In 1404, he espoused Beatrice, an illegitimate daughter of the King of Portugal. The King and Queen were present at the wedding feast, which was kept at London. In 1411 he was sent into France, accompanied by certain nobles, knights, and men-at-arms, to aid the Duke of Burgundy against the Duke of Orleans, and performed good service in the cause of the former^a. He died on the 13th October, 1416, having directed by his last will that his body should be buried in the choir of the collegiate church of the Holy Trinity at Arundel [Map], under a tomb to be there erected to his memory. On his monument are the effigies delineated in the Plates. He directed £130 to be expended on his funeral, and in celebrating masses for the good of his soul. He gave other sums to religious and pious uses, between which terms a distinction in the days of superstition is obviously to be drawn.

Beatrice his wife survived, and in 1432 license was granted for her marriage with John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon, afterwards Duke of Exeter; but this alliance does not appear to have taken place. She died at Bourdeaux in 1439.

Note a. See Stow's Annals, 4to. edit. p. 541.

The Earl wears the collar of SS. a decoration introduced by his sovereign Henry the Fourth^b.

Note b. See our observations on the collar of SS. in the account of the effigy of Henry the Fourth, who seems to have made this emblem of his sovereignty an honorary mark of distinction; we find it employed as such by his son Henry the Fifth at the battle of Agincourt. "He exhorted such of his train as were not noble to demean themselves well in the fight, he promised them letters of nobility, and to distinguish them he gave them leave to wear his collar of SS." "Il leur donna conge de porter un Collier seme de lettres S de son ordre." Chronique des Ursins, as quoted by Favines in his "Theater of Honour and Knighthood." Translation, edit. 1623, Book 5, p. 67.