Ancestry of
Anderson Cooper

Television Journalist

Richard Fitzalan

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• • 15th Great-grandfather of Anderson Cooper — 18th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 217158 
  • Father:
  • Richard Fitzalan 
  • Mother:
  • Eleanor Plantagenet   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1346 
  • Birth Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 Sep 1397 
  • Death Location:
  • Tower Hill, London, England 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Church of the Augustin Friars, London, England 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth de Bohun
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Sep 1359 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Fitzalan (Ahnentafel No:108579 )

  Joan Fitzalan

  Alice Fitzalan

  • Notes: 

  • 11th Earl of Arundel and 10th Earl of Surrey. He was beheaded for opposing Richard II.

• Sources for Richard Fitzalan

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  • ³ Mosley, Charles, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. (1999), 815-816.
  • ⁴ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. V, p. 381.
  • ⁵ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), Vol. 2, pp. 161, 271, 588.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 62.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 308, 312, 314, 328, 336, 342, 353, 359.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 500, 558.
  • ⁹ Weis, Frederick Lewis, Eight Lines of Descent of John Prescott, Founder of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1645, Dublin, New Hampshire: (1957), 47.
  • ¹⁰ Wikipedia, "Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel", _11th_Earl_of_Arundel, (accessed 09/23/2011).
  • ¹¹ Wurts, John S., Magna Charta, New York: Brookfield Publishing Company (1893), 1594.

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