Richard II "Copped Hat" , Earl Arundel FITZALAN

                   Richard Fitz Alan, 10th/3rd Earl of Arundel, as which restored 1331(confirmation 1351 and 1354), getting Arundel Castle back also Dec1330-31 from the widow of Edmund Earl of Kent; after the death of hismaternal uncle the 8th Earl of Surrey's widow 31 Aug 1361, Richardassumed the additional title of 9th Earl of Surrey; known as "CoppedHat"; born c1313; Justiciar of North Wales for life 1334, Governor ofCarnarvon Castle 1339, Sheriff of Salop for life 1345; Admiral of theWest 1340-41 and 1345-47; commanded 2nd division at Crecy 1346 andassisted at taking of Calais 1347; married 1st 9 Feb 1320/1 (annulled 4Dec 1344) Isabel, daughter of 1st Lord (Baron) le Despenser of the 29July 1314 creation, and had issue (bastardised by the papal annulment of1344); married 2nd 5 Feb 1344/5 his mistress Eleanor, daughter of the 3rdEarl of Lancaster (ggs of Henry III) of the 1267 investiture (by his wifeMaud de Chaworth) and widow of the 2nd Lord (Baron) Beaumont, and died 24Jan 1375/6.  [Burke's Peerage]

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Richard Fitz-Alan, b. 1306, who being restored by parliament, 4th EdwardIII [1331], had the castle of Arundel (which had been given to Edmund,Earl of Kent, the king's uncle) rendered to him, and thus became 9thearl. In the 7th Edward III [1334], this nobleman was constitutedgovernor of Chirke Castle, co. Denbigh, and the ensuing year had a grantof the inheritance of that castle, with all the territories thereuntobelonging, being part of the possessions of Roger Mortimer, the attaintedEarl of March; he was soon afterwards made governor of Porchester Castle,and the same year had a command in the wars of Scotland, where hecontinued engaged for some years. After this he was constituted admiralof the western seas, and governor of Caernarvon Castle. In the 14thEdward III [1341], his lordship embarked in the French wars, andparticipated in the glories of the subsequent campaigns. He was at thesiege of Vannes, the relief of Thouars, and the immortal battle ofCressy. Besides his great military services, the earl was frequentlyemployed in diplomatic missions of the first importance, and was esteemedone of the most eminent generals and statesmen of the era in which helived. His lordship, who, with his other honours, had the Garter,contracted in minority and under constraint, marriage with Isabel, dau.of Hugh le Despencer, and had issue by her, an only dau., Philippa, m. toSir Richard Sergeaux, Knt., of Cornwall. In 1345, he was divorced fromthis lady, and m. Lady Eleanor Plantagenet, dau. of Henry, Earl ofLancaster, and widow of John, Baron Beaumont, by whom he had issue,Richard, his successor; John, marshal of England in 1377, summoned toparliament 1st to 3rd Richard II. he d. 1379, having m. Eleanor,grand-dau. and co-heir of John, Lord Maltravers, in whose right he borethat title; Thomas, called Arundel, successively bishop of Ely,archbishop of York, and archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Chancellor ofEngland; Joane, m. to Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford; Alice, m. toThomas Holland, Earl of Kent; Mary, m. to John, Lord Strange, ofBlackmere; and Eleanor, m. to Robert, son of William de Ufford, Earl ofSuffolk. His lordship d. in 1376, and was s. by his eldest son, RichardFitz-Alan, 10th Earl of Arundel. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant,Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p.200, Fitz-Alan, Earls of Arundel, Barons Maltravers]