Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel

Coat of arms of Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel

Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel KG ( 1346 - September 21, 1397 ) was an English peer and military leader.

His parents were Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel , 8th Earl of Surrey, of the FitzAlan and Eleanor of Lancaster family . At the age of 13, Richard was married to nine-year-old Elizabeth de Bohun , daughter of William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton . In 1376, after the death of his father, he became Earl of Arundel and Earl of Surrey . In 1386 he was accepted as a knight in the Order of the Garter . Arundel was the admiral of the English fleet and in 1387 defeated the combined naval forces of France , Spain and Flanders at Margate . In 1388 he was one of the Lords Appellant who weakened the power of King Richard II and set up the "merciless Parliament". In 1397, when Richard had regained his freedom of action, he had Arundel beheaded as a traitor.

Richard's younger brother Thomas Arundel (1353–1414) was a bishop and from 1388 Archbishop of York and Canterbury as well as Lord Chancellor under Richard II and Henry IV.

family

Richard Fitzalan had five children with Elizabeth de Bohun:

• Elizabeth (around 1366–1425), ⚭ (1) William Montacute († 1383), ⚭ (2) Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk , ⚭ (3) Robert Gousell
• Joan (1375-14 November 1435), ⚭ William Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny ( Beauchamp (family, Worcester) )
• Margaret, ⚭ Rowland Lenthall
• Alice (around 1378–1415), ⚭ John Charlton, 4th Baron Charlton , after his death (1401) lover of Henry Beaufort ,
• Thomas Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel (1381-1415)

Elizabeth died on April 3, 1385. In 1390 Fitzalan married fifteen-year-old Philippa Mortimer , daughter of Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March , and the Philippa Plantagenet, 5th Countess of Ulster , granddaughter of King Edward III. Her son John died shortly after his father was beheaded at the age of about three.

Web links

• Richard FitzAlan, 4th / 11th Earl of Arundel on thepeerage.com , accessed July 26, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London 1961, p. 415
2. ^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London 1961, p. 452
3. ^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London 1961, p. 130
4. ↑ H. Vollrath & N. Fryde (eds.): The English Kings in the Middle Ages; From William the Conqueror to Richard III. Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-49463-3 , p. 164f.
5. ↑ Dieter Berg: The Anjou Plantagenets. The English kings in Europe in the Middle Ages (1100–1500). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-17-014488-X , p. 270

predecessor	Office	successor
Richard FitzAlan	Earl of Arundel 1376-1397	Title forfeited ( Thomas Fitzalan from 1400)
Richard FitzAlan	Earl of Surrey 1376-1397	Title forfeited ( Thomas Fitzalan from 1400)