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| Burial: Collegiate Church, Arundel, Sussex, England |
| Changed: 5 Aug 2007 12:34 |
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| Thomas Fettiplace (Husband) b. About 1397 in East Shefford, Berkshire, England
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| Marriage: | Abt 1427 5 Aug 2007 12:09 |
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 John Fettiplace b. About 1427 in Childrey, Berkshire, England
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| Gilbert Talbot K. G., Sheriff of Shropshire (Husband) b. 1452 in Albrighton, Shropshire, England
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| Marriage: | 5 Aug 2007 12:09 |
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| Thomas FitzAlan 17th Earl of Arundel (Husband) b. About 1450 in Arundel Castle, Sussex, England
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| Marriage: | 26 Nov 1405 5 Aug 2007 12:09 |
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| John Holland 3rd Duke of Exeter (Husband) b. 18 Mar 1395 in Dartington, Devon, England
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| Marriage: | 20 Jan 1433 5 Aug 2007 12:09 |
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The Lady Beatrice died Christmas Day, 1447, and she and her husband lie buried under a beautiful alabaster tomb in the little old and disused Church of East Shefford, their great-grandson, John, and his wife, Dorothy Danvers, being buried close by under a fine canopied tomb of Purbeck marble. Both church and tombs the permanent preservation of which is sincerely to be desired, have been already so fully described by the late J. R. Planché, and Mr. Walter Money, F.S.A., that the subject needs no amplification here, beyond recording the interesting information, confirmed by Mr. W. St. John Hope, an eminent authority on English Alabaster Monuments, that the configuration of the angels' wings on the tomb of Sir Thomas Fettiplace, and the orle, or fillet, encircling the bascinet of his effigy, clearly prove the whole composition to have been executed in the workshops of Thomas Prentys and Robert Sutton, of Chellaston in Derbyshire, the school from whence so many of the richest and most celebrated examples of sculptured tombs in this beautiful material emanated at the later end of the 14th and first part of the 15th Centuries, including, curiously enough, what is, perhaps, as sumptuous a memorial as any existing, that of Thomas, Earl of Arundel, and his Countess, Beatrice, daughter of King John I. of Portugal.The death of Sir Thomas Fettiplace could not have occurred before 1442, for in that year a Commission was issued to him and others "to treat with spiritual and secular persons in the said County (Berks) for a loan to the King in his present necessity, and to bring the same to the receipt of the Exchequer "-and this appears to be the last mention of his name in official documents. He left three sons, William of Stokenchurch, Oxon, James of Maidencote, Berks, and John
Widow of Sir Gilbert, Lord Talbot, Baron of Blakemere and Irchenfeld, elder brother of John, first Earl of Shrewsbury.
---Also given by some as Beatrice Kinge, (b 1403 Poturgal) dau of Alphoncius Kinge.
---Of the Lady Beatrice and the endless, but rather unconvincing, arguments concerning her birth and parentage, little must here be said. That she was of the Portuguese Royal House can hardly be questioned, although the argument against her being a daughter of King John I is probably correct, and that in favour of her being a Pinto, or Souza, possible. Her quartered arms, and her marriage with Lord Talbot, whose first wife was Joan Plantagenet, granddaughter of King Edward III, indicates her royal descent, her mother, as likely as not, being a Pinto or Souza. Bishop White Kennett states: " the family received a great addition of 'blood and honour by marrying Beatrix, daughter of the King of Portugal, which match is mentioned and allowed of in the pedigree of the Kings of Portugal" - and it is to be heartily wished that he had left a record of the source of his information. Mr. T. C. Button says that Beatrice was in some way related to Peter the Cruel, King of Castile, and the Harl. MS. 5867 records that Sir Thomas Fettiplace "married the Ladye Beatryce, Countesse of Shrewsburye and daughter of Alphoncious, King of Portugal" - the MS. being obviously incorrect as regards Beatrice being Countess of Shrewsbury, for it was her brother-in-law, not her husband, who bore this title. But whatever the theories of Planché and other writers on this subject may be, no notice appears to have been taken of the following letter, a copy of which is to be found amongst the correspondence of a late Rector of East Shefford, and as the marriage of Sir Thomas Fettiplace with the widow of Gilbert Talbot is the one fact that has never been disputed.
---Beatrix, Countess of Arundel. Daughter of John I, King of Portugal and Donna Agnes Perez. Married 1st Thomas (Fitzalan), 5th Earl of Arundel, K.G.; 2ndly Gilbert, Lord Talbot, K.G.; 3rdly Thomas Fettiplace; 4thly John (Holland), Earl of Huntingdon, K.G.
Made a Lady of the Garter 1413.
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