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Noble family
  
Maltravers

Died
  
January 12, 1405

Name
  
Eleanor 2nd


Buried
  
Lewes Priory, Sussex

Father
  
Sir John Maltravers

Parents
  
Sir John Maltravers

Eleanor Maltravers, 2nd Baroness Maltravers

Spouse(s)
  
John FitzAlan, 1st Baron Arundel Reynold Cobham, 2nd Baron Cobham

Mother
  
Gwenthlian (surname unknown)

Children
  
John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, Margaret Fitzalan

Grandchildren
  
John FitzAlan, 13th Earl of Arundel

Great grandchildren
  
William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel

Place of burial
  
Lewes Priory, Lewes, United Kingdom, Sussex

Eleanor Maltravers or Mautravers, 2nd Baroness Maltravers suo jure (c. 1345 – 12 January 1405) was an English noblewoman and heiress.

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Family

Eleanor Maltravers (c.1345 – 12 January 1405), was the younger daughter and coheir of Sir John Maltravers (d. 22 January 1349) and his wife Gwenthlian. She had a brother, Henry Maltravers, who died an infant before 8 February 1350, and a sister, Joan Maltravers, who married firstly Sir John de Keynes, and secondly Sir Robert Rous, but died without issue.

When Eleanor's grandfather, John Maltravers, 1st Baron Maltravers, died on 13 February 1364, the Maltravers barony fell into abeyance, according to modern doctrine, between his granddaughters and coheirs, Joan and Eleanor. At the death of her sister Joan in or after 1376, Eleanor succeeded as de jure Baroness Maltravers.

Marriages and issue

On 17 February 1359 Eleanor married John FitzAlan, 1st Baron Arundel (d. 13 December 1379), by whom she had five sons and two daughters.

  • John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel (30 November 1364 – 14 August 1390), who married Elizabeth le Despenser, daughter of Edward le Despencer, 4th Baron le Despencer (d.1336 – 11 November 1375), by whom he had three sons:
  • John FitzAlan, 13th Earl of Arundel.
  • Sir Edward FitzAlan.
  • Sir Thomas FitzAlan of West Betchworth (in Dorking), Surrey, who married Joan Moyne.
  • Sir William FitzAlan, Knight of the Garter, second son, who married a wife named Agnes, but left no issue.
  • Henry FitzAlan.
  • Edward FitzAlan.
  • Sir Richard FitzAlan (d. 3 June 1419), 5th son, who married Alice (d. 30 August 1436), the widow of Roger Burley, esquire, by whom he had a daughter, Joan Arundel, who married Sir Thomas Willoughby of Parham.
  • Joan FitzAlan, who married firstly Sir William de Bryan, and secondly, Sir William Echingham. She is buried in the chancel at Etchingham.
  • Margaret FitzAlan, who married William de Ros, 6th Baron de Ros.

    • Sir John Fitzalan died in the Irish Sea on 15 or 16 December 1379.

    Eleanor married secondly, on 9 August 1380, as his second wife, Reynold Cobham, 2nd Baron Cobham of Sterborough (died 3 or 6 July 1403), by whom she had three sons and two daughters:

  • John Cobham.
  • Reynold Cobham, 3rd Baron Cobham, who married Eleanor Culpeper and was the father of Eleanor Cobham, wife of Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester.
  • Thomas Cobham.
  • Elizabeth Cobham.
  • Margaret Cobham, who married Sir Richard Curteys.

    • In 1384 Eleanor and her second husband were divorced on the ground that they were within the second and three degrees of consanguinity. They were subsequently allowed to remarry, with proper dispensation from the Archbishop of Canterbury, on 29 September 1384.

    Eleanor died 12 January 1405, and was buried with her first husband at Lewes Priory, Sussex. Her will, dated 26 September 1404, was proved 16 January 1404/1405 at Maidstone, Kent.

    References

    Eleanor Maltravers, 2nd Baroness Maltravers Wikipedia
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