Amanda, Amanda McCormick wrote: >Hello all, >I am new to the list and was wondering if anyone could help me with information on one of my ancestors. Her name was Eleanor PLANTAGENET b 1311and d. 1376. She married Robert FITZALAN d. 1376. I would like to find our who her parents were and if she was a member of the royal family. > >Thank you, >Amanda >Boise, Idaho > Who you seem to have here is Eleanor de Lancaster (1311-1372), daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud Chaworth. Henry de Lancaster was the grandson of Henry III, King of England, making Eleanor Henry III's great-granddaughter. Eleanor was the wife of (1) Sir John de Beaumont, Earl of Buchan (1318-1342) and (2) Sir Richard 'Cropped Hat' FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel (~1313-1376). The name Plantagenet was not used as a surname until about the middle of the fifteenth century and Eleanor, while descended from Plantagenet kings (the name given the royal house to distinguish it from other dynasties), was a Lancaster. If this is correct, your descendant would be one of Eleanor's children from her second marriage: Richard, Alice, John, Thomas (Edward), Joane, Mary, Eleanor, or Edmund FitzAlan. Jim