Beatrice, Countess of Arundel

Beatrice of Portugal (Portuguese: Beatriz [bi.ɐˈtɾiʃ]; c. 1380[1] – November 1439[2]), LG, was a natural daughter of John I of Portugal and Inês Pires born before the marriage of her father with Philippa of Lancaster.[3] She was a sister of Afonso, Duke of Braganza and half-sister of King Edward of Portugal, Infante Peter, Duke of Coimbra, Henry the Navigator, Isabella of Portugal, John, Lord of Reguengos de Monsaraz, and Ferdinand the Saint Prince. Queen Philippa was in charge of the education of both of her husband's children out of wedlock.[3]

For other uses of this term, see Beatrice of Portugal (disambiguation).
Beatrice of Portugal, Countess of Arundel

Beatrice was born ca. 1380,[1] possibly in Veiros, Alentejo, Portugal. In April 1405 her wedding with Thomas Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel by proxy was celebrated in Lisbon and, in the same year, she travelled to England, accompanied by her brother Afonso and many of the king's vassals and her ladies-in-waiting where the marriage ceremony took place on 26 November 1405 in London, with King Henry IV in attendance.[3]

Thomas died on 13 October 1415. Beatrice then married Gilbert Talbot, 5th Baron Talbot, then John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon in 1432, and finally Talbot's steward, Thomas Fettiplace of East Shefford in Berkshire.

The Peerage of England is a multivolume book written in 1756 outlining the genealogy of the Peers of England. The following is from page 406+, and as it is out of copyright is quoted in full here.

Sir Gilbert Talbot, Kt. Lord of Irchenfield and Blackmere, died on October 19 in 1419, having married two wives, first Joan, second daughter of Thomas (of Woodstock) Duke of Gloucester, youngest son of King Edward III and co-heir to her brother Humphrey Earl of Buckingham; and secondly Beatrix, an illegitimate daughter of John I King of Portugal, and widow of Thomas Earl of Arundel, as appears by letter from the King her father to Sir John Pelham, in 1416 who being a favourite of that Monarch, the King of Portugal desires him, To shew the Lady Beatrix his daughter (being deprived of her husband the Earl of Arundel) the same favour he had before shewn to her. This Lady Beatrix was, thirdly, the wife of John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon; and, after his death, of John Fettiplace, ancestor, by her, of the Baronets of that name, seated at Childry in Berkshire. By her first husband she had no issue; but by the Lord Talbot she had an only daughter Ankaret, who died in the fourth year of her age, on Dec 13, the feast day of St Lucia the virgin, 1421.

Beatrice died in Bordeaux, France in November 1439.

Ancestry

References
  1. Santos Silva 2007, p. 78.
  2. Santos Silva 2007, p. 89.
  3. Rodrigues Oliveira 2010, p. 412.

Bibliography
  • Rodrigues Oliveira, Ana (2010). Rainhas medievais de Portugal. Dezassete mulheres, duas dinastias, quatro séculos de História (in Portuguese). Lisbon: A esfera dos livros. ISBN 978-989-626-261-7.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Santos Silva, Manuela (2007). "O casamento de D. Beatriz de Portugal (filha natural de D. João I) com Thomas Fitzalan (Conde de Arundel) – paradigma documental da negociaçião de uma aliança". Problematizar a História (in Portuguese). Casal de Cambra: Caleidoscópio. pp. 77–91. OCLC 828194156.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Further reading
  • Douglas Richardson's Royal Ancestry (2013), Vol. II, pp. 538–539 & 613, and Vol. V, p. 119
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