Earl Richard Fitz Alan ARUNDEL

   Another name for Richard was ARUNDEL Earl.

   Ancestral File Number: 8MLT-WJ.

   General Notes:

Earl of ARUNDEL.

BOOKS
Kings and Queens of Great Britain, Genealogical Chart, Anne Taute and Romilly Squire, Taute, 1990: "Eleanor, Mar =2 (2) Richard Ftiz Alan Lord of Arundel, Died 1376."

The Political History of England, Vol II, George Burton Adams Longmans Green and Co, 1905, Ch X, p217: [1138] "It is natural to suppose that the many barons who now declared against the king, and fortified their castles, were influenced by a knowledge of Robert's action, or at least by a knowledge that it was coming. No one ofthese was of the rank of earl. William Peverel, Ralph Lovel, and Robert of Lincoln, William Fitz John, William of Mohun, Ralph Paganel, and William Fitz Alan, are mentioned by name as holding castles against the king, besides a son of Robert'sand Geoffrey Talbot who were at Bristol, and Walkelin Maminot who held Dover. The movement was confined to the southwest, but as a beginning it was not to be neglected..."
p218: "...[Stephen] took Castle Cary and Harptree, and after somewhat more prolanged resistance, Shrewsbury, which was held by William Fitz Alan, whose wife was Earl Robert's niece..."

ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.11 8MLT-WJ, 84ZP-ZF.

   Marriage Information:

Richard married Isabel Le DESPENSER, daughter of Hugh Le DESPENSER, V and Eleanor De CLARE, before 1344. (Isabel Le DESPENSER was born in 1309 in Barton St Mary, Gloucester, England.)

   Marriage Information:

Richard also married Eleanor Plantagenet LANCASTER, daughter of Earl Henry Plantagenet LANCASTER and Maud De CHAWORTH, on 5 Feb 1344-1345 in Ditton, , England. (Eleanor Plantagenet LANCASTER was born about 1311-1322 in Castle, Grismond, Monmouthshire, England, died on 11 Jan 1372 in Arundel, Sussex, England and was buried in Lewes, Sussex, England.)