Life History

Other facts

Notes

• Dates for Richard "Copped Hat" FitzAlan vary from 1300 to 1313.  The Complete Peerage suggests the date 1313.
  
  Some genealogies list this Richard Fitzalan as Earl of Arundel, which he was.  But he had two titles:  Richard FitzAlan, 9th Earl Of Arundel & Warenne.  The estate of Arundel was added to the FitzAlan family as the inheritance of Lady Alice de Warren (De Warren, deWarenne, de Warine).  Eleanor's father Henry Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster, was a grandson of King Henry III of England.
  
  Some sources report him as the 10th Earl, as The Peerage cited below, referencing The Compleat (Complete) Peerage.  Some of these report his father as 9th earl and some as 8th earl.  (For instance, Charlemagne's Descendants http://worldroots.com/~brigitte/famous/c/charlemagnedesc-105.htm.)  At least one sources reporting his father as 8th earl also reports Richard as 10th earl.  I am unclear why these differences occur, and if his father was the 8th Lord, rather than the 9th, who was the 9th?
  
  Some sources report that Richard had two wives, first Isabel Le Despencer then Eleanor Plantagenet.  Some report only one or the other, and most do not report all children of Richard, only certain family lines they are following.  Some report the marriage to Eleanor only but no children.  Dates are uncertain.  Different sources report different wives as the mother of Joan FitzAlan.  Dates also vary so as to confuse this.  Birth dates of Joan vary from 1332 to 1348.
  
  Here is a summary of the Earl's life from The Peerage online source.
  
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  Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel1
  b. circa 1313, d. 24 January 1376
  
  Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel b. c 1313\nd. 24 Jan 1376
  Edmund Fitzalan, 9th Earl of Arundel b. 1 May 1285\nd. 17 Nov 1326
  Alice de Warenne|d. b 23 May 1338
  Richard Fitzalan, 8th Earl of Arundel b. 3 Feb 1267\nd. 9 Mar 1301/2
  Alasia di Saluzzo d. 25 Sep 1292
  William de Warenne d. 1286
  Joan de Vere|d. c 23 Nov 1293
  
  Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel was born circa 1313.3 He was the son of Edmund Fitzalan, 9th Earl of Arundel and Alice de Warenne.2 He married, firstly, Isabel le Despenser, daughter of Hugh le Despenser, 3rd Lord le Despenser and Eleanor de Clare, on 9 February 1320/21.3 He married, secondly, Lady Eleanor Plantagenet, daughter of Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Matilda de Chaworth, on 5 February 1345 at Ditton Church, Stoke Puges, Buckinghamshire, England.4,5 He died on 24 January 1376 at Arundel Castle, Arundel, Sussex, England.6 He was buried at Lewes Priory, Lewes, Sussex, England.3
  
  Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel also went by the nick-name of 'Copped Hat'.3 He held the office of Justiciar of North Wales in 1334.3 He held the office of Governor of Carnarvon Castle in 1339.3 He held the office of Admiral of the West from 1340 to 1341.3 His marriage to Isabel le Despenser was annulled on 4 December 1344 by Papal mandate, supposedly on the grounds that they were married during their minority, and without their consent. The reality is that the Earl probably wished to be rid of his wife, who had no value to him after her father's attainder and exectution.3 He held the office of Sheriff of Shropshire in 1345.3 He held the office of Admiral of the West between 1345 and 1347.3 He fought in the Battle of Crécy on 26 August 1346, where he commanded the 2nd division.3 He fought in the fall of Calais in 1347.3 He succeeded to the title of 10th Earl of Arundel [E., c. 1138] in 1347.1,7 On 30 June 1347 he succeeded to the vast estates of the family of Warenne.3 He succeeded to the title of Earl of Surrey on 12 April 1361.8
  
  Citations
  
  1. [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), Volume 12, page 899. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
  2. [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume I, page 242.
  3. [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume I, page 243.
  4. [S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 78. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Family.
  5. [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume II, page 60.
  6. [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume I, page 244.
  7. [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume I, page 243, says 1330-1331.
  8. [S2] Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 38. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage, Volume XIV.
  9. [S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family, page 79.
  10. [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume XII/2, page 899.
  
  --  The Complete Peerage, http://www.thepeerage.com/p10490.htm
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