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RICHARD FITZALAN (1267-1302)

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RICHARD FITZALAN (1267-1302) , See also:earl of See also:Arundel, was a son of See also:John, See also:lord of Arundel (1246-1272), and a See also:grandson of another John, lord of Arundel, Clun and Oswaldestre (See also:Oswestry), who took a prominent, if somewhat wavering, See also:part in the troubles during the reign of See also:Henry III., and who died in See also:November 1267. Richard, who was called earl of Arundel about 1289, fought for See also:Edward I. in See also:France and in See also:Scotland, and died on the 9th of See also:March 1302. He was succeeded by his son, See also:EDMUND (1285-1326), who married Alice, See also:sister of John, earl de See also:Warenne. A See also:bitter enemy of Piers See also:Gaveston, Arundel was one of the ordainers appointed in 131o; he declined to march with-Edward II. to See also:Bannockburn, and after the See also:king's humiliation he was closely associated with See also:Thomas, earl of See also:Lancaster, until about 1321, when he became connected with the Despensers an6 sided with the king. Hewas faithful to Edward to the last, and was executed at See also:Hereford by the partisans of See also:Queen See also:Isabella on the 17th of November 1326. His son, RICHARD (c. 1307-1376), who obtained his See also:father's earldom and lands in 1331, was a soldier of renown and a faithful servant of Edward III. He was See also:present at the See also:battle of See also:Sluys and at the See also:siege of See also:Tournai in 1340; he led one of the divisions of the See also:English See also:army at See also:Crecy and took part in the siege of See also:Calais; and he fought in the See also:naval battle with the Spaniards off See also:Winchelsea in See also:August 1350. Moreover, he was often employed by Edward on See also:diplomatic business. Soon after 1347 Arundel inherited the estates of his See also:uncle John, earl de Warenne, and in 1361 he assumed the See also:title of earl de Warenne or earl of See also:Surrey. He was See also:regent of See also:England in 1355, and died on the 24th of See also:January 1376, leaving three sons, the youngest of whom, Thomas, became See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury. Richard's eldest son, RICHARD, earl of Arundel and Surrey (c.

1346-1397), was a member of the royal See also:

council during the minority of Richard II., and about 1381 was made one of the See also:young king's See also:governors. As See also:admiral of the See also:west and See also:south he saw a See also:good See also:deal of service on the See also:sea, but without earning any marked distinction except in 1387 when he gained a victory over the See also:French and their See also:allies off See also:Margate. About 1385 the earl joined the baronial party led by the king's uncle, Thomas of See also:Woodstock, See also:duke of See also:Gloucester, and in 1386 was a member of the See also:commission appointed to regulate the See also:kingdom and the royal See also:household. Then came Richard's rash but futile See also:attempt to See also:arrest Arundel, which was the See also:signal for the outbreak of hostilities. The Gloucester See also:faction quickly gained the upper See also:hand, and the earl was one, and perhaps the most bitter, of the lords appellant. He was again a member of the royal council, and was involved in a See also:quarrel with John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, whom he accused in the See also:parliament of 1394. After a See also:personal altercation with the king at See also:Westminster in the same See also:year Arundel underwent a See also:short imprisonment, and in 1397 came the final See also:episode of his See also:life. Suspicious of Richard he refused the royal invitation to a banquet, but his party had broken up, and he was persuaded by his See also:brother, Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury, to surrender himself and to See also:trust to the king's clemency. At once he was tried, was attainted and sentenced to See also:death, and, bearing himself with See also:great intrepidity, was beheaded on the 21st of See also:September 1397. He was twice married and had three sons and four daughters. The earl founded a See also:hospital at Arundel, and his See also:tomb in the See also:church of the Augustinian Friars, Broad See also:Street, See also:London, was See also:long a See also:place of See also:pilgrimage. His only surviving son, THOMAS (1381-1415), was a See also:ward of John Holand, duke of See also:Exeter, from whose keeping he escaped about 1398 and joined his uncle, Archbishop Thomas Arundel, at See also:Utrecht, returning to England with Henry of Lancaster, after-wards King Henry IV., in 1399.

After Henry's See also:

coronation he was restored to his father's titles and estates, and was employed in fighting against various rebels in See also:Wales and in the See also:north of England. Having See also:left the See also:side of his uncle, the archbishop, Arundel joined the party of the Beauforts, and was one of the leaders of the English army which went to France in 1411; then after a See also:period of retirement he became lord treasurer on the See also:accession of Henry V. From the siege of See also:Harfleur he returned See also:ill to England and died on the 13th of See also:October 1415. His wife was Beatrix (d. 1439), a natural daughter of John I., king of See also:Portugal, but he left no See also:children, and the lordship of Arundel passed to a kinsman, JOHN FITZALAN, Lord Maltravers (1383-1421), who was summoned as earl of Arundel in 1416. John's son, JoxN (1408-1435), did not secure the earldom until 1433, when as the " English See also:Achilles " he had already won great distinction in the French See also:wars. He was created duke of See also:Touraine, and continued to serve Henry VI. in the See also:field until his death at See also:Beauvais from the effects of a See also:wound on the 12th of See also:June 1435. The earl's only son, See also:Humphrey, died in See also:April 1438, when the earldom passed to John's brother, See also:WILLIAM (1417-1488).

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