Mary Arundell (courtier)

Mary Arundell
Lanherne, St Mawgan, Cornwall, seat of the Arundells "of Lanherne"
Spouse(s)	Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel
Issue son who died in infancy Sir John Radcliffe
Father	Sir John Arundell (1474–1545)
Mother	Katherine Grenville
Died	20 or 21 October 1557 Bath House, London
Buried	St Clement Danes, London

Mary Arundell (died 20 or 21 October 1557), was the only child of Sir John Arundell (1474 – 1545) of Lanherne, Cornwall, by his second wife, Katherine Grenville. She was a gentlewoman at court in the reign of King Henry VIII, serving two of Henry VIII's Queens, and the King's daughter, Princess Mary. She was traditionally believed to have been "the erudite Mary Arundell", the supposed translator of verses now known to have been the work of her stepdaughter, Mary FitzAlan, later the first wife of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk.

Mary Arundell was the only child of Sir John Arundell (c.1474 – 8 February 1545) of Lanherne, Cornwall, and his second wife, Katherine Grenville (born 1489-93), a daughter of Sir Thomas Grenville (d.1513).

Mary Arundell's father, Sir John Arundell (d.1545), was the son and heir of Sir Thomas Arundell (c.1452–1485) (who after the defeat of King Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth (1485) supported Henry Tudor's claim to the throne) by his wife Katherine Dynham, one of the four sisters and coheirs of John Dynham, 1st Baron Dynham (c.1433 – 1501). Sir John Arundell was made a Knight of the Bath when the future King Henry VIII was created Duke of York in 1494, and led troops against the Cornish rebels in 1497 and in France in 1513, where he was made a knight banneret at the siege of Therouanne. He was appointed a justice in Cornwall in 1509, served on numerous commissions in the West Country, and was appointed Receiver of the Duchy of Cornwall by 1508. In 1539 he was appointed to the Council of the West.