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Robert DE LA POLE
born - England - 1350
died - England -
married - England -
Alianore FITZ ALAN
born - England -
died - England -
Children
1. Christiana DE LA POLE 1394

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"Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) 19:769-772
This source gives Richard Fitz Alan and Elizabeth de Bohun as having at least
eight children and then names them. The Alianor Fitz Alan who married Robert
de Ufford is the daughter of Richard Fitz Alan and Alianor de Lancaster, this
Alianor then being the sister to her father.
Burke's Extinct and Dormant Peerages (not to be considered as reliable and
not to be cited as a primary reference) gives correctly that Alianor daughter of
Richard Fitz Alan and Alianor de Lancaster as the Alianor who married Robert
de Ufford, but does not give a daughter Alianor to Richard Fitz Alan and
Elizabeth de Bohun.'

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Richard Fitz Alan - 10th Earl of Arundel
born -1346
died - Cheapside - beheaded - 21 Sep 1397
burial - London - Church of the Augustin Friars - Bread Street
married - contract - 28 Sep 1359
Elizabeth de Bohun
born -
died - 3 Apr 1385
burial - Lewes Priory -
Children
1. Children Richard Fitz Alan
2 .Elizabeth Fitz Alan 1375
3. Alianore Fitz Alan
4. Alice Fitz Alan 1373 - 1375
5 Joan Fitz Alan 1375
6. Thomas Fitz Alan , 11th Earl of Arundel 13 Oct 1381
7. William Fitz Alan AFT 1381
8. Margaret Fitz Alan
9. Isabel Fitz Alan 1374 - 1384

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Richard Fitz Alan "Copped Hat", 9th Earl of Arundel
born - 1313
died - Arundel Castle - 24 Jan 1375 -1376
burial - Lewes Priory
married - Ditton - 5 Feb 1344 - 1345
Alianore of Lancaster
born - 1318
died - Arundel Castle - 11 Jan 1371 - 1372
burial - Lewes Priory
Children
1. Richard Fitz Alan - 10th Earl of Arundel 1346
2.John de Arunde - l Sir Knt. - Lord Arundel
3. Joan Fitz Alan
4. Alice Fitz Alan 1359
5. Alianore Fitz Alan

Alianore of Lancaster
marriage 1 - John de Beaumont Knt.,, 2nd Baron Beaumont - beforeJun 1337
marriage 2 - Richard Fitz Alan "Copped Hat", 9th Earl of Arundel - 5 Feb 1344 -
1345

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Edmund Fitz Alan (Sir), 8th Earl of Arundel
born - 1 May 1285
died - Hereford - beheaded - 17 Nov 1326
married - 1306
Alice de Warenne
born -
died - Before 23 May 1338
Children
1. Richard Fitz Alan "Copped Hat", 9th Earl of Arundel 1313
2 .Alice Fitz Alan
3. Aline Fitz Alan 1305
4. Elizabeth Fitz Alan

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Richard Fitz Alan (Sir), 7th Earl of Arundel
born - 3 Feb 1266 - 1267
died - 9 Mar 1301 - 1302
married - Before 1285
Alasia de Saluzzo
"Kinswoman of the king, Edward I, through his mother Eleanor of Provence."
born -
died - 25 Sep 1292
Children
1 .Edmund Fitz Alan (Sir), 8th Earl of Arundel:- 1 May 1285
2. Margaret Fitz Alan
3. Alianor Fitz Alan
4. Alice Fitz Alan 1280

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John Fitz Alan
born -14 Sep 1246
died - 18 Mar 1271 - 1272
married -
Isabella Mortimer
born -
died -
Children
1. Richard Fitz Alan (Sir), 7th Earl of Arundel 3 Feb 1266/1267
2. Maud Fitz Alan

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Isabella Mortimer
"In 1307 Isabel Mortimer, widow of John Fitz Alan had the Seigneury of
Stawardyn-in-bosco, with Montford, Hedenesdon (Ensdon), Forton, Ness, Little
Milford and Shrawardine. Richard Hodgson"

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John Fitz Alan
Isabella Mortimer
more information - History of Stanwardine in the Wood
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John Fitz Alan - Earl of Arundel
born -
died - vefore 10 Nov 1267
married -
Maud le Boteler
born -
died - 27 Nov 1283
Children
1. John Fitz Alan - 6th Earl of Arundel 14 Sep 1246

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John Fitz Alan Lord of Clun and Oswestry
born -
died - 1240
married -
Isabel d'Aubigny
born -
died -
Children
1. John Fitz Alan - Earl of Arundel

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William Fitz Alan - feudal Baron of Oswestry
born -
died - 1213
married -
unkown
born -
died -
Children
1. John Fitz Alan , Lord of Clun and Oswestry
2. William Fitz Alan , Baron of Clun and Oswestry

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William, Fitz Alan - feudal Baron of Oswestry
Sheriff of Shropshire
born -
died - 1160
married -
Isabel de Say
born -
died -
Children
1. William Fitz Alan - feudal Baron of Oswestry

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Alan Fitz Flaald - feudal Baron of Oswestry
"Lord High Chancellor of Scotland?
Other sources have him marrying the daughter of Alan of Galloway
Sheriff of Shropshire, living 1091-1122"
born -
died - 1153
married -
Aveline de Hesdin
born -
died -
Children
1. Jordan, Hereditary Steward of Dol
2. William, Fitz Alan , feudal Baron of Oswestry
3. Walter Fitz Alan , 1st Great Steward of Scotland
4. Simon Fitz Flaald

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Flaald, Herediary Steward of Dol
"Flaald or Fleald; living 1080; active on the Welsh border c1101. [Burke's
Peerage]
FLAALD Dapifer, the second son of ALAN "Dapifer", occurs as "Float filius Alani
dapiferi" at the dedication of Monmouth Priory 1101. He is also mentioned as
brother of Alan, the other "Dapifer." He left a son ALAN , Sheriff of Shropshire"
born - 31 Dec 1059
died - Palestine - 1 Jan 1114
married -
unkown
born -
died -
Children
1.Alan Fitz Flaald , feudal Baron of Oswestry

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Alan - Hereditary Dapifer of Dol in Bretagne
born - Before 1043
died -
married -
unkown
born -
died -
Children
1.Alan - Hereditary steward of Dol
2.Flaald, Herediary Steward of Dol: 31 Dec 1059
3.Rhiwallan of Dol , a monk of St. Florent at Saumur

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Flaald - Seneschal (Dapifer) of Dol
born - before 1032
died - After 1064
married -
unkown
born -
died -

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Hamon (Aimon) de Thouars, 1st Vicomte de Dinan
"aka Haimon de Domnonee Comte de Domnonee
The Dinan's were a cadet of the ruling house of Bretagne.
Hamon was also the father of a bastard son."
Raentlina (Roanteline, Vicomtesse de Dol

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Aimery III de Thouars
Judith
40
Herbert , Vicomte de Thouars - death 13 May 0988
Aldegarde d'Aunay
41
Aimery (Amauri) II, Vicomte de Thouars - death 13 May 0988
Alianor (Hardovine)
42
Aimery (Amauri) I, Vicomte de Thouars - death - 0956
Aremburge
43
Aimery (Amauri) I, Vicomte de Thouars - death by 936
Aremburge
44
Geoffrey, Vicomte de Thouars

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Flaald, Herediary Steward of Dol
"Flaald or Fleald; living 1080; active on the Welsh border c1101. [Burke's
Peerage]
FLAALD Dapifer, the second son of ALAN "Dapifer", occurs as "Float filius Alani
dapiferi" at the dedication of Monmouth Priory 1101. He is also mentioned as
brother of Alan, the other "Dapifer." He left a son ALAN , Sheriff of Shropshire"
born - 31 Dec 1059
died - Palestine - 1 Jan 1114
married -
unkown
born -
died -
Children
1.Alan Fitz Flaald , feudal Baron of Oswestry

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Alan - Hereditary Dapifer of Dol in Bretagne
born - Before 1043
died -
married -
unkown
born -
died -
Children
1.Alan - Hereditary steward of Dol
2.Flaald, Herediary Steward of Dol: 31 Dec 1059
3.Rhiwallan of Dol , a monk of St. Florent at Saumur

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Flaald - Seneschal (Dapifer) of Dol
born - before 1032
died - After 1064
married -
unkown
born -
died -

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Hamon (Aimon) de Thouars, 1st Vicomte de Dinan
"aka Haimon de Domnonee Comte de Domnonee
The Dinan's were a cadet of the ruling house of Bretagne.
Hamon was also the father of a bastard son."
Raentlina (Roanteline, Vicomtesse de Dol

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Aimery III de Thouars
Judith
40
Herbert , Vicomte de Thouars - death 13 May 0988
Aldegarde d'Aunay
41
Aimery (Amauri) II, Vicomte de Thouars - death 13 May 0988
Alianor (Hardovine)
42
Aimery (Amauri) I, Vicomte de Thouars - death - 0956
Aremburge
43
Aimery (Amauri) I, Vicomte de Thouars - death by 936
Aremburge
44
Geoffrey, Vicomte de Thouars
"have given eight children for Richard Fitz Alan and Elizabeth de Bohun as they are
listed in his biography published in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(reproduced in full below). In addition there are claims for a ninth child Isabel, born in
1374 or 1384.

Cokayne, George Edward (1910) The Complete Peerage of England, 1:26, 244-245
11 or 4. Richard (Fitz Alan), Earl of Arundel, and Earl of Surrey, s. and h., by 2nd wife, b.
in 1346. He was bearer of the Crown at the coronation of Richard II, 16 July 1377, was
a member of the Council, and was made Admiral of the West and South, 1377, and
subsequently, 1386, of all England. K.G. 1386. He distinguished himself in the French
wars, gaining a brilliant naval victory over the allied French, Spanish, and Flemish
fleets, off Margate, 24 Mar. 1387, and was made Gov. of Brest in 1388, being one of the
5 Lords Appellant in the Parl. of that year. Together with the Duke of Gloucester he took
an active part against the King, who, in 1388, was entirely in that Duke's power. In
1394 he obtained pardon for all political offences, but was treacherously seized, 12
July 1397, tried at Westm., and beheaded in Cheapside, 21 Sep. 1397. He m. (cont.
dat. 28 Sep., Papal disp. the same month, 1359) Elizabeth, da. of William (de Bohun),
Earl of Northampton, by Elizabeth, da. of Bartholomew Badlesmere. She d. 3 Apr.
1385, and was bur. at Lewes. He m., 2ndly (withouth Royal lic., for which he was fined
500 marks), 15 Aug. 1390, Philippe, widow of John Hastings, and da. of Edmund
(Mortimer), Earl of March, by Philippe, da. and h. of Lionel, Duke of Clarence. He d. as
afsd., 21 Sep. 1397, and was bur. in the church of the Augustin Friars, in Bread Str.l,
London, and, having been attainted, all his honours were forfeited. Will dat. 4 Mar.
1382/3 at "Mon Castel Philipp." His widow (by whom he had no issue) was b. 21 Nov,
1375, at Ludlow; she m., 3rdly, after Apr. 1398, Thomas (Poynings), Lord St. John of
Basing, and d. 24 Sep. 1401, at Halnaker, Sussex, being bur. at Boxgrove.

ibid, (1913) 3:161

ibid, (1936) 9:604

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) 19:769-772
Fitzalan, Richard (III), fourth earl of Arundel and ninth earl of Surrey (1346-1397)
magnate, was the eldest son of Richard (II) Fitzalan, third earl of Arundel and eighth
earl of Surrey (c.1313-1376), and his second wife, Eleanor (d. 1372), daughter of
Henry, earl of Lancaster, and widow of John, Lord Beaumont. He was married first in
1359 to Elizabeth, daughter of William de Bohun, earl of Northampton, and second, on
15 August, 1390, to Philippa, daughter of Edmund (III) Mortimer, earl of March, and
widow of John Hastings, earl of Pembroke. She was aged fourteen and Arundel about
forty-four. On the death of his father on 24 January 1376 he inherited his lands, titles,
and most of his enormous wealth, though not without opposition from his half-brtother
Edmund, the son of Earl Richard's (II)'s first wife, Isabella Despenser, who raided his
lands in Essex in an attempt to assert his own claims to them. Edmund's challenge
was ineffectual, however, and Arundel remained one of the wealthiest men in England
until his death, although unlike his father he generally declined to lend his money to
the crown, the only loan of comparable size to his father's being that of 5000 marks
which he and his brother John Arundel advanced to Edward III in March 1377. This
was probably one among many sources of friction between him and the new king,
Richard II.
Arundel was appointed to the 'continual council' set up in hte Good Parliament of 1376
to advise the aged Edward III, and he served as butler at Richard II's coronation, where
he was one of several earls who carried the young king on his shoulders. Shortly after
the coronation he was made admiral of the western fleet, and was also appointed to
the minority councils of July 1377 and November 1378, and to the minority councils of
July 1377 and November 1378, and to the (ineffective) commissions set up to reform
the royal household in the 1380 and 1381 parliaments. He was with the king in
London during the great revolt of 1381, and was given custody of the great seal for two
days following the murder of archibishop Sudbury, the chancellor, on 14 June. In the
next parliament, that of November 1381, he and Michael de la Pole were appointed to
remain in the royal household 'to counsel and govern the king's person' (RotP, 3.104).
During these years he took an active, though not always distinguished, part in the war:
he was repulsed from Harfleur in 1378, and held to blame to some for the English
failure to take St Malo in the same year. He was subsequently rejected by the bishop of
Norwich as the king's representative on the Flemish crusade of 1383.
Within another year there occurred Arundel's first open breach with the king, when he
launched a fierce attack on the royal government in the Salisbury parliament of 1384
and was told by Richard II to 'go the the devil!' (Westminster Chronicle, 68). Although
he joined the royal campaign to Scotland in 1385, he was to spend the remaining
years of his life in open or covert opposition to Richard II, his personal relations with
whom were never good. His chief grievances against the government in the 1380s
seem to have been first, his objection to the king's favouritism toward men such as
Robert de Vere, earl of Oxford, and Michael de la Pole, earl of Suffolk; second, his
desire to prosecute a more active war policy against France than that preferred by the
king and his advisers; and third, his belief that serious incompetence and corruption
characterized the crown's financial administration. His misgivings were shared by
many of the parliamentary Commons, with whom he was frequently appointed to
confer during the stormy sessions of the 1380s. In the Wonderful Parliament of
October 1386, in which these criticisms came to a head, he, his brother Thomas,
bishop of Ely, and their political ally, the duke of Gloucester, were all appointed to the
commissions of government set up to reform thr royal household and administration,
which held power during the following twelve months. Arundel was also reappointed
as admiral. Despite the king's lack of co-operation, a financial reform programme was
put into effect and a more aggressive policy adopted towards France, the highlight of
which was Arundel's capture off Margate, on 24 March 1387, of the Franco-Flemish
wine fleet on its way from La Rochelle to Sluys; the Westminster chronicle records that
8000 tuns of wine were captured and subsequent;ly sold in England for 4d. a gallon,
this ensuring the earl's popularity.
The commisiion was due to relinquish power in November 1387. However, when
Gloucester, Arundel, and their ally, the earl of Warwick, heard of Richard II's 'questions
to the judges' of August 1387, which threatened the lives of those who had opposed
the king's wishes in the parliament of 1386, they refused to come to Westminster.
According to the monk of Evesham, the subsequent crisis was precipitated by Richard
II's attempt to have Arundel arrested at his castle of Reigate, whereupon Gloucester,
Arundel, and Warwick appealed of treason five of the king's principal favourites (de
Vere, de la Pole, Alexander Neville, archbishop of York, Robert Treslian, the king's
chief justice, and Nicholas Brembre, mayor of London). It is from this action that they
and the earls of Derby and Nottingham, who later associated themselves with the
appeal, are known to history as the appellants. On 13 November 1387 Gloucester,
Arundel, and Warwick assembled their retinues at Haringay Park, Hornsey, Middlesex,
and on 17 November, accompanied by 300 followers, presented their appeals to the
king in person at Westminster. Richard II declared that the appeals would be heard in
the next parliament, but in the meantime prepared for war, dispatching de Vere to
Chester to raise an army. However, de Vere's army was defeated by the combined
forces of the appellants at Radcot Bridge, near Witney, on 20 December, following
whch the five lords returned to London, arrested some fifty of the king's supporters,
purged the royal household, and probably deposed the king for two or three days.
Their control of the government was now assured, and when parliament opened on 3
February 1388 they secured the conviction and execution of eight of the king's
supporters (including Sir Simon Burley, Tresilian, and Brembre, although de Vere, de
la Pole, and Neville had fled abroad), the exile of all the royal justices to Ireland, and
the dismissal of a further forty or so of the king's supporters from court. Then, having
voted themselves £20,000 for their expenses in saving the realm and secured an
indemnity for themselves and their followers, they brought the Merciless Parliament to
a close on 4 June. Meanwhile Arundel, now captain of Brest as well as admiral,
crossed to Brittany in May, but failed to achieve anything of note. The appellants
remained in control fro another year, but on 3 May 1389 the king resumed power,
replacing Earl Richard as admiral and captain of Brest on 18 May.
During the next few years, while some of his former colleagues made their peace with
the king. Arundel remained unreconciled, particularly on the question of the French
war; and when a rising - directed apparently against Richard II's and John of Gaunt's
negotiations for peace with France - broke out in Cheshire in the spring of 1393, he
was accused by Gaunt of taking no action against it, despite the fact that he was at the
time residing at his nearby castle of Holt. In the parliament of January 1394 he
launched a characteristically rash verbal assault against the king and Gaunt,
complaining among other things that Richard II and his uncle were too intimate, that
the king and members of his retinue should not wear Gaunt's livery collar, that Gaunt
was so overbearing in meetings of the royal council that other lords dared not speak
their minds, and that Richard II should not have granted Gaunt either the duchy of
Aquitaine or such a large sum of money for his Spanish campaign of 1386. He
received no support from his fellow lords, however, and was compelled to make a
humiliating apology to Gaunt in full parliament. On 30 April 1394 he took the precaution
of securing a comprehensive pardon from the king. but on 3 August they clashed
again when the earl arrived late for Queen Anne's funeral at Westminster Abbey, then
promptly asked leave to depart. So insensed was the king that he seized a baton from
an attendant and struck Arundel on the head with it so forcefully that he 'fell to the
ground, with blood streaming out all over the floorstones' (Riley, 168), and the funeral
service had to be delayed untril the church had been cleansed. As a result Arundel
was imprisoned in the Tower of London for a week, and only released on bail of
£40,000. Nor did his relations with the king improve thereafter. He continued to raise
objetions to the terms of both the peace negotiations with France, and the conditions
attached to the twenty-eight-year Anglo-French truce of 1396. It was probably because
of this that he and Gloucester refused to attend a meeting of the council in February
1397.
Five months later the king decided to strike against those who had previously
humiliated him. On 10 and 11 July, without warning, he arrested Gloucester, Arundel,
and Warwick. Arundel was apparently persuaded by his brother Thomas Arundel,
archbishop of Canterbury, to give himself up to the king under assurences of safe
conduct, but having done so was promptly dispatched to Carisbrooke Castle. On 5
August, at Nottingham Castle, an appeal of treason was presented against all three of
them, accusing them of raising rebellion against the king in 1387, usurping the royal
authority with their commission of 1386, and putting to death various supporters of the
king without good cause in 1388. Arundel was brought into parliament on 21
September to face his accusers. He conducted himself with as degree of courage and
defiance which clearly made a strong impression on the chroniclers of the time, for
several of them include vivid descriptions of his trial. Claiming the benefit of his
pardons of 1388 and 1394, he was told by the speaker, Sir John Bussy, that these had
been revoked 'by the king, the lords, and us, the faithful commons', 'Where are those
faithful commons?' retorted Arundel. 'I know all about you and your crew, and how you
have got here - not to act faithfully, but to shed my blood'. When his former fellow
appellant, the earl of Derby, rose to accuse him of plotting to seize the king in 1387, he
replied, 'You, Henry, earl of Derby, you lie in your teeth. I never said anything to you or to
anyone else about my lord king, except what was to his honour and welfare'
(Given-Wilson, Chronicles, 59). He was nevertheless convicted of treason and
sentenced to be drawn, hanged, beheaded, and quartered. Because of Arundel's
noble birth Richard II commuted the sentence to beheading only, and he was
immediately led away - 'no more shrinking or changing colour than if he were going to
a banquet', says Walsingham - to Tower Hill, followed all the way by a great throng
who, according to the monk of Evesham. 'mourned him as much as they dared'. His
desire to be led along Cheapside may have been born of the hope that he might be
rescued by the throng, but this was not to be. Walsingham reports that immediately
following his execution, the headless body rose to its feet for as long as it took to recite
the Lord's prayer, and that so persistent were the rumours of miracles at his grave - in
the church of the Augustinian friars in Bread Street - that the king had his body
exhumed and reburied at an unmarked spot.
Arundel's conviction for treason meant that all his estates, entailed or otherwise, as
well as his vast personal wealth (which probably amounted to at least £50,000), were
forfeited to the king, and his heir disinherited. Following the deposition of Richard II in
1399, however, the judgment against him was reversed and his son and heir, Thomas
Fitzalan, restored to his lands and titles. Arundel had at least eight children with his
first wife; his first son Richard was alive in 1393 but predeceased him, his second
son, Thomas Fitzalan, became his heir, while William (b. after 1381) entered the
church; his daughters were Elizabeth, who married first Sir William Montagu and
second, in July 1384, Arundel's fellow appellant Thomas (I) Mowbray, earl of
Nottingham; Eleanor, who married Robert, eldest son of William de la Pole, earl of
Suffolk (they both died before 1376); Alice, who married John Charlton of Powys, and
is said in a later pedigree to have been seduced by Henry Beaufort, bishop of
Winchester; Joan, who married William Beauchamp, Lord Bergavenny; and Margaret,
other wise unknown. Countess Elizabeth died on 3 April 1385 and was buried in
Lewes Priory. There were no children of Arundel's second marriage. In his will, dated 4
March 1393, he made generous bequests to the hospital of the Holy Trinity which he
had founded for twenty paupers at Arundel, and the college of the Holy Trinity, for a
master and twelve secular canons, which he also founded at Arundel, the statutes for
which were approved in 1387. Despite his irascible and violent nature, and his
tempetuous and often ill-judged political career, he was apparently a man of
considerable personal piety. That he was a leading figure in the politics of Richard II's
reign there can be no doubt, and although his own political career ended in disaster,
the opposition to Richard's politics for which he stood, as well as his own reputation,
were to be vindicated in he revolution of 1399 when the king was deposed.
SOURCES: CPR - CCIR - Calendar of the fine rolls, 22 vols., PRO (1911-62) -
Calendar of the charter rolls, 6 vols, PRO (1903-27) - RotP - A. Tuck, Richard II and the
English nobility (1973) - A. Goodman, The loyal conspiracy: the lords appellant under
Richard II (1971) - C. Given-Wilson, 'Wealth and credit, public and private: the earls of
Arundel, 1306-1397', EngHR, 106 (1991), 1-26 - L.F. Salzman, 'The property of the earl
of Arundel, 1397', Sussex Archaeological Collectioins, 91 (1953), 32-52 - PRO
-Arundel Castle archives, West Sussex - GEC, Peerage - L.C. Hector and B.F. Harvey,
eds. and trans., The Westminster chronicle, 1381-1394, OMT (1982) - C.
Given-Wilson, ed. and trans., Chronicles of the revolution, 1397-1400; the reign of
Richard II (1993) - 'Annales Richardi secundi et Henrici quarti, regum Angliae',
Johannis de Trokelowe et Henrici de Blaneforde . . . chronica et annales, ed. H.T.
Riley, pt 3 of Chronica monasterii S. Albani, Rolls Series, 28 (1866), 155-420


Faris, David (1996) Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists, p 106
12. Richard Fitz Alan, 4th Earl of Arundel, 10th Earl of Surrey, son and heir by second
marriage, was born in 1346. He was married for the first time, with marriage contract
dated 28 Sep. 1359, to Elizabeth de Bohun, daughter of William de Bohun, Knt., Earl of
Northampton (grandson of King Edward I), by Elizabeth, daughter of Bartholomew de
Badlesmere. She died on 3 apr, 1385 and was buried at Lewes [see Bohun 11 for her
ancestry]. He was married for the second time on 15 Aug. 1390 to Philippe Mortimer,
widow of John Hastings, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, and daughtyer of Edmund Mortimer,
Earl of March, by Philippe, daughter and heiress of Lionel, Duke of Clarence (third son
of King Edward III). She was born at Ludlow on 21 Nov. 1375. Richard Fitz Alan
distinguished himself in the French wars, and "won a brilliant naval victory over the
French, Spanish and Flemish fleets off Margate in 1387." Later with the Duke of
Gloucester he later took an active part in the opposition to King Richard, becoming one
of the five Lords Appellant in the Parliament of 1388. Richard Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel,
obtained a pardon in 1394, but was treacherously seized, tried at Westminster, and
beheaded at Cheapside on 21 Sep. 1397, burial at Austin Friars' in Bread Street,
London, and, having been attainted, all his honours were forfeited. His widow was
married for the third time, after April 1398, to Thomas Poynings, Lord St. John of
Basing. She died at Halnaker, Sussex, on 24 Sep. 1401, and was buried at Boxgrove.
TAG (Apr 1992) 67:99"

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Richard Fitz Alan "Copped Hat", 9th Earl of Arundel
Alianore of Lancaster
"Faris, David (!996) Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists, p. 186
10. Alianor of Lancaster, was married for the first time before June 1337 to John de
Beaumont, Knt., Earl of Buchan (descendant of Charlemagne). by Alice, daughter of
Alexander Comyn, Sheriff of Aberdeen (of Magna Charta Surety descent and
descendant of Charlemagne). He was born about 1318 (aged twenty-two at his
father's death). He was summoned to Parliament on 23 Feb. 1342/3 by writ directed
Johanni de Bello Monte, but never as Earl of Buchan. John de Beaumont, Lord
Beaumont, died between 10 and 25 May 1342. She was married for the second time at
Ditton on 5 Feb. 1344/5 to Richard Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel and Warenne (died 1376).
She had intrigued with Richard in her husband's lifetime [see Fitalan 13 for
descendants of his marriage]. She died at Arundel on 11 Jan. 1371/2, and was buried
at Lewes."

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Richard Fitz Alan "Copped Hat", 9th Earl of Arundel
Alianore of Lancaster
"Cokayne, George Edward (1910) The Complete Peerage of England, 1:242-244
10. or 3. Richard Fitz Alan, called "Copped Hat," s. and h. of Edmund, (xii) 9th or 2nd
Earl of Arundel,
b. about 1313. He was in (1330-1) 4 Edw. III, fully restored in blood and honours
(confirmed 1351 and again 1354), and in Dec. of that year obtained restitution of the
Castle and Honour of Arundel from the widow of John, Earl of Kent. By such
restorations he doubtless became Earl of Arundel. He was made Justiciar of North
Wales for life 1334; Gov. of Carnavon Castle, 1339; Sheriff of Shropshire for life 1345.
He took a distinguished part in the wars with France, was Admiral of the West 1340-41
and 1345-47, commanded the 2nd division at the battle of Crécy, and was at the fall of
Calais in 1347. He had shortly before, viz. on 30 June 1347, suc. to the vast estates of
the family of Warenne, by the death, a.p. legit., of his mother's br., John, Earl of Surrey
and Sussex. By fine levied (1349-50) 23 Edw. III, he settled the Castle, town, and
manor of Arundel on himself and his (then) wife Eleanor, for their joint lives, with rem.
to the heirs male of his body by his said wife. On the death of Joan, the widow of his
said uncle, John, Earl of Surrey, in 1361, but not before, he assumed the title of Earl of
Surrey, and in 1366 settled the Warenne estates on his issue. He m., 1stly, 9 Feb.
1320/1, in the King's Chapel at Havering-atte-Bower (he about 7, she about 8), Isabel,
da. of Sir Hugh le Despencer the younger, [Lord Despencer], by Eleanor, da. and coh.
of Gilbert (de Clare), Earl of Gloucester. He obtained, 4 Dec. 1344, a Papal mandate
for the annulment of this marriage, on the groumd of his minority and of never having
willingly consented to the match. He m., 2ndly, 5 Feb. 1344/5, at Ditton, (a lady with
whom he had previously cohabited), Eleanor, widow of John de Beaumont, [2nd Lord
Beaumont], da. of Henry, Earl of Lancaster, by Maud, da. and h. of Sir Patrick de
Chawices or Chaworth. She, who was 1st cousin to his 1st wife, and 2nd cousin once
removed to the Earl, d.11 Jan. 1372, at Arundel, and was bur. at Lewes. He d. 24 Jan.
1375/6, also at Arundel, in the 70th year, and was also bur, at Lewes. Will dat. 5 Dec.
1375.

ibid, p 243 footnote ("The powerful Earl desired to get rid of the woman to whom he
had been married as a child, and who, since her father's attainder and execution, had
ceased to be of any importance, that he might marry the woman with whom he was
then living in adultry; and the Pope very obligingly annulled the marriage and
bastardised the issue; a very unfair proceeding as far as Edmund d"Arundel was
concerned").

ibid, p. 244, footnote b

ibid (1929) 7:156

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) 19:768-769
Fitzalan, Richard (II), third earl of Arundel and eighth earl of Surrey (c.1313-1376),
soldier, diplomat, and royal counselor, known as 'Copped Hat', was the son of
Edmund Fitzalan, second earl of Arundel (1285-1326), and Alice, sister of John de
Warenne, seventh earl of Surrey. On 9 February 1321, in the chapel of the king's manor
at Havering atte Bower, he married Isabella, daughter of Earl Edmund's political ally
Hugh Despenser the younger; they were later said to have been aged seven and eight
respectively. When his father was summarily executed, and subsequently condemned
as a traitor, during the revolution which overthrew Edward II and the Despensers in
1326-7, Fitzalan was disinherited and eventually fled the country. Following the
execution of Roger (V) Mortimer in October 1330 he returned to England and petitioned
Edward III for his father's titles and lands, many of which (including the earldom and
castle of Arundel) were restored to him in the parliament of 1331, and others during
the next few years. He was, however, forbidden in 1331 to wage a private war of
revenge for his father's death against John Charlton of Powys, and not until 1343,
when Charlton promised to found a chantry in memory of Earl Edmund at Haughmond
Abbey, was their dispute resolved. He and the king were almost exact contemporaries,
and from this time onwards he remained a loyal and trusted royal servant until his
death.
Arundel served Edward III chiefly in four capacities: as war captain, diplomat,
counsellor, and moneylender. As a war captain he took part in the campaigns to
Scotland of 1333, 1335, 1336, 1338 (when he and the earl of Salisbury, as joint
commanders, failed to take Dunbar), and 1342 (when he and the earl of Huntingdon
were appointed wardens of the Scottish march), and in those to the continent of 1340
(he was at the naval battle off Sluys), 1345, 1346-7 (when he commanded the 2nd
division of the English army at Crécy, and was subsequently with the king at the siege
of Calais), and 1359-60; he was also with the king at the naval battle off Winchelsea in
1350, and promised in 1355 to go to the aid of the Black Prince should it prove
necessary, which in the event it did not.
Arundel's diplomatic service began in earnest in July 1343, when he was sent on an
embassy to Avignon; in March 1344 he and the earl of Derby were appointed as
lieutenants of Aquitaine with power to reform the administration there, and
simutaneously as plenipotentiaries to the kings of Castile, Portugal, and Aragon;
following this latter embassy Earl Richard and Eleanor Beaumont, soon to become
his second wife, also undertook a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. In 1350 he
was again sent to Avignon, and in 1353, when a major effort was being made to end
the war, he twice went to Calais as one of the chief English negotiators with the
French. in the winter of 1354-5 he accompanuied the duke of Lancaster to Avignon
once more. He was also commissioned, in 1351, 1354, and 1357, to negotiate with
the Scots for the ransom and release of their king, David II. He was constantly involved
in the protracted negotiations of 1358-60, being appointed as the king's plenipotentiary
to Wenzel, duke of Luxembourg, in May 1358, travelling to Calais again in August 1359
to negotiate the release of the French king, and attending the formal ratification of the
treaty of Brétigny at Calais in November 1360. In 1362 he was one of the
commissioners to try to effect a settlement of the Breton civil war, and in 1365 he was
one of the English negotiators of the treaty with the Scots.
When not abroad on the king's business, Arundel held a succession of great offices
and commissions in England: justice of north Wales during pleasure from 1334, and
for life from 1337; councillor to the seven-year-old Black Prince; keeper of the realm in
the king's absence. from 1338 to 1340; commissioner to investigate the finantial
affairs of William de la Pole in July 1340, and, in December of the same year, to
examine the misdeeds of the king's ministers following Edward's sudden return from
abroad; and admiral of the north and west in 1340, and again from 1345 to 1347. In
July 1355 he was appointed one of the guardians of England during the king's
absence in France. There are numerous references to his membershuip of the royal
council from the late 1330s onwards; in 1344 he was granted permission to lodge at
Str Mary's Priory, Southwark, because he 'will have to come to London very frequently to
treat of various matters for the king' (CPR, 1343-5, 189) and, taking Edward III's reign
as a whole, he witnessed more royal charters than any other lay magnate in the
kingdom. Yet Earl Richard was not a man to buckle under pressure from the king;
witness his behaviour in the parliament of April 1341, when he and the earl of Surrey
famously courted Edward's wrath by speaking up on behalf of John Stratford, the
embattled archbishop of Canterbury. he was also described in 1347 as a member of
the Black Pince's council, and in 1359 was appoined a one of the prince's general
attorneys. He acted as feoffee for both Henry, duke of Lancaster, and John of Gaunt,
and as attorney for Wilhelm, duke of Bavaria, in 1361.
For his services to both the king and his fellow peers Arundel was well rewarded. The
first and most significant favour which he received from Edward III was his restoration
in 1330-31, but this was soon followed by others; in 1336 he surrendered to the king
hs hereditary claim to the stewardship of Scotland, which was derived from his
descent from Alan fitz Flaald, steward of Scotland in the early twelth century, reciving
1000 marks from the issues of north Wales in return; in 1338 he was granted the
francise of return of writs and the sheriff's tourn in the hundreds which he held in
Sussex, and in 1345 he was augmented to include the sheriff's aid. In 1345 he was
granted the shrievalty of Shropshire for life, and in 1346 his right to inherit a substantial
part of the estate of the childless John de Warenne, earl of Surrey, was, despite strong
competition, confirmed by the king. Following Warenne's death in the following year he
leased these lands from Warenne's widow (his own aunt), Joan de Bar, for £900 er
annum, eventually succeeding to the title of earl of Surrey after her death in 1361. In
1365 the Black Prince granted him 'and his heirs for ever' £400 in rent from his lands
in Chester. As a consequence Arundel grew extraordinarily wealthy, as evidenced by
his activities as a moneylender: between 1338 and 1374 he lent a total of some
£70,000 to the crown, usually in the form of short-term credit to finace military
campaigns; before 1360 no individual loan totalled more than £3000, but following the
renewal of the war in 1369 he lent greater sums, the largest being £20,000 in the
summer of 1370. He also made sizable loans to hs fellow magnates such as the
Black Prince and John of Gaunt, and to lesser individuals or syndicates, mainly in
Sussex and Shropshire, where his major landholdings were situated. Documents
from his private archives suggest that by the later years of his life his disposable
wealth amonted to over £70,000; at his death in January 1376 he left over £60.000 in
cash alone, half of which was in 'the high tower of Arundel Castle' (BL, Harley MS,
4840, fol. 393). The main sources of Arundel's wealth were probably threefold; his
large estates in Sussex and Shropshire, efficiently and enterprisingly managed,
especially for wool productions; capital investment on a large scale with merchants
such as the Bardi and the Londoner John Philipot; and these are, for interest as such
does not usually appear to have been paid on his loans.
But if interest was not paid, Arundel reaped the reward for his loans in the form of
political support from the crown. Between 1363 and 1367, when he was involved in a
bitter dispute with William Lynne, bishop of Chichester, Edward III backed him to the
hilt, seizing the bishop's termporalities and forcing Lynne first to flee to Avignon to seek
help, and eventually to make a humiliating submission. Edward also supported him in
the tricky matter of his divorce from his first wife and marriage to his second, Eleanor
(d. 1372), the daughter of Henry, duke of Lancaster, and widow of John, Lord
Beaumont. Arundel's marriage to Isabella had been contracted largely to cement the
political alliance between Despenser and Richard's father, Earl Edmund. By 1344,
however, the attractions of an alliance with the Despenser family had become less
obvious, and, notwithstanding that a son (Edmund, now aged seventeen) and two
daughters had been born of the marriage, Arundel petitioned the pope for an
annulment on the grounds that the couple had never consented to the marriage bit
had been 'forced by blows to cohabit'. Despite the implausibility of this argument and
the consequences for the children, Edward III supported the petition, the pope
complied, and in March 1345 the marriage which had already contracted with Eleanor,
in the presence of the king and queen at Ditton on 5 February, was declared valid.
Isabella was given five manors in Essex, while Edmund was bastardized and, despite
his persistent protests, disinherited, dying in obscurity.
Arundel's children with his new wife prospered mightily, however. His eldest son,
Richard (III) Fitzalan, the next earl, married Elizabeth, daughter of William de Bohun,
earl of Northampton, in 1359; his second son, John Arundel, married Eleanor,
daughter of Sir John Maltravers, and went on to become marshal of England; his third
son, Thomas Arundel, became bishop of Ely in 1373, despite being only twenty at the
time, and eventually archbiship of Canterbury. Of their four daughters, Joan married
Humphrey (IX) de Bohum, heir to the earldoms of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton,
in 1359, and Alice married Thomas Holand, earl of Kent, in 1365, while Mary and
Eleanor predeceased their father. By this time, having acquired the Warenne lands in
Surrey and Sussex, and purchased some twenty manors in Sussex alone, Reigate,
Lewes, and Arundel had become the favoured residences of the earl and countess,
rather than the castles on the welsh marches such as Shrawardine, Clun, and Holt,
which had been the chief seats of the Fitzalans under Richard's father and
grandfather. Arundel and Countess Eleanor both died at Arundel Castle, she on 11
January 1372, he on 24 Janauary 1376, their 'high tombs of marble' being sculpted by
Henry Yevele (CCIR, 1374-7, 59). By his will, dated 4 December 1375, arundel asked
that hs body be buried without pomp next to Eleanor's in the chapter house of Lewes
Priory, founded a perpetual chantry in the chapel of St George's within Arundel Castle,
and left bequests in cash amounting to 16,600 marks to his family and 6800 marks to
various religious houses - fitting testimony to that remarkable wealth for which he was
chilefly renowned during his life.
SOURCES: CPR -CCIR - Calendar of the fine rolls, 22 vols., PRO (1911-62) - Calendar
of the charter rolls, 6 vols., PRO (1903-27) - RotP - C. Given-Wilson, 'Wealth and credit,
public private: the earls of Arundel, 1306-1397', EngHR, 106 (1991), 1-26 - C.
Given-Wilson, 'The bishop of Chichester [Willliam Lynne] and the second statute of
praemunire, 1365', Historical Research, 63 (1990), 128-42 - PRO - BL - Arundel Castle
archives, west Sussex - Shrops, RRC -Shrewbury Borough Library - B. Wilkinson, 'The
protest of the earls of Arundel and Surrey in the crisis of 1341', EngHR, 46 (1931),
177-93 - CEPR letters. vol. 3 - GEC, Peerage


Faris, David (!996) Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists, p 55
10. ISABEL LE DESPENCER, was born about 1312. She was married in the King's
Chapel at Havering-atte-Bower on 9 Feb. 1320/1, she being about eight years of age,
to RICHARD FITZ ALAN [Copped Hat], 3rd Earl of Arundel and 4th Earl of Surrey, son
and heir of Edmund Fitz Alan, 8th Earl of Arundel, Baron of Oswestry, co. Salop, Baron
of Clun, co. Salop (descendant of Charlemagne), by Alice, daughter of William de
Warenne (descendant of Charlemagne), He was born about 1313, and was about
seven years of age at time of marriage. In 1330-1 he was fully restored in blood and
honours and obtained restitution of the Castle and Honour of Arundel, becoming Earl
of Arundel. Their marriage was annulled by Papal mandate on 4 Dec. 1344 on the
ground of his minority and of his never having willingly consented to the match. He
took a distinguished part in the wars with France, was Admiral of the West 1340-41
and 1345-47, commanded the second division at the Battle of Crécy, and was at the
fall of Calais in 1347. He was married for the second time at Ditton, in the presence of
King Edward, on 5 Feb. 1344/5 to Alianor de Lancaster, widow of John Beaumont, 2nd
Lord Beaumont, and daughter of Henry of Lancaster, Earl of Lancaster (grandson of
King Henry III), by Maud, daughter and heiress of Patrick de Chaworth, Knt. She was
first cousin to his first wife and a Papal dispensation was granted on 4 Mar. 1344/5
[see Fitz Alan 13 for descendants of this marriage]. She died at Arundel on 11 Jan.
1372, and was buried at Lewes. On 30 June 1347 he succeeded to the vast estates of
the family of Warenne, by the death of his mother's brother, John, Earl of Surrey and
Sussex s.p.legit. Richard Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel, died testate in his seventieth year at
Arundel on 24 Jan. 1375/6, and was buried at Lewes.
ibid, pp 105-106"

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