Richard SERGEAUX

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• Occupation: 1389; Sheriff of Cornwall
• Grant. Otto de Bodrugan to Richard Cergeaux & wife Phillippa: 11 Jun 1389; Manors of Tremodrett and Trevellyn, Roche and Luxulyan. Remainders to Otto's gr. children

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Sir Richard Sergeaux was the son of Sir Richard Cergeaux of Colquite and his wife Margaret, the daughter and heir of Sir John Seneschal, Cornwall. (His full biography is found in the source "The History of Parliament."

The History of Parliament Online for CERGEAUX (SERGEUX), Sir Richard (d.1393), of Colquite, Cornwall (see Sources) states Sir Richard Cergeaux first married Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir William Bodrugan. Sir William Bodrugan died about 1362, and Elizabeth was married to Sir Richard Cergeaux before his death. This source states, "Sir Richard Cergeaux... m. (1) bef. 1362, Elizabeth, da. and h. of Sir William Bodrugan? (1311-c.1362), of Bodrugan, Cornw., 1da.;" They had "1da." meaning they had one daughter. Elizabeth was born 1371, and then Sir Richard married Philippa FitzAlan c1373.

The Inquisitions state Sir Richard Sergeaux first married Elizabeth Bodrugan, daughter of William Bodrugan, niece of Sir Otto Bodrugan. After her death, Sir Richard Sergeaux married Philippa FitzAllen, and she died in 1399. After Sir Richard Sergeaux's death in 1393, Philippa married Sir John Cornwall.

Children of Sir Richard Sergeaux were:
Son, Richard Sergeaux, [b1375], no children
1st dau. Elizabeth (Marney) [b1371] (by 1st wife)
2nd dau. Philippa Sergeaux (Pashley) (Swinburne) [b1373, d1420] (probably the daughter of second wife, Philppa FitzAlan)
3rd dau. Alice Sergeaux (St. Aubyn) (de Vere) [b1386, d. 18 May 1452]
And a 4th daughter, Joan born c1391 is also mentioned in the Inquisitions, died 1400.

The Inquisitions Post Mortem were local inquiries into valuable properties, in order to discover what income and rights were due to the crown and who the heir should be. IPMs are a valuable resource and provide general information for the family:
1389--Otes Borugan, [Sr.] "held the manors of Tremodrett, Trevillian and Trefreock in fee tail. Herbert Skewyek held them in his demesne as of fee and gave them to Otes de Bodrugan, knight, and his heirs male lawfully begotten on the body of his wife Margaret, with remainders if he died without such heirs successively to his heirs male of his own body and then to his right heirs. He held in fee tail in such form and had issue by Margaret, William and Otes. William entered and died without an heir male of his body. They descended to Otes as brother and heir under the entail. He had issue Joan, now the wife of Robert Hulle senior, and died without male issue. Thus Otes the father had no surviving male issue of either Margaret's or his own body. Joan is the daughter and next heir by blood of Otes named in the writ, begotten of his body, and the heir of Otes the father..." He [Otes] died on 1 Sept. 1389. Joan was then aged 30 years and more. After his death, Richard Sergeaux, knight, held the properties jointly with Philippa, his second wife. The Phillipa named in the Inquisitions is Phillipa FitzAlan of Arundell. She held them in dower until her death in 1399, then the properties went to her daughters after the death of her son Richard, in 1396 who was only age 20 at his death. (A series of these Inquisitions are in Sources.)

1396--Richard Sergeaux, knight, the father, held in his demesne... Long before he died he...granted them to? with remainder to Richard his son and his heirs. ? A third part passed to Philippa his widow in dower, two parts to the younger Richard, who held by the same services as his father and died on 23 June 1396 in his 20th year (later Inquisitions incorrectly say age 26). His sisters, Elizabeth, wife of William Marny, knight, aged 21 years and more, Philippa, wife of Robert Passele, aged 18 years and more, Alice, wife of Guy de Sancto Albinio, aged 15 years and more, and Joan aged 7 years, are next heirs.

1397--Richard SERGEAUX, knight Writ of mandamus, 15 November, 21 Richard II [1397] OXFORD. Inquisition
He [father, Richard SERGEAUX, Sr.] died on the morrow of Michaelmas, 17 Richard II [30 September 1393].
Richard, [Jr.] aged 20 years [b1375] underage at the time of Richard the father's death, was his son and heir. He died on Monday after the Nativity of St John the Baptist, 19 Richard II [1396].
Elizabeth, aged 24 years [1371] at the time of the death of Richard the son,
Phillippa, then aged 22 years, [1373]
Alice, then aged 9 years [1386] and
Joan, then aged 4 years [1391], are sisters and heirs of Richard the son.
Philippa [FitzAllen de Arundell] wife of the said Richard has taken the issues of the premises ever since his death.

1399-- Phillipa Sergeaux, wife of Sir Richard Sergeaux, Sr.--they were the parents of the children listed here. After the death of Phillipa's son Richard, Jr., she held the properties until her death in 1399, at which point Richard, Jr.'s sisters inherited the Bodrugan properties. However, "William Bodrugan, bastard, William Janyn of Tregoss, and others unknown entered by force of arms, arrayed for war, insulted and threatened" the clerk and kept the fees. [This William Bodrugan was the illegitimate son of Otes Bodrugan].

1400--Richard Sergeaux, Knight, "held...the manors ...granted...to Otto de Bodrugan, master William Sergeaux, clerk, and John Dreyn, chaplain. They conveyed them to Richard and Philippa his wife, and the heirs of their bodies, with remainder to the right heirs of Richard. They had issue Richard, Elizabeth, Philippa, Alice and Joan. The elder Richard died. Richard the son died under age without issue, and Philippa died. The manors descended to Elizabeth, Philippa, Alice and Joan, as daughters and heirs of Richard and Philippa. He also held in his demesne as of fee the manor of Kilquite, which he granted to Henry Nanfan and John Pollard for the life of Philippa his wife, and they released their rights in it to Philippa. Thus Richard and Philippa held it, and it descended to the same four daughters.

1400--No lands are in the king's hands on account of the deaths of Richard Sergeaux, knight, and Richard his son. Richard late earl of Arundel held in his demesne as of fee the manor of Chipping Norton, and conveyed it to Richard the father, Philippa his wife, and their heirs. Richard held it, then Philippa, and it descended to their daughters, Elizabeth, Philippa, Alice and Joan. It was taken into the king's hands and the three parts of Philippa, Alice and Joan were retained, whilst the fourth part was released to Elizabeth by virtue of the king's writ. ...
Joan died on 31 July. Elizabeth aged 33, Philippa 19, and Alice 15, are the sisters and heirs of Joan [names of husbands as above]...
Richard Sergeaux, knight, held in his demesne ... the manor of Rosenithon of the heirs of John Roskymmer, knight, by knight service; and the manor of Eathorne...
He held for life the manor of Predannack ... the manor of Penhale ... the manors of Poldu, Helland, Lanreath, Treninick, and half of Pencarrow, ... and the manor of Trefreock ...
They descended to Richard his son ... Philippa held a third part in dower.
He also held the manors of Tremodret of the castle of Launceston, of the duchy of Cornwall, by knight service, and Trevillis ...to himself, Philippa his wife, and the heirs of their bodies,...
Also for the lives of himself and Philippa he held the manor of Kilquite of John Dynham by knight service, ...
All descended to Elizabeth, Philippa, Alice and Joan, as sisters and heirs of the younger Richard, and were taken into the king's hands as of the duchy of Cornwall. Three parts should be in the king's hands, but William Bodrugan, bastard, William Janyn and others entered forcibly, and took, and are still taking, the profits. There is nothing in the king's hands, nor was in the hands of Richard II.
Joan died on 31 July. Elizabeth aged 20, Philippa 19, and Alice 15 [names of husbands as above, no. 35] are her sisters and heirs.

Sir Richard Segeaux (or Cerizeaux) Sr., was the son of Richard, son of John de Cerizeaux and the grandson of Richard de Cerizeaux. Sir Richard Sr.'s father was born c.1300 in Cornwall and died c.1362. He married and had at least three children, all sons: Richard, John and Michael.

The book The Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor, in the County of Cornwall, Vol. 2, by Sir John Maclean, published 1876, contains a genealogical chart of the Sergeaux family. This chart states that Richard Cerizeaux was age 7 in 1307, when his grandfather's estates were settled. A valuation of those estates, which included holdings at Kilcoit (Colquite), was completed c.1307 ('in I Edward II'}. The jury reviewing this valuation found that Richard was the rightful heir of his grandfather.

Sir Richard's (b. 1300) wife, Margaret Seneschal, was the daughter and heir of Sir John Seneschal, Knight, of Prodarwolas. Her mother was Joan Kening. She was the widow of Sir James Peverel. There were at least three children from this marriage - Michael, Richard and John. (by CDuncan3)

According to the Cole family pedigree which includes the Bodrugan and Sergeaux lines, published in "The Genealogie or Pedegree..." "Philippa" was mistakenly named the daughter and heir of Sr William Bodrugan, Knight and Julian Daughter of Sr John Stoner of Stoner in county Oxford. However, the Inquisitions state the daughter of William Bodrugan was named Elizabeth. Elizabeth Bodrugan married Sir Richard Sergeuix of Cornwall Knight, as his first wife; after her death he married Philippa FitzAlan--not his son Richard.

Sir Richard Sergeauix Knight and Philippa his wife were seised in fee of the Manor of Chippingnoton and a Mille in Oxon, co. (Oxford) Richard had a son Richard, being his heir; he died at the age of 20 leaving no heirs.

Richard married Phillippa FITZALAN about 1373 in Of Arundel, Sussex, England. Phillippa (daughter of Edmund FITZALAN and Sibyl De MONTAGU) was born in 1350-1352 in Of Arundel, Sussex, England; died in 1399 in Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Phillippa ARUNDEL
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• Alt. Birth: 1350, Arundel, Sussex, England; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Death: 1399, Sussex, England; Alt. Death

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• Alt. Birth: 1328, Colquite Manor, St. Mabyn, Cornwall, England; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Death: 30 Sep 1393, Cornwall, England; Alt. Death

Richard married Margaret SENESCHAL. Margaret (daughter of John SENESCHAL and Unk) was born about 1326 in Of Predarwolas, Cornwall, England; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Edmund ARUNDEL
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Sir Edmund Arundel, knt (c. 1327 ? 1376? 1382), the only child of the marriage between Richard FitzAlan and Isabel le Despenser, was bastardized by the annulment of his parents' marriage. He thereafter was known by the name of Arundel.

He married at the age of twenty, in the summer of 1347, Sybil Montacute or Montague, a younger daughter of William Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury and Catherine Grandison, whose elder sister Elizabeth was married to his mother's brother.

Because he has been declared illegitimate after the annulment of his parents' marriage, after his father died the estates that should have gone to Edmund went to his younger half-brother Richard, then about 29. "Sometime before the end of 1376, Edmund and at least fourteen of his supporters attacked the six manors of Essex which his father had granted to his late mother Isabella for her sustenance in 1344/4 after the annulment of their marriage . . . They broke into houses, fished in Earl Richard's fishery, stole ?100, and assaulted and imprisoned Richard's servants." When the incidents came to the attention of the authorities, Edmund with his cousin Henry Despenser as his lawyer appeared before the king and "agreed to settle the 'quarrel, dissensions, strife and controversy' between them. Edmund appeared again before the king and his council on 16 February 1377 and was imprisoned in the Tower of London, though was released on 5 June that year. . . ."

"Little is known of Edmund Arundel after late 1377. In July 1379, he and his son-in-law Sir Richard Sergeaux of Cornwall borrowed ?500 from Matthew Gurney . . . By 1390, Sergeaux had still not paid Gurney Back.

"Edmund Arundel was still active in February 1381, now in his mid-fifties, and appointed attorneys to act for him when he went to Gascony on a military expedition. He was dead by February 1382, when his two surviving daughters, Elizabeth Meriet (formerly Carew) and Philippa Sergeaux, and Robert Deincourt, his grandson from his other daughter Katherine, were involved in a legal case."

The Rise and Fall of a Medieval Family: The Despensers, Kathryn Warner, Pen and Sword History, 2021, 133-134

Edmund married Sibyl De MONTAGU in Jul 1349 in Donyatt, Somersetshire, England. Sibyl (daughter of William De MONTAGU (MONTACUTE) and Katherine De GRANDISON) was born about 1330 in Donyatt, Somersetshire, England; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Richard married Margaret Baddlesmer De SENESCHAL. Margaret was born about 1305; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John married Unk. Unk and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Copped Hat
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• 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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Fitzalan,_3rd_Earl_of_Arundel

Richard married Isabel LE DESPENCER on 9 Feb 1320 in Kings Chapel, Havering-Atte-Bower, Essex, England. Isabel (daughter of Lord Hugh "The Younger" LE DESPENCER and Eleanore (Alianore) De CLARE) was born about 1312 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England; died on 11 Jan 1371 in Arundel, Sussex, England; was buried after 11 Jan 1371 in Tewkesbury, Tewkesbury Borough, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• TitleOfNobility: Between 1331 and 1344; Countess of Arundel
• Divorced: 4 Dec 1344

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She was the Countess of Arundel.

Isabel, daughter of 1st Lord (Baron) le Despenser of the 29 July 1314 creation, and had issue (bastardised by the papal annulment of 1344, [Burke's Peerage]

Isabel le Despenser (1312? 1356) was the eldest daughter of Hugh Despenser the Younger and Eleanor de Clare. She was descended from Edward I of England through her mother, while her father is famous for being the favorite of Edward II of England.

Though he had stood against Edward II in the past, Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel had loyally supported him since the 1320s. Thus it must have seemed to be politically prudent to Edmund to marry his heir Richard to the eldest daughter of the King's closest friend and adviser Hugh le Despenser. For Hugh's part, a large incentive for him must have been that he could expect his daughter Isabel would one day become Countess of Arundel.

On 9 February 1321 at the royal manor Havering-atte-Bower, Isabel was duly married to Richard FitzAlan, the heir to the earldom of Arundel. Isabel was only eight at the time, while Richard was fifteen (not seven as has been claimed). Their respective ages would come up later when Richard would try to seek an annulment.

Annulment
Richard and Isabel had one son, Edmund Fitzalan, born in 1327, and in 1331 Isabel's husband became earl of Arundel. However, in December 1344 Richard Fitzalan had their marriage annulled on the grounds that he had never freely consented to marry Isabel and that they both had renounced their vows at puberty but had been "forced by blows to cohabit, so that a son was born". Isabel retired to several manors in Essex that were given to her by her ex-husband. After receiving a papal dispensation, Richard married Isabel's first cousin Eleanor of Lancaster, with whom he had apparently been living.

Richard and Isabel's only child, Edmund Fitzalan, was rendered illegitimate by this annulment and so was unable to inherit his father's earldom. When his father died in 1376 Edmund quarreled with his half-siblings, the children of his father's second marriage, over inheritance rights. Edmund was imprisoned in the Tower of London until he was released in 1377 by request of his brothers-in-law.

Father's execution
After their father was executed for treason in 1326, Isabel and her youngest sister Elizabeth were the only daughters of Hugh the Younger to escape being confined in nunneries, Isabel because she was already married and Elizabeth because of her youth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_le_Despenser,_Countess_of_Arundel. Also see Source: The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom : extant, extinct, or dormant by G. E. Cokayne, 1910, Volume 1, with an account of the papal mandate.

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• FamilySearch ID: 9CQZ-W68
• TitleOfNobility: ; 3rd Baron Montagu
• _UID: DAC660B4A97D4D5481C30882694801E5E059
• TitleOfNobility: 16 Mar 1337; 1st Earl of Salisbury
• TitleOfNobility: 1341, Isle of Man; King of Mann

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William Montagu, alias de Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury, 3rd Baron Montagu, King of Mann (1301 ? 30 January 1344) was an English nobleman and loyal servant of King Edward III.
The son of William Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu, he entered the royal household at an early age and became a close companion of the young Prince Edward. The relationship continued after Edward was crowned king following the deposition of Edward II in 1327. In 1330, Montagu was one of Edward's main accomplices in the coup against Roger Mortimer, who until then had been acting as the king's protector.

In the following years Montagu served the king in various capacities, primarily in the Scottish Wars. He was richly rewarded, and among other things received the lordship of the Isle of Man. In 1337, he was created Earl of Salisbury, and given an annual income of 1000 marks to go with the title. He served on the Continent in the early years of the Hundred Years' War, but in 1340 he was captured by the French, and in return for his freedom had to promise never to fight in France again. Salisbury died of wounds suffered at a tournament early in 1344. ...
Salisbury died on 30 January 1344. He was buried at Bisham Priory in Berkshire, adjoining his home, Bisham Manor. He had founded the priory himself in 1337, on his elevation to the earldom.[31] King Edward's financial obligations were never paid in full during the earl's lifetime, and at Salisbury' death the king owed him ?11,720. Of this, some ?6374 were written off by his executors in 1346.

Family
In or before 1327 Salisbury married Catherine, daughter of William de Grandison, 1st Baron Grandison. Two anecdotal stories revolve around Catherine Montagu; in one she is identified as the "Countess of Salisbury" from whose dropped garter Edward III named the Order of the Garter. In the other, Edward III falls in love with the countess, and arranges to be alone with her so he can rape her. Neither story is supported by contemporary evidence, and the latter almost certainly is a product of French propaganda.

William and Catherine had six children, most of whom made highly fortunate matches with other members of the nobility. The first Earl of Salisbury made enormous additions to the family fortune; at the time of his father's death, the lands had been valued at just over ?300. In 1344, only the annual income of the lands has been estimated to more than ?2,300, equivalent to about ?2 million in present-day terms. Edward was also free with granting franchises to Salisbury, including the return of writs, which gave the earl authority in his lands normally held by the royally appointed sheriff. Salisbury's oldest son William succeeded his father in July 1349, while still a minor, as William Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury. The younger William was one of the founding members of the Order of the Garter, but he never enjoyed the same favour with the king as his father had.

The children of William and Catherine were as follows:
1. Elizabeth Montagu, died 1359, married first, Hugh le Despencer, Baron le Despencer (1338) before 27 April 1341, married second Guy de Brian, 4th Baron Brian, after 1349.
2. William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, born 1328, died 1397, succeeded his father 11 June 1349.
3. John de Montacute, 1st Baron Montacute, born 1330, died 1390, father of John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury.
4. Philippa Montagu, born 1332, died 1381, married Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March.
5. Sibyl Montagu, married Edmund FitzAlan, the disinherited son of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel.
6. Agnes Montagu, contracted to marry John, eldest son of Roger Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Ruthyn.
7. Alice Montagu, married Ralph Daubeney, son of Helias Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney. (This may be an error see William Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Montagu,_1st_Earl_of_Salisbury

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Sir William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury
Also Known As: "1st Earl of Salisbury", "3rd Baron Montacute", "Knight of the Bath", "Knight Banneret"
Birthdate: circa 1301
Birthplace: Cassington, Oxfordshire, England
Death: January 30, 1344 (38-47)
Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England (Wounds from a tournament at Windsor.)
Place of Burial: Bisham, Berkshire, England, UK
Immediate Family:

Son of
William Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu and
Elizabeth de Montfort

Husband of
Catherine de Montagu, Countess of Salisbury

Father of
Elizabeth de Brienne;
William de Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury;
John de Montacute, 1st Baron Montacute;
Anneys de Grey; Sibyl de Montague;
Robert Montagu;
Philippa de Mortimer, Countess of March and
Edward Montagu ? less

Brother of
Alice Daubeney;
John Montagu;
Hawise Bavent;
Mary Cogan;
Edward Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu;
Simon Montacute, Bishop of Ely;
Isabel Montagu, Abbess of Barking;
Maud Montagu, Abbess of Barking and
Elizabeth Montagu, Prioress of Halliwell ? less


Occupation: King of the Isle of Man, 1st Earl of Salisbury, 1st Earl of Solisbury and 3rd Baron Montagu

William married Katherine De GRANDISON in 1327 in Cassington, Oxfordshire, England. Katherine (daughter of William DE GRANDISON and Sybil TREGOZ) was born on 21 Apr 1302 in Herefordshire, England; died on 23 Nov 1349 in Bisham, Berkshire, England; was buried in Bisham, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: 9C3W-LX1
• TitleOfNobility: ; Countess of Salisbury
• Name: Catherine DE GRANDISON - COUNTESS OF SALISBURY
• _UID: D2D978F5D955454087BB62E43D84D49B8375

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Catherine Grandison, Countess of Salisbury (c. 1304 ? 23 November 1349) was an English noblewoman, remembered for her relationship with King Edward III of England and possibly the woman in whose honour the Order of the Garter was originated. She was the daughter of William de Grandison, 1st Baron Grandison, and Sibylla de Tregoz. Her mother was one of two daughters of John de Tregoz, Baron Tregoz (whose arms were blazoned Gules two bars gemels in chief a lion passant guardant or), maternal granddaughter of Fulk IV, Baron FitzWarin).

Catherine married William Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury in about 1320.
Their children were:
1. Elizabeth Montacute (b. before 1325); married Hugh le Despencer, Baron le Despencer (1338) before 27 April 1341.
2. William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury (1329? 1397)
3. John de Montacute, 1st Baron Montacute, (1330? 1390); father of John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury.
4. Anne Montacute, (b. 1331); married John De Grey on 12 June 1335.
5. Philippa Montacute (1332? 1381); married Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March.
6. Sibyl Montacute (b. before 1339); married Edmund FitzAlan about 1356.

According to rumour, King Edward III was so enamoured of the countess that in 1341 he raped her and according to The True Chronicles of Jean le Bel 'left her there unconscious, bleeding from her nose, mouth, and elsewhere', after having relieved a Scottish siege on Wark Castle, where she lived, while her husband was out of the country. An Elizabethan play, Edward III, deals with this incident. In the play, the Earl of Warwick is the unnamed Countess's father, though he was not her father in real life.

In around 1348, the Order of the Garter was founded by Edward III and it is recorded that he did so after an incident at a ball when the "Countess of Salisbury" dropped a garter and the king picked it up. It is assumed that Froissart is referring either to Catherine or to his daughter-in-law, Joan of Kent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Grandison,_Countess_of_Salisburygeni.com
Countess of Salisbury
Also Known As: "de Montacute"
Birthdate: circa 1304
Birthplace: Ashford, Hertfordshire, England
Death: November 23, 1349 (40-49)
Bisham Abbey, Bisham, Berkshire, England
Place of Burial: Bisham, Berkshire, England
Immediate Family:

Daughter of
William de Grandison, Sieur de Grandison & de Ste. Croix and
Sibilla de Tregoz, co-heiress of Ewyas-Harold

Wife of Sir William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury

Mother of
Elizabeth de Brienne;
William de Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury;
John de Montacute, 1st Baron Montacute;
Anneys de Grey; Sibyl de Montague and 3 others
Sister of Agnes de Grandison; John de Grandison; Mabilia de Pateshull (de Grandison) and Baron Piers Grandison


Occupation: Countess of Salisbury, Lady