Sir Thomas FitzAlan of Beechwood Castle in Kent

Kent

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, was a medieval English

English people

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 knight.

He was born to John Fitzalan, 2nd Lord Arundel and Elizabeth le Despenser

Elizabeth le Despenser

Elizabeth Despenser was an English noblewoman of the late 14th century. She should not be confused with another woman of that name, Elizabeth le Despenser, Baroness Berkeley, the daughter of Eleanor de Clare....

 and was a grandson of John Fitzalan

John FitzAlan, 1st Baron Arundel

John FitzAlan , 1st Baron Arundel was a Lord Marshal or Marshal of England.- Lineage :He was born in Etchingham, Sussex, England to Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel and his second wife Eleanor of Lancaster...

 (D'Arundel) and Eleanor Maltravers

Eleanor Maltravers

Eleanor Maltravers, 2nd Baroness Maltravers suo jure was an English noblewoman and heiress during the reigns of King Edward III of England and his successors....

 (Mautravers). Sir Thomas married Joan Moyns, and they were parents to Eleanor Fitzalan. She was married to Sir Thomas Browne

Thomas Browne (High Sheriff of Kent)

-Career:Sworn to the peace in Kent in 1434. He was Justice of Peace for Kent from 1436 to 24 Dec. 1450. He was Member of Parliament between 1439 and 1444 for Dover. He was High Sheriff of Kent in 1443-4, and then MP between 1445 and 1446 for Kent. He was present at Parliament in 1447 and 1449 as...

 of Bettsworth Castle in 1434. They had four sons and a daughter, and were ancestors of the poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron...

. Another descendant of theirs is the American Abolitionist, John Brown

John Brown (abolitionist)

John Brown was an American revolutionary abolitionist, who in the 1850s advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to abolish slavery in the United States. He led the Pottawatomie Massacre during which five men were killed, in 1856 in Bleeding Kansas, and made his name in the...

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