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 248 COMPLETE PEERAGE arundel recognised, (") he was, when of age, sum. to Pari, on 12 July and 3 Aug. (1429) 7 Hen. VI, by writs directed Johanni ArundelV de ArundeW Chivaler^ whereby he is held to have become LORD ARUNDEL. (") In Dec. 1 43 1 he was at the coronation of Henry VI at Paris. He greatly distinguished himself in the French wars, and was made Capt. of the Castle of Rouen in Feb. 143 1/2. On 22 Apr. 1432 he was cr. K.G. ; and in Nov. 1433 his petition to be considered Earl of Arundel, (") by tenure of the Castle of Arundel^ was allowed, but he was never afterwards sum. to Pari, either as an Earl or a Baron. He was cr., in 1434, DUKE OF TOURAINE in France, by the Regent Bedford. He m., istly (or, more probably, was contracted when a minor to), Constance, da. of John (Corn- wall), Lord Fanhope, by Elizabeth, da. of John of Gaunt, ('') Duke OF Lancaster. She d. s.p. and v.p., before 1429. He m., 2ndly, before 1429, C) Maud, widow of Sir Richard Stafford (who d. about 1427), da. of Robert Lovell, by Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Sir Guy Bryene, who was 1st s. and h. ap. of Sir Guy de Bryene [Lord Bryene]. The Earl having been severely wounded and taken prisoner at the siege of Gerberoy, in the Beau- vaisis, in May 1435, ^^^ carried to Beauvais, where his leg was amputated. He d. there a few weeks afterwards, 12 June 1435, and was bur. in the Grey Friars there, though, in accordance with his will dat. 8 Apr. 1430, pr. 15 Feb. 1435/6, his body was reinterred in a noble tomb at Arundel. (*) His widow d. 19 May 1436. Will, directing her burial to be at the Abbey of Abbotsbury, dat. 1 1 May 1436, pr. 25 Oct. following. XX. 1435. 15 or 8. Humphrey (Fitz Alan), Earl of Arundel, &c., only child by 2nd wife, b. 30 Jan. 1429, d. unm. 24 Apr. 1438, in his loth year, when the Dukedom of Touraine (*) became extinct. (") XXI. 1438. 16 or 9. William (Fitz Alan otherwise Mautravers), Earl of Arundel, fffc, uncle and h. He was b. 23 Nov. 141 7, and, when of full age, obtained livery of his lands in Nov. 1438. C) " Qui se dicit Com. Arundell'. " {Rot. Exit., Mich., 8 Hen. VI.) C) In Early Chanc. Proc, Bundle 9, no. 467, he is spoken of, 15 Hen. VI {1436-7), as ' sometime Lord of Arundell and Maltravers. ' V.G. Q See page 231, note " b. " f) As to his supposed name of ' Plantagenet, ' see ante, p. 183. V.G. (') On 4 Kal. May 1429, as John de Arundell' et de Mawtrewers, Knight, he and ' his present wife ' had a Papal indult. V.G. (') He was a dashing partisan leader, standing over 6ft. high, equally brilliant in tournaments and real war. He was known as the English Achilles, and indeed " Impiger, iracundus, inexorabilis, acer " seems very fairly to describe him. Polydore Vergil calls him " a man of singular valour, constancy, and gravity. " V.G. (*) The tide of Duke of Touraine was afterwards conferred by the French King, Charles VII, on Archibald (Douglas), 3rd Earl of Douglas [S.], in 1424, but became extinct on failure of his issue male, in 1440. C") His maternal inheritance, the property of the Bryene family, passed to his half sister, Avice StafiFord, b. 4 Dec. 1423, who m. James Butler, afterwards Earl of Wiltshire. See an article, by B.W.Greenfield, in N. & Q., 5th Ser., vol. iii, p. 172.