1st Lord Arundel, 1st Baron Arundel, Knight of Buckland, Colley in Reigate, West Betchworth in Dorking, and Walton-on-the Hill Surrey, Bignor, Cudlow and Chancton Sussex. In right of his wife, of Lytchett Mautravers, Dorset, Boyton and Corton in Wiltshire. King's Esquire, Marshal of England, Keeper of Southampton.
Second child of six and second of two sons of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and his second wife Eleanor of Lancaster, Eleanor Plantagenet, brother of Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury and Joan FitzAlan, Countess of Hereford.
First FitzAlan to use Arundel as his surname.
Husband of Lady Eleanor Maltravers 1345 – 1406, daughter of John Maltravers and Gwenthin. They were married 01 Feb 1359, and became the parents of at least five sons and two daughters:
* Joan m William de Brien & Sir William de Echingham c 1360-1404
* Sir John, Lord Arundel m Eleanor le Despenser 1364-1390
* Sir Richard c 1366-1419
* Sir William, Knight of the Garter c 1369-1400
* Margaret m William de Ros 1372-1439
* Thomas
* Henry m Alice
He was appointed the Lord Marshall of England by King Richard II in 1377 and summoned to Parliament on 04 Aug 1377 as Johanni de Arundell. He was granted licence on 26 July 1326 for a crenelate a stone castle which would become known as Betchworth Castle.
John was in command of a naval expedition to aid the Duke of Brittany, John de Montfort, defeating the French fleet off the coast of Cornwall. According to the report by Thomas Walsingham, John was waiting for stronger winds before leaving for Brittany, taking shelter in a nunnery near Southampton, where John allowed his men to rape and pillage. The unfortunate event was quoted as that John "took no notice of the sanctity of the place and... violently assaulted and raped" and "allowed his men to ransack the countryside as they liked and to impoverish the people." When they finally set sail, the had goods stolen from the nearby church where the violated priests pronounced all them men excommunicated. When a severe storm hit the fleet, Sir John was said to murder the men who refused to turn the ship back to shore from fear of being dashed on the rocks, the nuns who were taken from the nunnery were thrown overboard to lighten the ship. Finally wrecked on the shores of Ireland near Scariff or Cape Fear Island, but Sir John, his boat captain were swept back out to sea. Ultimately, John and all his esquires and other men of high birth along with twenty five ships were lost at sea.
Jean Friossart also recorded the event, but without the desecration of the convent.
Lady Eleanor would remarry a cousin of the 3rd and 4th degree, Reynold Cobham in 1380, but were divorced and allowed to remarry with proper dispensation. Eleanor is buried with John at Lewes.
(bio by: Anne Shurtleff Stevens)
Second child of six and second of two sons of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and his second wife Eleanor of Lancaster, Eleanor Plantagenet, brother of Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury and Joan FitzAlan, Countess of Hereford.
First FitzAlan to use Arundel as his surname.
Husband of Lady Eleanor Maltravers 1345 – 1406, daughter of John Maltravers and Gwenthin. They were married 01 Feb 1359, and became the parents of at least five sons and two daughters:
* Joan m William de Brien & Sir William de Echingham c 1360-1404
* Sir John, Lord Arundel m Eleanor le Despenser 1364-1390
* Sir Richard c 1366-1419
* Sir William, Knight of the Garter c 1369-1400
* Margaret m William de Ros 1372-1439
* Thomas
* Henry m Alice
He was appointed the Lord Marshall of England by King Richard II in 1377 and summoned to Parliament on 04 Aug 1377 as Johanni de Arundell. He was granted licence on 26 July 1326 for a crenelate a stone castle which would become known as Betchworth Castle.
John was in command of a naval expedition to aid the Duke of Brittany, John de Montfort, defeating the French fleet off the coast of Cornwall. According to the report by Thomas Walsingham, John was waiting for stronger winds before leaving for Brittany, taking shelter in a nunnery near Southampton, where John allowed his men to rape and pillage. The unfortunate event was quoted as that John "took no notice of the sanctity of the place and... violently assaulted and raped" and "allowed his men to ransack the countryside as they liked and to impoverish the people." When they finally set sail, the had goods stolen from the nearby church where the violated priests pronounced all them men excommunicated. When a severe storm hit the fleet, Sir John was said to murder the men who refused to turn the ship back to shore from fear of being dashed on the rocks, the nuns who were taken from the nunnery were thrown overboard to lighten the ship. Finally wrecked on the shores of Ireland near Scariff or Cape Fear Island, but Sir John, his boat captain were swept back out to sea. Ultimately, John and all his esquires and other men of high birth along with twenty five ships were lost at sea.
Jean Friossart also recorded the event, but without the desecration of the convent.
Lady Eleanor would remarry a cousin of the 3rd and 4th degree, Reynold Cobham in 1380, but were divorced and allowed to remarry with proper dispensation. Eleanor is buried with John at Lewes.
(bio by: Anne Shurtleff Stevens)
1st Lord Arundel, 1st Baron Arundel, Knight of Buckland, Colley in Reigate, West Betchworth in Dorking, and Walton-on-the Hill Surrey, Bignor, Cudlow and Chancton Sussex. In right of his wife, of Lytchett Mautravers, Dorset, Boyton and Corton in Wiltshire. King's Esquire, Marshal of England, Keeper of Southampton.
Second child of six and second of two sons of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and his second wife Eleanor of Lancaster, Eleanor Plantagenet, brother of Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury and Joan FitzAlan, Countess of Hereford.
First FitzAlan to use Arundel as his surname.
Husband of Lady Eleanor Maltravers 1345 – 1406, daughter of John Maltravers and Gwenthin. They were married 01 Feb 1359, and became the parents of at least five sons and two daughters:
* Joan m William de Brien & Sir William de Echingham c 1360-1404
* Sir John, Lord Arundel m Eleanor le Despenser 1364-1390
* Sir Richard c 1366-1419
* Sir William, Knight of the Garter c 1369-1400
* Margaret m William de Ros 1372-1439
* Thomas
* Henry m Alice
He was appointed the Lord Marshall of England by King Richard II in 1377 and summoned to Parliament on 04 Aug 1377 as Johanni de Arundell. He was granted licence on 26 July 1326 for a crenelate a stone castle which would become known as Betchworth Castle.
John was in command of a naval expedition to aid the Duke of Brittany, John de Montfort, defeating the French fleet off the coast of Cornwall. According to the report by Thomas Walsingham, John was waiting for stronger winds before leaving for Brittany, taking shelter in a nunnery near Southampton, where John allowed his men to rape and pillage. The unfortunate event was quoted as that John "took no notice of the sanctity of the place and... violently assaulted and raped" and "allowed his men to ransack the countryside as they liked and to impoverish the people." When they finally set sail, the had goods stolen from the nearby church where the violated priests pronounced all them men excommunicated. When a severe storm hit the fleet, Sir John was said to murder the men who refused to turn the ship back to shore from fear of being dashed on the rocks, the nuns who were taken from the nunnery were thrown overboard to lighten the ship. Finally wrecked on the shores of Ireland near Scariff or Cape Fear Island, but Sir John, his boat captain were swept back out to sea. Ultimately, John and all his esquires and other men of high birth along with twenty five ships were lost at sea.
Jean Friossart also recorded the event, but without the desecration of the convent.
Lady Eleanor would remarry a cousin of the 3rd and 4th degree, Reynold Cobham in 1380, but were divorced and allowed to remarry with proper dispensation. Eleanor is buried with John at Lewes.
(bio by: Anne Shurtleff Stevens)
Second child of six and second of two sons of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and his second wife Eleanor of Lancaster, Eleanor Plantagenet, brother of Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury and Joan FitzAlan, Countess of Hereford.
First FitzAlan to use Arundel as his surname.
Husband of Lady Eleanor Maltravers 1345 – 1406, daughter of John Maltravers and Gwenthin. They were married 01 Feb 1359, and became the parents of at least five sons and two daughters:
* Joan m William de Brien & Sir William de Echingham c 1360-1404
* Sir John, Lord Arundel m Eleanor le Despenser 1364-1390
* Sir Richard c 1366-1419
* Sir William, Knight of the Garter c 1369-1400
* Margaret m William de Ros 1372-1439
* Thomas
* Henry m Alice
He was appointed the Lord Marshall of England by King Richard II in 1377 and summoned to Parliament on 04 Aug 1377 as Johanni de Arundell. He was granted licence on 26 July 1326 for a crenelate a stone castle which would become known as Betchworth Castle.
John was in command of a naval expedition to aid the Duke of Brittany, John de Montfort, defeating the French fleet off the coast of Cornwall. According to the report by Thomas Walsingham, John was waiting for stronger winds before leaving for Brittany, taking shelter in a nunnery near Southampton, where John allowed his men to rape and pillage. The unfortunate event was quoted as that John "took no notice of the sanctity of the place and... violently assaulted and raped" and "allowed his men to ransack the countryside as they liked and to impoverish the people." When they finally set sail, the had goods stolen from the nearby church where the violated priests pronounced all them men excommunicated. When a severe storm hit the fleet, Sir John was said to murder the men who refused to turn the ship back to shore from fear of being dashed on the rocks, the nuns who were taken from the nunnery were thrown overboard to lighten the ship. Finally wrecked on the shores of Ireland near Scariff or Cape Fear Island, but Sir John, his boat captain were swept back out to sea. Ultimately, John and all his esquires and other men of high birth along with twenty five ships were lost at sea.
Jean Friossart also recorded the event, but without the desecration of the convent.
Lady Eleanor would remarry a cousin of the 3rd and 4th degree, Reynold Cobham in 1380, but were divorced and allowed to remarry with proper dispensation. Eleanor is buried with John at Lewes.
(bio by: Anne Shurtleff Stevens)
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