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Sir Robert Goushill was born in 1362 at Hoveringham, Nottinghamshire, and was the son of Nicholas Goushill. He was Knighted for gallantry at the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403, and died shortly after, being battle wounded and then murdered by a servant. (Both Sir Robert Goushill and his father Sir Nicholas Goushill appear by name in Shakespeare's play "King Henry IV"). The Goushill line can be traced back to an earlier Robert Goushill born c. 1130. Sir Robert Goushill married the widowed Duchess of Norfolk, Elizabeth FitzAlan, in 1401.
The couple had two daughters, Joan who married Thomas Stanley, and Elizabeth who married Robert Wingfield. Robert Goushill was the third of four husbands of Elizabeth FitzAlan, the others being Sir William de Montagu, Thomas Mowbry who was Duke of Norfolk, and after the death of Robert Goushill, Sir Gerald Usflete. Elizabeth FitzAlan was born about 1368, and was the daughter of Richard FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel, and his wife Elizabeth Bohun. Through her mother, Elizabeth FitzAlan is descended from King Edward I (the line we will follow). Through her father, she is descended from Edmund Plantagenet, brother of Edward I, both being sons of King Henry III and Eleanor of Provence. Elizabeth FitzAlan died on July 8, 1425.