Alice Cherleton, Baroness Cherleton (née Fitzalan; 1378–1415) was an

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noblewoman, being the daughter of

Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel Richard Fitzalan, 4th Earl of Arundel, 9th Earl of Surrey (1346 – 21 September 1397) was an English medieval nobleman and military commander. Lineage Born in 1346, he was the son of Richard Fitzalan, 3rd Earl of Arundel and Eleanor of Lancast ...

. She was the wife of John Charleton, 4th Baron Cherleton.

Family

Lady Alice was born in

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, Sussex in 1378, one of the seven children of Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel by his first wife

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. She had two brothers, including

Thomas Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel Thomas Fitzalan, 5th Earl of Arundel, 10th Earl of Surrey (13 October 1381 – 13 October 1415) was an English nobleman, one of the principals of the deposition of Richard II, and a major figure during the reign of Henry IV. Lineage He was ...

, and four sisters, Lady Eleanor FitzAlan, Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan, Lady

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, and Lady Margaret FitzAlan. Her paternal grandparents were

Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel Richard Fitzalan, 3rd Earl of Arundel, 8th Earl of Surrey ( 1313 – 24 January 1376) was an English nobleman and medieval military leader and distinguished admiral. Arundel was one of the wealthiest nobles, and most loyal noble retainer of the ...

and

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, and her maternal grandparents were

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and

Elizabeth de Badlesmere Elizabeth de Bohun (née de Badlesmere), Countess of Northampton (1313 – 8 June 1356) was the wife of two English noblemen, Sir Edmund Mortimer and William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton. She was a co-heiress of her brother Giles de Badl ...

. On 21 September 1397, her father was executed at

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for high treason against King

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Marriage and love affair

Sometime before March 1392 Alice married John Cherleton, 4th Lord Cherleton (25 April 1362 – 19 October 1401). According to popular belief, following her marriage she became the mistress of Cardinal

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, and bore him an illegitimate daughter, Jane Beaufort. In Philip Yorke's ''The Royal Tribes of Wales'', he states that "Cardinal Beaufort left an illegitimate daughter by Alice, daughter of Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel". Genealogist Douglas Richardson also mentions the alleged affair between Alice and the Cardinal. According to Richardson, there is "no contemporary evidence that Alice was either the mistress of Henry Beaufort, or that she was the mother of his illegitimate daughter, Joan, born say 1390."Douglas Richardson, ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,'' volume 5, page 52, note 4. Furthermore, the earliest appearance of the claim that Alice was the girl's mother is in ''The Winning of the Lordship of Glamorgan,'' written by a later Sir Edward Stradling, a descendant, between 1561 and 1566. Beaufort did indeed father an illegitimate daughter, Joan Beaufort, possibly before Henry took

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on 7 April 1397. Joan and Sir Edward Stradling had three sons and a daughter, Katherine. Alice's husband died on 19 October 1401, and she herself died before October 1415 around the age of 37.

References

Sources

* Philip Yorke, ''The Royal Tribes of Wales'' Google Books; accessed 30 August 2009. {{DEFAULTSORT:Cherleton, Alice FitzAlan, Baroness 1378 births 1415 deaths Daughters of British earls People from Arundel

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