Isabel le Despenser

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• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Sir Richard Fitz Alan married, 1^st, 9 Feb 1320/1, in the King's Chapel at Havering-atte-Bower (he about 7, she about 8), Isabel, daughter of Sir Hugh le Despenser the younger, Lord le Despenser, by Eleanor, daughter and co-heir of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester. Obtained 4 Dec 1344, a Papal mandate for the annulment of his marriage to Isabel le Despenser, on the ground of his minority and of his never willingly consented to the match.

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, (Arundel), pp. 242-4, Vol. XIV, p. 38

Isabel married Sir Richard Fitz Alan Earl of Arundel, Earl of Surrey, son of Edmund Fitz Alan Earl of Arundel and Alice de Warenne, on 9 Feb 1321.¹⁴¹ (Sir Richard Fitz Alan Earl of Arundel, Earl of Surrey was born about 1313 in Arundel Castle, Sussex, England,¹⁴¹ died on 24 Jan 1376 in Arundel, Sussex, England ^141,737 and was buried in 1376 in Lewes Priory, Lewes, Sussex ¹⁴¹.)