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Eleanor FITZALAN, Heir Of Betchworth

Eleanor FITZALAN, Heir Of Betchworth[1, 2]

Female Abt 1415 - Aft 1469  (~ 54 years)

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  • Name Eleanor FITZALAN  [3, 4, 5
    Suffix Heir Of Betchworth 
    Born Abt 1415  Beechwood, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Name Alianor ARUNDEL 
    _UID 231BE321A7824B23A5D3E8296762C701F3EA 
    Died Aft 1 Jun 1469  [4
    Person ID I13288  Carney Wehofer Feb 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 5 Feb 2012 

    Father Thomas FITZALAN, Sir Knight,   b. Bef 1390, Arundel, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1431, Beechwood, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 41 years) 
    Mother Joan MOYNS,   b. Abt 1398, Beechwood, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F6765  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Thomas BROWNE, Of Betchworth, Sir Knight,   b. Abt 1410, Eythorne, Eastry, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Jul 1460, Betchworth Castle, Surrey, England (Executed) Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 50 years) 
    Married Abt 1431  1st Husband Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Alt. Marriage 1434  [4
    Alt. Marriage 
    • 1st husband
    Children 
     1. Katherine BROWNE,   b. Abt 1435, Betchworth Castle, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Sir Robert BROWNE, Of Eyghthorne,   b. Abt 1435, Eythorne, Eastry, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. William BROWNE, Of Betchworth, Sir Knight,   b. Abt 1441, Betchworth Castle, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Nov 1506  (Age ~ 65 years)
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F6764  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Thomas VAUGHN, Esquire To Edward Iv, Sir,   b. Abt 1415, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married 1461  2ND Husband Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F6416  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Alianor Arundel, daughter and heiress [of Thomas & Joan Moyne], was married for the first time about 1431 to Thomas Browne, Knt, of Betchworth Castle, Surrey, jure uxoris, son of Richard Browne, Knt. He was Treasurer of the Household to King Henry VI, and Sheriff of Kent 1440 and 1460. They had seven sons and two daughters. Sir Thomas Browne was convicted of high treason on 20 July 1460, and immediately beheaded. She was married for the second time in 1461 to Thomas Vaughan, Esquire of the Body to King Edward IV. [Plantagenet Ancestry]

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      The following is excerpted from a post to SGM, 26 Jan 2002, by Adrian Channing:

      From: [email protected] ([email protected])
      Subject: Joan Knowght
      Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
      Date: 2002-01-26 17:31:27 PST

      Hi,

      Testamenta Vetusta (p 291) includes the Will of Joan Knowght of Taniford, Kent dated 1st June 1469. This Will was proved at Canterbury (no date given) - would this make it a PCC will, or should I look for at Kent Records Office?

      She calls herself daughter and heir of Henry Knowght, so presumably she is unmarried, she also mentions her unnamed grandfather and grandmother, her two unnamed sisters and states she is next heir to her cousin Richard Malmayn.

      She makes her principal beneficiary Lady Elianor Brown widow of Sir Thomas Brown and devises to Elianor her reversion of Richard Malmayn property of Pluke [near Tenterdon, Kent] and Waldersher, however she does not state if or what her connection is to Elianor Brown.

      I am fairly confident that this Lady Elianor Brown is the daughter of Sir Thomas Arundel/Fitzalan of Betchworth Castle himself brother of John (1387-1421) 12th Earl Arundel. Elianor m 1434 Thomas Browne, who was later knighted, and executed July 1460 during the Wars of the Roses, however in "The Brownes of Bechworth Castle" John Pym Yateman refers to a deed of 1461 where it is stated that Elianor had remarried to Thomas Vaughn (also shown in Faris), but the name Vaughn does not appear in Joan Knowght's will (or, at least, not in the extracts given by Testamenta Vetusta)

      Note: Subsequent correspondence to the above post, indicated the will was dated 1459, not 1469, which puts into doubt the death date of Thomas Browne, but I am sticking with the published source (Plantagenet Ancestry).

  • Sources 
    1. [S579] Jim Weber.

    2. [SAuth] Jim Carney, compiled by James H Carney [(E-ADDRESS), & MAILING ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Buderim, Queensland 4556 AUSTRALIA.

    3. [S161] The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States, by Gary Boyd Roberts, 1993, 231 (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S44] Newsgroup: soc.genealogy.medieval, at groups - google.com, Adrian Channing, 26 Jan 2002 (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S116] Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists, by David Faris, 2nd Edition 1999, NEHGS, 50-51 (Reliability: 3).