Eleanor PLANTAGENET of Lancaster ¹⁸⁵¹

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  General Notes:

Chichester Cathedral is her actual burial location after she was removed from Lewes Priory that was in ruins. Both her and her husband's remains we're re-interred here at Chichester Cathedral. There is a Cenotaph for her at Lewe's Priory.
Cenotaph here

Eleanor of Lancaster, Countess of Arundel. The fifth daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud Chaworth.

In 1956, Philip Larkin visited the tomb at Chichester Cathedral, and was so emotionally inspired, that he wrote and published the poem 'An Arundel Tomb' about Richard FitzAlan de Arundel and his second wife Eleanor Plantagenet FitzAlan de Arundel.

  Birth Notes:

Grismond Castle

  Death Notes:

Arundel Castle

  Burial Notes:

Event Description: Chichester Cathedral
This is her actual burial location after she was removed from Lewes Priory, Sussex, England, that was in ruins. Both her and her husband's remains we're re-interred here at Chichester Cathedral. There is a Cenotaph for her at Lewe's Priory.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Clan: House of Plantagenet,,. ¹⁸⁵⁷

2. Title of Nobility: Countess of Arundel and Warenne,,. ¹⁸⁵⁷

Eleanor married Sir Richard FITZALAN 8th Earl of Arundel, son of Edmund FITZALAN 9th Earl of Arundel and Alice DE WARENNE, on 5 April 1345 in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, Buckinghamshire, England.¹⁸⁵⁵ (Sir Richard FITZALAN 8th Earl of Arundel was born in 1306 in Arundel, Arun, West Sussex, England,¹⁸⁵¹ died on 24 January 1376 in Arundel, Arun, West Sussex, England ¹⁸⁵¹ and was buried in January 1376 in Chichester, Chichester, West Sussex, England ¹⁸⁵¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

Ditton Church?

Eleanor next married Sir John DE BEAUMONT 2nd Lord Beaumont on 6 November 1330.¹⁸⁵⁷ (Sir John DE BEAUMONT 2nd Lord Beaumont was born on 25 December 1317 in , , Lincolnshire, England,¹⁸⁵⁷ died on 14 April 1342 in , , Northamptonshire, England ¹⁸⁵⁷ and was buried in 1342 in Lewes, Lewes, East Sussex, England ¹⁸⁵⁷.)