Richard "Copped Hat" FitzAlan, earl of Surrey

3rd earl of Arundel

8th earl of Surrey

Events

Date of Birth: about 1313.

This estimated date is given by Given-Wilson (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (1:243).

Date of Death: 24 January 1375/6.

Place of Death: Arundel Castle.

This date and place are given by Given-Wilson (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (1:244).

Place of Burial: Lewes.

The place is given by Given-Wilson (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (1:244).

Relationships

Father: Edmund FitzAlan (1285 - 1326), earl of Arundel.

This relationship is given by Given-Wilson (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (1:242).

Mother: Alice, daughter of William de Warenne.

This relationship is given by Given-Wilson (ODNB).

Spouse: Isabel, daughter of Sir Hugh le Despenser the younger. Married 9 February 1320/1 in the King’s Chapel at Havering-atte-Bower. Annulled in 1344.

This relationship is given by Given-Wilson (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (1:243).

Spouse: Eleanor (died 1372), daughter of Henry, earl of Lancaster. Married 5 February 1344/5 at Ditton.

This relationship is given by Given-Wilson (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (1:243-244). Eleanor and Richard had previously cohabited.

Children (by Isabel):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. There are inconsistencies in sources about the children. )

Edmund married Sibyl, daughter of William Montagu, earl of Salisbury.

Philippe married Sir Richard Sergeaux.

Isabel married John, 4th lord Strange of Blackmere.

Children (by Eleanor):

Richard (III) FitzAlan, earl of Arundel and of Surrey, married Elizabeth, daughter of William de Bohun, earl of Northampton, in 1359.

John Arundel married Eleanor, daughter of Sir John Maltravers. John became marshal of England.

Thomas Arundel became archbishop of Canterbury.

Joan married Humphrey (IX) de Bohun in 1359.

Alice married Thomas Holland, earl of Kent, in 1365.

Mary.

Eleanor.

References

Cawley, Charles. “Richard FitzAlan” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Given-Wilson, C. “Fitzalan, Richard (II), third earl of Arundel and eighth earl of Surrey (c. 1313 - 1376)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn. September 2013).

Nicolas, Nicholas Harris. Testamenta vetusta: being illustrations from wills, of manners, customs, &c. as well as of the descents and possessions of many distinguished families, from the reign of Henry the Second to the accession of Queen Elizabeth. 2 Volumes. (London: Nichols, 1826).[An abstract of Richard’s will is given on pages 94 - 96]