Richard FitzAlan (1267 - 1302)

Born 3 Feb 1267 in Arundel Castle, Sussex, England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 9 Mar 1302 at age 35 in Arundel Castle, Sussex, England

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Biography

Richard FitzAlan, 8th or 1st Earl of Arundel^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

He was the son and heir of John FitzAlan.^[1]

Born 03 Feb 1266/7.^[1]

Marriage

He married about 1285 Alasia Saluzzo, daughter of Tomas, Marquis of Saluzzo and Luisa Ceva.^[1]

She died 25 Sep 1292 and was buried at Todingham Priory.^[1]

Children

• Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel.
• John (priest)
• Alice m. Stephen de Segrave, 3rd Lord Segrave.
• Margaret m. William le Botiller (EN: Butler)
• Eleanor m. Henry de Percy, 1st Baron Percy

Career

He had seizin of his lands, 8 Dec 1287.^[1]

1272–1302: Earl of Arundel (after attaining majority in 1289 became Earl of Arundel, summoned to Parliament as such) (7th Earl of Arundel).

Feudal Lord of Clun and Oswaldestre

Fought in Welsh Wars, 1288; in Gascony 1295-97; and in Scottish Wars, 1289-1300.

Death

He died 09 Mar 1301/2 and was buried with his ancestors.^[1][6]

"The bodies of both Richard and Alesia were at Haughmond Abbey, Shropshire, by 1341, when provision was made for 12 candles to burn in the church of Haughmond around their tombs^[7]"

FitzAlan or de Arundel

Richardson^[8] states: Earl Richard Fitz Alan (FitzAlan) above, his father and grandfather all employed the surname Fitz Alan . In the 1270's, Earl Richard's father was styled John "Fitz Alan de Arundel" in several records [see C.P.R. 1272-1281 (1901): 11, 96, 161, 331]. In 1291 Earl Richard received a grant addressed to him as "Richard de Arundel, Earl of Arundel" [see C.P. 1 (1910): 241]. In the same period, 1291-1302, Earl Richard's brother, John, was likewise styled John de Arundel [see Rees Cartulary of Haughmond Abbey (1985): 227]. Following Earl Richard's death in 1302, the family dropped the surname Fitz Alan in favor of de Arundel (or simply Arundel). The last known use of the name Fitz Alan by any member of this family dates c.1312-3, when Earl Richard's son, Edmund, brought a writ as "Edmund Fitz Alan" [see Year Books of Edward III 12 (Rolls Ser. 31b) (1905): 518-521]. Thereafter, all further references to this family employ the surname Arundel to the complete exclusion of the surname Fitz Alan. Specifically, Earl Richard's son Edmund (died 1326), both of his brothers, two of his sons and all four of his grandsons all employed the Arundel surname. Edmund's sister Alice is likewise styled "de Arundel" in an ancient Segrave Family ped. VCH Surrey 1 (1902): 348, footnote 1 observes that Richard's son and heir, Edmund, is "commonly called Fitz Alan but the real designation of the family was then de Arundel." Nicholas, a well known antiquarian, states: "This family presents a singular instance of adopting the name of their title as the surname of the family, for after the marriage of John Fitz-Alan, Lord of Clun, with Isabel, the sister and co-heir of Hugh D'Albini, Earl of Arundel, all the descendants called themselves Arundel instead of Fitz-Alan" [see Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 1 (1826): 105]. "J.G.N." in Gentleman's magazine 103 Oxfordshire, etc., .......

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} The Complete Peerage. Vol. I, Ab-Adam to Basing. 1910, pp 240-241 Internet Archive.
2. ↑ Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. II page 599.
3. ↑ Weis, F.L. (n.d.). Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis, (Lines: 16B-29, 28-31, 77-31,77-32). n.p.
4. ↑ Medieval Lands. fmg.ac
5. ↑ Weis, F.L. (1991). The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, (4th ed). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.
6. ↑ Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage: Volume 1: Arundel
7. ↑ Una Rees, ed., The Cartulary of Haughmond Abbey, p.227 (1985)
8. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol. II, notes for Edmund's father (footnote 25, p 599).

• Royal Ancestry by D. Richardson Vol. IV p. 553
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Fitzalan, Richard, first earl of Arundel (1267–1302) T. F. Tout, revised by Nigel Saul
• Nicolas, N. H. (1828). The Siege of Carlaverock in the XXVIII Edward I. A. D. MCCC: With the Arms of the Earls, Barons, and Knights who Were Present on that Occasion; with a Translation, a History of the Castle, and Memoirs of the Personages Commemorated by the Poet. United Kingdom: J.B. Nichols and Son, 283-284.