 Abt 1313 - 1376 (63 years)
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| Name |
Richard Fitzalan [2] |
| Birth |
Abt 1313 |
Of Arundel, Sussex, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
24 Jan 1376 |
Arundel, Sussex, England |
| Person ID |
I55440 |
Cecilie Family |
| Last Modified |
1 Jan 2010 |
| Father |
Earl Edmund Fitzalan, b. 1 May 1273, Marlborough Castle, Sussex, England d. 17 Nov 1326, Herefordshire, England (Age 53 years) |
| Mother |
Alice De Warren, b. Abt 1277, Warren, Sussex, England d. Bef 23 May 1338 (Age 61 years) |
| Marriage |
1305 |
Arundel, Sussex, England |
| Family ID |
F21498 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Eleanor Plantagenet, b. 1318, Grismond Castle, Monmouthshire, England d. 11 Jan 1372, Arundel, Sussex, England (Age 54 years) |
| Marriage |
1345 |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F23282 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Dec 2009 |
| Family 2 |
Isabel Le Despencer, b. Abt 1312, Gloucestershire, England d. Yes, date unknown |
| Marriage |
9 Feb 1320-1321 |
Kings Chapel, Havering-Atte-Bower, Essex, England |
| Children |
| | 1. Mary Fitzalan, b. Abt 1332, Of, Corfham, Shropshire, England d. 29 Aug 1396 (Age 64 years) |
| | 2. Edmund Fitzalan, b. 1327, Arundel, Sussex, England d. Aft 1377 (Age 51 years) |
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| Family ID |
F23283 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
22 Feb 2009 |
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| Notes |
- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel (1313? - January 24, 1376) was an English nobleman and military commander.
He was the son of Edmund Fitzalan, 9th Earl of Arundel and Alice Warenne. His birthdate is uncertain, but was not before 1307.
Around 1321 Richard's father allied with king Edward II's favorites the Despensers, and Richard was married to Isabella, daughter of the younger Hugh le Despenser. Fortune turned against the Despenser party, and in 1326, Richard's father was executed. Richard did not succeed to his father's estates or titles.
However by 1330 political conditions had changed, and over the next few years Richard was gradually able to reaquire the earldom of Arundel as well as the great estates his father had held in Sussex and in the Welsh Marches. Beyond this, in 1334 he was made justice of North Wales (later his term in this office was made for life), sheriff for life of Caernarvonshire, and governor of Caernarfon Castle.
Despite his high offices in Wales, in the following decades Arundel spent much of his time fighting in Scotland and France. In 1337 he was joint commander of the English army in the north, and the next year he was made the sole commander.
In 1340 he fought at the Battle of Sluys, and then at the siege of Tournai. After a short term as warden of the Scottish Marches, he returned to the continent, where he fought in a number of campaigns, and was appointed Joint Lieutanant of Aquitaine in 1340.
Arundel was one of the three principal English commanders at the Battle of Crecy. He spent much of the following years on various military campaigns and diplomatic missions.
In 1353 he succeeded to the Earldom of Surrey (or Warenne), which even further increased his great wealth. (He did not however use the additional title until after the death of the dowager countess of Surrey in 1361.) He made very large loans to Edward III but even so on his death left behind a great sum in hard cash.
Arundel married twice. His first wife (as mentioned above), was Isabella Despenser. He repudiated her, and had the marriage annulled on the grounds that he had never freely consented to it. After the annullment he married Eleanor of Lancaster, daughter of Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester.
By his first marriage he had one daughter. By the second he had 3 sons: Richard, who succeeded him as earl; John Fitzalan, who was a Marshall of England, and drowned in 1379; and Thomas Arundel, who became Archbishop of Canterbury. He also had 2 surviving daughters by his second wife: Joan, who married Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Hereford, and Alice, who married Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent.
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| Sources |
- [S1328] Schwennicke, Detlev, ES, (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt Verlag, 1980-), 2:83 (Reliability: 3).
- [S783] David A. Blocher, Family Legends (and the Unknown), (http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dblocher&id=I124805).
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