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Mary Margaret de Leigh

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• Mary Margaret de Leigh was born in 1438 in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England.
• She died in 1505 at age ~67 in Bramhall, Cheshire, England.

• Mary Margaret de Leigh is/was my 16th great-grandmother

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Philip Allen

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• Philip Allen was born in England.
• He died in February 1570 in England.
• He was buried in February 1570 in Bosbury, Herefordshire, England.

• Philip Allen is/was my 14th great-granduncle

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Richard Allen

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• Richard Allen was born in 1506 in Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England.

• Richard Allen is/was my 14th great-granduncle

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Sir John FitzAlan

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• Sir John FitzAlan was born on 14 January 1408 in Lytchett Maltravers, Dorset, England.
• He died on 12 June 1435 at age 27 in Gerberoy, Picardie, France.

• Sir John FitzAlan held the title of 7th Earl of Arundel.
• He is/was my 17th great-grandfather

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Agnes Allen

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• Agnes Allen was born in 1411 in Buckinghamshire, England.
• She died in 1458 at age ~47 in Outwell, Norfolk, England.

• Agnes Allen is/was my 17th great-grandmother

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Hiriam de Leigh

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• Hiriam de Leigh was born in 1425 in Bradfield, Yorkshire, England.
• He died in 1495 at age ~70 in Bradfield, Yorkshire, England.

• Hiriam de Leigh is/was my 17th great-grandfather

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Ellen of Tarvin

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• Ellen of Tarvin was born in 1420 in Tarvin, Cheshire, England.
• She died on 24 August 1509 at age ~89 in Walton-on-Trent, Derbyshire, England.

• Ellen of Tarvin is/was my 17th great-grandmother

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John Fitzalan

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• John Fitzalan was born on 1 August 1385 in Sussex, England.
• He and Lady Eleanor Berkeley were married in 1407 in Beverston, Gloucestershire, England.
• He died on 21 April 1421 at age 35 in Sussex, England.
• He was buried after 21 April 1421 in Arundel, Sussex, England.

• !BIR-MAR: Bk, Medieval Knight by Stephen Turnbull.
  
  References: (1) Magna Charta Sureties, page 72, 101. (2) Ancestral Roots, page 40, 74, 75. (3) Index Card to Logan TempleRecords, No. 15625, Book X-2, page 323. (4) Index Card to Logan Temple Records, No. 6436, Book Z-2, page 205.
• John Fitzalan is/was my 18th great-grandfather

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Lady Eleanor Berkeley

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• Lady Eleanor Berkeley was born in 1390 in Beverston, Gloucestershire, England.
• John Fitzalan and she were married in 1407 in Beverston, Gloucestershire, England.
• She died on 1 August 1455 at age ~65 in Arundel, Sussex, England.
• She was buried in August 1455 in Sussex, England.

• Lady Eleanor Berkeley held the title of Lady.
• She held the title of Dowager Countess of Arundel.
• She is/was my 18th great-grandmother

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Sir John FitzAlan

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• Sir John FitzAlan was born on 30 November 1364 in Buckland, Surrey, England.
• He died on 14 August 1390 at age 25 in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England.

• Colonial Dames of Royal Descent Page 137 Sir Thomas Arundel also known as Sir Thomas FitzAlan, knight, brother of John FitzAlan (Earl Arundel) 12th Earl of Arundel
  
  r.Sir John de Arundel, Knight, of Arundel, b. 30 Nov. 1364, d. 14 Aug. 1390; m. Elizabeth Despenser (14-9). ["Magna Charta" line 121-8, p. 89.]
  
  Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists. The Descent from the Later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, and Edward IIi, of Emigrants from England and Wales to the North American Colonies before 1701 by David Faris First Edition.
  
  John was with the army in Scotland in 1383 and with the English Fleet in the western coast of France.
  
  He married Elizabeth le Despenser, daughter of Edward le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer (Despenser), by Elizabeth Burghersh, daughter and heiress of Bartholomew de Burghersh, 2nd Baron Burghersh. They had:
  
  John de Arundel, Lord Maltravers and Arundel, sometime Earl of Arundel
  Thomas Fitzalan
  Edward or Edmund Arundel.
  Sir John de Arundel, 2nd Lord Arundel, died on 14 August 1390, and was buried at Missenden Abbey, Buckinghamshire.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_FitzAlan,_2nd_Baron_Arundel.
• Sir John FitzAlan is/was my 19th great-grandfather

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Elisabeth le Despencer

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• Elisabeth le Despencer was born in 1367 in Essendine, Rutland, England.
• She died on 11 April 1408 at age ~41 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England.
• She was buried in April 1408 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England.

• Elisabeth le Despencer was also known as Elizabeth le De Spencer, Baroness Arundel.
• Elizabeth Despenser (died 10 April/11 April 1408) was an English noblewoman of the late 14th century. She should not be confused with Elizabeth le Despenser, Baroness Berkeley who was her great-aunt and who was the daughter of her great-grandmother, Eleanor de Clare.
  She was the daughter of Sir Edward le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer, by Lady Elizabeth Burghersh, daughter and heiress of Bartholomew de Burghersh, 2nd Baron Burghersh.
  She married Sir John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel. They had three sons:
  1. John de Arundel, Lord Maltravers, and Lord Arundel.
  2. Thomas FitzAlan.
  3. Edward/Edmund Arundel.
  4. Margaret (married to William de Ros, 6th Baron de Ros)
  Sir John de Arundel, 2nd Baron Arundel, died on 14 August 1390, and was buried at Missenden Abbey, Buckinghamshire.
  Elizabeth married secondly, apparently after 28 April 1393 (as his second wife), William la Zouche, 3rd Baron Zouche of Haryngworth (d. 13 May 1396). They had no children.
  Her will requested burial at Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_le_Despenser.
• She is/was my 19th great-grandmother

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Sir John Berkeley, I

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• Sir John Berkeley, I, was born about 22 January 1352 in Wotton Under Edge, Gloucester, England.
• He died on 5 March 1428 in Beverston, Gloucestershire, England.
• He was buried after 14 March 1428 in Mere, Wiltshire, England.

• Sir John Berkeley, I, was christened on 31 January 1352 in Wotton, Gloucestershire, England.
• He is/was my 19th great-grandfather

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Lady Elizabeth de Betteshorne

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• Lady Elizabeth de Betteshorne was born in 1353 in Beverston, Gloucestershire, England.
• She died on 8 December 1420 at age ~67 in Beverston, Gloucestershire, England.
• She was buried in 1420 in Mere, Wiltshire, England.

• Lady Elizabeth de Betteshorne is/was my 19th great-grandmother

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Sir John FitzAlan

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• Sir John FitzAlan was born about 1351 in Arundel, Sussex, England.
• He died on 16 December 1379 in Irish Sea.
• He was buried in December 1379 in Lewes, Sussex, England.

• John Fitz Alan, 6th? Earl of Arundel, (if by tenure), though never so referred to either by contemporaries or posterity; on the other hand he is called Lord (ie. feudal possessor) of Arundel Castle by late Nove 1243; fought on Henry III's side at Battle of Lewes 1264, where captured by Simon de Montfort's forces; married Maud, daughter of Theobald le Botiller, and died by 10 Nov 1267. [Burke's Peerage]
  
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  EARLDOM of ARUNDEL (IX, 6?) 1243 (title not recognized at the time)
  
  JOHN FITZ ALAN, feudal Lord of Clun and Oswestry, Salop, son and heir of JOHN FITZ ALAN of the same, by his 1st wife, Isabel, 2nd sister and, in her issue, coheir of Hugh, and daughter of William (D'AUBIGNY), Earls of Sussex, &c, succeeded his father (whom his mother had predeceased) in 1240. To him, by writ dated 27 November 1243, was awarded [in right of his deceased mother] the Castle and Honour of Arundel, whereby [according to the admission of 1443] he must be regarded as de jure Earl of Arundel. He obtained possession, 26 May 1244, of his paternal estates in Salop on payment of £1,000. By the title, however, of Earl of Arundel he never appears to have been known [either in his lifetime or afterwards], although he lived 24 years after the acquisition of that Castle and Honour. In an award dated Friday after the Circumcision 1258, he is expressly called Dominus de Arundel [i.e. Lord of the Honour of Arundel], and in the Fine Roll, 10 March 1261/2, he is called Baro noster, while in his IPM he is described [merely] as Johannes filius Alani, and the endorsement says that he held a quarter of the Earldom of Arundel. He took part in the Welsh war in 1258, and, though sometimes leagued with the Barons against the Crown, was, while fighting on the Royal side, taken prisoner at the Battle of Lewes, in 1264, together with the King.
  
  He married Maud, daughter of Theobald Le Botiller, by his 2nd wife, Rohese, daughter and heir of Nicholas De Verdun, of Alton, co. Stafford. He died 1267, before 10 November. Will dated October 1267. His widow married Richard d'Amundeville, and died 27 November 1283. [Complete Peerage I:239-40, XIV:38, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
  
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  John Fitz-Alan, in the 28th Henry III [1244], upon the division made of the property of Hugh Albini, Earl of Arundel, then made, had the castle of Arundel assigned to him for his principal seat, thus becoming 5th Earl of Arundel; and soon after that, in consideration of £1,000 fine, had livery of his own castles of Clun, Blancminster and Schrawurthen. In the 42nd Henry III [1258], his lordship was made captain-general of all the forces designed for guarding the Welsh marches, and in the baronial war, he appears first to have sided with the barons, and afterwards with the king. He d. 1267, having m. Maud, dau. of Roesia de Verdun (which lady m. 2ndly Richard de Amundevill), by whom he had a son and successor, John Fitz-Alan. [Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd, London, 1883, p. 200, Fitz-Alan, Earls of Arundel]
  
  Lord Arundel and Lord Maltravers. Marshal of England in 1377, he wasin command of a naval expedition in aid to the Duke of Brittany thatdefeated the French fleet off the coast of Cornwall. His ship waswrecked and he drowned in the Irish Sea. President William Henry HARRISON and President Benjamin HARRISONdescend from this family.
• Sir John FitzAlan is/was my 20th great-grandfather

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Eleanor Maltravers

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• Eleanor Maltravers was born in 1345 in Lytchett Maltravers, Dorset, England.
• She died on 10 January 1405 at age ~60 in Lewes, Sussex, England.
• She was buried after 10 January 1404 in Lewes, Sussex, England.

• Eleanor Maltravers is/was my 20th great-grandmother

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Edward FitzAlan

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• Edward FitzAlan was born in 1388 in Arundel, Sussex, England.
• He died in 1412 at age ~24.

• Edward FitzAlan is/was my 18th great-granduncle

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Sir Thomas FitzAlan

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• Sir Thomas FitzAlan was born about 1387 in Betchworth, Surrey, England.
• He died about 1430.

• Sir Thomas FitzAlan is/was my 18th great-granduncle

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Edward Despenser, 1st Lord Despenser

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• Edward Despenser, 1st Lord Despenser, was born on 24 March 1336 in Essendine, Rutland, England.
• He died on 11 November 1375 at age 39 in Llanblethian, Glamorgan, Wales.
• He was buried in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England.

• Edward Despenser, 1st Lord Despenser, is/was my 20th great-grandfather

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Elizabeth Burghersh

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• Elizabeth Burghersh was born in May 1342 in Ewyas Lacy, Herefordshire, England+.
• She died on 26 July 1409 at age 67 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England.
• She was buried in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England.

• Elizabeth Burghersh was christened in 1342 in Ewyas Lacy, Herefordshire, England+.
• She is/was my 20th great-grandmother

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Richard FitzAlan,, 10th Earl of Arundel

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• Richard FitzAlan,, 10th Earl of Arundel, was born on 5 February 1313 in Arundel, Sussex, England.
• He and Eleanor of Lancaster, Countess of Arundel, were married about 9 February 1320 at Havering-atte-Bower in London, Middlesex, England.
• He and Eleanor of Lancaster, Countess of Arundel, had their marriage annulled on 4 December 1344.
• He died on 24 January 1376 at age 62 in Arundel, Sussex, England.
• He was buried in 1376 in Sussex, England.

• While her first husband was still alive, and before Earl Richard's annulment of his first marriage, she lived with her future second husband.
• Richard FitzAlan,, 10th Earl of Arundel, is/was my 21st great-grandfather

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Eleanor of Lancaster, Countess of Arundel

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• Eleanor of Lancaster, Countess of Arundel, was born on 11 September 1318 in Grosmont, Monmouthshire, Wales.
• Richard FitzAlan,, 10th Earl of Arundel, and she were married about 9 February 1320 at Havering-atte-Bower in London, Middlesex, England.
• Richard FitzAlan,, 10th Earl of Arundel, and she had their marriage annulled on 4 December 1344.
• She died on 11 January 1372 at age 53 in Arundel, Sussex, England.
• She was buried in 1372 in Sussex, England.

• Edmund FitzAlan
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  By his 1st wife he had a s. who was said to have been 20 in 1347, and who, if this be true, must have been begotten when his father was still very young, about 15, and 2 daughters. The grounds on which the divorce was obtained were that ' prefatus Ricardus cum eadem Isabella in eodem thoro per metum et verbera positus eandem cognovit carnaliter et filium ex ea etiam procreavit. ' (Grandisson's Register, ed. Hingeston-Randolph, p. 988) [The aforesaid Richard, when placed in the same bed by the same Isabella through fear and scourging, knew her carnally and begot a son from her.]. The same story is told in the Papal Mandate. — ' On the petition of Richard, Earl of Arundel and Isabel, daughter of Hugh Despencer, who at the respective ages of 7 and 8, not by mutual consent, but by fear of their relations, contracted espousals, and on coming to years of puberty expressly renounced them, but were forced by blows to cohabit, so that a son was born. — Mandate by canonical procedure to annul the marriage, they having constantly lived apart, and providing for their son, so that they may be free to intermarry with others. '
  
  It is not very easy to accept all this indecent stuff [Cokayne’s a riot] as a satisfactory explanation of a son having been born to the parties, and though in none of the documents bearing on the case is there any mention of daughters, yet there appear to have been two (see note (b) next p.), and if so, the ‘per metum et verbera ' tale breaks down altogether, unless indeed, the boy and girls were triplets ! Obviously, what really happened, was this. The powerful Earl desired to get rid of the woman to whom he had been married as a child, and who, since her father's attainder and execution, had ceased to be of any importance, that he might marry the woman with whom he was then living in adultery ; and the Pope very obligingly annulled the marriage and bastardised the issue : a very unfair proceeding as far as Edmund d'Arundel was concerned. The following Papal letters further illustrate the case, but need no comment.
  
  Papal dispensation 4 Mar. 1344/5 to Richard, Earl of Arundel, to remain in marriage contracted with Eleanor, daughter of Henry, Earl of Lancaster, at Ditton in King Edward's presence, though he had carnally known Isabella, related in the 3rd and 4th degree to Eleanor. — Papal mandate 31 July 1347 on petition of Edmund d'Arundel — "Earl Richard and Isabella married and begot Edmund, but Robert, Bishop of Chichester, pronounced sentence of divorce, thus bastardising Edmund ; Richard thereupon married Joan [sic] de Bellomonte daughter of the uncle [sic] of Isabella. Papal commission was issued to cite the said Richard, Isabella, and Joan, Edmund being then 18 years old. It appeared that Joan should have been called Eleanor, and that she was not soror patruelis [sister’s cousin] but neptis ex amita [granddaughter’s aunt] [sic] to Isabella. Edmund was by this time 20. " — Indult to Edmund d'Arundel, eldest son of the Earl of Arundel, and Sibyl his wife, July, 1364. (Papal Letters.) V.G.
• Eleanor of Lancaster, Countess of Arundel, is/was my 21st great-grandmother

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Henry of Lancaster, , 3rd Earl of Lancaster

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• Henry of Lancaster, , 3rd Earl of Lancaster, was born on 1 November 1281 in Grosmont, Monmouthshire, Wales.
• He died on 22 September 1345 at age 63 at Castle View in Leicester, Leicestershire, England.
• He was buried in September 1345 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England.

• Henry of Lancaster, , 3rd Earl of Lancaster, is/was my 22nd great-grandfather

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Mathilda de Chaworth, Countess of Lancaster

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• Mathilda de Chaworth, Countess of Lancaster, was born on 2 February 1282 in Kidwelly, Carmarthanshire, Wales.
• She died on 3 December 1322 at age 40 at Mottisfont Priory in Mottisfont, Hampshire, England.
• She was buried in December 1322 in Mottisfont, Hampshire, England.

• Mathilda de Chaworth, Countess of Lancaster, is/was my 22nd great-grandmother

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Edmund FitzAlan,, 9th Earl of Arundel

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• Edmund FitzAlan,, 9th Earl of Arundel, was born on 1 May 1285 in Arundel, Sussex, England.
• He and Alice de Warenne, Countess of Arundel, were married in 1305 in Arundel, Sussex, England.
• He died on 17 November 1326 at age 41 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England.

• He was the son of Richard Fitzalan, 8th Earl of Arundel and Alisona of Saluzzo, and succeeded to his father's estates and titles in 1302. Arundel bore the royal robes at Edward II's coronation, but he soon fell out with the king's favorite Piers Gaveston. In 1310 he was one of the Lords Ordainer, and he was one of the 5 earls who allied in 1312 to oust de Gaveston. Arundel resisted reconciling with the king after de Gaveston's death, and in 1314 he along with some other earls refused to help the king's Scottish campaign, which contributed in part to the English defeat at Bannockburn. A few years later Arundel allied with king Edward's new favorites, Hugh le Despenser and his son of the same name, and had his son and heir Richard married to a daughter of the younger Hugh le Despenser. He reluctantly consented to the Despenser's banishment in 1321, and joined the king's efforts to restore them in 1321. Over the following years Arundel was one of the king's principal supporters, and after the capture of Roger Mortimer in 1322 he received a large part of the forfeited Mortimer estates. He also held the two great offices governing Wales, becoming justice of Wales in 1322 and warden of the Welsh marches in 1325. After Mortimer's escape from prison and invasion of England in 1326, amongst the barons only Arundel and his brother-in-law Warenne remained loyal to the king. Their defensive efforts were ineffective, and Arundel was captured and executed at the behest of queen Isabella. Arundel married Alice, sister and eventual heiress of John de Warenne, 8th Earl of Surrey or Warenne. His estates and titles were forfeited when was executed, but they were eventually restored to his eldest son Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel.
  (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
  
  Edmund was one of a handful of noblemen who remained loyal to King Edward II when Edward's wife and her lover, Mortimer, landed in England. As a consequence, he was hanged by Mortimer, as was Hugh Despenser. Edmund's family was stripped of the title of Earl of Arundel (this was restored to Edmund's son, Richard, in 1331, by the young King Edward III).
• Edmund FitzAlan,, 9th Earl of Arundel, was Event on 22 May 1306 with Edward, the King's son, and many others, 22 May 1306.
• He is/was my 22nd great-grandfather

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Alice de Warenne, Countess of Arundel

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• Alice de Warenne, Countess of Arundel, was born on 15 June 1287 at Warren in Lewes, Sussex, England.
• Edmund FitzAlan,, 9th Earl of Arundel, and she were married in 1305 in Arundel, Sussex, England.
• She died on 23 May 1338 at age 50 in England.

• Sources: Norr; Ancestral Roots 28, 60, 83, 93A; Colket; Arundel Castle booklet; AF. Roots: Alice de Warenne, died before 23 May 1338; married 1305.
  
  Alice de Warenne, Countess of Arundel (15 June 1287. 23 May 1338) was a noble English heiress to the Earldom of Surrey. She was the wife of Edmund Fitzalan, 9th Earl of Arundel. She was the great- granddaughter of Isabella of Angouleme, Queen-consort of King John of England, by the latter's second marriage to Hugh X de Lusignan le Brun, Count of La Marche.
  
  Alice was born on 15 June 1287, in Warren, Sussex, the only daughter of William de Warenne and Joane de Vere. She had an older brother John de Warenne, 8th Earl of Surrey, of whom she was heiress, to the title and estates of Surrey. Alice was born six months after her father was accidentally killed in a tournament on 15 December 1286. Her paternal grandparents were John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey. and Alice le Brun de Lusignan. Her maternal grandparents were Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford and Alice de Sanford. Through her paternal grandmother, Alice de Warenne was the great- granddaughter of Queen consort Isabella of Angouleme, and Hugh X de Lusignan le Brun, Count of La Marche.
  
  In 1305, Alice married Edmund Fitzalan, 9th Earl of Arundel (1 May 1285- 17 November 1326). He was the son of Richard Fitzalan, 8th Earl of Arundel and Alice of Saluzzo. They had nine recorded children. Their chief residence was Arundel Castle in Sussex.
  
  Arundel inherited his title on 9 March 1302 upon his father's death. He was summoned to Parliament as Lord Arundel in 1306, and was later one of the Lords Ordainers. He also took part in the Scottish wars.
  
  The Earl of Arundel and his brother-in-law John de Warenne were the only nobles who remained loyal to King Edward II, after Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March returned to England in 1326. He had allied himself to the King's favourite Hugh le Despenser, and agreed to the marriage of his son to Despenser's granddaughter. Arundel had previously been granted many of the traitor Mortimer's forfeited estates, and was appointed Justice of Wales in 1322 and Warden of the Welsh Marches in 1325. He was also made Constable of Montgomery Castle which became his principal base.
  
  The Earl of Arundel was captured in Shropshire by the Queen's party.On 17 November 1326 in Hereford, Arundel was beheaded by order of the Queen, leaving Alice de Warenne a widow. Her husband's estates and titles were forfeited to the Crown following Arundel's execution, but later restored to her eldest son, Richard.
  
  Alice died on 23 May 1338. She was not quite fifty-one years old. Her brother died in 1347 without legitimate issue, thus the title of Surrey eventually passed to Alice's son, Richard.
  
  Her many descendants included Anne Boleyn, Mary Boleyn, Diana, Princess of Wales, and the Dukes of Norfolk.
  (Wikipedia.)
• Alice de Warenne, Countess of Arundel, is/was my 22nd great-grandmother

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