De Beaumont was born in 1342.
child1082 ii. Joan DE BEAUMONT died after 1400.
child+1083 iii. Henry DE BEAUMONT.

She was married to Earl Richard "Cropped Hat" Fitzalan X (son of Earl Edmund Fitzalan and Alice Plantagenet) on 5 Feb 1343/44 in Ditton, England. She was married to Earl Richard "Cropped Hat" Fitzalan X on 10 Apr 1364 in Arundel, Sussex, England. Other sources states that they were married on February 5, 1344/1345 in Ditton, England. Earl Richard "Cropped Hat" Fitzalan X was born in 1306 in Arundel, Sussex, England. He died on 24 Jan 1375/76 in Arundel Castle, Sussex, England. He was buried in Lewes, Sussex, England. He was the Earl of Surry, University of Hull, TompsettHe was the third Earl of Arundel and Warenne; Ninth Earl of Surrey. On December 4, 1344 he obtained a Papal mandate for the annulment of his marriage to Isabel on the ground of his minority (about 8 at the time of the marriage) and that he had never consented to the marriage. The Complete Peerage (1:243, note d) discusses this and states"...Obviously what really happened was this. The powerful Earl desired to get rid of the woman to whom he had been married as a child, and who, since her father's attainder and execution, had ceased to be of any importance, that he might marry the woman with whom he was then living in adultery; and the Pope very obligingly annulled the marriage and bastardised the issue." Baroness Eleanor Plantagenet and Earl Richard "Cropped Hat" Fitzalan X had the following children:

child+1084 i. Countess Joan Fitzalan.
child+1085 ii. Earl Richard Fitzalan.
child+1086 iii. Lord John Fitzalan.
child+1087 iv. Alice FitzAlan.
child1088 v. Archbishop Thomas Arundel was born in 1353. He died in 1414. Archbishop of York and Canterbury; Bishop of Ely, and Lord High Chancellor of England.
child+1089 vi. Mary Fitzalan.
child1090 vii. Edmund Fitzalan was born about 1346.
child1091 viii. Eleanor Fitzalan was born about 1355.

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