Eleanor Maltravers, 2nd Baroness Maltravers

Eleanor Maltravers, 2nd Baroness Maltravers (Mautravers) suo jure (1345/c. 1346 – 10/12 January 1404/1405) was an English noblewoman and heiress during the reigns of King Edward III of England and his successors.

The younger daughter of Sir John Maltravers (Mautravers) and his wife Gwenthin or Gwenthlian, she was co-heiress in 1350 to her brother, Henry Maltravers. She married before 4 August 1357 or on 17 February 1358/1359 Sir John FitzAlan (D'Arundel), 1st Baron Arundel.

They were parents to six children:

• Joan FitzAlan (c. 1360 – 1 September 1404). She was married first to Sir William de Echingham and secondly to William de Brien.
• John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel (3 November 1364 – 14 August 1390), who married Elizabeth le Despenser.
  • They had three sons:
    • John FitzAlan, 13th Earl of Arundel (1385–1421).
    • Edmund FitzAlan.
    • Sir Thomas FitzAlan of Beechwood (died 1430). He was married to Joan Moyns.
• Richard FitzAlan (c. 1366 – 3 June 1419). His daughter Joan married Thomas Willoughby of Parham, a grandson of Alayne FitzAlan, daughter of Edmund Fitzalan, 8th Earl of Arundel.
• Henry Fitzlangley (c. 1369–1428). He was married to Alice Lnu.
• Sir William Arundel (c. 1369–1400). He was a Knight of the Garter.
• Margaret FitzAlan (c. 1372 – 3 July 1438). She was married to William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros.

Eleanor succeeded to the title of 2nd Baroness Maltravers on 16 February 1364/1365 and was a legatee in the 1375 will of her step-grandmother, Agnes, Lady Maltravers. She was sole heiress in or after 1383 to her sister, Joan Maltravers, wife of Robert Roos, by which she became Lady Maltravers. Sir John Fitzalan died at sea on 15 December 1379.

Eleanor married secondly (as his second wife) Reginald de Cobham, 2nd Baron Cobham, of Sterborough (died 6 July 1403), but in 1384 they were divorced on account of their consanguinity, as they were within three degrees of consanguinity, and subsequently allowed to remarry with proper dispensation from the Archbishop of Canterbury on 9 September 1384. On her death, Eleanor was buried with her first husband, John FitzAlan. Her will, dated 26 September 1404, was probated on 16 January 1404/1405 at Maidstone, Kent, desiring her to be buried at Lewes Priory.

References

• Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Lines: 9-33, 21-32, 59-35, 212-34