Richard Fitz Alan 
Richard was born about 1313.1 Richard's father was Edmund Fitz Alan and his mother was Alice de Warenne. His paternal grandparents were Richard Fitz Alan and Alasia de Saluzzo; his maternal grandparents were William de Warenne V Earl of Surrey and Joan De VERE. He had a half-brother named Richard Fitzalan II. He died in Arundel. He was buried in Lewes.1 1 General Notes
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Richard FitzAlan, 3rd Earl of Arundel, 4th Earl of Surry, surnam ed "Copped Hat", Justiciar of North Wales, Gov. of Carnarvon Cas tle, Admiral of the West.
In 1330-1 he was fully restored in blood and honours and obtaine d restitution of the Castle and Honour of Arundel, becoming Ear l of Arundel.
Richard FitzAlan, [Copped Hat], 3rd Earl of Arundel, 4th Earl o f Surry. His marriage to Isabel le Despenser was anulled by Papa l mandate: "The powerful Earl desired to get rid of the woman t o whom he had been married as a child, and who, since her father 's attainder and execution, had ceased to be of any importance , that he might marry the woman with whom he was then living i n adultery; and the Pope very obligingly anulled the marriage an d bastardised the issue: a very unfair proceeding as far as Edmu nd d'Arundel was concerned." His second wife was first cousin t o his first wife and a Papal dispensation for the marriage was g ranted on 4 Mar. 1344/5
Took a distinguished part in the wars with France, was Admiral o f the West 1340-41 and 1345-47, commanded the second division a t the Battle of Crcy, and was at the fall of Calais in 1347.
On 30 June 1347 he succeeded to the vast estates of the family o f Warenne, by the death of his mother's brother, John, Earl of S urrey and Sussex, s.p. legit.
According to CP volume I pages 243 and 244, Richard Fitzalan, Ea rl of Arundel was, as a child, married to Isabel Le Despencer an d fathered two children. Then after the fall of the Despencers , he requested an annulment of that marriage, which he receive d as well as the declaration that the two children were illegiti mate and "married secondly 5 February 1344/5 at Ditton (a lady w ith whom he had previously cohabited), Eleanor of Lancaster.
See CP, 1: 244-245, 14: 38. Vol. 14, p. 38 gives a lengthy expl anation referring to several fines in 1347 and 1354 on the settl ement of the Arundell property, which begins with "He (the young er Richard Fitz Alan) appears to have been the illegit. s. of hi s parents..." and includes the change of his birth from 1346 t o "before 1347."
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- d.1240
- d.<10 Nov 1267
- b.14 Sep 1246 d.18 MAR 1271/72
- b.1160 in of West Dereham, Norfolk d.>04 Apr 1206
- b. in of Enniscorthy & Duffrey, Wexford, Ireland d.27 Nov 1283
- b.~ 1187 in of Edlington & Newborough, Yorkshire d.< 1226 in of Hazelwood, Yorkshire
- b.3 FEB 1266/67 d.9 MAR 1301/02
- b.1190 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.06 Aug 1246 in England
- b.1231 in Cwmaron Castle, Radnorshire, Wales d.27 Oct 1282 in Kingsland, Herefordshire, England
- b.BET. 1194 - 1198 in Gwynedd, Wales d.BET. 1251 - 1260 in Windsor, Berkshire, England/Windsor, England
- b.~ 1248 in Wigmore, Herefordshire d.> 1300
- b.BET. 1196 - 1204 in Brecknock, Surrey, England d.02 May 1230 in Wales
- b.BET. 1226 - 1230 in Breconshire, Wales d.BEF. 23 MAR 1300/01
- b.~ 1206 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales/Pembroke, Wales d.< 1246 in England
- b.01 May 1285 d.17 Nov 1326 in Hereford, England
- d.1244
- b.1197 d.13 Jul 1253
- d.1259
- d.25 Sep 1292
- b.~ 1313 d.24 JAN 1375/76 in Arundel
- b.1130 in Normandy, France d.07 May 1202 in Lewes, Sussex
- b.1166 in Surrey, England d.27 May 1240 in London, England
- b.~Jul 1136 in Surrey, England d.13 Jul 1199 in Lewes, Sussex, England/Lewes, England
- b.Aug 1231 in of Warren, Sussex, England d.27 Sep 1305 in Kennington, Surrey, England
- b.1146 in of Caversham, England d.14 May 1219 in Caversham, Berkshire, England
- b.~ 1192 in Pembroke, Wales d.WFT Est. 1237-1292
- b.BET. 1171 - 1173 in of Pembroke, Wales d.1220 in Pembroke, Wales
- b.12 JAN 1255/56 d.27 Sep 1304
- b.BET. 1157 - 1163 in Lusignan, France d.1219 in Damietta, Syria
- b.1183 in of Lusignan, Vienne, France d.~06 Jun 1246 in Surrey, England
- b.1159 d.BET. 1233 - 1239
- b.~ 1224 in Lusignan, Vienne, France d.9 FEB 1255/56 in Warren, Sussex, England
- b.1160 in Angoulême, Charente, France d.16 Jun 1202 in Limoges, France
- b.1188 in Angoulême, Charente, France d.31 May 1246 in Fontevrault L'Abbe, Maine-et-Loire, France
- b.~ 1160 in Courtenay, Loiret, France d.1218 in France
- b.1277 in Warren, Sussex, England d.<23 May 1338
- b.< 1164 in Hatfield, Essex, England/Hatfield, England d.<25 Oct 1221 in Colne, Essex, England/Colne, England
- b.~ 1210 in Hatfield, Essex, England/Hatfield, England d.<23 Dec 1263
- b.1175 in of Hatfield, Essex d.3 FEB 1244/45
- b.1230 in Hedinham, Essex, England d.02 Sep 1296
- b.1155 in Winchester, Hampshire, England/Winchester, England d.03 Nov 1219 in Acre, Palestine or Damietta, Palestine
- b.BET. 1178 - 1184 in Winchester, Hampshire, England/Winchester, England d.AFT. 3 FEB 1262/63
- b.1154 in Hampshire, England d.12 JAN 1234/35
- b.1264 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England/Oxford, England d.23 Nov 1293 in Lewes, Sussex, England/Lewes, England
- b.~ 1174
- b.1200 in Saunford, England d.1249 in Great Hormead, Co. Hertford
- b.1231 in England d.<09 Sep 1312 in England
- b.1175 in of Molton, Devonshire d.<14 May 1238
- b.1179 in England d.AFT. 28 JAN 1231/32
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