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     Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne.

     9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne.

     John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, also called John de Arundel (30 November 1364 – 14 August 1390), of Buckland, Surrey, was the son of John FitzAlan, 1st Baron Arundel and Eleanor Maltravers.

John was with the army in Scotland in 1383 and with the English Fleet in the western coast of France.

He married Elizabeth le Despenser, daughter of Edward le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer (Despenser), by Elizabeth Burghersh, daughter and heiress of Bartholomew de Burghersh, 2nd Baron Burghersh. They had three sons:

John de Arundel, Lord Maltravers and Arundel, sometime Earl of Arundel
Thomas Fitzalan
Edward or Edmund Arundel.
Margaret (married to William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros).
Sir John de Arundel, 2nd Lord Arundel, died on 14 August 1390, and was buried at Missenden Abbey, Buckinghamshire.¹ 2nd Baron Arundel.

     Elizabeth Despenser (died 10 April 1408) was an English noblewoman of the late 14th century. She should not be confused with another woman of that name, Elizabeth le Despenser, Baroness Berkeley, the daughter of Eleanor de Clare.

She was the daughter of Sir Edward le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer, by Elizabeth Burghersh, daughter and heiress of Bartholomew de Burghersh, 2nd Baron Burghersh.

She married Sir John Fitzalan, 2nd Lord Arundel. They had three sons:

John de Arundel, Lord Maltravers, and Lord Arundel.
Thomas Fitzalan.
Edward/Edmund Arundel.
Margaret (married to William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros)
Sir John de Arundel, 2nd Baron Arundel, died on 14 August 1390, and was buried at Missenden Abbey, Buckinghamshire.

Elizabeth married secondly, apparently after 28 April 1393 (as his second wife), William la Zouche, 3rd Baron Zouche of Haryngworth (d. 13 May 1396). They had no children.

Her will requested burial at Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire.¹

     John FitzAlan, (D' Arundel) 1st Baron Arundel (c. 1348 – December 16, 1379) was a Marshal of England.

He was born in Etchingham, Sussex, England to Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel and his second wife Eleanor of Lancaster (Eleanor Plantagenet).

Betchworth CastleJohn was appointed Marshal by Richard II of England in 1377. He was summoned to Parliament 4 August 1377, by writ directed Johanni de Arundell.

On 26 July 1379[1] [2]he was given license to crenellate (i.e., permission to fortify) a stone castle on the site of an 11th century earthwork fortress in Surrey. Over the years since then the structure was rebuilt and remodelled and its remains are now known as Betchworth Castle.

Being in command of a naval expedition in aid to the Duke of Brittany, he defeated the French fleet off the coast of Cornwall.

Commanding a force with the purpose of bringing relief to the Duke of Brittany, Sir John was compelled to wait for stronger winds. During this wait he decided to take refuge in a nunnery, where his men "took no notice of the sanctity of the place and... violently assaulted and raped"[3] those they found inside. Further to this Sir John "allowed his men to ransack the countryside as they liked and to impoverish the people"[4]. When the force eventually set out to sea, carrying with them goods stolen from a nearby church and under a pronouncement of excommunication from the wronged priests, the expedition was caught in a storm. Thomas Walsingham reports that during the panic of the storm, Sir John murdered those of his men who refused to make for shore for fear of being shipwrecked upon the rocks. Subsequently, after safely arriving on an island off the Irish coast, Sir John and his boat captain were swept back into the sea and drowned[5].

He was buried in Lewes, Sussex.

He was also an ancestor of the poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley.

On February 17, 1358, John was married to Lady Eleanor Maltravers (Mautravers) (1345 – January 10), 1404/1406, daughter of John Maltravers and Gwenthin. They had at least four children.¹ 1st Lord of Arundel.

     Countess of Arundel.