When Joan died without leaving children, Eleanor herself became the sole inheritor of his title.

Their children included:[2] Her husband was summoned to Parliament on 4 August 1377, for which he is regarded as 1st Baron Arundel,[8] and died in a shipwreck on 15 December 1379, his body being washed ashore in Ireland and buried there.

After obtaining an annulment of the marriage, followed by a papal dispensation waiving their consanguinity,[11] they married again on 29 September 1384.

[12] This did not however legalise the status of young Reginald, for when his father died in July 1403 his inheritance was seized by the king on the grounds that there was no legitimate male heir.

[citation needed] After her death, her grandfather's title passed to her grandson John FitzAlan, 13th Earl of Arundel, who was also called Baron Maltravers.