John De MOWBRAY, Kg, 2Nd Duke Of Norfolk

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John de Mowbray [succeeded elder brother Thomas beheaded (dsp) without trial 8 June 1405 for involvement in plot against Henry IV], 8th Lord (Baron) Mowbray and 9th Lord (Baron) Segrave, also 3rd Earl of Nottingham, 5th Earl of Norfolk and Earl Marshal, KG (1421), PC (1422); born 1392; served last phase of Hundred Years War; restored as 2nd Duke of Norfolk 30 April 1425; married 12 Jan 1411/2 Lady Katherine Nevill(e), daughter of 1st Earl of Westmorland, and died 19 Oct 1432. [Burke's Peerage]

John married Katherine NEVILLE on 12 Jan 1411-1412 in 1st Husband. Katherine was born about 1397 in Raby Castle, Durham, England; died after Jan 1477-1478. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Government: Duke of Norfolk
• Name: Robert GOUSHILL
• _UID: ABE7E75351B644CF928F1A59CE26E5C013A5
• TitleOfNobility: 1383; Barons Mowbray & Segrave
• Alt. Burial: Sep 1399, Saint George Abbey, Venice, Provincia Di Venezia, Veneto, Italy

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Sir Thomas de Mowbray, KG, b. 22 Mar 1365/6, d. Venice, 22 Sep 1399, Lord Mowbray, Segrave, and Stourton, Earl of Nottingham 1383, Earl Marshal of England 1384, Duke of Norfolk 1397; m. (1) Elizabeth, Baroness Strange of Blackmere, dsp 1383; m. (2) July 1384, Elizabeth Fitz Alan. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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Thomas de Mowbray [succeeded elder brother John, died unmarried just prior to 12 Feb 1382/3], 6th Lord (Baron) Mowbray and 7th Lord (Baron) Segrave, also 1st Duke of Norfolk, so created 29 Sep 1397, as also earlier 12 Feb 1382/3 Earl of Nottingham and 12 Jan 1385/6 Earl Marshal; in addition 3rd Earl of Norfolk (as which succeeded his grandmother 24 March 1398/9), KG (c1383); born 22 March 1365/6; Marshal of England 1385; served against the Scots 1385 and a Franco-Hispanic-Flemish fleet off Margate March 1386/7, a Lord Appellant 1387/8; Keeper of Berwick and Roxburgh and Warden of the East March 1389; Captain in Calais Feb 1390/1-95/6; King's Lt in Artois, Calais, Flanders and Picardy 1392; Jt Ambassador to France Feb 1396/7 and Rhine Palatinate June 1397; quarreled with the Duke of Hereford (later Henry IV), each accusing the other of treason; both banished 1398; after his old enemy had usurped the throne as Henry IV the conferring of the Dukedom of Norfolk was annulled by Parliament 6 Oct 1399; married 1st 15 March 1382/3 Elizabeth (dsp 23 Aug 1383), daughter and heiress of 1st Lord (Baron) Strange of the 1360 creation; married 2nd July 1384 Elizabeth (married 3rd by 19 Aug 1401 Sir Robert Goushill (by whom she was mother of Elizabeth, who married Sir Robert Wingfield, of Letheringham) and 4th by 3 July 1414 Sir Gerard Usflete and died 8 July 1425, leaving further issue), widow of Sir William de Montagu (dsp), eldest son of the Earl of Salisbury, and daughter of 11th/4th Earl of Arundel, and died of plague in Venice 22 Sep 1399. [Burke's Peerage]

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Thomas de Mowbray, 6th baron, then seventeen years of age, who was created Earl of Nottingham, as his brother had been, by charter, dated 12 February, 1383, and three years afterwards was constituted Earl Marshal by reason of his descent from Thomas, of Brotherton, his lordship being the first who had the title of earl attached to the office. In the 10th Richard II [1387], his lordship participated in the naval victory achieved by Richard, Earl of Arundel, over the French and Spaniards, and the subsequent conquest of the battle of Brest. In the 16th of the same reign, he was made governor of Calais, and in four years afterwards obtained the king's charter of confirmation of the office of earl marshal of England to the heirs male of his body, and that they, by reason of the said office, should bear a golden truncheon, enameled with black at each end, having at the upper end the kings arms, and at the lower, their own arms engraven thereon. Moreover, he stood in such favour that the king, acknowledging his just and hereditary title to bear for his crest a golden leopard with a white label, which of right belonged to the king's eldest son, did, by letters patent, grant to him and his heirs authority to bear the golden leopard for his crest, with a coronet of silver about his neck instead of the label; and the same year appointed him justice of Chester and Flintshire for life. In the 18th Richard, he attended the king into Ireland, but, afterwards siding with the parasites who controlled that weak and unfortunate prince, he not only aided in the destruction of his father-in-law, Richard, Earl of Arundel -- being one of the chief persons that guarded the unhappy nobleman to the place of execution -- but he is also accused of being an accomplice in the murder of Thomas, of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, the king's uncle. Certain it is that he was at this period in high estimation with the prevailing party and obtained a grant of all the lands of the unfortunate Lord Arundel, with those of Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, which had also vested in the crown be forfeiture. These grants bore date 28 September, 1396, and the next day he was created Duke of Norfolk (his grandmother, Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk, being still alive). Prosperous, however, as this nobleman's career had hitherto been, it was doomed eventually to a disgraceful termination. Henry, Duke of Hereford (afterwards Henry IV), having accused his Grace of Norfolk, of speaking disrespectfully of the king, a challenge ensued, and a day was named for the combat, when the lists were accordingly set up at Gosford Green, Coventry, and the king and court were present, but just as the combatants were about to engage and the charge had been sounded, Richard interfered, and by the advice of his council, prohibited the conflict, banishing the Duke of Hereford for ten years,m and the Duke of Norfolk for life -- who, thereupon going abroad, d. at Venice, of the pestilence, but, according to Sandford, of grief, in 1400. The duke, who along with his other great honours, was a knight of the Garter, m. 1st, Elizabeth, dau. of John, Lord Strange, of Blackmere, but had no issue; he m. 2ndly, Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan, dau. of Richard, Earl of Arundel, sister and co-heir of Thomas, Earl of Arundel, and widow of William de Montacute, by whom he had issue, Thomas, John, Isabel, Margaret, and Elizabeth. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 387, Mowbray, Earls of Nottingham, Dukes of Norfolk, Earls-Marshal, Earls of Warren and Surrey]

Thomas, 6th Lord Mowbray, created after the decease of his brother, Earl of Nottingham and Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal, and K.G. His grace, for his military services, was authorised to bear for his crest a golden leopard with a coronet of silver. In 1398 he was accused by Henry Bolingbroke, Earl of Hereford, of having spoken slanderously of the king, when he charged with a design of destroying the principal members of the nobility. Norfolk denied the accusations and desired Hereford to prove its truth in single combat. The lists were set at Coventry in the presence of the king and the peers of the disputants, but on the eve of the contest the king interposed and forbade the combat. Both Norfolk and Hereford were banished, the former for life and the other for ten years. Norfolk d. of the plague at Venice in 1399. By his first wife, Elizabeth, dau. and heir of John, Lord Strange, of Blackmere, he had no issue. By his second wife, Elizabeth, dau. and co-heir of Richard FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, he left two sons and two daus., viz., Thomas, John, Margaret, and Isabel. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 485, Segrave, Barons Segrave of Barton Segrave]

Thomas married Elizabeth FITZALAN between 6 and 7 Jul 1384 in 2ND Husband, 2ND Wife. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard FITZALAN, 4th Earl of Arundel and Elizabeth DE BOHUN) was born in 1366 in Arundel Castle, Arundel, Sussex, England; died on 8 Jul 1425 in Hoveringham, Nottinghamshire, England; was buried on 9 Jul 1425 in Hoveringham, Nottinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Title Nobility: ; Countess of Nottingham
• Name: Elizabeth FITZALAN
• _UID: 68432430DA884B9398BC8978FB37E0C36984
• TitleOfNobility: Between 1397 and 1399; Duchess of Norfolk

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Elizabeth; married 1st by Dec 1378 Sir William de Montagu (dsp & vp 6 Aug 1382, accidentally killed jousting in the lists at Windsor, allegedly by his own father), only son of the 2nd Earl of Salisbury of the March 1336/7 creation; married 2nd 1384, as his 2nd wife Thomas de Mowbray, 6th Lord (Baron) Mowbray and 7th Lord (Baron) Segrave, later 1st Duke of Norfolk of the 1397 creation (died 1399), and had issue; married 3rd by 19 Aug 1401 Sir Robert Goushill and had issue; married 4th by 3 July 1414 Sir Gerard Usflete and died 8 July 1425, leaving futher issue. [Burke's Peerage]

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Elizabeth Fitz Alan, died 8 July 1425; married (1) Sir William de Montagu; married (2) July 1384 Sir Thomas de Mowbray, Knight, Duke of Norfolk, born 22 Mar 1365/6, died Venice 22 Sep 1399; married (3) before 19 Aug 1401 Sir Robert Goushill, of Hoveringham, co. Nottingham; married (4) Sir Gerard Usflete. [Magna Charta Sureties]

Elizabeth FitzAlan, Duchess of Norfolk (1366 ? 8 July 1425) was an English noblewoman and the wife of Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk. Through her eldest daughter, Lady Margaret Mowbray, Elizabeth was an ancestress of King Henry VIII's consorts Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, and the Howard Dukes of Norfolk. Her other notable descendants include Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk; Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby; Sir Thomas Wyatt, the younger; and Lady Jane Grey (by both parents).

Lady Elizabeth was born in Derbyshire, England, a daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel and his first wife Elizabeth de Bohun, daughter of William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton and Elizabeth de Badlesmere.

Elizabeth had five husbands and at least seven children:

I. Sir William Montacute, the eldest son of William de Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury (before December 1378).

II. Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk (1384)

1. Thomas de Mowbray, 4th Earl of Norfolk (b. 17 September 1385)
2. Margaret de Mowbray (b. 1388), married Sir Robert Howard (1385 - 1436).
3. John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (b. 1392)
4. Isabel de Mowbray (b.1396), married James Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley
5. Elizabeth de Mowbray (b.1398), who married Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk.

III. Sir Robert Goushill or Gousell of Hoveringham, Nottinghamshire (d. 21 July 1403).

6. Elizabeth Goushill or Gousell (1404-1491), wife of Sir Robert Wingfield of Letheringham, Suffolk (1403-between 6 October 1452 and 21 November 1454).
7. Joan or Jean Goushill or Gousell (b. 1409), wife of Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley, King of Mann.

IV. Sir Gerard Usflete.

V. Edward Le Despencer.

She died 8 July 1425 in Wighill, Yorkshire, and was buried with her third husband in St Michael's Church, Hoveringham, Nottinghamshire. [1]

[1] Elizabeth Fitzalan, Duchess of Norfolk, "Wikipedia".

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• Name: John DE MOWBRAY
• Name: John DE MOWBRAY
• Occupation: ; Crusader
• _UID: DEADD68494AD412495F4E1068FF298A6BA38
• Knighthood: Jul 1355; Mowbray and twenty-six others were knighted by King Edward III of England in July 1355 while English forces were at the Downs, before sailing to France.

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John de Mowbray, 4th Lord (Baron) Mowbray; born 25 June 1340, knighted 1355; married c1349 Elizabeth, Baroness Segrave in her own right, daughter of 4th Lord (Baron) Segrave and was killed by Saracens near Constantinople on his way to the Holy Land 9 Oct 1361. [Burke's Peerage]

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John de Mowbray, b. Epworth, 25 June 1340, d. Thrace 1368, 4th Lord Mowbray of Thirsk, crusader; m. c 1349 Elizabeth, Lady Segrave, b. 25 Oct 1338, dead 1368, daughter of John, Lord Segrave, by Margaret, daughter of Thomas de Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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John de Mowbray, 4th baron, was summoned to parliament from 14 August, 1362, to 20 January, 1366, as "John de Mowbray of Axholme." This nobleman was in the wars of France in the lifetime of his father and he eventually fell, anno 1368, in a conflict with the Turks, near Constantinople, having assumed the cross and embarked in the holy war. His lordship m. Elizabeth, dau. and heiress of John, Lord Segrave, by Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk (dau. and eventually sole heiress of Thomas Plantagenet, of Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk), whereby he acquired a great inheritance in lands, and the most splendid alliance in the kingdom. By this lady he had two sons, John and Thomas, and several daus., of whom one m. Roger, Lord de la Warre, and another m. John, Lord Welles; and a 3rd, Anne, was abbess of Barking. His lordship was s. by his elder son, Thomas de Mowbray. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 387, Mowbray, Earls of Nottingham, Dukes of Norfolk, Earls-Marshal, Earls of Warren and Surrey]

ohn (III) de Mowbray, 4th Baron Mowbray (24 June 1340 ? 19 October 1368) was an English peer. He was slain near Constantinople while en route to the Holy Land.

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John de Mowbray, born 25 June 1340 at Epworth, Lincolnshire, was the son of John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray, of Axholme, Lincolnshire, by his second wife, Joan of Lancaster, third daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster.

Career
Mowbray and twenty-six others were knighted by King Edward III of England in July 1355 while English forces were at the Downs, before sailing to France. In 1356, he served in a campaign in Brittany. He had livery of his lands on 14 November 1361; however, his inheritance was subject to the dower which his father had settled on his stepmother, Elizabeth de Vere. By 1369, his stepmother had married Sir William de Cossington, son and heir of Stephen de Cossington of Cossington in Aylesford, Kent; not long after the marriage, she and her new husband surrendered themselves to the Fleet prison for debt. According to Archer, the cause may have been Mowbray's prosecution of his stepmother for waste of his estates; he had been awarded damages against her of almost ?1000.

In about 1343, an agreement had been made for a double marriage between, Mowbray and Audrey Montagu, the granddaughter of Thomas of Brotherton, and Mowbray's sister, Blanche de Mowbray with Audrey's brother, Edward Montagu. Neither marriage took place. Instead, about 1349, a double marriage took place between Mowbray and Elizabeth de Segrave (also granddaughter of Thomas of Brotherton), and Mowbray's sister Blanche with Elizabeth's brother, John de Segrave, Pope Clement VI having granted dispensations for the marriages at the request of Mowbray's grandfather, the Earl of Lancaster, in order to prevent 'disputes between the parents', who were neighbours. Mowbray had little financial benefit from his marriage during his lifetime as a result of the very large jointure which had been awarded to Elizabeth's mother, Margaret of Brotherton, Duchess of Norfolk, who lived until 1399. However, when Elizabeth's father, John de Segrave, 4th Baron Segrave, died on 1 April 1353, King Edward III allowed Mowbray to receive a small portion of his wife's eventual inheritance. Estate accounts for 1367 indicate that Mowbray enjoyed an annual income of almost ?800 at that time. Elizabeth then succeeded her father as 5th Baroness Segrave, her brother having predeceased their father.

Mowbray was summoned to Parliament from 14 August 1362 to 20 January 1366. On 10 October 1367, he appointed attorneys in preparation for travel beyond the seas; these appointments were confirmed in the following year. Mowbray was slain by the Turks near Constantinople while en route to the Holy Land. A letter from the priory of 'Peyn' written in 1396 suggests that he was initially buried at the convent at Pera, opposite Constantinople; according to the letter, 'at the instance of his son Thomas', his bones had been gathered and were sent to England for burial with his ancestors.

His will was proved at Lincoln on 17 May 1369. His wife Elizabeth predeceased him in 1368, by only a few months.

Marriage and issue
Mowbray married, by papal dispensation dated 25 March 1349, Elizabeth de Segrave (born 25 October 1338 at Croxton Abbey), suo jure 5th Baroness Segrave, daughter and heiress of John de Segrave, 4th Baron Segrave (d.1353), and Margaret of Brotherton, Duchess of Norfolk, daughter and heiress of Thomas of Brotherton, son of King Edward I. Through the marriage, the Mowbray family gained the estate in Framlingham, Suffolk, including Framlingham Castle, which became the main seat of power for the Mowbray family for most of the 15th century.

They had two sons and three daughters:
1. Margaret de Mowbray (c.1361 - 24 April 1404), who married, by licence dated 1 July 1369, Sir Reginald de Lucy (d. 9 November 1437) of Woodcroft in Luton, Bedfordshire.
2. Joan de Mowbray (c.1363 - 30 November 1402), who married firstly Sir Thomas Grey (1359 ? 26 November or 3 December 1400) of Heaton near Norham, Northumberland, son of the chronicler, Sir Thomas Grey. They had four sons and one daughter, including John Grey, 1st Earl of Tankerville. She married secondly, Sir Thomas Tunstall of Thurland in Tunstall, Lancashire (c. 1360 ? 1415).
3. Eleanor de Mowbray (born before 25 March 1364), who married John de Welles, 5th Baron Welles.
4. John de Mowbray, 1st Earl of Nottingham (1 August 1365 ? 12 January 1383), who died unmarried, and was buried at the Whitefriars, London.
5. Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk (22 March 1366 - 22 September 1399)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_de_Mowbray,_4th_Baron_Mowbray

John married Elizabeth De SEGRAVE about 1349. Elizabeth (daughter of John DE SEGRAVE, 4th Baron Segrave and Margaret DE NORFOLK, Duchess of Norfolk) was born on 25 Oct 1338 in Croxton, Leicestershire, England; died before 1368 in Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LTDJ-X1W
• Name: Elizabeth DE MOWBRAY
• _UID: 502A2D32AD974CE788CC55EEC21FE0C76F8A
• TitleOfNobility: 1338, Segrave, Leicestershire, England; 5th Baroness Segrave

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Elizabeth, Lady Segrave, b. 25 Oct 1338, dead 1368, daughter of John, Lord Segrave, by Margaret, daughter of Thomas de Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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Elizabeth de Segrave, who m. John de Mowbray, 4th Baron Mowbray (slain near Constantinople on his way to the Holy Land in 1368), and had issue, John, and Thomas. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 485, Segrave, Barons Segrave of Barton Segrave]

ELIZABETH de Segrave (Croxton Abbey 25 Oct 1338-before 1368). A manuscript record of the Mowbray family states that "Johannes filius [Johannis]" married "filiam et h?redem domini de Segrave?Elizabetha"[1073]. m (1349) JOHN Mowbray, son of JOHN Mowbray Lord Mowbray & his wife Joan of Lancaster (Epworth 25 Jun 1340-killed in battle [Palestine] 1368). He succeeded his father as Lord Mowbray. [Medieval Lands.]

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Richard married Elizabeth DE BOHUN. Elizabeth was born in 1350 in Arundel, Sussex, England; died on 3 Apr 1385 in Arundel Castle, Arundel, West Sussex, England; was buried after 3 Apr 1385 in Lewes Priory, Lewes, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John de Mowbray, 3rd Lord (Baron) Mowbray, JP (Lincs 1351); born 29 Nov 1310; incarcerated in Tower of London 26 Feb 1321/2, presumably for complicity in the father's rebellion; Keeper of Berwick-upon-Tweed 1340-41, a commander at English victory over the Scots of Neville's Cross 1346; married 1st 1325 Joan, 6th and youngest daughter of 3rd Earl of Lancaster, grandson of Henry III and had issue; married 2nd Elizabeth, daughter of the 7th Earl of Oxford and widow of Hugh de Courtenay, son of the 2nd Earl of Devon of the Feb 1334/5 creation, and died 4 Oct 1361. [Burke's Peerage]

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John de Mowbray, b. Hovingham, c. York, 29 Nov 1310, d. York, 4 Oct 1361, 3rd Lord Mowbray of Thirsk, MP 1327-1360; m. (1) c 28 Feb 1326/7, Joan Plantagenet, d. 7 July 1349; m. (2) Elizabeth, d. Aug or Sep 1375, daughter of John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford, and widow of Hugh de Courtenay, son & heir of Hugh, 2nd Earl of Devon. She m. (3) bef. 18 Jan 1368/9, Sir William de Cosynton. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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John de Mowbray, 3rd baron, was summoned to parliament from 10 December, 1327, to 20 November, 1360. This nobleman found much favour from King Edward III, who, in consideration of the eminent services of his progenitors, accepted his homage and gave him full livery of his lands before he came of full age. He was subsequently the constant companion in arms of his martial sovereign, attending him in his glorious campaign in France where he assisted at the siege of Nantes and the raising that of Aguillon. He was likewise at the celebrated battle of Durham (20th Edward III) [1347], and at one time was governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed. His lordship m. the Lady Joan Plantagenet, dau. of Henry, Earl of Lancaster, by whom he had issue, John, his successor. Lord Mowbray, who was styled in the charters, Lord of the Isle of Axholme, and of the honour of Gower and Bramber, d. in 1361, and was s. by his son, John de Mowbray, 4th baron. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 387, Mowbray, Earls of Nottingham, Dukes of Norfolk, Earls-Marshal, Earls of Warren and Surrey]

John married Joan PLANTAGENET about 28 Feb 1326-1327 in 1st Wife. Joan (daughter of Earl Henry PLANTAGENET, Of Lancaster and Maude DE CHAWORTH) was born on 26 Feb 1326-1327 in Grosmont Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales; died on 7 Jul 1349 in Byland Abbey, Yorkshire, England; was buried in Byland Abbey, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Joan, 6th and youngest daughter of 3rd Earl of Lancaster, grandson of Henry III. [Burke's Peerage]

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John married Margaret DE NORFOLK, Duchess of Norfolk. Margaret was born in 1320 in Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, England; died on 24 Mar 1399 in Herdeby, Lincolnshire, England; was buried in Mar 1399 in Christ Church Greyfriars Churchyard, London, City of London, Greator London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Copped Hat
• _UID: 410056792AD949468EC6ADA2A1D2A19FF871
• TitleOfNobility: Between 1331 and 1376; Earl of Arundel
• Occupation: Between 1336 and 1338, Portchester, Hampshire, England; Constable of Porchester Castle
• Occupation: Between 1336 and 1376, Caernarfonshire, Wales; Governor of Caernarfon Castle
• Occupation: Between 1339 and 1376, Caernarfonshire, Wales; High Sheriff of Caernarfonshire
• MilitaryService: 23 Feb 1345; Admiral of the West
• TitleOfNobility: Between 1347 and 1376; Earl of Surrey

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AKA "Cropped Hat", "Copped Hat"

Richard II FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel and Warenne (1307?-1376, son of Edmund Fitzalan, earl of Arundel, and his wife, Alice Warenne, was born not before 1307. About 1321 his marriage to Isabella, daughter of the younger Hugh le Despenser, cemented the alliance between his father, and the favourite of Edward II. In 1326, however, his father's execution deprived him of the succession both to title and estates. In 1330, after the fall of Mortimer, he petitioned to be reinstated, and, after some dealy, was retored in blood and to the greater part of Earl Edmund's possessions. He was, however, forbidden to continue his efforts to avenge his father by private was against John Charlton, first lord Charlton of Powys. In 1331 he obtained the castle of Arundel from the heirs of Edmund, earl of Kent. These grants were subsequently more than once confirmed. In 1334 Arundel received Mortimer's castle of Chirk, and was made justice of North Wales, his large estates in that region giving him considerable local influence. The justiceship was afterwards confirmed for life. He was also made life-sheriff of Carnarvonshire and governor of Carnarvon Castle. Arundel took a conspicuous part in nearly every important war of Edward III's long reign. After surrendering in 1336 his 'hereditary right' to the stewardship of Scotland to Edward for a thousand marks, he was made in 1337 joint commander of the English army in the north. Early in 1338 he and his colleague Salisbury incurred no small opprobrium by their signal failure to capture Dunbar. On 25 April he was elevated to the sole command, with full powers to treat with the Scots for truce or peace, of which he availed himself to conclude a truce, as his duty now compelled him to follow the king to Brabant, where he landed at Antwerp on 13 Dec. In the January parliament of 1340 he was nominated admiral of the ships at Portsmouth and the west that were to assemble at Mid Lent. On 24 June he comported himself and was one of the commissioners sent by Edward from Bruges in July to acquaint parliament with the news and to explain to it the king's financial necessities. Later in the same year he took part in the great siege of Tournay. In 1342 he was at the great feast given by Edward III in honour of the Countess of Salisbury. His next active employment was in the same year as warden of the Scottish marches in conjunction with the Earl of Huntingdon. In October of the same year he accompanied Edward on his expedition to Brittany, and was left by the king to besiege Vannes while the bulk of the army advanced to Rennes. In January 1343 the truce put and end to the siege, and in July Arundel was sent on a mission to Avignon. In 1344 he was appointed, with Henry, earl of Derby, lieutenant of Aquitaine, where the French war had again broken out; and at the same time was commissioned to treat with Castile, Portugal, and Aragon. In 1345 he repudiated his wife, Isabella, on the ground that he had never consented to the marriage, and, having obtained papal recognition of the nullity of the union, married Eleanor, widow of Lord Beaumont, and daughter of Henry, third earl of Lancaster. This business may have prevented him sharing in the warlike exploits of his new brother-in-law, Derby, in Aquitaine. He was, however, reappointed admiral of the west in February 1345, and retained that post until 1347. In 1346 he accompanied Edward on his great expedition to northern France, and commanded the second of three divisions into which the English host was divided at Crecy. He was afterwards with Edward at the siege of Calais. In 1348 and 1350 Arundel was on commissions to treat with the pope at Avignon. In 1350, however, he took part in the famous naval battle with the Spaniards off Winchelsea. In 1351 he was employed in Scotland to arrange for a final peace and the ransom of King David. In 1354 he was one of the negotiators of a proposed truce with France, at a conference held under papal mediation at Guines, but on the envoys proceeding to Avignon, to obtain the papal ratification, it was found that no real setlement had been arrived at, and Innocent VI was loudly accused of treachery. In 1355 Arundel was one of the regents during the king's absence from England. In 1357 he was again negotiated in Scotland, and in 1358 was at the head of an embassy to Wenzol, duke of Luxemburg. In August 1360 he was joint commissioner in completing the ratification of the treaty of Bretigny. In 1362 he was one of the commissioners to prolong the truce with Charles of Blois. In 1364 he was again engaged in diplomacy.

The declining years of Arundel's life were spent in comparitive seclusion from public affains. n 1365 he was maliciously cited ot the papal court by William de Lenne, the foreign bishop of Chichester, with whom he was on bad terms. He was supported by Edward in his resistance to the bishop, whose temporalities were ultimately seized by the crown. He now perhaps enlarged the castle of Arundel. His last military exploit was perhaps his share in the expedition for the relief of Thomacrs in 1372.

Arundel was possessed of vast wealth, especially after 1353, when he succeeded, by right of his mother, to the earldom of Warenne or Surrey. He frequently aided Edward III in his financial difficulties by large advances, so that in 1370 Edward was more than twenty thousand pounds in his debt. Yet at his death Arundel left behind over ninety thousand marks in ready money, nearly half of which was stored up in bags in the high tower of Arundel.

One of Arundel's last acts was to become, with Bishop William of Wykeham, a general attorney for John of Gaunt during his journey to Spain. He died on 24 Jan 1376. By his will, dated 5 Dec 1275, he directed that his body should be buried without pomp in the chapterhouse of Lewes priory, by the side of his second wife, and founded a perpetmacl chantry in the chapel of St George's within Arundel Castle. By his first marriage his only issue was one daughter. By his second he had three sons, of whom Richard, the eldest, was his successor to the earldom. John, the next, became marshal of England, and perished at sea in 1379. According to the settlement made by Earl Richard in 1347, the title ultimately reverted to the marshal's grandson John VI Fitzalan. The youngest, Thomas, became archbishop of Canterbury. Of his four daughters by Eleanor, two are mentioned in his will, namely Joan, married to Humphrey Bohun, earl of Hereford, and Alice, the wife of Thomas Holland, earl of Kent. His other daughters, Mary and Eleanor, died before him. [Dictionary of National Biography VII:96-7]

Richard Fitzalan, 3rd Earl of Arundel, 8th Earl of Surrey (c. 1313 ? 24 January 1376) was an English nobleman and medieval military leader and distinguished admiral. Arundel was one of the wealthiest nobles, and most loyal noble retainer of the chivalric code that governed the reign of Edward III of England.

Richard was born c. 1313 in Sussex, England. Fitzalan was the eldest son of Edmund Fitzalan, 2nd Earl of Arundel, and his wife Alice de Warenne. His parents married after 30 December 1304, after his father had initially been fined for refusing to marry Alice in 1304; their betrothal had been arranged by Alice's grandfather the Earl of Surrey, his father's guardian. Arundel changed his mind after the Earl died, leaving Alice the heiress presumptive, and with her only brother married to a ten-year-old girl. His maternal grandparents were William de Warenne and Joan de Vere. William was the only son of John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey (himself son of Maud Marshal by her second marriage), and his wife Alice de Lusignan (died 1256), half-sister of Henry III of England.

Around 1321, Fitzalan's father allied with Edward II's favourites, Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester and his namesake son, and Richard was married to Isabel le Despenser, daughter of Hugh the Younger. Fortune turned against the Despenser party, and on 17 November 1326, Fitzalan's father was executed. He did not succeed to his father's estates or titles. However, political conditions had changed by 1330, and over the next few years Richard was gradually able to reacquire the Earldom of Arundel as well as the great estates his father had held in Sussex and in the Welsh Marches.

Beyond this, in 1334 he was made Justiciar of North Wales (later his term in this office was made for life), in 1336 Constable of Portchester Castle (until 1338), and in 1339 High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire and Governor of Caernarfon Castle for life. He was one of the most trusted supporters of Edward the Black Prince in Wales.

Despite his high offices in Wales, in the following decades Arundel spent much of his time fighting in Scotland (during the Second Wars of Scottish Independence) and France (during the Hundred Years' War). In 1337, Arundel was made joint commander of the English army in the north, and the next year he was made the sole commander. In September 1339 a French fleet appeared off Sluis, determined to make sail against Edward III's fleet. When eventually they put to sea on 2 October they were blown off course by a violent storm back to the Zet Zwijn roads. Edward met parliament, and they ordered a new fleet to granted provisions by the barons of the cinque ports, and commanded by the Admiral of the West, Lord Arundel. Seventy ships from the west met at Portsmouth on March 26, 1340 to be commanded by their new admiral. The earl, granted the commission on 20 February 1340, was joined by fleets from the north and cinque ports. That summer he joined the king on flagship cog Thomas, leaving port two days later on 22 June for Flanders. Arundel was a distinguished soldier, in July 1340 he fought at the Battle of Sluys, during which his heavily laden cog grappled with the Spanish fleet. Summoned by parliament on 13 July, he bore witness to the victory. By December 1342 Arundel had relinquished his post as admiral.

But it appears he may have been at the siege of Tournai. After a short term as Warden of the Scottish Marches, he returned to the continent, where he fought in a number of campaigns, and was appointed joint lieutenant of Aquitaine in 1340. The successful conclusion of the Flanders campaign, in which Arundel saw little fighting, encouraged the setting up of the Knights of the Round Table? attended every Whitsun by 300 great knights. A former guardian of the Prince of Wales, Arundel was also a close friend of Edward III, and one of the four great earls? Derby, Salisbury, Warwick and himself. With Huntingdon and Sir Ralph Neville he was a Keeper of the Tower and guardian to the prince with a garrison of 20 men-at-arms and 50 archers. A royal councillor, he was expected to raise taxes, which had caused such consternation on 20 July 1338. The King's wars were not alway popular, but Arundel was a vital instrument of that policy. Despite the failure of the peace negotiations at Avignon in 1344, Edward was decided on protecting his Gascon subjects. In early 1345, Derby and Arundel sailed for Bordeaux as lieutenants of the duchy of Aquitaine, attempting to prevent Prince Jean's designs on the tenantry. In August 1346 Derby returned with an army of 2,000 men; while Arundel was responsible for naval preparations.

On 23 February 1345 Arundel was made Admiral of the Western Fleet, perhaps for a second time, to continue the policy of arresting merchant ships, but two years later was again superseded. Arundel was one of the three principal English commanders at the Battle of Cr?cy, his experience vital to the outcome of the battle with Suffolk and the bishop of Durham in the rearguard. Throughout he was entrusted by the King as guardian of the young Prince Edward. Arundel's division was on the right side of the battle lines, flanked to the right with archers, and stakes to the front.

He spent much of the following years on various military campaigns and diplomatic missions. The king himself and the entourage went to Winchilsea on 15 August 1350, set sail on the cog Thomas on the 28th, for the fleet to chase the Spaniard De la Cerda down wind, which they sighted the following day. The ships rammed, before the party escaped unhurt on another vessel. Overcome by much larger Spanish ships, the English could not grapple.

In a campaign of 1375, at the end of his life, he destroyed the harbour of Roscoff. On days after the death of Edward III, a Castilian fleet raided the south coast of England, and returned again in August. Arundel's fleet had put into Cherbourg for supplies, but no sooner had it departed, than the port was blockaded; one squadron was left behind and captured. At the same time galleys harassed the coast of Cornwall.

In 1347, he succeeded to the Earldom of Surrey (or Warenne), which even further increased his great wealth. He did not, however, use the additional title until after the death of the Dowager Countess of Surrey in 1361. He made very large loans to King Edward III but even so on his death left behind a great sum in hard cash.

He married twice:

I. Isabel le Despenser (1312 ? 1374/5) on 9 February 1321 at Havering-atte-Bower;

1. Sir Edmund de Arundel, Knt., of Chedzoy, Martock, Sutton Montagu, and Thurlbear, Somerset; Chudleigh, Devon; Melbury Bubb, Dorset; Bignor, Trayford and Compton, Sussex (c. 1329? 1381/2)

II. Secondly on 5 April 1345 he married Eleanor of Lancaster, a young widow, the second-youngest daughter and sixth child of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud Chaworth;

2. Richard Fitzalan, 4th Earl of Arundel, who was his son and heir.
3. John Fitzalan, 1st Baron Arundel, 1st Baron Maltravers, who was a Marshall of England, and drowned in 1379.
4. Thomas Arundel, who became Archbishop of Canterbury
5. Joan Fitzalan (1347 ? 7 April 1419)
6. Alice FitzAlan (1350 ? 17 March 1416), who married Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, matrilinear brother of King Richard II.

Illegitimate child by an unknown mistress:

7. Eleanor Fitzalan, married in or before 1348 (as his 1st wife) John de Bereford of Clapcot, Berkshire, Bickford, Stonythorpe, and Wishaw, Warwickshire, illegitimate son of Edmund de Bereford, Knt. They had no issue.

Probable illegitimate offspring include:

8. Ranulph FitzAlan, who married a lady named Juliana, last name unknown. Through them descended the Hungerfords, the St. Johns and the Villiers, including Barbara (formerly Palmer) Villiers, the first of many mistresses of King Charles II of England.

Richard died on 24 January 1376 at Arundel Castle, aged either 70 or 63, and was buried in Lewes Priory. He wrote his will on 5 December 1375. In his will, he mentioned his three surviving sons by his second wife, his two surviving daughters Joan, Dowager Countess of Hereford and Alice, Countess of Kent, his grandchildren by his second son John, etc., but left out his bastardized eldest son Edmund. In his will Richard asked his heirs to be responsible for building the Fitzalan Chapel at Arundel Castle, which was duly erected by his successor. The memorial effigies depicting Richard Fitzalan and his second wife Eleanor of Lancaster in Chichester Cathedral are the subject of the poem "An Arundel Tomb" by Philip Larkin.

Fitzalan died an incredibly wealthy man, despite his various loans to Edward III, leaving ?60,000 in cash. He had been as astute in business, as he had in diplomatic politics. He was a cautious man, and wisely saved his estate for future generations.

Richard Fitzalan, 3rd Earl of Arundel, Wikipedia
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Richard married Eleanor PLANTAGENET on 5 Feb 1344-1345 in Ditton, England. Eleanor (daughter of Earl Henry PLANTAGENET, Of Lancaster and Maude DE CHAWORTH) was born about 1311 in Grismond Castle, Monmouthshire, England; died on 11 Jan 1372 in Arundel, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• FamilySearch ID: LB1S-5V6
• _UID: 791CE625EFC1407D8EAD0D076DB71B26C1DE
• Alt. Birth: Abt 1311, Grismond Castle, Monmouthshire, England; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Birth: Abt 1311-1322, Grismond Castle, Monmouthshire, England; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Death: 11 Jan 1372, Arundel, Sussex, England; Alt. Death

Notes:

She was the Baroness of Lancaster.