Eleanor of Lancaster

Eleanor of Lancaster (sometimes called Eleanor Plantagenet) (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).

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.

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5 February - 1344 - Ditton Church - Stoke Poges - Buckinghamshire - Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel

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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).

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Isabel le Despenser - Annul - Attainder - Pope Clement VI - Bastard - Dispensation - 4 March - 1344 - 1345

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The children of Eleanor's second marriage were:

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• Richard (1346-1397), who succeeded as Earl of Arundel
• John Fitzalan(bef 1349-1379)
• Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of York (c. 1350-February 19, 1413)
• Joan Fitzalan (bef. 1351-April 17, 1419), married Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford
• 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."

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Arundel - Lewes Priory - Lewes - Sussex

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