Thomas FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel

Also known as: Thomas Arundel, Earl of Arundel / Thomas earle of Arundell · Family: England · Role: nobleman · First appears: Richard II 72

Life events

• c. 1399 · Thomas FitzAlan escaped the realm with William Scot and joined Thomas Arundel at Cullen.(Richard II 72 · 📍 Cullen)
  • With: William Scot Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury
  • “About the same time, the earle of Arundels sonne, named Thomas, which was kept in the duke of Exeters house, escaped out of the realme, by meanes of one William Scot mercer, and went to his vncle Thomas Arundell late archbishop of Canturburie, as then soiourning at Cullen.”
• 1412 · Henry IV sent an English force to aid John the Fearless against his French opponents.(Henry IV 25)
  • With: Henry IV John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy Gilbert Umfreville, Earl of Angus Robert Umfreville John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham John Grey William Porter
  • “sent to the duke of Burgognie, Thomas earle of Arundell, Gilbert Umfreuill earle of Angus (commonlie called the earle of Kime) sir Robert Umfreuill, vncle to the same Gilbert, sir Iohn Oldcastell lord Cobham, sir Iohn Greie, and William Porter, with twelue hundred archers.”

Richard II 72

• elder kin: Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury (Thomas Arundel is explicitly identified as Thomas's uncle.) “About the same time, the earle of Arundels sonne, named Thomas, which was kept in the duke of Exeters house, escaped out of the realme, by meanes of one William Scot mercer, and went to his vncle Thomas Arundell late archbishop of Canturburie, as then soiourning at Cullen.”
• with William Scot (William Scot enabled Thomas's escape from the realm.) “About the same time, the earle of Arundels sonne, named Thomas, which was kept in the duke of Exeters house, escaped out of the realme, by meanes of one William Scot mercer, and went to his vncle Thomas Arundell late archbishop of Canturburie, as then soiourning at Cullen.”

Henry IV 1

• sworn: Henry IV “Thomas earle of Arundell cheefe butler of England, obteined to exercise that office the daie of the coronation, and had the fées thereto belonging granted to him”

Henry IV 25

• sworn: Henry IV “sent to the duke of Burgognie, Thomas earle of Arundell, Gilbert Umfreuill earle of Angus (commonlie called the earle of Kime) sir Robert Umfreuill, vncle to the same Gilbert, sir Iohn Oldcastell lord Cobham, sir Iohn Greie, and William Porter, with twelue hundred archers”
• allies with John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy “where they found the duke of Burgognie, of whom they were ioifullie receiued, & from thence he appointed them to go vnto Peron”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.