Ankaret Baroness Le STRANGE

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• FamilySearch ID: MYDN-HHR
• Title (Nobility): ; 7th Baroness of Blackmere
• Title (Nobility): ; Countess of Shrewsbury
• Name: Anghared
• Name: Matilda
• Name: Maud
• _UID: 5CFDFCDF64924CB49BD2D15C99460B87350B
• Alt. Death: 1 Jun 1413, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England

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Ankaret (married 2nd as his 2nd wife Thomas Nevill(e), 5th Lord (Baron) Furnivall(e)/Nevill of Halumshire, and died 1 June 1413), sister and eventually sole heiress of John, 5th Lord (Baron) Strange (of Blackmere), thus becoming according to later doctrine Baroness Strange (of Blackmere) in her own right. [Burke's Peerage]

Ankaret, daughter and eventual heir of 1st Lord (Baron) Strange or Lestrange of the 1360 creation and widow of Lord (Baron) Talbot (of Blackmere). [Burke's Peerage, p. 14]

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Ankaret Lestrange, b. 1361 (age 22 in Aug 1383), d. 1 June 1413; m. (1) bef. 23 Aug 1383, Sir Richard Talbot. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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He [Richard Talbot] married, before 23 August 1381 Ankaret, suo jure, according to modern doctrine, BARONESS STRANGE (of Blackmere), only daughter (who on 23 August 1383 became sole heir) of John (LESTRANGE), IV LORD STRANGE (of Blackmere), by Mary, daughter of Richard (FITZALAN), EARL OF ARUNDEL. He died 8 or 9 September 1396 in London, aged about 35. His widow, who was aged 22 in 1383, married, as his 2nd wife, between 8 March and 4 July 1401, Thomas (NEVILLE), LORD FURNIVALLE, who died s.p.m., 14 March 1406/7. She died 1 June 1413, aged about 52. [Complete Peerage XII/1:616-17, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

Note: Ankaret's mother, Mary, was the daughter of Edmund, the 9th earl of Arundel, not Richard, the 10th earl (see Arundel, vol.1, p.244, note b). [Some Correction and Additions to the Complete Peerage]

Ankaret married Sir Richard TALBOT, VI in 1381 in Herefordshire, England. Richard (son of Gilbert TALBOT, 3rd Lord Talbot of Ecclesfield and Petronilla Pernel BUTLER) was born about 1361 in Goodrich Castle, Eccleswall, Herefordshire, England; died between 7 and 9 Sep 1396 in Blakemere, Weobley, Herefordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Sir Gilbert TALBOT was born in 1383 in Blakemere, Herefordshire, England; died on 19 Oct 1418 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France.
2. Lady Mary TALBOT, of Blakemere was born on 23 Sep 1383 in Goodrich Castle, Goodrich, Herefordshire, England; was christened in 1383 in Blakemere, Herefordshire, England; died on 13 Apr 1433 in Green's Norton, Northamptonshire, England; was buried on 25 Apr 1433 in St. John the Baptist's Cemetery, Grene's Norton, Northamptonshire, England.
3. Sir John TALBOT, Knight was born in 1385 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England; died on 17 Jul 1453 in Battle Of Castillon, Bordeaux, France (Killed); was buried on 20 Jul 1453 in St Alkmund's, Whitchurch, Shropshire, England.
4. Richard TALBOT was born on 1 Jan 1386 in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland; died on 16 Aug 1449; was buried in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland.
5. Elizabeth DE TALBOT was born in 1388 in Blakemere, Herefordshire, England; died on 13 Apr 1438 in Norton, Derbyshire, England.
6. Mary Alice TALBOT was born about 1390 in Blakemere, Weobley, Herefordshire, England; died in 1434.
7. Anne TALBOT was born in 1392 in Whitchurch, Shropshire, England; died on 16 Jan 1441 in England; was buried on 25 Jan 1441.
8. Joan DE TALBOT was born in 1396 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England; died on 26 Aug 1433 in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England.
9. William TALBOT was born on 7 Jun 1397 in Blakemere, Herefordshire, England; died in Jan 1426.

Ankaret married Thomas NEVILLE, 5th Baron Furnival, Of Hallam in 1401 in England, United Kingdom. Thomas (son of Sir John NEVILLE, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby and Maud DE PERCY) was born before 1362 in Raby Castle, Durham, England; died between 14 Mar 1406 and 1407 in Hallamshire, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England (Dspm); was buried in Worksop Priory, Nottinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: F0E2291BC7AD4429A77A05F902200D1E63E0

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John Lestrange, 1st Lord (Baron) Strange or Lestrange of a new creation by writ of summons 3 April 1360, JP (Salop 1360); Lady Mary FitzAlan (died 29 Aug 1396), daughter of 10th/3rd Earl of Arundel, and died 12 May 1361. [Burke's Peerage]

Note John's elder brother Fulk was 3rd Baron of their father's creation. He dspm 30 Aug 1349, and technically his barony went into abeyance. Thus John was 1st Baron of a new creation, but I am still calling him 4th Baron.

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John Lestraunge [sic.], born c Easter 1322, died 12 May 1361, MP 1360, 4th Lord Strange of Blackmere. [Magna Charta Sureties]

John married Mary (Isabel) FITZALAN in 1352 in England. Mary (daughter of Richard "Copped Hat" FITZALAN and Isabel LE DESPENCER) was born about 1323 in Corfham, Shropshire, England; died on 29 Aug 1396. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: GJJ5-Q3G
• _UID: E480EB67188745ED90C37B8B119B0D1AB380
• Alt. Birth: Abt 1332, Corfham, Shropshire, England; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Birth: Abt 1332, Of Corfham, Shropshire, England; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Death: 29 Aug 1396; Alt. Death
• Alt. Death: 29 Aug 1396; Alt. Death

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Lady Mary FitzAlan (died 29 Aug 1396), daughter of 10th/3rd Earl of Arundel. [Burke's Peerage]

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Mary (Isabel) fitz Alan, d. 29 Aug 1396; [m.] John Lestraunge [sic.], b. c Easter 1322, d. 12 May 1361, MP 1360, 4th Lord Strange of Blackmere. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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Note: In "Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage", www. medievalgenalogy.org.uk, it states "Mary was the daughter of Edmund, the 9th Earl of Arundel, not Richard the 10th Earl (see Arundel, vol 1, p. 244, note b)." This would also correct Burke's as well any other book that uses CP as a source.

Following is the discussion of the evidence:

CP Corrections, Volume 14, p.596 retains the identification of John Strange's wife Mary as a daughter of Richard, the 10th earl, but mentions Margaret Aston's argument, in Thomas Arundel, chart following p.436 (1967), that Mary was instead the daughter of Edmund, the 9th earl. It adds that if this were so, Mary would have been aged about 40 when her son John was born.

Margaret Aston cites two records that place Mary as a sister - not a daughter - of Richard, the 10th earl: (i) in a petition to the Pope in 1364, she calls herself "Mary la Straunge, lady of Corfham, widow, and sister of the Earl of Arundell" [Cal. Papal Petitions, 1342-1419, p.484] and (ii) in Richard's will he refers to her as his sister [Reg. Sudbury, Lambeth, f.95v, cited by Aston, loc. cit.].

A third independent piece of evidence is an agreement between the attorneys of Richard, earl of Arundel and Surrey, and the attorneys of Isabel, late the wife of John Lestrange of Blakemere, concerning Isabel's dower, which refers to this John [Mary's son] as the earl's nephew, which "agreement shall be affirmed in the king's chancery" [Cat. Ancient Deeds vol. 3, C3059: English abstract of a French original]. This agreement is undated, but was probably made soon after 28 November 1375, when an order was enrolled to the escheator in Shropshire, to take an oath from Isabel not to marry without the king's licence, and to assign her dower in the presence of Richard, earl of Arundel, or his attorneys, sending the assignment under seal to be enrolled in chancery [Cal. Close Rolls 1374-77, p.176]. A note was later added to the agreement, recording the delivery of dower by the assent of Richard, now earl of Arundel, and the other executors of Richard, the former earl [who had died in January, 1375/6]. This was perhaps in June 1376, when following Isabel's unlicenced remarriage it was ordered that she should have her dower with the "assent of Richard now earl of Arundell and other the executors of Richard late earl of Arundell" [Cal. Close Rolls 1374-77, p.378].

As to the chronology, Mary's son John Lestrange was born in the early 1350s [Complete Peerage volume 12, part 1, p. 344], while Edmund, the 9th earl of Arundel, married while a minor in 1305 and was executed in 1326. From this it appears that Mary could have been under 30 when John was born. (However, Mary's daughter Ankaret, the eventual heir, was born later, about 1361 [p.345].)

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• MilitaryService: ; served in the Scotch and French wars
• Name: John LE STRANGE
• _UID: F0566FF9ABDF428F8B3653AA0B78E2E9154C
• Title (Nobility): 1324; 2nd Baron Strange of Blackmere (succeeded his father Fulk upon his death)
• Title (Nobility): 1324; Lord Strange (succeeded his father Fulk upon his death)
• Occupation: 1330; Governor of Conway
• MilitaryService: 1346; Sir Knight Banneret at the battles of Crezy and Calais

Notes:

John Lestrange, 2nd Lord (Baron) Strange (of Blackmere), JP (Salop 1332); fought at Crecy 1346; married as her 1st husband Ankaret (married 2nd Sir Thomas de Ferrers and died 8 Oct 1361), daughter of William Boteler, of Wem, Salop, and died 21 July 1349. [Burke's Peerage]

John Lestrange, 2nd Lord Strange (of Blackmere) was born circa 1306.
He was the son of Fulk Lestrange, 1st Lord Strange (of Blackmere) and Eleanor Giffard.
He married Ankaret Boteler, daughter of William Boteler.
He succeeded as the 2nd Lord Strange, of Blackmere [E., 1309] on 23 January 1323/24.
He held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Shropshire in 1332.
He fought in the Battle of Cr?cy in 1346.
He died on 21 July 1349.

Children of John Lestrange, 2nd Lord Strange (of Blackmere) and Ankaret Boteler
1. Fulk Lestrange, 3rd Lord Strange (of Blackmere) b. c 1330, d. 30 Aug 1349
2. John Lestrange, 1st Lord Strange (of Blackmere) b. c 1332, d. 12 May 1361

http://www.thepeerage.com/p23461.htm#i234606

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Documentary sources indicate that a manor house belonging to the Le Strange family existed here in the 12th century. It passed to the Talbots in the 14th century, and in 1383 was the birthplace of John Talbot, the first Earl of Shrewsbury. The Talbot family sold the manor in 1590 and by the end of the following century the house was in ruins. Source is:
www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/English%20sites/3059.html


Blackmere was a 12th Century Manor in Whitchurch, Shropshire the seat of Le Strange of Blackmere. Source is Le Strange Records, Pedigree No. VIII - Le Strange of Blackmere.

John married Ankaret Le BOTELER in 1st Husband 1St Wife. Ankaret was born about 1306 in Wem, Shropshire, England; died on 8 Oct 1361. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 41751C8D09B84C129CBA98E4E53858D69B46

Notes:

Ankaret (married 2nd Sir Thomas de Ferrers and died 8 Oct 1361), daughter of William Boteler, of Wem, Salop. [Burke's Peerage]

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• FamilySearch ID: LYK6-VQ2
• 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

Notes:

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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• FamilySearch ID: L857-99H
• _UID: 195CE92AC1AD47B8B8D43E606D83548CEFDE
• 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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• TitleOfNobility: Shropshire, England; Lord of the Manor, Wrockwardine & Whitechurch
• Name: Fulco LESTRAUNGE
• _UID: 07FA4429347943799E871F41104398357C73
• TitleOfNobility: Between 1309 and 1314, Shropshire, England; Summoned to Parliament as Lord Strange of Blackmere
• Occupation: 11 Apr 1322, Aquitaine, France; Seneschal

Notes:

Fulk Lestrange, 1st Lord (Baron) Strange (of Blackmere), so created by writ of summons to Parliament 4 March 1308/9; served in Edward I's and Edward II's Scottish campaigns 1298-1323; Seneschal of Aquitaine 1322; married Eleanor (predeceased her husband), daughter of John Giffard, of Brimsfield, Glos. 1st Lord (Baron) Giffard, and died by 23 Jan 1323/4. [Burke's Peerage]

Fulk married Eleanor GIFFARD in 1296 in Whitchurch, Shropshire, England. Eleanor (daughter of John 1St Baron GIFFARD, Of Brimpsfield, Sir and Maud De CLIFFORD) was born about 1271 in Brimpsfield, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England; died before 23 Jan 1323-1324 in Blakemere, Weobley, Herefordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: D158B2E6079044B885735FC59A46EB2F6AE5

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Eleanor (predeceased her husband), daughter of John Giffard, of Brimsfield, Glos. 1st Lord (Baron) Giffard. [Burke's Peerage]