| Eleanor Maltravers |
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| 1345 births | |
| maltravers, eleanor | |
| 1405 deaths | |
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The younger daughter of John Maltravers and his wife Gwenthin, she was co-heiress in 1350 to her brother, Henry Maltravers. She married Sir John Fitzalan , 1st Lord of Arundel. They were parents to seven children:
Eleanor 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 December 15 , 1379 . Eleanor married secondly (as his second wife) Sir Reynold Cobham , 2nd Lord Cobham of Sterborough (died July 6 , 1403 ), but in 1384 they were divorced on account of their Consanguinity and subsequently allowed to remarry with proper dispensation. On her death, Eleanor was buried with her first husband, John Fitzalan. |
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