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Richard 'Copped Hat' Fitzalan

Richard 'Copped Hat' Fitzalan[1, 2]

Male Abt 1313 - 1375  (~ 62 years)

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  • Name Richard 'Copped Hat' Fitzalan 
    Born Abt 1313  Arundel, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation 1330 Restored to his father's earldom and estates by Edward III 
    Died 24 Jan 1375  Arundel, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Lewes, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1046  Family
    Last Modified 29 Mar 2009 

    Father Edmund Fitzalan,   b. 01 May 1285, Castle, Marlborough, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Nov 1326, (beheaded), Herefordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 41 years) 
    Mother Alice de Warren,   b. 1287, Warren, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 23 May 1338  (Age 51 years) 
    Married 1305  Arundel, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F334  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Countess of Arundel Isabel le Despenser,   b. Abt 1314  [3, 4
    Married 09 Feb 1321  Havering-atte-Bower, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Divorced 1344 
    Children 
     1. Edmund Arundel Fitzalan,   b. 1327
    Last Modified 29 Mar 2009 
    Family ID F573  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Eleanor Plantagenet,   b. Abt 1311, Grosmont Castle, Monmouthshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Jan 1372, Arundel, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 61 years) 
    Married 5 Feb 1344  Ditton, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Richard Fitzalan,   b. Abt 1346, Arundel, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Sep 1397, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 51 years)
     2. Joan Fitzalan,   b. Abt 1347, Arundel, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Apr 1419, Saffran Walden, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 72 years)
     3. John Fitzalan (Arundel),   b. Abt 1348, Etchingham, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Dec 1379, Drowned, Irish Sea Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 31 years)
     4. Alice Fitzalan,   b. Abt 1350, Arundel, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Mar 1415  (Age ~ 65 years)
     5. Thomas Fitzalan,   b. Abt 1352, Arundel, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Feb 1413  (Age ~ 61 years)
     6. Eleanor Fitzalan,   b. Abt 1352, Arundel, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     7. Mary Fitzalan,   b. Abt 1356, Arundel, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 24 Jan 1376  (Age ~ 20 years)
    Last Modified 8 Sep 2006 
    Family ID F333  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S3] LDS - Ancestral File.

    2. [S79] edwardthesecond.blogspot.com.
      A few people seem to be interested in my great-grandfather's "copped hat" so I will reveal the story behind it. Not much of a story really, but one day my grandfather was gambling with a few other men. One of them lost a toss and paid off his debt with his hat. My great-grandfather becoming the new owner of said hat. The hat has lost it brownish-copper color, but it stood several inches high and was very plain. For some reason he would never reveal, Grandpapa always wore the hat at a crooked angle and he became known as "Copped Hat." My grandfather kept that hat, which I have inherited and it now remains in the family library.
      Lady Shirley

    3. [S79] edwardthesecond.blogspot.com.
      They would have been small children.

    4. [S80] susandhigginbotham.blogspot.com.
      In December 1344, Richard Fitzalan succeeded in having his marriage to Isabella annulled on the ground that the couple had expressly renounced their vows at puberty but had been “forced by blows to cohabit, so that a son was born.” If the Pope or his deputy had any doubts as to why Richard had waited seventeen years after the birth of that son before attempting to secure an annulment ("Well, I kept meaning to get around to it, but . . ."), he kept them to himself.