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 246 COMPLETE PEERAGE arundel London. He was made K.B. 12 Oct. 1399, and at Henry's coronation, 13 Oct., officiated as Pincerna. Early in 1400 he defeated the insurgent nobles, when his former guardian, John Holand, was captured and beheaded. In Oct. 1400 his father's attainder was reversed, and he was restored in blood and in honours as EARL OF ARUNDEL AND SURREY, taking his seat, though still a minor. He also had livery of all his father's estates. K.G. 1400. He fought with moderate success against the Welsh 1401-5, and was victorious against the rebels under Archbp. Scrope in 1405, and against the French in 141 1. By Henry V he was made High Treasurer 21 Mar. 141 2/3, and Warden of the Cinque Ports. He was at the taking of Harfleur, 1415. He w., 26 Nov. 1405, at Lambeth, in the presence of the Court, Beatrice, illegit. (but probably legitimated) da. of John 1, King of Portugal, (") by Inez Perez. She was one of the thirteen ladies for whom, on the feast of St. George, in 141 3, robes of the Order of the Garter were provided. C') Her right to dower being disputed, she, in 142 1, was naturalised. The Earl d. 13 Oct. 14 1 5, s.p., of dysentery (contracted shortly before at the siege of Harfleur), on his birthday, aged 34, at Arundel, and was bur. in the chapel there. (") Will dat. 10 Oct. 141 5. On his death, the estates and repre- sentation of the family of Warenne (Earls of Surrey) devolved on his three sisters and coheirs. C^) His widow m. (lie. 20 Jan. 1432/3) John (Holand), 2nd Earl of Huntingdon, who was Lieut, of Aquitaine (1437) and afterwards (1442/3) Duke of Exeter. She d. s.p., 23 Oct. 1439, at Bordeaux, and was bur. at Arundel. M.L (^) (') See an exhaustive article by Sir N. H. Nicolas, in Coll. Top. et Gen., vol. i, pp. 80-90. Her br. AfFonso, Duke of Braganza (ancestor of the future [1640] Kings of Portugal) was legitimated 20 Oct. 1401. See also a paper by Planche, 30 June i860, in the Archaological yournal. Her arms, without any mark of bastardy, are on her seal, her tomb, is'c. (") A list of these, from 50 Edw. Ill to 3 Hen. VII, is in Beltz's Order of the Garter, p. ccxxi, is'c. It appears to have been an actual dignity conferred, as, in several cases, the ladies so decorated were neither the wives nor widows of Knights of the Order. C) He was a capable military man, but savaa;e, revengeful, and self-seeking. V.G. C*) Viz,, (i) Elizabeth, Duchess of Norfolk, whose descendants (as senior heirs general) opposed the claim of the junior branch of the family of Fitz Alan (as heirs male) to the Earldom of Arundel. Her great-grandson John Mowbray (afterwards Duke of Norfolk), was in 145 1 cr. Earl of Warenne and Surrey, being ancestor to the present (1909) Lord Mowbray, who in her right is coh. to the ancient Earls of Arundel, of the family of Fitz Alan, prior to 14 1 5 ; as also is he (by the marriage, in 1749, of his paternal ancestor, William, Lord Stourton, with Winifred Howard) to all the succeeding Earls of Arundel, whether of the family of Fitz Alan or of Howard, from 141 5 (the above date) to 1777. (2) Joan, Baroness Abergavenny, widow, who d. 1434. (3) Margaret, wife of Sir Rowland Lenthal. See pedigree, ^«f. (°) she is erroneously stated, in the Visit, of Berks and elsewhere, to have m. Gilbert, 5th Lord Talbot, which lord did marry another Portuguese lady, also named Beatrice. V.G.