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 ARUNDEL COMPLETE PEERAGE 247 XVIII. 141 5. 13 or 6. John d'Arundel, (who, according to the admission of 1433 (") abovenamed, may be considered) Earl of Arundel by tenure of the Castle, cousin and h. male, being s. and h. of John d'Arundel (by Elizabeth, da. of Edward (") le Des- penser), which last-named John (who never was sum. as a Baron) was s. and h. of John d'Arundel (sum. to ParLC") 1377-1379), who was br. of the whole blood of Richard (xv) iith or 4th Earl of Arundel. He was b. I Aug. 1385, at Ditton manor, in Stoke Pogis, Bucks, sue. his father 14 Aug. 1390, was cr. K.B. 12 Oct. 1399, became de jure Lord Mautravers by the death of his grandmother juo jure Baroness Mautravers] on 10 Jan. 1404/5, but was never sum. to Pari, as a Baron, though frequently Styled Lord Mautravers. He was in the French wars in 1415, in which year he sue. to the Castle and Honour of Arundel as afsd., and (according to some authorities) is said to have been sum. to Pari, as EARL OF ARUNDEL, 3 Sep. 1416, ('^) 4 Hen. V, though (probably owing to the opposition of the great family of Mowbray, the heirs gen. of the former Earls of Arundel) never afterwards. He m., before 1407, Eleanor, da. of Sir John Berkeley, of Beverstone, co. Gloucester, by his ist wife, Eliza- beth, da. and h. of Sir John Betteshorne, of Betteshorne in Sopley, Hants. He d. 21 Apr. 142 1, and was bur. at Arundel. His widow ?n., about 1423, Sir Richard Poynings, who was s. and h. ap. of Robert, Lord Poynings, but who d. v.p., about 1430. She m., 3rdly, before 8 May 1439, Walter (Hungerford), Lord Hungerford, K.G., who d. 1449. She d. Aug. 1455, and was bur. at Arundel. Will (in which she styles herself " Countess of Arundel and Lady Mautravers, " and speaks of her 1st husband as " John, Earl of Arundel ") dat. 20 July 1455, pr. 23 Aug. following. XIX. 142 1. 14 or 7. John d'Arundel (who, in right either of his father's writ, or of the admission of 1433 (") abovenamed, may be considered) Earl of Arundel, s. and h. He was b. 14 Feb. 1407/8, at Lytchett Mautravers, Dorset. On 19 May 1426 he was cr. K.B. at Leicester, by the young King, under the name of " Dominus de Maultravers. " His claim to the Earldom of Arundel not having been (*) See p. 231, note " b. " ("*) See pedigree in Topographer and Genealogist, vol. ii, p. 336. (') The writs were directed "Johanni de Arundell, and were probably issued owing to his marriage with Eleanor, mo jure Baroness Mautravers. Neither his s. nor grandson was so sum., nor his great-grandson (John) till 1429 (when the Baroness was dead), while his great-great-grandson (Thomas) was sum. in 1452 as Thomas Arundeir de Matravers miles ; and (Henry) the grandson of this last was sum. in 1533 as Henricui Fitz Alan de Maltravers Chivaler. C") See full account of this mysterious sum. and its subsequent partial erasure (between 1658 and 1688) from the roll, in Tierney's History of Arundel, vol. i, p. loi, note. Sir C.G.Young states of this Lord that " it does not appear that the title [of Earl] was ever attributed to him during his lifetime, " and that the will of his widow was not made till " some years after her son was recognised as Earl. " See Coll. Top. et Gen., vol. vi, p. 16. See also Betham's Dignities, p. 180.