Eleanor Fitzalan (c. 1284 – July/August 1328) was an alleged daughter of
Richard FitzAlan, 1st Earl of Arundel and his wife
Alice of Saluzzo. She became the wife of
Henry de Percy, 1st Baron Percy
Henry de Percy, 1st Baron Percy of Alnwick (25 March 1273 – October 1314) was a medieval English magnate.
He fought under King Edward I of England in Wales and Scotland and was granted extensive estates in Scotland, which were later retake ...
. Their son was
Henry de Percy, 2nd Baron Percy
Henry Percy, 9th Baron Percy of Topcliffe, 2nd Baron Percy of Alnwick (6 February 1301 – 26 February 1352) was the son of Henry de Percy, 1st Baron Percy of Alnwick, and Eleanor Fitzalan, daughter of Sir Richard FitzAlan, 8th Earl of Arundel, ...
.
Standard accounts of the Percy family identify Eleanor as the daughter of the "Earl of Arundel". Arrangements for Eleanor's marriage to Lord Percy are found in the recognizance made in 1300 by Eleanor's father,
Richard, Earl of Arundel, for a debt of 2,000 marks which he owed Sir Henry Percy. Eleanor was styled as a "kinswoman" of
Edward II
Edward II (25 April 1284 – 21 September 1327), also called Edward of Caernarfon, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327. The fourth son of Edward I, Edward became the heir apparent to ...
on two occasions; once in 1318 and again in 1322 presumably by her descent from
Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy who was the brother of Edward II's great-grandmother,
Beatrice of Savoy. Eleanor's brothers,
Edmund
Edmund is a masculine given name or surname in the English language. The name is derived from the Old English elements ''ēad'', meaning "prosperity" or "riches", and ''mund'', meaning "protector".
Persons named Edmund include:
People Kings and ...
and John were also styled as "kinsmen" of the king. Eleanor's identity is further indicated by the presence of the old and new arms of FitzAlan (or Arundel) at her tomb.
[Douglas Richardson. ''Plantagenet Ancestry'', Genealogical Publishing 2005. pg 575.]
References
Bibliography
*Gee, L. L. (2002). '' Women, Art and Patronage from Henry III to Edward III: 1216-1377''. Woodbridge: Boydell.
External links
''Plantagenet Ancestry''
See also
*
Baron Percy
The title Baron Percy has been created several times in the Peerage of England. The first, soon after 1066, a feudal barony rather than a barony by writ, which continued in parallel with the later baronies by writ, until the abolition of feud ...
1284 births
1328 deaths
Daughters of British earls
Percy
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