Richard Fitz Alan

Abt 1313 - 1376  (~ 63 years)

• Name	Richard Fitz Alan  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1313	of Arundel, Sussex, England   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	24 Jan 1376	Arundel, Sussex, England   [3]
  Burial	Lewes Priory, Sussex, England   [3, 4]
  Person ID	I2654	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD
  Last Modified	23 Jan 2019

  
  

  Father	Edmund Fitz Alan,   b. 1 May 1285, Marlborough Castle, Wiltshire, Engand d. 17 Nov 1326, Hereford, Herefordshire, England (Age 41 years)
  Mother	Alice de Warenne   d. Between 1330 and 23 May 1338
  Marriage	Aft 30 Dec 1304  [5]
  Family ID	F1617	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Isabel le Despenser,   b. Between 1312 and 1313
  Marriage	9 Feb 1321	Havering-atte-Bower, Middlesex, England   [3]
  Annulled	4 Dec 1344  [3]
  Children	+ 1. Edmund Fitz Alan,   b. Abt 1329, of Chedzoy, Devon, England d. Bef 12 Feb 1382 (Age ~ 53 years)
  Family ID	F1616	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Jan 2019

  
  

  Family 2	Eleanor of Lancaster,   b. Abt 1318   d. 11 Jan 1372, Arundel, Sussex, England (Age ~ 54 years)
  Marriage	5 Apr 1345  [3]
  Children	+ 1. Joan Fitz Alan   d. 17 Apr 1419 + 2. Alice Fitz Alan   d. 17 Mar 1416 + 3. John de Arundel   d. 15 Dec 1379, in the Irish Sea + 4. Richard de Arundel,   b. 1346   d. 21 Sep 1397, Cheapside, London, England (Age 51 years)
  Family ID	F1589	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Dec 2018

  
  

• Notes

  "Steward of Scotland, 1326-1336; Justice of North Wales, 1334-1376; Sheriff of Carnarvonshire 1339-1343, 1346-1347; Admiral of the West, 1340-1341 and 1345-1347; Sheriff of Shropshire, 1345-1376; commanded the 2nd division at the battle of Crécy, 26 Aug 1346, and was at the fall of Calais, 1347; assumed the title of Earl of Surrey, 1361, upon the death of his maternal aunt, Joan, widow of John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.] Called "Copped Hat." A pair of memorial effigies depicting Richard Fitz Alan and his second wife Eleanor of Lancaster can be seen at Chichester Cathedral. They lie side by side, a lion at his feet and a dog at hers. In a note of tenderness that makes one wonder if the sculptor knew the couple, he has his right hand ungloved, and her right hand rests lightly upon his. These effigies were celebrated in 1956 by Philip Larkin in his poem "An Arundel Tomb," the last lines of which are quoted on Larkin's own Poet's Corner memorial stone in Westminster Abbey.

  
  

• Sources

  [S77] The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester by George Ormerod. Second edition, revised and enlarged by Thomas Helsby. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882. [S1579] The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States, Who Were Themselves Notable or Left Descendants Notable in American History by Gary Boyd Roberts. Second edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2022. [S1526] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, Wife of Reverend John Owsley, Generations 1-15, Fourth Preliminary Edition, by Ronny O. Bodine and Bro. Thomas Spalding, Jr. 2013. [S160] Wikipedia. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.