RICHARD FITZALAN (1267-1302)  , earl of Arundel, was a son of John, lord of Arundel (1246-1272), and a grandson of another John, lord of Arundel, Clun and Oswaldestre (Oswestry), who took a prominent, if somewhat wavering, part in the troubles during the reign of Henry III., and who died in November 1267 . Richard, who was called earl of Arundel about 1289, fought for Edward I. in France and in Scotland, and died on the 9th of March 1302 . He was succeeded by his son, EDMUND (1285-1326), who married Alice, sister of John, earl de Warenne . A bitter enemy of Piers Gaveston, Arundel was one of the ordainers appointed in 131o; he declined to march with-Edward II. to Bannockburn, and after the king's humiliation he was closely associated with Thomas, earl of Lancaster, until about 1321, when he became connected with the Despensers an6 sided with the king . Hewas faithful to Edward to the last, and was executed at Hereford by the partisans of Queen Isabella on the 17th of November 1326 . His son, RICHARD (c . 1307-1376), who obtained his father's earldom and lands in 1331, was a soldier of renown and a faithful servant of Edward III . He was present at the battle of Sluys and at the siege of Tournai in 1340; he led one of the divisions of the English army at Crecy and took part in the siege of Calais; and he fought in the naval battle with the Spaniards off Winchelsea in August 1350 . Moreover, he was often employed by Edward on diplomatic business . Soon after 1347 Arundel inherited the estates of his uncle John, earl de Warenne, and in 1361 he assumed the title of earl de Warenne or earl of Surrey . He was regent of England in 1355, and died on the 24th of January 1376, leaving three sons, the youngest of whom, Thomas, became archbishop of Canterbury . Richard's eldest son, RICHARD, earl of Arundel and Surrey (c .

1346-1397), was a member of the royal

council during the minority of Richard II., and about 1381 was made one of the young king's governors . As admiral of the west and south he saw a good deal of service on the sea, but without earning any marked distinction except in 1387 when he gained a victory over the French and their allies off Margate . About 1385 the earl joined the baronial party led by the king's uncle, Thomas of Woodstock, duke of Gloucester, and in 1386 was a member of the commission appointed to regulate the kingdom and the royal household . Then came Richard's rash but futile attempt to arrest Arundel, which was the signal for the outbreak of hostilities . The Gloucester faction quickly gained the upper hand, and the earl was one, and perhaps the most bitter, of the lords appellant . He was again a member of the royal council, and was involved in a quarrel with John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, whom he accused in the parliament of 1394 . After a personal altercation with the king at Westminster in the same year Arundel underwent a short imprisonment, and in 1397 came the final episode of his life . Suspicious of Richard he refused the royal invitation to a banquet, but his party had broken up, and he was persuaded by his brother, Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury, to surrender himself and to trust to the king's clemency . At once he was tried, was attainted and sentenced to death, and, bearing himself with great intrepidity, was beheaded on the 21st of September 1397 . He was twice married and had three sons and four daughters . The earl founded a hospital at Arundel, and his tomb in the church of the Augustinian Friars, Broad Street, London, was long a place of pilgrimage . His only surviving son, THOMAS (1381-1415), was a ward of John Holand, duke of Exeter, from whose keeping he escaped about 1398 and joined his uncle, Archbishop Thomas Arundel, at Utrecht, returning to England with Henry of Lancaster, after-wards King Henry IV., in 1399 .

After Henry's

coronation he was restored to his father's titles and estates, and was employed in fighting against various rebels in Wales and in the north of England . Having left the side of his uncle, the archbishop, Arundel joined the party of the Beauforts, and was one of the leaders of the English army which went to France in 1411; then after a period of retirement he became lord treasurer on the accession of Henry V . From the siege of Harfleur he returned ill to England and died on the 13th of October 1415 . His wife was Beatrix (d . 1439), a natural daughter of John I., king of Portugal, but he left no children, and the lordship of Arundel passed to a kinsman, JOHN FITZALAN, Lord Maltravers (1383-1421), who was summoned as earl of Arundel in 1416 . John's son, JoxN (1408-1435), did not secure the earldom until 1433, when as the " English Achilles " he had already won great distinction in the French wars . He was created duke of Touraine, and continued to serve Henry VI. in the field until his death at Beauvais from the effects of a wound on the 12th of June 1435 . The earl's only son, Humphrey, died in April 1438, when the earldom passed to John's brother, WILLIAM (1417-1488) .