9th Earl Of Arundel Richard FITZALAN
- Born: 1306, Arundel, Essex, England
- Marriage: (1): Countess Of Arundel Isabel LE DESPENCER 9 Feb 1319-1320,
Kings Chapel, Essex, England
- Marriage: (2): Countess Of Arundel Eleanor PLANTAGENET 5 Feb
1344-1345, Arundel, Sussex, England
- Died: 24 Jan 1375-1376, Arundel, Essex, England at age 69
- Buried: Lewes, Sussex, England
 Another name for
Richard was Cropped HAT Earl Of Surrey.
General
Notes:
Nicknames as stated in different
sources:
"Cropped Hat"
"Capped Head"
3rd Earl of Arundel and
Warenne, 9th Earl of Surrey, Regent of England in 1335.
His youngest son,
Thomas became Archbishop of Canterbury. Richard obtained his father's Earldom
and lands in 1331. He led one of the divisions of the English Army at Crecy and
took part in the siege of Calais. Fought in the naval battle with the Spaniards
off Winchelsea in August 1350.
He served as Admiral of the King's Whole
Fllet west of the Thames in England. He served as Constable in Porchester
Castle, England and as Governor in Caernarvon Castle, Wales. He also served as
Governor of Chirk Castle. Leader of English expeditions in Scotland and France.
He was the Earl of Surry (University of Hull, Tompsett). He was the third Earl
of Arundel and Warenne; Ninth Earl of Surrey. On December 4,1344 he obtained a
Papal mandate for the annulment of his marriage to Isabel on the ground of his
minority (about 8 at the time of the marriage) and that he had never consented
to the marriage. The Complete Peerage (1:243, noted) discusses this and
states"...Obviously what really happened was this. The powerful Earl desired to
get rid of the woman to 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 in adultery; and the Pope
very obligingly annulled the marriage and bastardised the issue."
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Nicknames as stated in different sources:
"Cropped Hat"
"Capped Head"
3rd Earl of Arundel and Warenne, 9th Earl of Surrey, Regent of England in 1335.
His youngest son, Thomas became Archbishop of Canterbury. Richard obtained his
father's Earldom and lands in 1331. He led one of the divisions of the English
Army at Crecy and took part in the siege of Calais. Fought in the naval battle
with the Spaniards off Winchelsea in August 1350.
He served as Admiral of
the King's Whole Fllet west of the Thames in England. He served as Constable in
Porchester Castle, England and as Governor in Caernarvon Castle, Wales. He also
served as Governor of Chirk Castle. Leader of English expeditions in Scotland
and France.
He was the Earl of Surry (University of Hull, Tompsett). He
was the third Earl of Arundel and Warenne; Ninth Earl of Surrey. On December
4,1344 he obtained a Papal mandate for the annulment of his marriage to Isabel
on the ground of his minority (about 8 at the time of the marriage) and that he
had never consented to the marriage. The Complete Peerage (1:243, noted)
discusses this and states"...Obviously what really happened was this. The
powerful Earl desired to get rid of the woman to 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 in
adultery; and the Pope very obligingly annulled the marriage and bastardised the
issue."
Richard married Countess Of Arundel
Isabel LE DESPENCER, daughter of 1st Lord Spencer Hugh LE DESPENCER and Eleanor
DE CLARE, on 9 Feb 1319-1320 in Kings Chapel, Essex, England. (Countess Of
Arundel Isabel LE DESPENCER was born about 1310 in Gloucestershire, England.)
Richard next married Countess Of
Arundel Eleanor PLANTAGENET, daughter of 3rd Earl Of Lancaster Henry PLANTAGENET
and Maud DE CHAWORTH, on 5 Feb 1344-1345 in Arundel, Sussex, England. (Countess
Of Arundel Eleanor PLANTAGENET was born in 1311 in Grismond Castle,
Monmouthshire, England, died on 11 Jan 1371-1372 in Arundel, Sussex, England and
was buried in Lewes, Sussex, England.)
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