PORTUGAL, Countess Beatrice Brites

1386 - 1439  (53 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	PORTUGAL, Beatrice Brites
  Prefix	Countess
  Birth	1386	Alentejo, Coimbra, Portugal
  Gender	Female
  _TAG	Reviewed on FS
  Death	23 Oct 1439	Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France
  Burial	23 Oct 1439	Arundel, Sussex, England
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  Person ID	I46008	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	PORTUGAL, King Joao ,   b. 11 Apr 1357, Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugald. 14 Aug 1433, Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F24040	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	FITZALAN, Earl Thomas ,   b. 13 Oct 1381, Arundel, Sussex, England Arundel, Sussex, Englandd. 13 Oct 1415, Arundel, Sussex, England (Age 34 years)
  Marriage	26 Nov 1405	Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
  Family ID	F23976	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Bastard of Portugal. Beatrice of Portugal (Portuguese pronunciation: [biɐˈtɾiʃ]; c. 1386 – 1439), LG (English: Beatrice or Beatrix) was a natural daughter of John I of Portugal and Inês Pires. She was a sister of Afonso, Duke of Braganza and half-sister of King Edward of Portugal, Infante Peter, Duke of Coimbra, Henry the Navigator, Isabella of Portugal, John, Lord of Reguengos de Monsaraz, and Ferdinand the Saint Prince. Beatrice was born c. 1386, possibly in Veiros, Alentejo, Portugal, and married Thomas Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel on 26 November 1405 in London, with King Henry IV in attendance. Thomas died on 13 October 1415. She may have married John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon in 1432. She was invested as a lady of the Order of the Garter (LG). She died in Bordeaux, France 13 November 1439. She is sometimes confused with another Portuguese lady, Beatrice, wife of Gilbert Talbot, 5th Baron Talbot and subsequently of his steward, Thomas Fettiplace of East Shefford in Berkshire. tHIS author believes that (1) the father is Alphonso - per visitation of Berkshire 1532 and 1566 possibly given by John Fettiplace a great grandson of Beatrice living 1566. (2)The coat of arms indicates Beatrice to be illeg or of an illeg line with royal crescents there on. J.R Planche in the Journal of the British Archaeological Association V 16 states that " it is obvious from the quartering of the crescents by the latter , that she could not have been the daug of any king though prob a desc of one....Yet the royal crown of Portugal and the algarves stands at the head of the pedigrees for Fetteplace" (3)She is definitely NOT the daug of King Alphonso who died in 1350 before Beatrice was born. She is more likely daughter of the Alphonso the Duke of Braganza who was son of Joh the King of Portugal. (4) Beatrice is not the daug of King John of Portugal. That Beatrice married h Thomas Arundel She appears to be her niece here and hence the confusion for the two. (5) the mother here is also a Beatrice which fact does not injure this connection assumption. (6) this connection fits the dates perfectly (7) Beatrice's 3rd son John was " of the household of Henry VI , to carry the garter to the King of Portugal in Nov 1455" (8) her grandfather , here, King John of Portugal whose wife was Phillipa of England, sister of Henry IV and hence the connection to England's royal house.