Richard (Copped Hat) de Arundel FitzAlan 
Richard, known as Copped Hat, was born in 1313 in Arundel Castle, Sussex, England.1 Copped Hat's father was Sir Edmund Fitzalan 9th Earl of Arundel and his mother was Alice de Warenne. His paternal grandparents were Earl of Arundel Richard Fitzalan and Alasia de Saluzza; his maternal grandparents were Earl of Surrey William de Warenne V and Joan de Vere. He had two sisters named Margaret and Aline. He was the youngest of the three children. He died at the age of 62 on January 24th, 1375 in Arundel Castle, Sussex, England. He was buried in Lewes Priory, Lewes, Sussex, England.2 1 Death Notes
D: 24 Jan 1375/76
General Notes
Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel (d. 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, and 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 Carnarvonshire, and governor of Carnarvon 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, 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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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.1164 in England d.1240
- b.May 1223 in Shropshire, England d.Nov 1267
- b.1193 in Castle Arundel, Sussex, England d.1240
- b.14 Sep 1246 in Arundel, Essex, England d.18 Mar 1272 in Clun, Shropshire, England
- b.Jan 1200 in Norfolk, East Anglia, England d.19 Jul 1230 in Poitou, France
- b.1225 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire d.27 Nov 1283
- b.1204 in Alton, Staffordshire, England d.10 Feb 1245 in Alton Castle, Cheadle, Staffordshire, England
- b.03 Feb 1267 in Arundel, Sussex, England d.09 Mar 1302
- b.1190 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.06 Aug 1246 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England
- b.1231 in Cwmaron Castle, Wales d.27 Oct 1282 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England
- b.1187 d.1251 in Windsor, Berkshire, England
- b.1248 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.10 Aug 1274 in Arundel, Sussex, England
- b.1197 in Brecknock, Surrey, Wales, England d.02 May 1230 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
- b.1226 in Abergavenny, Gwent, Wales d.Mar 1301
- b.1206 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, Wales d.1246 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
- b.01 May 1285 in Castle Marlborough, Sussex Co., England d.17 Nov 1326 in Herefordshire, England
- b.1183 d.1212
- b.1210 d.29 Oct 1244 in Saluzzo, Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy
- b.1180 d.1264
- b.1234 in Saluzzo, Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy d.03 Dec 1296
- b.1197 in Savoie, France d.24 Jun 1253
- b.1223 in Savoy, France d.1257
- b.1192 in Bourgogne, France d.1242
- b.1271 in Saluzzo, Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy d.25 Sep 1292 in Todingham Priory, England
- b.1180 d.1219
- b.1180 d.1260
- d.22 Aug 1291
- b.1210 d.1300
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- b.1313 in Arundel Castle, Sussex, England d.24 Jan 1375 in Arundel Castle, Sussex, England
- b.1130 in Normandy, France d.Apr 1202 in England
- b.1166 in Surrey, England d.27 May 1240
- b.1137 in Surrey, England d.13 Jul 1199 in Lewes, England
- b.1231 in Warren, Sussex, England d.27 Sep 1305 in Surrey, England
- b.1146 in Pembroke, Wales, England d.14 May 1219 in Caversham Manor, Berkshire, England
- b.1192 in Pembroke, Wales, England d.27 Mar 1248
- b.1168 in Pembroke, Wales, England d.1220 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.12 Jan 1255 d.27 Sep 1304
- b.1163 in Limoges, France d.1219 in Damietta, Egypt
- b.1183 in Lusignan, France d.06 Jun 1246 in Surrey, England
- b.1158 in Anguleme, France d.1236
- b.1224 in Lusignan, Vienne, France d.09 Feb 1255 in Warren, Sussex, England
- b.1160 in Angoileme, Charente-Maritime, France d.1218 in L'Abbey La Couroun, France
- b.1188 in Angouleme, France d.31 May 1245 in Fontevrault Abbey, Fontevrault, Maine-Et-Loire, France
- b.1160 in Courtenay, Gali, France d.1218 in France
- b.1277 in Warren, Sussex, England d.23 May 1338
- b.1170 in Hatfield, Essex, England d.25 Oct 1221 in Colne, Essex, England
- b.1210 d.23 Dec 1263
- b.1175 in Hatfield, Essex, England d.03 Feb 1245 in Oxfordshire, England
- b.1230 in Hedingham, Essex, England d.02 Sep 1296
- b.1155 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.03 Nov 1219 in Damietta, Egypt
- b.1180 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.1263
- b.1154 in Hampshire, England d.12 Jan 1235
- b.1264 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d.23 Nov 1293 in Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.1174 d.1233
- b.1200 in Saunford, England d.1249 in Sanford, Hertfordshire, England
<Unknown>
- b.1231 in England d.07 Sep 1317 in England
- b.1185 in Molton, Devonshire, England d.14 May 1238 in North Melton, Devonshire, England
- b.1211 in North Melton, Devonshire, England d.1273
- b.1154 in Hampshire, England d.12 Jan 1235
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Details of Copped Hat's family with Eleanor Plantagenet
Details of Copped Hat's family with Isabel le Despencer
Details of Copped Hat's family with <Unknown>
1 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I4619&style=TABLE
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jdp-fam&id=I4650
Further sources/citations:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I4619&style=TABLE, Gedcom File: Thorns among the roses
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jdp-fam&id=I4650
Further sources/citations:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I4619&style=TABLE, Gedcom File: Thorns among the roses
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