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Richard FitzAlan
(5 Feb 1306 - 24 Jan 1376)
} '''Richard FitzAlan''' is a descendant of Magna Carta surety barons
'''[[De_Vere-309|Robert de Vere]]''' and '''[[Quincy-226|Saher de Quincy]]'''
[[Category:Quincy-226 Descendants]][[Category:De_Vere-309 Descendants]][[Category:Hundred Years' War]] [[Category: Battle of Sluys]][[Category: Battle of Cressy]] [[Category: This Day In History January 24]] ==Biography== Titles of Sir Richard de Arundel (Royal Ancestry):: of the Castle and Honour of Arundel, Sussex, and Oswestry, Shropshire :Chief Butler of England :Constable of Chirk Castle 1333 :Chief Justiciar of North Wales 1334 :Privy Councillor 1334 :Constable of Portchester Castle 1336 :Governor of Caernarvon Castle 1339 :Sheriff of Caernarvonshire 1339 :Admiral of the West 1340-1, 1345-7 :Joint Warden of the Marches toward Scotland 1342 :Joint Lieutenant of Aquitaine 1344 :Sheriff of Shropshire 1345-8 :Chief Warden for cos. Surrey and Sussex 1352 :Joint Guardian and Lieutenant of England 1355 ----'''Sir Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and 9th Earl of Surrey''' : Richard Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundelrestored 1331 (confirmation 1351 and 1354), getting Arundel Castle back also Dec 1330-31 from the widow of Edmund Earl of Kent : 9th Earl of Surreyafter death of maternal uncle the 8th Earl of Surrey's widow 31 Aug 1361, Richard assumed title : Knight of the GarterTout: contracted in youth : Nickname: Copped Hat : born aft. 1307Tout: had castle of Arundel -- given to Edmund, Earl of Kent, the king's uncle -- rendered to him, thus became 9th earl; "FITZALAN, RICHARD II, Earl of Arundel and Warenne (1307?-1376), son of Edmund Fitzalan, earl of Arundel, and his wife, Alice Warenne, was born not before 1307. : died 24 Jan 1375/6 Arundel. Age 70; buried Lewes.[[#ODNB]]Will date: 5 Dec 1375. Complete Peerage I:242-4, XIV:38, transcribed by Dave Utzinger; Tout: died 24 Jan. 1376. will dated 5 Dec. 1375: directed that his body should be buried without pomp in the chapter-house of Lewes priory, by the side of his second wife, and founded a perpetual chantry in the chapel of St. George's within Arundel Castle (Nicolas, _Testamenta Vetusta_, pp. 94-6); Will of Richard (c1313-1376) 10th Lord Arundal is in Testamenta Vetusta, the editor thereof states that the only issue he had by Isabel le Despencer was a daughter Philippa who married Sir Richard Serjeaux of Cornwall, knigh; Will states issue as Richard; Thomas [Ed. Bishop of Ely]; John [Ed. Maltravers]; Joane [Ed. wife of Humphrey Bohun, KG, earl of Hereford] and Alice [Ed. married Thomas Holland earl of Kent]. Also makes bequests to Henry and Edward, younger sons of my son John [Lord Maltravers] and also William another of his sons. [Ref: Adrian Channing msg to SGM] ===Death and burial of Sir Richard de Arundel===(Royal Ancestry) Sir Richard de Arundel, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, died at Arundel 24 Jan. 1375/6. He left a will dated 5 Dec. 1375, proved 22 October 1376. He and his wife Eleanor, were buried at Lewes Priory, Sussex. Note. Lewes Priory was more formally known as the Priory of St. Pancras. == Parents == : Edmund Fitzlan and Alice Warrene: eldest son Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel (8th Earl of Arundel per Ancestral Roots) and Alice de Warenne. Maternal grandparents: William de Warenne and Joan de Vere. William was the only son of John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey. == Marriage== : 1321: married '''Isabel'''Tout: cements alliance between his father and favorites of Edward II (Tout); Father: Hugh le Despenser the younger, [Lord le Despenser 1st Lord (Baron) le Despenser 29 July 1314 creation] and Eleanor, daughter and co-heir of Gilbert [de Clare], Earl of Gloucester. 09 Feb 1320/1 King's Chapel at Havering-atte-Bower. Annulled 4 Dec 1344. Issue: bastardizedpapal annulment 1344 on the grounds of his minority and of his never willingly consented to the match.Tout: 1345: repudiated wife, Isabella, on the ground that he had never consented to marriage, and, having obtained papal recognition of nullity, married Eleanor, widow of Lord Beaumont, and daughter of Henry, 3rd earl of Lancaster. This may have prevented him sharing in the warlike exploits of his new brother-in-law, Derby, in Aquitaine. Issue: * Edmund married before July 1349, SibylThe Phillips, Weber, Kirk, & Staggs families of the Pacific Northwest, by Jim Weber, rootsweb.comdaughter of William Montagu, Earl of Salisbury; Knighted 1352, living 1377; note names 2 dau: Philippa, dau of Edmund ... granddaughter of Richard, and Isabel, was to be named Mary & was a dau of Richard's father Edmund, making her a sister of Richard; 1345 divorced; errors in Complete Peerage: Arundel; Vol 1, pp. 244, note b (corrected in vol 14): By Isabel, Richard Fitz Alan, 10th Earl of Arundel (d.1375/6) had 2 children. (1) Edmund m., before July 1349, Sibyl, da. of William (Montagu), Earl of Salisbury (2) Isabel m. John, 4th Lord Strange of Blackmere; pp. 243, note d: in no document about the divorce of Richard from Isabel] mentions daughters. Richard and Isabel later claimed conception of their son was a result of being forced by violence to cohabit. | [http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/register.htm medievalgenealogy.org.uk] ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol II, page 188 : married: 2nd '''Eleanor of Lancaster'''live-in mistress before marriage; dau Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud de Chaworth; widow of John, 2nd Baron Beaumont; died 24 Jan 1375/6." [Burke's Peerage]; 1st cousin to his 1st wife, and 2nd cousin once removed to the Earl, died 11 Jan 1372, at Arundel; buried Lewes; born abt 1311, Grismond Castle, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales. died 11 Jan 1372. Married Arundel, Shropshire 05 Feb 1344/5 Ditton[[Wikipedia: Eleanor of Lancaster]] Issue: * Richard, Earl of Arundel : Successor: "His lordship died in 1376, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Richard Fitz-Alan, 10th ''[11th] '' Earl of Arundel." [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 200, Fitz-Alan, Earls of Arundel, Barons Maltravers] * John, died 15 Dec. 1379At sea ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol I, page 30 Marshal of England 1377;: According to settlement by Earl Richard in 1347 (_Rot. Parl._ iv. 442), title reverted to marshal's grandson, John VI Fitzalan. summoned to parliament 4 Aug 1377 by writ ''Johanni de Arundell'' ( served1st to 3rd Richard II). * married Eleanor Mautraversgrand-daughter and co-heir of John, Lord Maltravers, in whose right he bore that title * Thomas Arundel - Bishop of Ely, Archbishop of York, Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Chancellor of England. He crowned King Henry IV in Westminster Abbey in 1399. He crowned Henry V in Westminster Abby in 1413. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol II, page 190 * Joanenamed in will (Tout) married Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol II, page 190 * Alice married Thomas Holand, 2nd Earl of Kent ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol II, page 190 * Mary (d. before 1376)d. before father (Tout) m. John, Lord Strange, of Blackmere. Mary Is not recognized by Douglas Richardson.''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol II, page 190 We show Mary as Richard's sister.See also this [http://www.wikitree.com/g2g/180222/who-is-the-father-of-mary-isabel-fitzalan-114 G2G discussion]: "Who is the father of Mary Isabel (Fitzalan-114)" (Fitzalan-114 was merged into [[FitzAlan-635]]). * Eleanor (d. before 1376) married Robert, son of William de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk.daughter of an unknown mistress} Is not recognized by Douglas Richardson ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol II, page 190 * Eleanor de Arundel, daughter of Richard FitzAlan and Unknown mistress, married about 1348 John de Bereford. They had no children. She died before her husband, who died in 1356. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol II, page 190 ==Timeline== : 1326: Father's execution deprives him of succession to title and estates. : Prof. Thomas Frederick Tout : 1330-31: Restored by parliament : 4th Edward III [1331] ... Earl of Arundel: Dec that year obtained restitution of the Castle and Honour of Arundel from widow of John, Earl of Kent, becoming Earl of Arundel : 1334: Justiciar of North Wales : For life. : 7 Edward III [1334]: Gov. Chirke Castle, co. Denbigh: next year had grant of inheritance of that castle, with all territories thereunto belonging, being part of the possessions of Roger Mortimer, the attainted Earl of March; ... soon after made gov of Porchester Castle, and the same year had a command in wars of Scotland, where he continued engaged for some years. : 1339: Gov. Carnarvon Castle : 1345: Sheriff of Salop for life : 1340-41 and 1345-47: Admiral of the West : 1346: commanded 2nd division at Battle of Crécy : 1347: assisted taking of Calais : 30 Jun 1347: inherited Warenne family estates after maternal uncle John, Earl of Surrey and Sussex : mom's bros. died. : 1349-50: Settled castle, town, and manor of Arundel on himself and Eleanor : Tout: By fine levied : 1361: Earl of Surrey: On Joan's death - widow of uncle, John, Earl of Surrey -- but not before, assumed title : 12 Apr 1366: settled Warenne estates on issue. == Timeline == * By Prof. Thomas Frederick Tout: Sources: [Rymer's F dera, vol. iii, Record edit.; Rolls of Parl. vol. ii.; Dugdale's Baronage, i. 316-18; Doyle's Official Baronage, i. 71-2; Froissart's Chroniques, vols. i-iv. ed. Luce (Société de l'Histoire de France); Murimuth and his Cont. (Engl. Hist. Soc.); Knighton in Twysden, Decem Scriptores; Tierney's Hist. of Arundel, pp. 225-240.) T. F. T.* [Ref: DNB, Editors, Leslie Stephen & Sidney Lee, MacMillan Co, London & Smith, Elder & Co., NY, 1908, vol. vii, pp. 96-8] 14th Edward III [1341]: embarked in French warsTout: in subsequent campaigns. at siege of Vannes, relief of Thouars, and Battle of Crécy. frequently employed in diplomatic missions, and was esteemed one of the most eminent generals and statesmen of the era. 1330: after Mortimer's fall of Mortimer, petitioned to be reinstated, and, after some delay, was restored in blood and to the greater part of Earl Edmund's possessions (_Rot. Parl._ ii. 50). But forbidden to avenge father by private war against John Charlton, first lord Charlton of Powys (_ib._ ii. 60). 1331: obtained castle of Arundel from heirs of Edmund, earl of Kent.: Tout: These grants were subsequently more than once confirmed (_ib._ ii. 226, 256). 1334: received Mortimer's castle of Chirk; made justice of North Wales: Tout: his large estates in that region gave him considerable local influence. Arundel took a conspicuous part in nearly every important war of Edward III's long reign. 1336: After surrendering 'hereditary right' to stewardship of Scotland to Edward for a thousand marks,: F dera_, ii. 952 he was made in 1337 joint commander of the English army in the north. Early 1338: he and Salisbury incurred no small opprobrium by their signal failure to capture Dunbar: Knighton, c. 2570; cf. _Liber Pluscardensis_, i. 284, ed. Skene 25 April: elevated to sole command, with full powers to treat with the Scots for truce or peace,: F dera_, ii. 1029, 1031 of which he availed himself to conclude a truce, as his duty now compelled him to follow the king to Brabant,: Chron. de Melsa_, ii. 385 where he landed at Antwerp on 13 Dec. : Froissaart, i. 417, ed. Luce Jan 1340 parliament: nominated admiral of ships at Portsmouth and the west that were to assemble at Mid Lent : Rot. Parl._ ii, 108 24 June: comported himself 'loyaly and nobly' at the [[:Category:Battle of Sluys|Battle of Sluys]], and was one of the commissioners sent by Edward from Bruges in July to acquaint parliament with news and to explain to it king's financial necessities : ib._ ii. 118 b Later the same year he took part in siege of Tournay: Luce, _Chronique des Quartre Premiers Valois_, p. 4, ed. Soc. de l'Histoire de France. 1342: at feast given by Edward III in honor of Countess of Salisbury; : Froissart, iii. 3 Warden of the Scottish marches in conjunction with the Earl of Huntingdon; Oct: accompanied Edward to Brittany, : ib._ iii. 225 and was left to besiege Vannes : ib._ iii. 227 while the bulk of the army advanced to Rennes. Jan 1343: truce put an end to the siege, and in July Arundel was sent on a mission to Avignon. 1344: appointed, with Henry, earl of Derby, lieutenant of Aquitaine, where the French war had broken out; and at the same time was commissioned to treat with Castile, Portugal, and Aragon : F dera_, iii. 8, 9 February 1345 - 47: reappointed admiral of the west : Nicolas, _Hist. of Royal Navy_, ii. 95 1346: accompanied Edward on his great expedition to northern France (Froissart, iii. 130), and commanded the second of the three divisions into which the English host was divided at Crecy: ib. iii. 169, makes him joint commander with Northampton, but Murimuth, p. 166, includes the latter among the leaders of the first line). He was afterwards with Edward at the siege of Calais :Rol. Parl._ ii 163 b 1348 and 1350: commissions to treat with pope at Avignon : F dera_, iii. 165, 201 1350: took part in the famous naval battle with the Spaniards off Winchelsea : Froissart, iv. 89 1351: employed in Scotland to arrange for a final peace and the ransom of King David : F dera_, iii. 225 1354: negotiator of a proposed truce with France, at a conference held under papal mediation at Guines (_ib._ iii. 253), but on the envoys proceeding to Avignon (_ib._ iii. 283), to obtain the papal ratification, it was found that no real settlement had been arrived at, and Innocent VI was loudly accused of treachery (_Cont. Murimuth, p. 184). In 1355 Arundel was one of the regents during the king's absence from England : F dera_, iii. 305 1357: negotiating in Scotland 1358: embassy head to Wenzel, duke of Luxembourg (_ib._ iii. 392). August 1360: joint commissioner in completing ratifications of treaty of Bretigny. 1362: a commissioners to prolong truce with Charles of Blois : iv._ iii. 662 1364: engaged in diplomacy (_ib._ iii. 747). The declining years of Arundel's life were spent in comparative seclusion from public affairs. 1365: maliciously cited to papal court by William de Lenne, foreign bishop of Chichester, with whom he was on bad terms. Supported by Edward in resistance to the bishop, whose temporalities were ultimately siezed by the crown. He now perhaps enlarged the castle of Arundel : Tierney, _Hist. of Arundel_, p. 239 1372: last military exploit - perhaps his share in expedition for relief of Thouars. after 1353: possessed vast wealth, especially when he succeeded, by right of his mother, to earldom of Warenne or Surrey. frequently aided Edward III in financial difficulties by large advances ... in 1370 Edward was more than twenty thousand pounds in his debt. Yet at his death Arundel left behind over ninety thousand marks in ready money, nearly half of which was stored up in bags in the high tower of Arundel,: Harl. MS._ 4840, f. 393 where is a curious inventory of all his personal property at his death. One of Arundel's last acts was to become, with Bishop William of Wykeham, a general attorney for John of Gaunt during his journey to Spain (_F dera_, iii. 1026). == Links == * [[Wikipedia: Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel]] * [http://goose.ycp.edu/~tgibson/RoyalAncestors/Edward.html The Descendants of King Edward I, King of England, and Eleanora of Castile] * [[Wikipedia: Battle of Crécy]] * [[Wikipedia: Battle of Sluys]] } == Sources == *Royal Ancestry 2013 Vol. II p. 606-610 *Magna Carta Ancestry 2011 2nd ed. Vol. I p. 157-158
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}'''Richard FitzAlan''' is a descendant of Magna Carta surety barons
'''[[De_Vere-309|Robert de Vere]]''' and '''[[Quincy-226|Saher de Quincy]]'''
[[Category:Quincy-226 Descendants]][[Category:De_Vere-309 Descendants]][[Category:Hundred Years' War]] [[Category: Battle of Sluys]][[Category: Battle of Cressy]] [[Category: This Day In History January 24]]
==Biography==
Titles of Sir Richard de Arundel (Royal Ancestry):: of the Castle and Honour of Arundel, Sussex, and Oswestry, Shropshire
:Chief Butler of England
:Constable of Chirk Castle 1333
:Chief Justiciar of North Wales 1334
:Privy Councillor 1334
:Constable of Portchester Castle 1336
:Governor of Caernarvon Castle 1339
:Sheriff of Caernarvonshire 1339
:Admiral of the West 1340-1, 1345-7
:Joint Warden of the Marches toward Scotland 1342
:Joint Lieutenant of Aquitaine 1344
:Sheriff of Shropshire 1345-8
:Chief Warden for cos. Surrey and Sussex 1352
:Joint Guardian and Lieutenant of England 1355
----'''Sir Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and 9th Earl of Surrey'''
: Richard Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundelrestored 1331 (confirmation 1351 and 1354), getting Arundel Castle back also Dec 1330-31 from the widow of Edmund Earl of Kent
: 9th Earl of Surreyafter death of maternal uncle the 8th Earl of Surrey's widow 31 Aug 1361, Richard assumed title
: Knight of the GarterTout: contracted in youth
: Nickname: Copped Hat
: born aft. 1307Tout: had castle of Arundel -- given to Edmund, Earl of Kent, the king's uncle -- rendered to him, thus became 9th earl; "FITZALAN, RICHARD II, Earl of Arundel and Warenne (1307?-1376), son of Edmund Fitzalan, earl of Arundel, and his wife, Alice Warenne, was born not before 1307.
: died 24 Jan 1375/6 Arundel. Age 70; buried Lewes.[[#ODNB]]Will date: 5 Dec 1375. Complete Peerage I:242-4, XIV:38, transcribed by Dave Utzinger; Tout: died 24 Jan. 1376. will dated 5 Dec. 1375: directed that his body should be buried without pomp in the chapter-house of Lewes priory, by the side of his second wife, and founded a perpetual chantry in the chapel of St. George's within Arundel Castle (Nicolas, _Testamenta Vetusta_, pp. 94-6); Will of Richard (c1313-1376) 10th Lord Arundal is in Testamenta Vetusta, the editor thereof states that the only issue he had by Isabel le Despencer was a daughter Philippa who married Sir Richard Serjeaux of Cornwall, knigh; Will states issue as Richard; Thomas [Ed. Bishop of Ely]; John [Ed. Maltravers]; Joane [Ed. wife of Humphrey Bohun, KG, earl of Hereford] and Alice [Ed. married Thomas Holland earl of Kent]. Also makes bequests to Henry and Edward, younger sons of my son John [Lord Maltravers] and also William another of his sons. [Ref: Adrian Channing msg to SGM]
== Parents ==
: Edmund Fitzlan and Alice Warrene: eldest son Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel (8th Earl of Arundel per Ancestral Roots) and Alice de Warenne. Maternal grandparents: William de Warenne and Joan de Vere. William was the only son of John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey.
== Marriage==
: 1321: married '''Isabel'''Tout: cements alliance between his father and favorites of Edward II (Tout); Father: Hugh le Despenser the younger, [Lord le Despenser 1st Lord (Baron) le Despenser 29 July 1314 creation] and Eleanor, daughter and co-heir of Gilbert [de Clare], Earl of Gloucester. 09 Feb 1320/1 King's Chapel at Havering-atte-Bower. Annulled 4 Dec 1344. Issue: bastardizedpapal annulment 1344 on the grounds of his minority and of his never willingly consented to the match.Tout: 1345: repudiated wife, Isabella, on the ground that he had never consented to marriage, and, having obtained papal recognition of nullity, married Eleanor, widow of Lord Beaumont, and daughter of Henry, 3rd earl of Lancaster. This may have prevented him sharing in the warlike exploits of his new brother-in-law, Derby, in Aquitaine. Issue:
* Edmund married before July 1349, SibylThe Phillips, Weber, Kirk, & Staggs families of the Pacific Northwest, by Jim Weber, rootsweb.comdaughter of William Montagu, Earl of Salisbury; Knighted 1352, living 1377; note names 2 dau: Philippa, dau of Edmund ... granddaughter of Richard, and Isabel, was to be named Mary & was a dau of Richard's father Edmund, making her a sister of Richard; 1345 divorced; errors in Complete Peerage: Arundel; Vol 1, pp. 244, note b (corrected in vol 14): By Isabel, Richard Fitz Alan, 10th Earl of Arundel (d.1375/6) had 2 children. (1) Edmund m., before July 1349, Sibyl, da. of William (Montagu), Earl of Salisbury (2) Isabel m. John, 4th Lord Strange of Blackmere * Proposed correction to Complete Peerage, with comment: "in none of the documents bearing on the case [the divorce of Richard from Isabel] is there a mention of daughters". Richard and Isabel later claimed conception of their son was a result of being forced by violence to cohabit. ... The wife of John, 4th Lord Strange of Blackmere, was called Mary not Isabel (see Complete Peerage, volume 12, part 1, p.344), and was a daughter of Edmund, the 9th earl, not Richard, the 10th (see further details at "[http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/cp/arundel.shtml#p244b Some corrections and additions...]" at "[http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/ Some Notes on Medieval English Genealogy]"). ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol II, page 188
: married: 2nd '''Eleanor of Lancaster'''live-in mistress before marriage; dau Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud de Chaworth; widow of John, 2nd Baron Beaumont; died 24 Jan 1375/6." [Burke's Peerage]; 1st cousin to his 1st wife, and 2nd cousin once removed to the Earl, died 11 Jan 1372, at Arundel; buried Lewes; born abt 1311, Grismond Castle, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales. died 11 Jan 1372. Married Arundel, Shropshire 05 Feb 1344/5 Ditton[[Wikipedia: Eleanor of Lancaster]] Issue:
* Richard, Earl of Arundel
: Successor: "His lordship died in 1376, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Richard Fitz-Alan, 10th ''[11th] '' Earl of Arundel." [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 200, Fitz-Alan, Earls of Arundel, Barons Maltravers]
* John, died 15 Dec. 1379At sea ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol I, page 30 Marshal of England 1377;: According to settlement by Earl Richard in 1347 (_Rot. Parl._ iv. 442), title reverted to marshal's grandson, John VI Fitzalan. summoned to parliament 4 Aug 1377 by writ ''Johanni de Arundell'' ( served1st to 3rd Richard II). * married Eleanor Mautraversgrand-daughter and co-heir of John, Lord Maltravers, in whose right he bore that title
* Thomas Arundel - Bishop of Ely, Archbishop of York, Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Chancellor of England. He crowned King Henry IV in Westminster Abbey in 1399. He crowned Henry V in Westminster Abby in 1413. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol II, page 190
* Joanenamed in will (Tout) married Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol II, page 190
* Alice married Thomas Holand, 2nd Earl of Kent ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol II, page 190
* Mary (d. before 1376)d. before father (Tout) m. John, Lord Strange, of Blackmere. Mary Is not recognized by Douglas Richardson.''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol II, page 190 We show Mary as Richard's sister.See also this [http://www.wikitree.com/g2g/180222/who-is-the-father-of-mary-isabel-fitzalan-114 G2G discussion]: "Who is the father of Mary Isabel (Fitzalan-114)" (Fitzalan-114 was merged into [[FitzAlan-635]]).
* Eleanor (d. before 1376) married Robert, son of William de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk.daughter of an unknown mistress} Is not recognized by Douglas Richardson ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol II, page 190
* Eleanor de Arundel, daughter of Richard FitzAlan and Unknown mistress, married about 1348 John de Bereford. They had no children. She died before her husband, who died in 1356. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol II, page 190
== Death and burial of Sir Richard de Arundel ==(Royal Ancestry) Sir Richard de Arundel, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, died at Arundel 24 Jan. 1375/6. He left a will dated 5 Dec. 1375, proved 22 October 1376. He and his wife Eleanor, were buried at Lewes Priory, Sussex.
Note. Lewes Priory was more formally known as the Priory of St. Pancras.
"The Arundel Tomb in the North Aisle of Chichester Cathedral was brought from Lewes Priory after its dissolution in 1537. It is a tomb chest, with on top the recumbent figures of Richard Fitzalan, earl of Arundel and his second wife, Eleanor of Lancaster. On the side of the tomb are shields. Originally the whole tomb was probably painted, with the figures resplendent and the shields showing the coats of arms of the couple."[http://www.chichestercathedral.org.uk/about-us/delve-deeper-1/arundel-tomb.shtml Arundel Tomb], Chichester Cathedral The memorial effigy of Eleanor and Richard Fitz Alan was the inspiration for Philip Larkin's "An Arundel Tomb"[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_of_Lancaster#/media/File:ArundelTomb1.JPG Arundel Tomb], Wikipedia written in 1964[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p019xhgj/p019xd6v BBC Radio 4], P. D. James' Cultural Exchange ([http://articulatelondon.blogspot.com/2014_03_02_archive.html this blog] has "An Arundel Tomb" and several images; see also Chicester Cathedral's page on the [http://www.chichestercathedral.org.uk/about-us/delve-deeper-1/arundel-tomb.shtml Arundel Tomb]).
==Timeline==
: 1326: Father's execution deprives him of succession to title and estates.
: Prof. Thomas Frederick Tout
: 1330-31: Restored by parliament
: 4th Edward III [1331] ... Earl of Arundel: Dec that year obtained restitution of the Castle and Honour of Arundel from widow of John, Earl of Kent, becoming Earl of Arundel
: 1334: Justiciar of North Wales
: For life.
: 7 Edward III [1334]: Gov. Chirke Castle, co. Denbigh: next year had grant of inheritance of that castle, with all territories thereunto belonging, being part of the possessions of Roger Mortimer, the attainted Earl of March; ... soon after made gov of Porchester Castle, and the same year had a command in wars of Scotland, where he continued engaged for some years.
: 1339: Gov. Carnarvon Castle
: 1345: Sheriff of Salop for life
: 1340-41 and 1345-47: Admiral of the West
: 1346: commanded 2nd division at Battle of Crécy
: 1347: assisted taking of Calais
: 30 Jun 1347: inherited Warenne family estates after maternal uncle John, Earl of Surrey and Sussex
: mom's bros. died.
: 1349-50: Settled castle, town, and manor of Arundel on himself and Eleanor
: Tout: By fine levied
: 1361: Earl of Surrey: On Joan's death - widow of uncle, John, Earl of Surrey -- but not before, assumed title
: 12 Apr 1366: settled Warenne estates on issue.
== Timeline ==
* By Prof. Thomas Frederick Tout: Sources: [Rymer's Fdera, vol. iii, Record edit.; Rolls of Parl. vol. ii.; Dugdale's Baronage, i. 316-18; Doyle's Official Baronage, i. 71-2; Froissart's Chroniques, vols. i-iv. ed. Luce (Société de l'Histoire de France); Murimuth and his Cont. (Engl. Hist. Soc.); Knighton in Twysden, Decem Scriptores; Tierney's Hist. of Arundel, pp. 225-240.) T. F. T.* [Ref: DNB, Editors, Leslie Stephen & Sidney Lee, MacMillan Co, London & Smith, Elder & Co., NY, 1908, vol. vii, pp. 96-8]
14th Edward III [1341]: embarked in French warsTout: in subsequent campaigns. at siege of Vannes, relief of Thouars, and Battle of Crécy. frequently employed in diplomatic missions, and was esteemed one of the most eminent generals and statesmen of the era.
1330: after Mortimer's fall of Mortimer, petitioned to be reinstated, and, after some delay, was restored in blood and to the greater part of Earl Edmund's possessions (_Rot. Parl._ ii. 50). But forbidden to avenge father by private war against John Charlton, first lord Charlton of Powys (_ib._ ii. 60).
1331: obtained castle of Arundel from heirs of Edmund, earl of Kent.: Tout: These grants were subsequently more than once confirmed (_ib._ ii. 226, 256).
1334: received Mortimer's castle of Chirk; made justice of North Wales: Tout: his large estates in that region gave him considerable local influence.
Arundel took a conspicuous part in nearly every important war of Edward III's long reign.
1336: After surrendering 'hereditary right' to stewardship of Scotland to Edward for a thousand marks,: Fdera_, ii. 952 he was made in 1337 joint commander of the English army in the north.
Early 1338: he and Salisbury incurred no small opprobrium by their signal failure to capture Dunbar: Knighton, c. 2570; cf. _Liber Pluscardensis_, i. 284, ed. Skene
25 April: elevated to sole command, with full powers to treat with the Scots for truce or peace,: Fdera_, ii. 1029, 1031 of which he availed himself to conclude a truce, as his duty now compelled him to follow the king to Brabant,: Chron. de Melsa_, ii. 385 where he landed at Antwerp on 13 Dec.
: Froissaart, i. 417, ed. Luce
Jan 1340 parliament: nominated admiral of ships at Portsmouth and the west that were to assemble at Mid Lent
: Rot. Parl._ ii, 108
24 June: comported himself 'loyaly and nobly' at the [[:Category:Battle of Sluys|Battle of Sluys]], and was one of the commissioners sent by Edward from Bruges in July to acquaint parliament with news and to explain to it king's financial necessities
: ib._ ii. 118 b
Later the same year he took part in siege of Tournay: Luce, _Chronique des Quartre Premiers Valois_, p. 4, ed. Soc. de l'Histoire de France.
1342: at feast given by Edward III in honor of Countess of Salisbury; : Froissart, iii. 3 Warden of the Scottish marches in conjunction with the Earl of Huntingdon; Oct: accompanied Edward to Brittany,
: ib._ iii. 225 and was left to besiege Vannes
: ib._ iii. 227 while the bulk of the army advanced to Rennes.
Jan 1343: truce put an end to the siege, and in July Arundel was sent on a mission to Avignon.
1344: appointed, with Henry, earl of Derby, lieutenant of Aquitaine, where the French war had broken out; and at the same time was commissioned to treat with Castile, Portugal, and Aragon
: Fdera_, iii. 8, 9
February 1345 - 47: reappointed admiral of the west
: Nicolas, _Hist. of Royal Navy_, ii. 95
1346: accompanied Edward on his great expedition to northern France (Froissart, iii. 130), and commanded the second of the three divisions into which the English host was divided at Crecy: ib. iii. 169, makes him joint commander with Northampton, but Murimuth, p. 166, includes the latter among the leaders of the first line). He was afterwards with Edward at the siege of Calais
:Rol. Parl._ ii 163 b
1348 and 1350: commissions to treat with pope at Avignon
: Fdera_, iii. 165, 201
1350: took part in the famous naval battle with the Spaniards off Winchelsea
: Froissart, iv. 89
1351: employed in Scotland to arrange for a final peace and the ransom of King David
: Fdera_, iii. 225
1354: negotiator of a proposed truce with France, at a conference held under papal mediation at Guines (_ib._ iii. 253), but on the envoys proceeding to Avignon (_ib._ iii. 283), to obtain the papal ratification, it was found that no real settlement had been arrived at, and Innocent VI was loudly accused of treachery (_Cont. Murimuth, p. 184). In 1355 Arundel was one of the regents during the king's absence from England
: Fdera_, iii. 305
1357: negotiating in Scotland
1358: embassy head to Wenzel, duke of Luxembourg (_ib._ iii. 392).
August 1360: joint commissioner in completing ratifications of treaty of Bretigny.
1362: a commissioners to prolong truce with Charles of Blois
: iv._ iii. 662
1364: engaged in diplomacy (_ib._ iii. 747).
The declining years of Arundel's life were spent in comparative seclusion from public affairs.
1365: maliciously cited to papal court by William de Lenne, foreign bishop of Chichester, with whom he was on bad terms. Supported by Edward in resistance to the bishop, whose temporalities were ultimately siezed by the crown. He now perhaps enlarged the castle of Arundel
: Tierney, _Hist. of Arundel_, p. 239
1372: last military exploit - perhaps his share in expedition for relief of Thouars.
after 1353: possessed vast wealth, especially when he succeeded, by right of his mother, to earldom of Warenne or Surrey. frequently aided Edward III in financial difficulties by large advances ... in 1370 Edward was more than twenty thousand pounds in his debt. Yet at his death Arundel left behind over ninety thousand marks in ready money, nearly half of which was stored up in bags in the high tower of Arundel,: Harl. MS._ 4840, f. 393 where is a curious inventory of all his personal property at his death.
One of Arundel's last acts was to become, with Bishop William of Wykeham, a general attorney for John of Gaunt during his journey to Spain (_Fdera_, iii. 1026).
== Links ==
* [[Wikipedia: Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel]]
* [http://goose.ycp.edu/~tgibson/RoyalAncestors/Edward.html The Descendants of King Edward I, King of England, and Eleanora of Castile]
* [[Wikipedia: Battle of Crécy]]
* [[Wikipedia: Battle of Sluys]]
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== Sources ==
: See also:* Douglas Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families]'', Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), volume II, pages 185-190; vol I, page 30, pp 157-158* Douglas Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families],'' 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol. II p. 606-610; Vol. III p. 486* Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 1-20, 22. indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors - Stephen, Sir Leslie, ed. * FamilySearch (TM) International Genealogical Index v5.0, Intellectual Reserve, Inc., (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints http://www.familysearch.org), Film 458136, Film 1239635, Page 690, Ref 23195, Film 458041, Film 170416, Page 699, Ref 26885.* Faris, David. Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996.* Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (n.d.). N.p. (ODNB)* Weis, F.L. (1991). The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, (4th ed.). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.* [http://www.thepeerage.com/p10490.htm#i104900 Richard FitzAlan, 3rd/10th Earl of Arundel], "The Peerage" (website, compiled by Darryl Lundy, Ngaio, Wellington, New Zealand; accessed July 25, 2016)
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}Richard FitzAlan is in a trail badged by the Magna Carta Project to surety barons Robert de Vere and Saher de Quincy (see [[#Magna Carta Project|text below]]).
==Biography=='''Richard FitzAlan''', Knt., was the son and heir of [[FitzAlan-586|Edmund de Arundel]] (or Fitz Alan), Knt., 9th Earl of Arundel,Cokayne, George Edward ed. ''Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom'', Vol. I: Ab Adam - Basing, 2nd edition. (London,1910). Online at Archive.org, [https://archive.org/details/completepeerageo01coka/page/242/mode/1up pages 242-244]. and [[Warenne-97|Alice Warenne]],Cawley, Charles. [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm#RichardArundeldied1376B Richard FitzAlan], entry in "Medieval Lands" database hosted by ''Foundation for Medieval Genealogy'' (FMG). (accessed 11 April 2019). See also WikiTree's source page for [[Space:Medieval_Lands|MedLands]]. daughter of William de Warenne and Joan de Vere.Douglas Richardson, ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families,'' 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), Vol. II, pages 185-190 FITZ ALAN #6: Richard de Arundel. Richard was born about 1314 (aged 7 in 1321).Wikidata says c1313, citing his [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/9534 article] by C. Given-Wilson on ODNB: Fitzalan, Richard, third earl of Arundel and eighth earl of Surrey (c. 1313–1376).
:'''Titles''': 10th Earl of Arundel, Chief Butler of England,Douglas Richardson, ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families,'' 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol. II p. 606-610; Vol. III p. 486. and 9th Earl of Surrey
:'''Lands''': the Castle and Honour of Arundel, Sussex, and Oswestry, Shropshire
:'''Nickname''': Copped HatCokayne, George Edward ed. ''Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom'', Vol. I: Ab Adam - Basing, 2nd edition. (London,1910).Online at Archive.org, [https://archive.org/details/completepeerageo01coka/page/242/mode/1up pages 242-244].
=== Marriages and Children===:Richard married first to [[Despenser-7|Isabel le Despenser]]Thomas Frederick Tout. "Fitzalan, Richard (1307?-1376)" entry in ''Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900'', Volume 19. Online at [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fitzalan,_Richard_(1307%3F-1376)_(DNB00) WikiSource]. on 9 February 1320/1 at the King's Chapel at Havering-atte-Bower, Essex. Isabel, daughter of Hugh le Despenser, Knt., 2nd Lord Despenser and Eleanor, daughter of Gilbert de Clare was born about 1313. Her father settled manors in Wiltshire and Buckinghamshire on the couple immediately after their marriage. The marriage cemented the alliance between Richard's father and favorites of Edward II. They had one son:*[[FitzAlan-585|Edmund]], Knt.,[http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/cp/arundel.shtml#p244b Some Corrections and Additions to the Complete Peerage: Volume 1: Arundel]. married Sibyl de Montagu, daughter of William Montagu, Earl of Salisbury, before July 1349. Edmund was said to have been aged 20 in 1347, was knighted in 1352, was living in 1377 and had daughters: Alice, who married Sir Leonard Carew, Phillipe, who married wife of Richard Sergeaux,Cokayne. ''Complete Peerage'', Vol. XIV: Addenda and Corrigenda, (1998). Online at FamilySearch.org, [https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/568116-the-complete-peerage-of-england-scotland-ireland-great-britain-and-the-united-kingdom-extant-extinct-or-dormant-v-014?viewer=1&offset=0#page=58&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q= page 38]. and Katherine, who married ____ Deincourt and died before 12 February 1381/2.
:Richard and Isabel's marriage was annulled by papal mandate dated 4 December 1344 on the grounds of his minority and of his never willingly consenting to the match. Richard and Isabel claimed conception of their son was a result of being forced by violence to cohabit. Their child/children were bastardized as a result of the annulment. "In none of the documents bearing on the [annulment] case is there a mention of daughters", however two have been proposed and disproved: Phillipe and Isabel (see [[#Disputed Children|Research Notes]] below).
:Richard married second in Ditton, Buckinghamshire on 5 February 1344/5, in the presence of King Edward III, to [[Plantagenet-48|Eleanor of Lancaster]], widow of John de Beaumont, Knt., 2nd Lord Beaumont, and daughter of Henry of Lancaster, Knt., Earl of Lancaster and Leicester, and Maud Chaworth.[[Wikipedia: Eleanor of Lancaster]] Richard had previously cohabitated with Eleanor, before his annulment and while her first husband was still living. They received papal dispensations dated 4 March 1344/5 and 6 July 1345 as they were related in the 4th degree of kindred. They had three sons and two daughters:* [[FitzAlan-197|Richard]], K.G., 11th Earl of Arundel, 10th Earl of Surrey, born about 1346, beheaded at Cheapside on 21 September 1397, married first Elizabeth de Bohun and second to Phillipe Mortimer.* [[FitzAlan-173|John]], Knt., 1st Lord Arundel, married Eleanor Mautravers and died at sea 15 December 1379; he was Marshal of England 1377 and summoned to Parliament 4 August 1377 by writ ''Johanni de Arundell'', where by he became Lord Arundel.Richardson, ''Magna Carta Ancestry'', vol. I, page 30.Cokayne, ''The Complete Peerage'', vol. I, pages 259-260.* [[FitzAlan-202|Thomas]], born 1352/3, died 19 February 1413/4, Bishop of Ely 1373, Lord Chancellor of England, Archbishop of York 1388, he crowned King Henry IV in Westminster Abbey in 1399 and crowned Henry V in Westminster Abbey in 1413.* [[FitzAlan-170|Joan]], married Humphrey de Bohun, K.G., Earl of Hereford, Essex and Northampton. Joan was born ca. 1347 and died 7 April 1419.* [[FitzAlan-147|Alice]], married Thomas de Holand, K.G., 2nd Earl of Kent. Alice was born ca. 1350 and died 17 March 1416.
:Richard also had at least two children with an unknown mistress or mistresses:* [[FitzAlan-165|Eleanor]], married about 1348 to John de Bereford and had no children. Eleanor died before her husband, who died in 1356.*[[FitzAlan-195|Ralph]], possible illegitimate son, married Juliane ______.
=== Death and Burial===:Richard's wife, Eleanor, Countess of Arundel and Surrey, died at Arundel on 11 January 1371/2. Sir Richard died at Arundel on 24 January 1375/6, leaving a will dated 5 December 1375 and proved 22 October 1376. Richard and Eleanor were buried at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewes_Priory Lewes Priory], Sussex.
:Richard's will directed that his body should be buried in Lewes priory, near his wife Eleanor. He left property to “Richard my son...my son Thomas Bishop of Ely...John my son...Joane my daughter [...Countess of Hereford]...Alice my daughter...the eldest daughter of my said son John...Henry and Edward the younger sons of my said son John...William another son of my said son John...my nephews and nieces sons and daughters of Roger le Strange and to my sister Dame Alaine le Strange wife to the said Roger...my...uncle John Arundell”.
:When he succeeded to the earldom of Surrey, Richard gained vast wealth. He frequently aided Edward III in financial difficulties by giving hime large advances and, by 1370, Edward was more than twenty thousand pounds in his debt. At his death Arundel left behind over ninety thousand marks in ready money, nearly half of which was stored up in bags in the high tower of Arundel.
: "The Arundel Tomb in the North Aisle of Chichester Cathedral was brought from Lewes Priory after its dissolution in 1537. It is a tomb chest, with on top the recumbent figures of Richard Fitzalan, earl of Arundel and his second wife, Eleanor of Lancaster. On the side of the tomb are shields. Originally the whole tomb was probably painted, with the figures resplendent and the shields showing the coats of arms of the couple."[https://www.chichestercathedral.org.uk/visiting/cathedral-plan/delve-deeper-arundel-tomb Arundel Tomb], Chichester Cathedral The memorial effigy of Eleanor and Richard Fitz Alan was the inspiration for Philip Larkin's "An Arundel Tomb"[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_of_Lancaster#/media/File:ArundelTomb1.JPG Arundel Tomb], Wikipedia written in 1964[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p019xhgj/p019xd6v BBC Radio 4], P. D. James' Cultural Exchange ([http://articulatelondon.blogspot.com/2014_03_02_archive.html this blog] has "An Arundel Tomb" and several images; see also Chichester Cathedral's page on the [https://www.chichestercathedral.org.uk/visiting/cathedral-plan/delve-deeper-arundel-tomb Arundel Tomb]).
===Timeline===* 1326: His father's execution and attainder for supporting King Edward II against the Queen and Mortimer deprived Richard of succession to the Arundel title and estates.* 1330: Richard conspired to overthrow Mortimer through a rising of men in Shropshire and Staffordshire, but his plot was uncovered. A warrant was issued for his arrest 4 June 1330 but Richard was able to flee, returning to England before 8 December 1330, when he was ordered to furnish men for an enquiry.* 1330 - 1331: After the fall of Mortimer (ca. October 1330), Richard petitioned to Parliament that the proceedings against his father be reversed, the king granted his request and Richard was "fully restored in blood and honors" but he was forbidden to avenge his father by private war against John Charlton, first lord Charlton of Powys. By December, he obtained restitution of the Castle and Honour of Arundel from widow of John, Earl of Kent, becoming Earl of Arundel. * 1333: Constable of Chirk Castle, a property that was formerly held by Mortimer. His large estates in that region gave him considerable local influence.* 1334: Chief Justiciar of North Wales for life; and Privy Councillor.
* 1336: Constable of Portchester Castle. * 1337: Richard claimed the Stewardship of Scotland by grant from Edward de Balliol. He was made joint commander of the English army in the north.* Early 1338: Richard and Salisbury were scorned for their failure to capture Dunbar.* 25 April 1338: Elevated to sole command, with full powers to treat with the Scots for truce or peace, he followed the king to Brabant, where he landed at Antwerp on 13 December.* 1339: Governor of Caernarvon Castle and Sheriff of Caernarvonshire.
* 1340 - 1341: Admiral of the West.* 24 June 1340: Conducted himself "loyally and nobly" at the [[Wikipedia: Battle of Sluys|Battle of Sluys]], and was one of the commissioners sent by Edward in July to parliament. Later the same year he took part in the siege of Tournay.* 1342: Joint Warden of the Marches toward Scotland, with William de Clinton, Earl of Huntingdon, securing a one year truce with the Scots. Attended feast given by Edward III in honor of Countess of Salisbury. * October 1342: Accompanied Edward to Brittany, and was left to besiege Vannes while the bulk of the army advanced to Rennes.* January 1343: A truce put an end to the siege and, in July, he was sent on a mission to Avignon.* March 1344: Appointed with Henry de Lancaster, Earl of Derby, as Joint Lieutenants of Aquitaine and given the authority to make treaties with Alfonso XI, King of Castile.
* 1345: Sheriff of Shropshire for life.
* 1345 - 1347: Admiral of the West.* 1346: Accompanied Edward on his great expedition to northern France. Commanded the second of the three divisions at the [[Wikipedia: Battle of Crécy|Battle of Crécy]] on 26 August 1346.
* 1347: Assisted Edward at the siege of Calais.* 30 June 1347: Inherited the Warenne family estates after the death of his maternal uncle John, Earl of Surrey and Sussex, but not the title, gaining estates in Sussex, Surrey, Norfolk and other counties.* 1348: Appointed Joint Ambassador to treat at Avignon with the Pope.* 1349/50: Settled the Castle, town, and manor of Arundel on himself and his wife, Eleanor, by fine levied 1349/50.* 1350: Appointed Joint Ambassador to treat at Avignon. Took part in the famous naval battle with the Spaniards off Winchelsea.* 1351: Employed in Scotland to arrange for a final peace and the ransom of King David. Appointed Joint Commissioner to treat with Scotland.* 1352: Chief Warden for the counties of Surrey and Sussex.* 1353: Did homage for the barony of Bromfield and Yale.* 1354: Appointed Joint Ambassador to treat at Avignon. Negotiator of a proposed truce with France, at a conference mediated by the pope at Guines, but it was found that no real settlement had been arrived at, and Innocent VI was accused of treachery.* 1354/1355: Parliament passed an act annulling the 1327/8 proceedings touching his father, Edmund, restoring Richard as if the earlier proceedings had not taken place.* 1355: Joint Guardian and Lieutenant of England, serving as one of the regents during the king's absence from England.* 1357: Appointed Joint Commissioner to treat with Scotland.* 1358: Appointed Chief Plenipotentiary to treat with the Duke of Luxembourg. * August 1360: Joint commissioner to treat with France and complete the ratifications of the treaty of Bretigny.* 1361: On the death of Joan of Bar, the widow of his uncle, John, Earl of Surrey, he assumed the title of Earl of Surrey.* 1362: Commissioner to prolong truce with Charles of Blois.
* 1364: Engaged in diplomacy.* 1365: Richard was maliciously cited to papal court by William de Lenne, foreign bishop of Chichester, with whom he was on bad terms. His resistance to the bishop was supported by Edward and it was about this time, he perhaps enlarged the castle of Arundel.* 12 April 1366: Settled the Warenne estates on his children.* 1372: Richard's last military exploit was perhaps his participation in the expedition for relief of Thouars. At that same time he also became, with Bishop William of Wykeham, a general attorney for John of Gaunt during his journey to Spain.
==Research Notes==
===Disputed Children===:Formerly attached as children of Richard and his first wife, Isabel, from an early volume of ''The Complete Peerage'', which was amended in 1998 and later (profiles were disconnected 6 December 2019):*[[FitzAlan-545|Philippe]], wife of Richard Sergeaux (died 1393) and mother of Alice, who married first to Guy St. Aubyn and second to Richard de Vere, Earl of Oxford who is the daughter of Richard's son Edmund. *Isabel, married John, 4th Lord Strange of Blackmere, is really Mary, daughter of Edmund, 9th Earl and not this Richard, 10th Earl. Cawley calls her Mary, incorrectly naming her as Richard's daughter. [[FitzAlan-648|Isabel]] removed as his daughter.
:These two children were proposed to be the children of Richard and his second wife, Eleanor, but are not recognized as such by Richardson and have been disproved:* [[FitzAlan-635|Mary]] (see Isabel above), is actually Richard's sister and married John, Lord Strange, of Blackmere.See also this [http://www.wikitree.com/g2g/180222/who-is-the-father-of-mary-isabel-fitzalan-114 G2G discussion]: "Who is the father of Mary Isabel (Fitzalan-114)" (Fitzalan-114 was merged into [[FitzAlan-635]]).* [[FitzAlan-687|Eleanor]], married Robert, son of William de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk is Richard's granddaughter, daughter of his son Richard.
:No evidence of these daughters can be found:
*[[Fitzalan-183|Margaret (Fitzalan) Collingridge]]
*[[FitzAlan-181|Katherine FitzAlan]]
== Sources ==
:See also:* Richardson, ''Magna Carta Ancestry'' (2011), vol. I, pages 157-158: BEAUMONT, John de Beaumont (1st husband of Eleanor of Lancaster).* Faris, David. ''Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists''. (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996).* Weis, F.L. ''The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215'', (4th ed.). (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1991).
* [[Wikipedia: Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel]]* [https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-9534#odnb-9780198614128-e-9534-div1-d1108887e907 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Fitzalan, Richard, third earl of Arundel and eighth earl of Surrey (c. 1313–1376) C. Given-Wilson]
== Acknowledgements ==See the Changes tab for edits to this profile. Thanks to everyone who contributed.
=== Magna Carta Project ===: This profile was re-reviewed and approved for the Magna Carta Project by [[Thiessen-117|Thiessen-117]] 20:45, 16 March 2020 (UTC).
:Richard FitzAlan is a descendant of [[:Category:Surety Barons|Magna Carta surety barons]] [[de_Vere-309|Robert de Vere]] and [[Quincy-226|Saher de Quincy]]. His profile is in trails badged by the [[Project:Magna Carta|Magna Carta project]] to the following [[:Category:Gateway Ancestors|Gateway Ancestors]]:*Alsop Gateways ([[Alsop-371|Timothy]], [[Alsop-24|Elizabeth]] and [[Alsop-25|George]]): trail badged in 2015, needs re-review. See trail [[Gilbert-876#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*Batte Gateways ([[Batte-33|Henry]], [[Batte-58|Thomas]] and [[Batte-22|William]]): badged in 2015 and needs re-review. Trail set out [[Batte-33#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*[[Bourchier-404|Mary Bourchier]]: badged 2019. See the trail [[Bourchier-404#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*Claypoole Gateways ([[Claypoole-5|James]], [[Claypoole-34|Edward]] and [[Claypoole-29|Norton]]): trail was re-reviewed in May/June 2020. See trail [[Claypoole-5#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*[[Codd-38|Saint Leger Codd]] (MCA III:481-484 SAINT LEGER): trail badged 2019. See trail [[Codd-38#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*Coytemore Gateways ([[Coytemore-1|Elizabeth]] and [[Coytemore-4|Thomas]]): badged in 2015. See the trail [[Coytemore-2#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*[[Digges-14|Edward Digges]]: badged in June 2015. See the trail [[Digges-14#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*[[Fisher-6749|John Fisher]]: trail badged in 2015 and re-reviewed in April 2020. See trail [[Space:Fisher_Trails|HERE]].*[[Horsmanden-14|Warham Horsmanden]] (MCA III:481-484 SAINT LEGER): trail re-reviewed and badged in May 2020. See the trail [[Horsmanden-14#Magna_Carta_Trails|HERE]].*[[Howell-151|Edward Howell]] (MCA II:418-426 HOWELL): see the trail [[Hawten-1#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*[[Rose-6077|Robert Rose]]: badged August 2015 and needs re-review. See the trail [[Rose-6077#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*[[Spotswood-2|Alexander Spotswood]]: badged in 2015 and needs re-review. See the trail [[Spotswood-2#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*[[St Leger-13|Katherine St Leger]]: badged 2015. See the trail [[St Leger-13#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].
:Richard also appears in unbadged trails (needing work) from Vere and Quincy to the following Gateways:*[[Alston-247|John Alston]] (MCA III:225-230 NELSON): needs further development. See trail [[Alston-247#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*Blakiston Gateways ([[Blakiston-11|Nehemiah]] and [[Blakiston-12|George]]): needs development. See the trail [[Blakiston-11#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*[[Bromfield-23|Edward Bromfield]] (MCA I:331-333 BROMFIELD): portions need re-development. See trail [[Bromfield-23#Magna Carta Trail|HERE]].*[[Dade-7|Maj. Francis Dade]]: developed in 2014/2015, needs re-development. See trail [[Dade-7#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]]. *[[Houston-1467|Patrick Houston]]: trail not yet developed and is set out [[Houston-1467#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]]. *Humphrey Gateways ([[Humphrey-1929|Daniel]], [[Humphrey-2315|Benjamin]], [[Humphrey-2317|Rebecca]], and [[Humphrey-2321|Anne]]): trail has not yet been developed. The trail is set out [[Humphrey-2315#Magna_Carta_Trails|HERE]].*[[Lloyd-177|Thomas Lloyd]]: trail needs re-development. See it [[Lloyd-177#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*Lovelace Gateways ([[Lovelace-8|Anne]] and [[Lovelace-279|Thomas]]): needs development. See the trail [[Lovelace-8#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*[[Marshall-128|Elizabeth Marshall]]: needs further development. See trail [[Mitton-12#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*Nelson Gateways ([[Nelson-804|John]] and [[Nelson-7430|Margaret]]) (MCA III:225-230 NELSON): needs further development. See the trail [[Nelson-804#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*Owen Gateways ([[Owen-3401|Rebecca]], [[Owen-546|Joshua]] and [[Owen-1078|Elizabeth]]): trail has not yet been developed. This trail is set out [[Owen-1078#Magna_Carta_Trails|HERE]].*[[Throckmorton-110|John Throckmorton]] (MCA IV:190-191 THROCKMORTON): trail needs development. See the trail [[Throckmorton-108#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].
: See [[Space:Magna_Carta_Team_Base_Camp|Base Camp]] for more information about Magna Carta trails. See the project's [[Space:Magna Carta Project Glossary|glossary]] for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".
'''[[De_Vere-309|Robert de Vere]]''' and '''[[Quincy-226|Saher de Quincy]]'''
[[Category:Quincy-226 Descendants]][[Category:De_Vere-309 Descendants]][[Category:Hundred Years' War]] [[Category: Battle of Sluys]][[Category: Battle of Cressy]] [[Category: This Day In History January 24]] ==Biography== Titles of Sir Richard de Arundel (Royal Ancestry):: of the Castle and Honour of Arundel, Sussex, and Oswestry, Shropshire :Chief Butler of England :Constable of Chirk Castle 1333 :Chief Justiciar of North Wales 1334 :Privy Councillor 1334 :Constable of Portchester Castle 1336 :Governor of Caernarvon Castle 1339 :Sheriff of Caernarvonshire 1339 :Admiral of the West 1340-1, 1345-7 :Joint Warden of the Marches toward Scotland 1342 :Joint Lieutenant of Aquitaine 1344 :Sheriff of Shropshire 1345-8 :Chief Warden for cos. Surrey and Sussex 1352 :Joint Guardian and Lieutenant of England 1355 ----'''Sir Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and 9th Earl of Surrey''' : Richard Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundelrestored 1331 (confirmation 1351 and 1354), getting Arundel Castle back also Dec 1330-31 from the widow of Edmund Earl of Kent : 9th Earl of Surreyafter death of maternal uncle the 8th Earl of Surrey's widow 31 Aug 1361, Richard assumed title : Knight of the GarterTout: contracted in youth : Nickname: Copped Hat : born aft. 1307Tout: had castle of Arundel -- given to Edmund, Earl of Kent, the king's uncle -- rendered to him, thus became 9th earl; "FITZALAN, RICHARD II, Earl of Arundel and Warenne (1307?-1376), son of Edmund Fitzalan, earl of Arundel, and his wife, Alice Warenne, was born not before 1307. : died 24 Jan 1375/6 Arundel. Age 70; buried Lewes.[[#ODNB]]Will date: 5 Dec 1375. Complete Peerage I:242-4, XIV:38, transcribed by Dave Utzinger; Tout: died 24 Jan. 1376. will dated 5 Dec. 1375: directed that his body should be buried without pomp in the chapter-house of Lewes priory, by the side of his second wife, and founded a perpetual chantry in the chapel of St. George's within Arundel Castle (Nicolas, _Testamenta Vetusta_, pp. 94-6); Will of Richard (c1313-1376) 10th Lord Arundal is in Testamenta Vetusta, the editor thereof states that the only issue he had by Isabel le Despencer was a daughter Philippa who married Sir Richard Serjeaux of Cornwall, knigh; Will states issue as Richard; Thomas [Ed. Bishop of Ely]; John [Ed. Maltravers]; Joane [Ed. wife of Humphrey Bohun, KG, earl of Hereford] and Alice [Ed. married Thomas Holland earl of Kent]. Also makes bequests to Henry and Edward, younger sons of my son John [Lord Maltravers] and also William another of his sons. [Ref: Adrian Channing msg to SGM] ===Death and burial of Sir Richard de Arundel===(Royal Ancestry) Sir Richard de Arundel, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, died at Arundel 24 Jan. 1375/6. He left a will dated 5 Dec. 1375, proved 22 October 1376. He and his wife Eleanor, were buried at Lewes Priory, Sussex. Note. Lewes Priory was more formally known as the Priory of St. Pancras. == Parents == : Edmund Fitzlan and Alice Warrene: eldest son Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel (8th Earl of Arundel per Ancestral Roots) and Alice de Warenne. Maternal grandparents: William de Warenne and Joan de Vere. William was the only son of John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey. == Marriage== : 1321: married '''Isabel'''Tout: cements alliance between his father and favorites of Edward II (Tout); Father: Hugh le Despenser the younger, [Lord le Despenser 1st Lord (Baron) le Despenser 29 July 1314 creation] and Eleanor, daughter and co-heir of Gilbert [de Clare], Earl of Gloucester. 09 Feb 1320/1 King's Chapel at Havering-atte-Bower. Annulled 4 Dec 1344. Issue: bastardizedpapal annulment 1344 on the grounds of his minority and of his never willingly consented to the match.Tout: 1345: repudiated wife, Isabella, on the ground that he had never consented to marriage, and, having obtained papal recognition of nullity, married Eleanor, widow of Lord Beaumont, and daughter of Henry, 3rd earl of Lancaster. This may have prevented him sharing in the warlike exploits of his new brother-in-law, Derby, in Aquitaine. Issue: * Edmund married before July 1349, SibylThe Phillips, Weber, Kirk, & Staggs families of the Pacific Northwest, by Jim Weber, rootsweb.comdaughter of William Montagu, Earl of Salisbury; Knighted 1352, living 1377; note names 2 dau: Philippa, dau of Edmund ... granddaughter of Richard, and Isabel, was to be named Mary & was a dau of Richard's father Edmund, making her a sister of Richard; 1345 divorced; errors in Complete Peerage: Arundel; Vol 1, pp. 244, note b (corrected in vol 14): By Isabel, Richard Fitz Alan, 10th Earl of Arundel (d.1375/6) had 2 children. (1) Edmund m., before July 1349, Sibyl, da. of William (Montagu), Earl of Salisbury (2) Isabel m. John, 4th Lord Strange of Blackmere; pp. 243, note d: in no document about the divorce of Richard from Isabel] mentions daughters. Richard and Isabel later claimed conception of their son was a result of being forced by violence to cohabit. | [http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/register.htm medievalgenealogy.org.uk] ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol II, page 188 : married: 2nd '''Eleanor of Lancaster'''live-in mistress before marriage; dau Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud de Chaworth; widow of John, 2nd Baron Beaumont; died 24 Jan 1375/6." [Burke's Peerage]; 1st cousin to his 1st wife, and 2nd cousin once removed to the Earl, died 11 Jan 1372, at Arundel; buried Lewes; born abt 1311, Grismond Castle, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales. died 11 Jan 1372. Married Arundel, Shropshire 05 Feb 1344/5 Ditton[[Wikipedia: Eleanor of Lancaster]] Issue: * Richard, Earl of Arundel : Successor: "His lordship died in 1376, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Richard Fitz-Alan, 10th ''[11th] '' Earl of Arundel." [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 200, Fitz-Alan, Earls of Arundel, Barons Maltravers] * John, died 15 Dec. 1379At sea ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol I, page 30 Marshal of England 1377;: According to settlement by Earl Richard in 1347 (_Rot. Parl._ iv. 442), title reverted to marshal's grandson, John VI Fitzalan. summoned to parliament 4 Aug 1377 by writ ''Johanni de Arundell'' ( served1st to 3rd Richard II). * married Eleanor Mautraversgrand-daughter and co-heir of John, Lord Maltravers, in whose right he bore that title * Thomas Arundel - Bishop of Ely, Archbishop of York, Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Chancellor of England. He crowned King Henry IV in Westminster Abbey in 1399. He crowned Henry V in Westminster Abby in 1413. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol II, page 190 * Joanenamed in will (Tout) married Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol II, page 190 * Alice married Thomas Holand, 2nd Earl of Kent ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol II, page 190 * Mary (d. before 1376)d. before father (Tout) m. John, Lord Strange, of Blackmere. Mary Is not recognized by Douglas Richardson.''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol II, page 190 We show Mary as Richard's sister.See also this [http://www.wikitree.com/g2g/180222/who-is-the-father-of-mary-isabel-fitzalan-114 G2G discussion]: "Who is the father of Mary Isabel (Fitzalan-114)" (Fitzalan-114 was merged into [[FitzAlan-635]]). * Eleanor (d. before 1376) married Robert, son of William de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk.daughter of an unknown mistress} Is not recognized by Douglas Richardson ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol II, page 190 * Eleanor de Arundel, daughter of Richard FitzAlan and Unknown mistress, married about 1348 John de Bereford. They had no children. She died before her husband, who died in 1356. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol II, page 190 ==Timeline== : 1326: Father's execution deprives him of succession to title and estates. : Prof. Thomas Frederick Tout : 1330-31: Restored by parliament : 4th Edward III [1331] ... Earl of Arundel: Dec that year obtained restitution of the Castle and Honour of Arundel from widow of John, Earl of Kent, becoming Earl of Arundel : 1334: Justiciar of North Wales : For life. : 7 Edward III [1334]: Gov. Chirke Castle, co. Denbigh: next year had grant of inheritance of that castle, with all territories thereunto belonging, being part of the possessions of Roger Mortimer, the attainted Earl of March; ... soon after made gov of Porchester Castle, and the same year had a command in wars of Scotland, where he continued engaged for some years. : 1339: Gov. Carnarvon Castle : 1345: Sheriff of Salop for life : 1340-41 and 1345-47: Admiral of the West : 1346: commanded 2nd division at Battle of Crécy : 1347: assisted taking of Calais : 30 Jun 1347: inherited Warenne family estates after maternal uncle John, Earl of Surrey and Sussex : mom's bros. died. : 1349-50: Settled castle, town, and manor of Arundel on himself and Eleanor : Tout: By fine levied : 1361: Earl of Surrey: On Joan's death - widow of uncle, John, Earl of Surrey -- but not before, assumed title : 12 Apr 1366: settled Warenne estates on issue. == Timeline == * By Prof. Thomas Frederick Tout: Sources: [Rymer's F dera, vol. iii, Record edit.; Rolls of Parl. vol. ii.; Dugdale's Baronage, i. 316-18; Doyle's Official Baronage, i. 71-2; Froissart's Chroniques, vols. i-iv. ed. Luce (Société de l'Histoire de France); Murimuth and his Cont. (Engl. Hist. Soc.); Knighton in Twysden, Decem Scriptores; Tierney's Hist. of Arundel, pp. 225-240.) T. F. T.* [Ref: DNB, Editors, Leslie Stephen & Sidney Lee, MacMillan Co, London & Smith, Elder & Co., NY, 1908, vol. vii, pp. 96-8] 14th Edward III [1341]: embarked in French warsTout: in subsequent campaigns. at siege of Vannes, relief of Thouars, and Battle of Crécy. frequently employed in diplomatic missions, and was esteemed one of the most eminent generals and statesmen of the era. 1330: after Mortimer's fall of Mortimer, petitioned to be reinstated, and, after some delay, was restored in blood and to the greater part of Earl Edmund's possessions (_Rot. Parl._ ii. 50). But forbidden to avenge father by private war against John Charlton, first lord Charlton of Powys (_ib._ ii. 60). 1331: obtained castle of Arundel from heirs of Edmund, earl of Kent.: Tout: These grants were subsequently more than once confirmed (_ib._ ii. 226, 256). 1334: received Mortimer's castle of Chirk; made justice of North Wales: Tout: his large estates in that region gave him considerable local influence. Arundel took a conspicuous part in nearly every important war of Edward III's long reign. 1336: After surrendering 'hereditary right' to stewardship of Scotland to Edward for a thousand marks,: F dera_, ii. 952 he was made in 1337 joint commander of the English army in the north. Early 1338: he and Salisbury incurred no small opprobrium by their signal failure to capture Dunbar: Knighton, c. 2570; cf. _Liber Pluscardensis_, i. 284, ed. Skene 25 April: elevated to sole command, with full powers to treat with the Scots for truce or peace,: F dera_, ii. 1029, 1031 of which he availed himself to conclude a truce, as his duty now compelled him to follow the king to Brabant,: Chron. de Melsa_, ii. 385 where he landed at Antwerp on 13 Dec. : Froissaart, i. 417, ed. Luce Jan 1340 parliament: nominated admiral of ships at Portsmouth and the west that were to assemble at Mid Lent : Rot. Parl._ ii, 108 24 June: comported himself 'loyaly and nobly' at the [[:Category:Battle of Sluys|Battle of Sluys]], and was one of the commissioners sent by Edward from Bruges in July to acquaint parliament with news and to explain to it king's financial necessities : ib._ ii. 118 b Later the same year he took part in siege of Tournay: Luce, _Chronique des Quartre Premiers Valois_, p. 4, ed. Soc. de l'Histoire de France. 1342: at feast given by Edward III in honor of Countess of Salisbury; : Froissart, iii. 3 Warden of the Scottish marches in conjunction with the Earl of Huntingdon; Oct: accompanied Edward to Brittany, : ib._ iii. 225 and was left to besiege Vannes : ib._ iii. 227 while the bulk of the army advanced to Rennes. Jan 1343: truce put an end to the siege, and in July Arundel was sent on a mission to Avignon. 1344: appointed, with Henry, earl of Derby, lieutenant of Aquitaine, where the French war had broken out; and at the same time was commissioned to treat with Castile, Portugal, and Aragon : F dera_, iii. 8, 9 February 1345 - 47: reappointed admiral of the west : Nicolas, _Hist. of Royal Navy_, ii. 95 1346: accompanied Edward on his great expedition to northern France (Froissart, iii. 130), and commanded the second of the three divisions into which the English host was divided at Crecy: ib. iii. 169, makes him joint commander with Northampton, but Murimuth, p. 166, includes the latter among the leaders of the first line). He was afterwards with Edward at the siege of Calais :Rol. Parl._ ii 163 b 1348 and 1350: commissions to treat with pope at Avignon : F dera_, iii. 165, 201 1350: took part in the famous naval battle with the Spaniards off Winchelsea : Froissart, iv. 89 1351: employed in Scotland to arrange for a final peace and the ransom of King David : F dera_, iii. 225 1354: negotiator of a proposed truce with France, at a conference held under papal mediation at Guines (_ib._ iii. 253), but on the envoys proceeding to Avignon (_ib._ iii. 283), to obtain the papal ratification, it was found that no real settlement had been arrived at, and Innocent VI was loudly accused of treachery (_Cont. Murimuth, p. 184). In 1355 Arundel was one of the regents during the king's absence from England : F dera_, iii. 305 1357: negotiating in Scotland 1358: embassy head to Wenzel, duke of Luxembourg (_ib._ iii. 392). August 1360: joint commissioner in completing ratifications of treaty of Bretigny. 1362: a commissioners to prolong truce with Charles of Blois : iv._ iii. 662 1364: engaged in diplomacy (_ib._ iii. 747). The declining years of Arundel's life were spent in comparative seclusion from public affairs. 1365: maliciously cited to papal court by William de Lenne, foreign bishop of Chichester, with whom he was on bad terms. Supported by Edward in resistance to the bishop, whose temporalities were ultimately siezed by the crown. He now perhaps enlarged the castle of Arundel : Tierney, _Hist. of Arundel_, p. 239 1372: last military exploit - perhaps his share in expedition for relief of Thouars. after 1353: possessed vast wealth, especially when he succeeded, by right of his mother, to earldom of Warenne or Surrey. frequently aided Edward III in financial difficulties by large advances ... in 1370 Edward was more than twenty thousand pounds in his debt. Yet at his death Arundel left behind over ninety thousand marks in ready money, nearly half of which was stored up in bags in the high tower of Arundel,: Harl. MS._ 4840, f. 393 where is a curious inventory of all his personal property at his death. One of Arundel's last acts was to become, with Bishop William of Wykeham, a general attorney for John of Gaunt during his journey to Spain (_F dera_, iii. 1026). == Links == * [[Wikipedia: Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel]] * [http://goose.ycp.edu/~tgibson/RoyalAncestors/Edward.html The Descendants of King Edward I, King of England, and Eleanora of Castile] * [[Wikipedia: Battle of Crécy]] * [[Wikipedia: Battle of Sluys]] } == Sources == *Royal Ancestry 2013 Vol. II p. 606-610 *Magna Carta Ancestry 2011 2nd ed. Vol. I p. 157-158
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'''[[De_Vere-309|Robert de Vere]]''' and '''[[Quincy-226|Saher de Quincy]]'''
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==Biography==
Titles of Sir Richard de Arundel (Royal Ancestry):: of the Castle and Honour of Arundel, Sussex, and Oswestry, Shropshire
:Chief Butler of England
:Constable of Chirk Castle 1333
:Chief Justiciar of North Wales 1334
:Privy Councillor 1334
:Constable of Portchester Castle 1336
:Governor of Caernarvon Castle 1339
:Sheriff of Caernarvonshire 1339
:Admiral of the West 1340-1, 1345-7
:Joint Warden of the Marches toward Scotland 1342
:Joint Lieutenant of Aquitaine 1344
:Sheriff of Shropshire 1345-8
:Chief Warden for cos. Surrey and Sussex 1352
:Joint Guardian and Lieutenant of England 1355
----'''Sir Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and 9th Earl of Surrey'''
: Richard Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundelrestored 1331 (confirmation 1351 and 1354), getting Arundel Castle back also Dec 1330-31 from the widow of Edmund Earl of Kent
: 9th Earl of Surreyafter death of maternal uncle the 8th Earl of Surrey's widow 31 Aug 1361, Richard assumed title
: Knight of the GarterTout: contracted in youth
: Nickname: Copped Hat
: born aft. 1307Tout: had castle of Arundel -- given to Edmund, Earl of Kent, the king's uncle -- rendered to him, thus became 9th earl; "FITZALAN, RICHARD II, Earl of Arundel and Warenne (1307?-1376), son of Edmund Fitzalan, earl of Arundel, and his wife, Alice Warenne, was born not before 1307.
: died 24 Jan 1375/6 Arundel. Age 70; buried Lewes.[[#ODNB]]Will date: 5 Dec 1375. Complete Peerage I:242-4, XIV:38, transcribed by Dave Utzinger; Tout: died 24 Jan. 1376. will dated 5 Dec. 1375: directed that his body should be buried without pomp in the chapter-house of Lewes priory, by the side of his second wife, and founded a perpetual chantry in the chapel of St. George's within Arundel Castle (Nicolas, _Testamenta Vetusta_, pp. 94-6); Will of Richard (c1313-1376) 10th Lord Arundal is in Testamenta Vetusta, the editor thereof states that the only issue he had by Isabel le Despencer was a daughter Philippa who married Sir Richard Serjeaux of Cornwall, knigh; Will states issue as Richard; Thomas [Ed. Bishop of Ely]; John [Ed. Maltravers]; Joane [Ed. wife of Humphrey Bohun, KG, earl of Hereford] and Alice [Ed. married Thomas Holland earl of Kent]. Also makes bequests to Henry and Edward, younger sons of my son John [Lord Maltravers] and also William another of his sons. [Ref: Adrian Channing msg to SGM]
== Parents ==
: Edmund Fitzlan and Alice Warrene: eldest son Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel (8th Earl of Arundel per Ancestral Roots) and Alice de Warenne. Maternal grandparents: William de Warenne and Joan de Vere. William was the only son of John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey.
== Marriage==
: 1321: married '''Isabel'''Tout: cements alliance between his father and favorites of Edward II (Tout); Father: Hugh le Despenser the younger, [Lord le Despenser 1st Lord (Baron) le Despenser 29 July 1314 creation] and Eleanor, daughter and co-heir of Gilbert [de Clare], Earl of Gloucester. 09 Feb 1320/1 King's Chapel at Havering-atte-Bower. Annulled 4 Dec 1344. Issue: bastardizedpapal annulment 1344 on the grounds of his minority and of his never willingly consented to the match.Tout: 1345: repudiated wife, Isabella, on the ground that he had never consented to marriage, and, having obtained papal recognition of nullity, married Eleanor, widow of Lord Beaumont, and daughter of Henry, 3rd earl of Lancaster. This may have prevented him sharing in the warlike exploits of his new brother-in-law, Derby, in Aquitaine. Issue:
* Edmund married before July 1349, SibylThe Phillips, Weber, Kirk, & Staggs families of the Pacific Northwest, by Jim Weber, rootsweb.comdaughter of William Montagu, Earl of Salisbury; Knighted 1352, living 1377; note names 2 dau: Philippa, dau of Edmund ... granddaughter of Richard, and Isabel, was to be named Mary & was a dau of Richard's father Edmund, making her a sister of Richard; 1345 divorced; errors in Complete Peerage: Arundel; Vol 1, pp. 244, note b (corrected in vol 14): By Isabel, Richard Fitz Alan, 10th Earl of Arundel (d.1375/6) had 2 children. (1) Edmund m., before July 1349, Sibyl, da. of William (Montagu), Earl of Salisbury (2) Isabel m. John, 4th Lord Strange of Blackmere * Proposed correction to Complete Peerage, with comment: "in none of the documents bearing on the case [the divorce of Richard from Isabel] is there a mention of daughters". Richard and Isabel later claimed conception of their son was a result of being forced by violence to cohabit. ... The wife of John, 4th Lord Strange of Blackmere, was called Mary not Isabel (see Complete Peerage, volume 12, part 1, p.344), and was a daughter of Edmund, the 9th earl, not Richard, the 10th (see further details at "[http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/cp/arundel.shtml#p244b Some corrections and additions...]" at "[http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/ Some Notes on Medieval English Genealogy]"). ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol II, page 188
: married: 2nd '''Eleanor of Lancaster'''live-in mistress before marriage; dau Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud de Chaworth; widow of John, 2nd Baron Beaumont; died 24 Jan 1375/6." [Burke's Peerage]; 1st cousin to his 1st wife, and 2nd cousin once removed to the Earl, died 11 Jan 1372, at Arundel; buried Lewes; born abt 1311, Grismond Castle, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales. died 11 Jan 1372. Married Arundel, Shropshire 05 Feb 1344/5 Ditton[[Wikipedia: Eleanor of Lancaster]] Issue:
* Richard, Earl of Arundel
: Successor: "His lordship died in 1376, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Richard Fitz-Alan, 10th ''[11th] '' Earl of Arundel." [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 200, Fitz-Alan, Earls of Arundel, Barons Maltravers]
* John, died 15 Dec. 1379At sea ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol I, page 30 Marshal of England 1377;: According to settlement by Earl Richard in 1347 (_Rot. Parl._ iv. 442), title reverted to marshal's grandson, John VI Fitzalan. summoned to parliament 4 Aug 1377 by writ ''Johanni de Arundell'' ( served1st to 3rd Richard II). * married Eleanor Mautraversgrand-daughter and co-heir of John, Lord Maltravers, in whose right he bore that title
* Thomas Arundel - Bishop of Ely, Archbishop of York, Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Chancellor of England. He crowned King Henry IV in Westminster Abbey in 1399. He crowned Henry V in Westminster Abby in 1413. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol II, page 190
* Joanenamed in will (Tout) married Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol II, page 190
* Alice married Thomas Holand, 2nd Earl of Kent ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol II, page 190
* Mary (d. before 1376)d. before father (Tout) m. John, Lord Strange, of Blackmere. Mary Is not recognized by Douglas Richardson.''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol II, page 190 We show Mary as Richard's sister.See also this [http://www.wikitree.com/g2g/180222/who-is-the-father-of-mary-isabel-fitzalan-114 G2G discussion]: "Who is the father of Mary Isabel (Fitzalan-114)" (Fitzalan-114 was merged into [[FitzAlan-635]]).
* Eleanor (d. before 1376) married Robert, son of William de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk.daughter of an unknown mistress} Is not recognized by Douglas Richardson ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol II, page 190
* Eleanor de Arundel, daughter of Richard FitzAlan and Unknown mistress, married about 1348 John de Bereford. They had no children. She died before her husband, who died in 1356. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', vol II, page 190
== Death and burial of Sir Richard de Arundel ==(Royal Ancestry) Sir Richard de Arundel, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, died at Arundel 24 Jan. 1375/6. He left a will dated 5 Dec. 1375, proved 22 October 1376. He and his wife Eleanor, were buried at Lewes Priory, Sussex.
Note. Lewes Priory was more formally known as the Priory of St. Pancras.
"The Arundel Tomb in the North Aisle of Chichester Cathedral was brought from Lewes Priory after its dissolution in 1537. It is a tomb chest, with on top the recumbent figures of Richard Fitzalan, earl of Arundel and his second wife, Eleanor of Lancaster. On the side of the tomb are shields. Originally the whole tomb was probably painted, with the figures resplendent and the shields showing the coats of arms of the couple."[http://www.chichestercathedral.org.uk/about-us/delve-deeper-1/arundel-tomb.shtml Arundel Tomb], Chichester Cathedral The memorial effigy of Eleanor and Richard Fitz Alan was the inspiration for Philip Larkin's "An Arundel Tomb"[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_of_Lancaster#/media/File:ArundelTomb1.JPG Arundel Tomb], Wikipedia written in 1964[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p019xhgj/p019xd6v BBC Radio 4], P. D. James' Cultural Exchange ([http://articulatelondon.blogspot.com/2014_03_02_archive.html this blog] has "An Arundel Tomb" and several images; see also Chicester Cathedral's page on the [http://www.chichestercathedral.org.uk/about-us/delve-deeper-1/arundel-tomb.shtml Arundel Tomb]).
==Timeline==
: 1326: Father's execution deprives him of succession to title and estates.
: Prof. Thomas Frederick Tout
: 1330-31: Restored by parliament
: 4th Edward III [1331] ... Earl of Arundel: Dec that year obtained restitution of the Castle and Honour of Arundel from widow of John, Earl of Kent, becoming Earl of Arundel
: 1334: Justiciar of North Wales
: For life.
: 7 Edward III [1334]: Gov. Chirke Castle, co. Denbigh: next year had grant of inheritance of that castle, with all territories thereunto belonging, being part of the possessions of Roger Mortimer, the attainted Earl of March; ... soon after made gov of Porchester Castle, and the same year had a command in wars of Scotland, where he continued engaged for some years.
: 1339: Gov. Carnarvon Castle
: 1345: Sheriff of Salop for life
: 1340-41 and 1345-47: Admiral of the West
: 1346: commanded 2nd division at Battle of Crécy
: 1347: assisted taking of Calais
: 30 Jun 1347: inherited Warenne family estates after maternal uncle John, Earl of Surrey and Sussex
: mom's bros. died.
: 1349-50: Settled castle, town, and manor of Arundel on himself and Eleanor
: Tout: By fine levied
: 1361: Earl of Surrey: On Joan's death - widow of uncle, John, Earl of Surrey -- but not before, assumed title
: 12 Apr 1366: settled Warenne estates on issue.
== Timeline ==
* By Prof. Thomas Frederick Tout: Sources: [Rymer's Fdera, vol. iii, Record edit.; Rolls of Parl. vol. ii.; Dugdale's Baronage, i. 316-18; Doyle's Official Baronage, i. 71-2; Froissart's Chroniques, vols. i-iv. ed. Luce (Société de l'Histoire de France); Murimuth and his Cont. (Engl. Hist. Soc.); Knighton in Twysden, Decem Scriptores; Tierney's Hist. of Arundel, pp. 225-240.) T. F. T.* [Ref: DNB, Editors, Leslie Stephen & Sidney Lee, MacMillan Co, London & Smith, Elder & Co., NY, 1908, vol. vii, pp. 96-8]
14th Edward III [1341]: embarked in French warsTout: in subsequent campaigns. at siege of Vannes, relief of Thouars, and Battle of Crécy. frequently employed in diplomatic missions, and was esteemed one of the most eminent generals and statesmen of the era.
1330: after Mortimer's fall of Mortimer, petitioned to be reinstated, and, after some delay, was restored in blood and to the greater part of Earl Edmund's possessions (_Rot. Parl._ ii. 50). But forbidden to avenge father by private war against John Charlton, first lord Charlton of Powys (_ib._ ii. 60).
1331: obtained castle of Arundel from heirs of Edmund, earl of Kent.: Tout: These grants were subsequently more than once confirmed (_ib._ ii. 226, 256).
1334: received Mortimer's castle of Chirk; made justice of North Wales: Tout: his large estates in that region gave him considerable local influence.
Arundel took a conspicuous part in nearly every important war of Edward III's long reign.
1336: After surrendering 'hereditary right' to stewardship of Scotland to Edward for a thousand marks,: Fdera_, ii. 952 he was made in 1337 joint commander of the English army in the north.
Early 1338: he and Salisbury incurred no small opprobrium by their signal failure to capture Dunbar: Knighton, c. 2570; cf. _Liber Pluscardensis_, i. 284, ed. Skene
25 April: elevated to sole command, with full powers to treat with the Scots for truce or peace,: Fdera_, ii. 1029, 1031 of which he availed himself to conclude a truce, as his duty now compelled him to follow the king to Brabant,: Chron. de Melsa_, ii. 385 where he landed at Antwerp on 13 Dec.
: Froissaart, i. 417, ed. Luce
Jan 1340 parliament: nominated admiral of ships at Portsmouth and the west that were to assemble at Mid Lent
: Rot. Parl._ ii, 108
24 June: comported himself 'loyaly and nobly' at the [[:Category:Battle of Sluys|Battle of Sluys]], and was one of the commissioners sent by Edward from Bruges in July to acquaint parliament with news and to explain to it king's financial necessities
: ib._ ii. 118 b
Later the same year he took part in siege of Tournay: Luce, _Chronique des Quartre Premiers Valois_, p. 4, ed. Soc. de l'Histoire de France.
1342: at feast given by Edward III in honor of Countess of Salisbury; : Froissart, iii. 3 Warden of the Scottish marches in conjunction with the Earl of Huntingdon; Oct: accompanied Edward to Brittany,
: ib._ iii. 225 and was left to besiege Vannes
: ib._ iii. 227 while the bulk of the army advanced to Rennes.
Jan 1343: truce put an end to the siege, and in July Arundel was sent on a mission to Avignon.
1344: appointed, with Henry, earl of Derby, lieutenant of Aquitaine, where the French war had broken out; and at the same time was commissioned to treat with Castile, Portugal, and Aragon
: Fdera_, iii. 8, 9
February 1345 - 47: reappointed admiral of the west
: Nicolas, _Hist. of Royal Navy_, ii. 95
1346: accompanied Edward on his great expedition to northern France (Froissart, iii. 130), and commanded the second of the three divisions into which the English host was divided at Crecy: ib. iii. 169, makes him joint commander with Northampton, but Murimuth, p. 166, includes the latter among the leaders of the first line). He was afterwards with Edward at the siege of Calais
:Rol. Parl._ ii 163 b
1348 and 1350: commissions to treat with pope at Avignon
: Fdera_, iii. 165, 201
1350: took part in the famous naval battle with the Spaniards off Winchelsea
: Froissart, iv. 89
1351: employed in Scotland to arrange for a final peace and the ransom of King David
: Fdera_, iii. 225
1354: negotiator of a proposed truce with France, at a conference held under papal mediation at Guines (_ib._ iii. 253), but on the envoys proceeding to Avignon (_ib._ iii. 283), to obtain the papal ratification, it was found that no real settlement had been arrived at, and Innocent VI was loudly accused of treachery (_Cont. Murimuth, p. 184). In 1355 Arundel was one of the regents during the king's absence from England
: Fdera_, iii. 305
1357: negotiating in Scotland
1358: embassy head to Wenzel, duke of Luxembourg (_ib._ iii. 392).
August 1360: joint commissioner in completing ratifications of treaty of Bretigny.
1362: a commissioners to prolong truce with Charles of Blois
: iv._ iii. 662
1364: engaged in diplomacy (_ib._ iii. 747).
The declining years of Arundel's life were spent in comparative seclusion from public affairs.
1365: maliciously cited to papal court by William de Lenne, foreign bishop of Chichester, with whom he was on bad terms. Supported by Edward in resistance to the bishop, whose temporalities were ultimately siezed by the crown. He now perhaps enlarged the castle of Arundel
: Tierney, _Hist. of Arundel_, p. 239
1372: last military exploit - perhaps his share in expedition for relief of Thouars.
after 1353: possessed vast wealth, especially when he succeeded, by right of his mother, to earldom of Warenne or Surrey. frequently aided Edward III in financial difficulties by large advances ... in 1370 Edward was more than twenty thousand pounds in his debt. Yet at his death Arundel left behind over ninety thousand marks in ready money, nearly half of which was stored up in bags in the high tower of Arundel,: Harl. MS._ 4840, f. 393 where is a curious inventory of all his personal property at his death.
One of Arundel's last acts was to become, with Bishop William of Wykeham, a general attorney for John of Gaunt during his journey to Spain (_Fdera_, iii. 1026).
== Links ==
* [[Wikipedia: Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel]]
* [http://goose.ycp.edu/~tgibson/RoyalAncestors/Edward.html The Descendants of King Edward I, King of England, and Eleanora of Castile]
* [[Wikipedia: Battle of Crécy]]
* [[Wikipedia: Battle of Sluys]]
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== Sources ==
: See also:* Douglas Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families]'', Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), volume II, pages 185-190; vol I, page 30, pp 157-158* Douglas Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families],'' 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol. II p. 606-610; Vol. III p. 486* Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 1-20, 22. indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors - Stephen, Sir Leslie, ed. * FamilySearch (TM) International Genealogical Index v5.0, Intellectual Reserve, Inc., (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints http://www.familysearch.org), Film 458136, Film 1239635, Page 690, Ref 23195, Film 458041, Film 170416, Page 699, Ref 26885.* Faris, David. Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996.* Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (n.d.). N.p. (ODNB)* Weis, F.L. (1991). The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, (4th ed.). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.* [http://www.thepeerage.com/p10490.htm#i104900 Richard FitzAlan, 3rd/10th Earl of Arundel], "The Peerage" (website, compiled by Darryl Lundy, Ngaio, Wellington, New Zealand; accessed July 25, 2016)
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}Richard FitzAlan is in a trail badged by the Magna Carta Project to surety barons Robert de Vere and Saher de Quincy (see [[#Magna Carta Project|text below]]).
==Biography=='''Richard FitzAlan''', Knt., was the son and heir of [[FitzAlan-586|Edmund de Arundel]] (or Fitz Alan), Knt., 9th Earl of Arundel,Cokayne, George Edward ed. ''Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom'', Vol. I: Ab Adam - Basing, 2nd edition. (London,1910). Online at Archive.org, [https://archive.org/details/completepeerageo01coka/page/242/mode/1up pages 242-244]. and [[Warenne-97|Alice Warenne]],Cawley, Charles. [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm#RichardArundeldied1376B Richard FitzAlan], entry in "Medieval Lands" database hosted by ''Foundation for Medieval Genealogy'' (FMG). (accessed 11 April 2019). See also WikiTree's source page for [[Space:Medieval_Lands|MedLands]]. daughter of William de Warenne and Joan de Vere.Douglas Richardson, ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families,'' 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), Vol. II, pages 185-190 FITZ ALAN #6: Richard de Arundel. Richard was born about 1314 (aged 7 in 1321).Wikidata says c1313, citing his [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/9534 article] by C. Given-Wilson on ODNB: Fitzalan, Richard, third earl of Arundel and eighth earl of Surrey (c. 1313–1376).
:'''Titles''': 10th Earl of Arundel, Chief Butler of England,Douglas Richardson, ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families,'' 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol. II p. 606-610; Vol. III p. 486. and 9th Earl of Surrey
:'''Lands''': the Castle and Honour of Arundel, Sussex, and Oswestry, Shropshire
:'''Nickname''': Copped HatCokayne, George Edward ed. ''Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom'', Vol. I: Ab Adam - Basing, 2nd edition. (London,1910).Online at Archive.org, [https://archive.org/details/completepeerageo01coka/page/242/mode/1up pages 242-244].
=== Marriages and Children===:Richard married first to [[Despenser-7|Isabel le Despenser]]Thomas Frederick Tout. "Fitzalan, Richard (1307?-1376)" entry in ''Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900'', Volume 19. Online at [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fitzalan,_Richard_(1307%3F-1376)_(DNB00) WikiSource]. on 9 February 1320/1 at the King's Chapel at Havering-atte-Bower, Essex. Isabel, daughter of Hugh le Despenser, Knt., 2nd Lord Despenser and Eleanor, daughter of Gilbert de Clare was born about 1313. Her father settled manors in Wiltshire and Buckinghamshire on the couple immediately after their marriage. The marriage cemented the alliance between Richard's father and favorites of Edward II. They had one son:*[[FitzAlan-585|Edmund]], Knt.,[http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/cp/arundel.shtml#p244b Some Corrections and Additions to the Complete Peerage: Volume 1: Arundel]. married Sibyl de Montagu, daughter of William Montagu, Earl of Salisbury, before July 1349. Edmund was said to have been aged 20 in 1347, was knighted in 1352, was living in 1377 and had daughters: Alice, who married Sir Leonard Carew, Phillipe, who married wife of Richard Sergeaux,Cokayne. ''Complete Peerage'', Vol. XIV: Addenda and Corrigenda, (1998). Online at FamilySearch.org, [https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/568116-the-complete-peerage-of-england-scotland-ireland-great-britain-and-the-united-kingdom-extant-extinct-or-dormant-v-014?viewer=1&offset=0#page=58&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q= page 38]. and Katherine, who married ____ Deincourt and died before 12 February 1381/2.
:Richard and Isabel's marriage was annulled by papal mandate dated 4 December 1344 on the grounds of his minority and of his never willingly consenting to the match. Richard and Isabel claimed conception of their son was a result of being forced by violence to cohabit. Their child/children were bastardized as a result of the annulment. "In none of the documents bearing on the [annulment] case is there a mention of daughters", however two have been proposed and disproved: Phillipe and Isabel (see [[#Disputed Children|Research Notes]] below).
:Richard married second in Ditton, Buckinghamshire on 5 February 1344/5, in the presence of King Edward III, to [[Plantagenet-48|Eleanor of Lancaster]], widow of John de Beaumont, Knt., 2nd Lord Beaumont, and daughter of Henry of Lancaster, Knt., Earl of Lancaster and Leicester, and Maud Chaworth.[[Wikipedia: Eleanor of Lancaster]] Richard had previously cohabitated with Eleanor, before his annulment and while her first husband was still living. They received papal dispensations dated 4 March 1344/5 and 6 July 1345 as they were related in the 4th degree of kindred. They had three sons and two daughters:* [[FitzAlan-197|Richard]], K.G., 11th Earl of Arundel, 10th Earl of Surrey, born about 1346, beheaded at Cheapside on 21 September 1397, married first Elizabeth de Bohun and second to Phillipe Mortimer.* [[FitzAlan-173|John]], Knt., 1st Lord Arundel, married Eleanor Mautravers and died at sea 15 December 1379; he was Marshal of England 1377 and summoned to Parliament 4 August 1377 by writ ''Johanni de Arundell'', where by he became Lord Arundel.Richardson, ''Magna Carta Ancestry'', vol. I, page 30.Cokayne, ''The Complete Peerage'', vol. I, pages 259-260.* [[FitzAlan-202|Thomas]], born 1352/3, died 19 February 1413/4, Bishop of Ely 1373, Lord Chancellor of England, Archbishop of York 1388, he crowned King Henry IV in Westminster Abbey in 1399 and crowned Henry V in Westminster Abbey in 1413.* [[FitzAlan-170|Joan]], married Humphrey de Bohun, K.G., Earl of Hereford, Essex and Northampton. Joan was born ca. 1347 and died 7 April 1419.* [[FitzAlan-147|Alice]], married Thomas de Holand, K.G., 2nd Earl of Kent. Alice was born ca. 1350 and died 17 March 1416.
:Richard also had at least two children with an unknown mistress or mistresses:* [[FitzAlan-165|Eleanor]], married about 1348 to John de Bereford and had no children. Eleanor died before her husband, who died in 1356.*[[FitzAlan-195|Ralph]], possible illegitimate son, married Juliane ______.
=== Death and Burial===:Richard's wife, Eleanor, Countess of Arundel and Surrey, died at Arundel on 11 January 1371/2. Sir Richard died at Arundel on 24 January 1375/6, leaving a will dated 5 December 1375 and proved 22 October 1376. Richard and Eleanor were buried at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewes_Priory Lewes Priory], Sussex.
:Richard's will directed that his body should be buried in Lewes priory, near his wife Eleanor. He left property to “Richard my son...my son Thomas Bishop of Ely...John my son...Joane my daughter [...Countess of Hereford]...Alice my daughter...the eldest daughter of my said son John...Henry and Edward the younger sons of my said son John...William another son of my said son John...my nephews and nieces sons and daughters of Roger le Strange and to my sister Dame Alaine le Strange wife to the said Roger...my...uncle John Arundell”.
:When he succeeded to the earldom of Surrey, Richard gained vast wealth. He frequently aided Edward III in financial difficulties by giving hime large advances and, by 1370, Edward was more than twenty thousand pounds in his debt. At his death Arundel left behind over ninety thousand marks in ready money, nearly half of which was stored up in bags in the high tower of Arundel.
: "The Arundel Tomb in the North Aisle of Chichester Cathedral was brought from Lewes Priory after its dissolution in 1537. It is a tomb chest, with on top the recumbent figures of Richard Fitzalan, earl of Arundel and his second wife, Eleanor of Lancaster. On the side of the tomb are shields. Originally the whole tomb was probably painted, with the figures resplendent and the shields showing the coats of arms of the couple."[https://www.chichestercathedral.org.uk/visiting/cathedral-plan/delve-deeper-arundel-tomb Arundel Tomb], Chichester Cathedral The memorial effigy of Eleanor and Richard Fitz Alan was the inspiration for Philip Larkin's "An Arundel Tomb"[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_of_Lancaster#/media/File:ArundelTomb1.JPG Arundel Tomb], Wikipedia written in 1964[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p019xhgj/p019xd6v BBC Radio 4], P. D. James' Cultural Exchange ([http://articulatelondon.blogspot.com/2014_03_02_archive.html this blog] has "An Arundel Tomb" and several images; see also Chichester Cathedral's page on the [https://www.chichestercathedral.org.uk/visiting/cathedral-plan/delve-deeper-arundel-tomb Arundel Tomb]).
===Timeline===* 1326: His father's execution and attainder for supporting King Edward II against the Queen and Mortimer deprived Richard of succession to the Arundel title and estates.* 1330: Richard conspired to overthrow Mortimer through a rising of men in Shropshire and Staffordshire, but his plot was uncovered. A warrant was issued for his arrest 4 June 1330 but Richard was able to flee, returning to England before 8 December 1330, when he was ordered to furnish men for an enquiry.* 1330 - 1331: After the fall of Mortimer (ca. October 1330), Richard petitioned to Parliament that the proceedings against his father be reversed, the king granted his request and Richard was "fully restored in blood and honors" but he was forbidden to avenge his father by private war against John Charlton, first lord Charlton of Powys. By December, he obtained restitution of the Castle and Honour of Arundel from widow of John, Earl of Kent, becoming Earl of Arundel. * 1333: Constable of Chirk Castle, a property that was formerly held by Mortimer. His large estates in that region gave him considerable local influence.* 1334: Chief Justiciar of North Wales for life; and Privy Councillor.
* 1336: Constable of Portchester Castle. * 1337: Richard claimed the Stewardship of Scotland by grant from Edward de Balliol. He was made joint commander of the English army in the north.* Early 1338: Richard and Salisbury were scorned for their failure to capture Dunbar.* 25 April 1338: Elevated to sole command, with full powers to treat with the Scots for truce or peace, he followed the king to Brabant, where he landed at Antwerp on 13 December.* 1339: Governor of Caernarvon Castle and Sheriff of Caernarvonshire.
* 1340 - 1341: Admiral of the West.* 24 June 1340: Conducted himself "loyally and nobly" at the [[Wikipedia: Battle of Sluys|Battle of Sluys]], and was one of the commissioners sent by Edward in July to parliament. Later the same year he took part in the siege of Tournay.* 1342: Joint Warden of the Marches toward Scotland, with William de Clinton, Earl of Huntingdon, securing a one year truce with the Scots. Attended feast given by Edward III in honor of Countess of Salisbury. * October 1342: Accompanied Edward to Brittany, and was left to besiege Vannes while the bulk of the army advanced to Rennes.* January 1343: A truce put an end to the siege and, in July, he was sent on a mission to Avignon.* March 1344: Appointed with Henry de Lancaster, Earl of Derby, as Joint Lieutenants of Aquitaine and given the authority to make treaties with Alfonso XI, King of Castile.
* 1345: Sheriff of Shropshire for life.
* 1345 - 1347: Admiral of the West.* 1346: Accompanied Edward on his great expedition to northern France. Commanded the second of the three divisions at the [[Wikipedia: Battle of Crécy|Battle of Crécy]] on 26 August 1346.
* 1347: Assisted Edward at the siege of Calais.* 30 June 1347: Inherited the Warenne family estates after the death of his maternal uncle John, Earl of Surrey and Sussex, but not the title, gaining estates in Sussex, Surrey, Norfolk and other counties.* 1348: Appointed Joint Ambassador to treat at Avignon with the Pope.* 1349/50: Settled the Castle, town, and manor of Arundel on himself and his wife, Eleanor, by fine levied 1349/50.* 1350: Appointed Joint Ambassador to treat at Avignon. Took part in the famous naval battle with the Spaniards off Winchelsea.* 1351: Employed in Scotland to arrange for a final peace and the ransom of King David. Appointed Joint Commissioner to treat with Scotland.* 1352: Chief Warden for the counties of Surrey and Sussex.* 1353: Did homage for the barony of Bromfield and Yale.* 1354: Appointed Joint Ambassador to treat at Avignon. Negotiator of a proposed truce with France, at a conference mediated by the pope at Guines, but it was found that no real settlement had been arrived at, and Innocent VI was accused of treachery.* 1354/1355: Parliament passed an act annulling the 1327/8 proceedings touching his father, Edmund, restoring Richard as if the earlier proceedings had not taken place.* 1355: Joint Guardian and Lieutenant of England, serving as one of the regents during the king's absence from England.* 1357: Appointed Joint Commissioner to treat with Scotland.* 1358: Appointed Chief Plenipotentiary to treat with the Duke of Luxembourg. * August 1360: Joint commissioner to treat with France and complete the ratifications of the treaty of Bretigny.* 1361: On the death of Joan of Bar, the widow of his uncle, John, Earl of Surrey, he assumed the title of Earl of Surrey.* 1362: Commissioner to prolong truce with Charles of Blois.
* 1364: Engaged in diplomacy.* 1365: Richard was maliciously cited to papal court by William de Lenne, foreign bishop of Chichester, with whom he was on bad terms. His resistance to the bishop was supported by Edward and it was about this time, he perhaps enlarged the castle of Arundel.* 12 April 1366: Settled the Warenne estates on his children.* 1372: Richard's last military exploit was perhaps his participation in the expedition for relief of Thouars. At that same time he also became, with Bishop William of Wykeham, a general attorney for John of Gaunt during his journey to Spain.
==Research Notes==
===Disputed Children===:Formerly attached as children of Richard and his first wife, Isabel, from an early volume of ''The Complete Peerage'', which was amended in 1998 and later (profiles were disconnected 6 December 2019):*[[FitzAlan-545|Philippe]], wife of Richard Sergeaux (died 1393) and mother of Alice, who married first to Guy St. Aubyn and second to Richard de Vere, Earl of Oxford who is the daughter of Richard's son Edmund. *Isabel, married John, 4th Lord Strange of Blackmere, is really Mary, daughter of Edmund, 9th Earl and not this Richard, 10th Earl. Cawley calls her Mary, incorrectly naming her as Richard's daughter. [[FitzAlan-648|Isabel]] removed as his daughter.
:These two children were proposed to be the children of Richard and his second wife, Eleanor, but are not recognized as such by Richardson and have been disproved:* [[FitzAlan-635|Mary]] (see Isabel above), is actually Richard's sister and married John, Lord Strange, of Blackmere.See also this [http://www.wikitree.com/g2g/180222/who-is-the-father-of-mary-isabel-fitzalan-114 G2G discussion]: "Who is the father of Mary Isabel (Fitzalan-114)" (Fitzalan-114 was merged into [[FitzAlan-635]]).* [[FitzAlan-687|Eleanor]], married Robert, son of William de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk is Richard's granddaughter, daughter of his son Richard.
:No evidence of these daughters can be found:
*[[Fitzalan-183|Margaret (Fitzalan) Collingridge]]
*[[FitzAlan-181|Katherine FitzAlan]]
== Sources ==
:See also:* Richardson, ''Magna Carta Ancestry'' (2011), vol. I, pages 157-158: BEAUMONT, John de Beaumont (1st husband of Eleanor of Lancaster).* Faris, David. ''Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists''. (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996).* Weis, F.L. ''The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215'', (4th ed.). (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1991).
* [[Wikipedia: Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel]]* [https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-9534#odnb-9780198614128-e-9534-div1-d1108887e907 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Fitzalan, Richard, third earl of Arundel and eighth earl of Surrey (c. 1313–1376) C. Given-Wilson]
== Acknowledgements ==See the Changes tab for edits to this profile. Thanks to everyone who contributed.
=== Magna Carta Project ===: This profile was re-reviewed and approved for the Magna Carta Project by [[Thiessen-117|Thiessen-117]] 20:45, 16 March 2020 (UTC).
:Richard FitzAlan is a descendant of [[:Category:Surety Barons|Magna Carta surety barons]] [[de_Vere-309|Robert de Vere]] and [[Quincy-226|Saher de Quincy]]. His profile is in trails badged by the [[Project:Magna Carta|Magna Carta project]] to the following [[:Category:Gateway Ancestors|Gateway Ancestors]]:*Alsop Gateways ([[Alsop-371|Timothy]], [[Alsop-24|Elizabeth]] and [[Alsop-25|George]]): trail badged in 2015, needs re-review. See trail [[Gilbert-876#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*Batte Gateways ([[Batte-33|Henry]], [[Batte-58|Thomas]] and [[Batte-22|William]]): badged in 2015 and needs re-review. Trail set out [[Batte-33#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*[[Bourchier-404|Mary Bourchier]]: badged 2019. See the trail [[Bourchier-404#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*Claypoole Gateways ([[Claypoole-5|James]], [[Claypoole-34|Edward]] and [[Claypoole-29|Norton]]): trail was re-reviewed in May/June 2020. See trail [[Claypoole-5#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*[[Codd-38|Saint Leger Codd]] (MCA III:481-484 SAINT LEGER): trail badged 2019. See trail [[Codd-38#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*Coytemore Gateways ([[Coytemore-1|Elizabeth]] and [[Coytemore-4|Thomas]]): badged in 2015. See the trail [[Coytemore-2#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*[[Digges-14|Edward Digges]]: badged in June 2015. See the trail [[Digges-14#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*[[Fisher-6749|John Fisher]]: trail badged in 2015 and re-reviewed in April 2020. See trail [[Space:Fisher_Trails|HERE]].*[[Horsmanden-14|Warham Horsmanden]] (MCA III:481-484 SAINT LEGER): trail re-reviewed and badged in May 2020. See the trail [[Horsmanden-14#Magna_Carta_Trails|HERE]].*[[Howell-151|Edward Howell]] (MCA II:418-426 HOWELL): see the trail [[Hawten-1#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*[[Rose-6077|Robert Rose]]: badged August 2015 and needs re-review. See the trail [[Rose-6077#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*[[Spotswood-2|Alexander Spotswood]]: badged in 2015 and needs re-review. See the trail [[Spotswood-2#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*[[St Leger-13|Katherine St Leger]]: badged 2015. See the trail [[St Leger-13#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].
:Richard also appears in unbadged trails (needing work) from Vere and Quincy to the following Gateways:*[[Alston-247|John Alston]] (MCA III:225-230 NELSON): needs further development. See trail [[Alston-247#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*Blakiston Gateways ([[Blakiston-11|Nehemiah]] and [[Blakiston-12|George]]): needs development. See the trail [[Blakiston-11#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*[[Bromfield-23|Edward Bromfield]] (MCA I:331-333 BROMFIELD): portions need re-development. See trail [[Bromfield-23#Magna Carta Trail|HERE]].*[[Dade-7|Maj. Francis Dade]]: developed in 2014/2015, needs re-development. See trail [[Dade-7#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]]. *[[Houston-1467|Patrick Houston]]: trail not yet developed and is set out [[Houston-1467#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]]. *Humphrey Gateways ([[Humphrey-1929|Daniel]], [[Humphrey-2315|Benjamin]], [[Humphrey-2317|Rebecca]], and [[Humphrey-2321|Anne]]): trail has not yet been developed. The trail is set out [[Humphrey-2315#Magna_Carta_Trails|HERE]].*[[Lloyd-177|Thomas Lloyd]]: trail needs re-development. See it [[Lloyd-177#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*Lovelace Gateways ([[Lovelace-8|Anne]] and [[Lovelace-279|Thomas]]): needs development. See the trail [[Lovelace-8#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*[[Marshall-128|Elizabeth Marshall]]: needs further development. See trail [[Mitton-12#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*Nelson Gateways ([[Nelson-804|John]] and [[Nelson-7430|Margaret]]) (MCA III:225-230 NELSON): needs further development. See the trail [[Nelson-804#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].*Owen Gateways ([[Owen-3401|Rebecca]], [[Owen-546|Joshua]] and [[Owen-1078|Elizabeth]]): trail has not yet been developed. This trail is set out [[Owen-1078#Magna_Carta_Trails|HERE]].*[[Throckmorton-110|John Throckmorton]] (MCA IV:190-191 THROCKMORTON): trail needs development. See the trail [[Throckmorton-108#Magna Carta Trails|HERE]].
: See [[Space:Magna_Carta_Team_Base_Camp|Base Camp]] for more information about Magna Carta trails. See the project's [[Space:Magna Carta Project Glossary|glossary]] for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".
Events
| Birth | 5 Feb 1306 | Arundel Castle, Sussex, England |  | ||
| Birth | Abt 1313 | Arundel Castle, Sussex, England | |||
| Birth | Abt 1314 | England | |||
| Marriage | 9 Feb 1321 | King's Chapel at Havering-atte-Bower, Essex - Isabel Despenser | |||
| Marriage | 5 Feb 1345 | Ditton (in Stoke Poges), Buckinghamshire in the presence of King Edward III - Eleanor Plantagenet | |||
| Marriage | 5 Feb 1345 | Ditton, Buckinghamshire, England - Eleanor Plantagenet | |||
| Death | 24 Jan 1376 | Arundel Castle, Sussex, England | | ||
| Death | 24 Jan 1376 | Arundel, Sussex, England | |||
| Marriage | Unknown Mistress | ||||
| Alt name | Sir Richard "10th Earl of Arundel, 9th Earl of Surrey" FitzAlan | ||||
| Alt name | Richard "10th Earl of Arundel, 9th Earl of Surrey" FitzAlan | ||||
| Burial | Chichester, Chichester District, West Sussex, England | | |||
| Title (Nobility) | Sir | ||||
| Reference No | 283530 | ||||
| Reference No | 299117 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Spouse | Isabel Despenser (1313 - 1356) |
| Child | Edmund FitzAlan (1327 - 1382) |
| Child | Isabel Fitzalan (1344 - ) |
| Spouse | Unknown Mistress ( - ) |
| Child | Philippa FitzAlan (1325 - 1365) |
| Child | Katherine FitzAlan (1355 - ) |
| Child | Ranulph FitzAlan (1359 - ) |
| Spouse | Eleanor Plantagenet (1318 - 1372) |
| Child | Mary Isabel FitzAlan (1322 - 1396) |
| Child | Henry Beaumont (1340 - 1369) |
| Child | Aline FitzAlan (1340 - 1350) |
| Child | John Beaumont (1341 - ) |
| Child | Archbishop Thomas FitzAlan (1353 - 1414) |
| Child | Maud Beaumont (1342 - ) |
| Child | Margaret Beaumont (1342 - ) |
| Child | Joan FitzAlan (1345 - 1419) |
| Child | Richard FitzAlan KG (1346 - 1397) |
| Child | John FitzAlan (1348 - 1379) |
| Child | Alice FitzAlan LG (1352 - 1415) |
| Child | Thomas FitzAlan (1352 - 1414) |
| Child | Eleanor FitzAlan (1354 - 1376) |
| Child | Margaret Fitzalan (1360 - 1420) |
| Child | Ralph FitzAlan (1330 - ) |
| Child | Margaret Fitzalan (1360 - 1420) |
| Spouse | Unknown Mistress (1315 - ) |
| Child | Eleanor FitzAlan (1332 - 1356) |
| Child | Ranulph FitzAlan (1359 - ) |
| Father | Edmund FitzAlan (1285 - 1326) |
| Mother | Alice "Countess of Arundel" Warenne (1277 - 1338) |
| Sibling | John FitzAlan ( - 1373) |
| Sibling | Mary FitzAlan ( - 1396) |
| Sibling | Katherine FitzAlan (1305 - 1376) |
| Sibling | Edmund FitzAlan (1308 - 1348) |
| Sibling | Eleanor FitzAlan (1309 - 1347) |
| Sibling | Joan Fitzalan (1310 - 1355) |
| Sibling | Jane FitzAlan (1312 - 1422) |
| Sibling | Edward Fitzalan (1313 - 1398) |
| Sibling | Aline FitzAlan (1314 - 1386) |
| Sibling | Alice Fitzalan (1314 - 1376) |
| Sibling | Thomas Fitzalan (1318 - ) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth FitzAlan (1320 - 1389) |
Endnotes
1. Ancestry.com, Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014).
2. Ancestry.com, UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012).
3. Ancestry.com, Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014).
4. Ancestry.com, Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014).
5. Ancestry.com, Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014).
6. Ancestry.com, UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012).
7. Ancestry.com, Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014).
8. Ancestry.com, Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014).