de ARUNDEL

Fitz Alan

Information on this page from Windows Into Our Past, A Genealogy of the Parsons, Smith and Associated Families, Vol. 1 ©1996, Judy Parsons Smith

Coat-of-Arms of Richard Fitz Alan

John Fitz Alan

John Fitz Alan , d. 1240; m. Isabel D’Aubigny , daughter of William D’Aubigny  & Mabel of Chester .  John Fitz Alan & Isabel D’Aubigny had:

John Fitz Alan

John Fitz Alan , son of John Fitz Alan & Isabel D’Aubigny , d. bef. 10 Nov 1267; m. Maud le Botiller , daughter of Theobald le Botiller , Lord Botiller, d. 27 Nov 1283.  John Fitz Alan & Maud le Botiller had:

John Fitz Alan

John Fitz Alan , son of John Fitz Alan & Maud le Botiller , b. 14 Sept 1246; d. 18 Mar 1271/72; m. Isabella de Mortimer , daughter of Roger de Mortimer  of Wigmore & Maud de Braiose .

John Fitz Alan  was the Earl of Arundel.

John Fitz Alan  & Isabella de Mortimer  had:

Sir Richard Fitz Alan

Sir John Fitz Alan [iii]

Sir Richard Fitz Alan , son of John Fitz Alan  & Isabella , b. 3 Feb 1266/67; d. 9 Mar 1301/02; m. bef. 1285 to Alasia di Saluzzo , daughter of Thomas , Marquis of

 Saluzzo .

Sir Richard Fitz Alan  was the Earl of Arundel.  He served as a member of Parliament from 1272 until 1291.  He sealed the Barons letter to the Pope in 1301.  He bore the his Coat-of-Arms at the battled of Flkirk in 1298, then again at the siege of Carlaverock in 1300.  His Coat-of-Arms is:  gules, a Lyon rampant or.[i]

Sir Richard Fitz Alan  & Alasia di Saluzzo  had:

Sir Edmund Fitz Alan , m. Alice de Warenne
Margaret Fitz Alan , m. William Botiller

Sir Edmund Fitz Alan

Sir Edmund Fitz Alan , son of Sir Richard Fitz Alan  & Alasia di Saluzzo , b. 1 May 1285; d. 17 Nov 1326, beheaded; m. 1305 Alice de Warenne , daughter of William de Warenne  & Joan de Vere , d. bef. 23 May 1338.  Sir Edmund Fitz Alan & Alice de Warenne had:

Sir Richard Fitz Alan , m1st Isabel Despenser ; m2nd Eleanor Plantagenet

Sir Richard Fitz Alan , of Arundel

Sir Richard Fitz Alan , of Arundel, son of Sir Edmund Fitz Alan  & Alice de Warenne , b. ca. 1313; d. 24 Jan 1375/76, Arundel; m1st 9 Feb 1320/21 to  Isabel Despenser , daughter of Sir Hugh  le Despenser , Knt & Alianore de Clare , divorced 4 Dec 1344; m2nd 5 Feb 1344/45, Ditton to Eleanor Plantagenet , daughter of Henry & Maude  de Chaworth , d. 11 Jan 1372.

Sir Richard Fitz Alan  was the Earl of Arundel and Warenne, and banneret.  He sealed the Barons’ letter to the Pope in 1301.  He bore the coat-of-arms that he was granted at the battle of Falkirk in 1298, and again at the siege of Carlaverock in 1300.  The coat-of-arms is described as gules, a Lyon rampant or.[ii]

Sir Richard Fitz Alan  & Isabel Despenser had:

Sir Richard Fitz Alan  & Eleanor Plantagenet  had:

Sir John d’Arundel, Knt, m. Eleanor Maltravers

Sir John d’Arundel, Knt.

Sir John d’Arundel, Knt, son of Sir Richard Fitz Alan  & Eleanor Plantagenet , d. 15 Dec 1379, at sea; m1st 17 Feb 1358/59 to Eleanor Maltravers , daughter of Sir John Maltravers  & Gwenllian, b. ca. 1345; d. 10 Jan 1405/06.  Eleanor m2nd _________.

Sir John d’Arundel was the Marshal of England, summ. 1377-9, Lord Arundel .[iv]

Sir John d’Arundel & Eleanor Maltravers  had:

Sir John de Arundel , Knt, m. Elizabeth Despenser
Joan Fitz Alan , m1st William de Brien ; m2nd Sir William de Echyngham


[i] “The Dictionary of Heraldry, Feudal Coats of Arms and Pedigrees”, by Joseph Foster , p. 87
[ii]
“The Dictionary of Heraldry, Feudal Coats of Arms and Pedigrees”, by Joseph Foster , p. 87
[iii]
“The Dictionary of Heraldry, Feudal Coats of Arms and Pedigrees”, by John Foster , p. 19
[iv]
“The Magna Charta Surety, 1215”, by Frederick Lewis Weis , Th.D., p. 89