Richard 'Copped Hat' Fitzalan^{[1, 2]}

Abt 1313 - 1375  (~ 62 years)

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

  
  

  Father	Edmund Fitzalan,   b. 01 May 1285, Castle, Marlborough, Sussex, England ,   d. 17 Nov 1326, (beheaded), Herefordshire, England  (Age 41 years)
  Mother	Alice de Warren,   b. 1287, Warren, Sussex, England ,   d. Bef 23 May 1338  (Age 51 years)
  Married	1305	Arundel, Sussex, England
  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
  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 ,   d. 11 Jan 1372, Arundel, Sussex, England  (Age ~ 61 years)
  Married	5 Feb 1344	Ditton, Kent, England
  Children	1. Richard Fitzalan,   b. Abt 1346, Arundel, Sussex, England ,   d. 21 Sep 1397, London, England  (Age ~ 51 years)   2. Joan Fitzalan,   b. Abt 1347, Arundel, Sussex, England ,   d. 7 Apr 1419, Saffran Walden, Essex, England  (Age ~ 72 years)   3. John Fitzalan (Arundel),   b. Abt 1348, Etchingham, Sussex, England ,   d. 16 Dec 1379, Drowned, Irish Sea  (Age ~ 31 years)   4. Alice Fitzalan,   b. Abt 1350, Arundel, Sussex, England ,   d. 17 Mar 1415  (Age ~ 65 years)   5. Thomas Fitzalan,   b. Abt 1352, Arundel, Sussex, England ,   d. 19 Feb 1413  (Age ~ 61 years)   6. Eleanor Fitzalan,   b. Abt 1352, Arundel, Sussex, England   7. Mary Fitzalan,   b. Abt 1356, Arundel, Sussex, England ,   d. Bef 24 Jan 1376  (Age ~ 20 years)
  Last Modified	8 Sep 2006
  Family ID	F333	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S3] LDS - Ancestral File. [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 [S79] edwardthesecond.blogspot.com. They would have been small children. [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.