John Fitz Alan

• Preferred Name: John Fitz Alan^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Lord of Oswesty and ClunBET 1240 AND 1267
  
• Death: BEF 10 NOV 1267 in Arundel Castle, Arundel, Sussex, England at LATI: N0.85 LONG: E0.55 with note: The date his will was proven.
  
• FSID: LK9C-5MF
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Lord of ArundelBET 1264 AND 1267
  
• Succession: 27 NOV 1243 in Arundel Castle, Sussex, England at LATI: N0.85 LONG: E0.55 with note: Description: The castle of Arundel was awarded to him 27 Nov 1243 as part of the inheritance of his maternal uncle Hugh de Albini Earl of Arundel, but he was never known by the title of Earl of Arundel
  
• Birth: MAY 1223 in Arundel, Sussex, England
  
• He succeeded as the 6th Earl of Arundel [E., c. 1138], de jure, but he appears to have never used th: 27 NOV 1243 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  John Fitzalan II (1223–1267), Lord of Oswestry, Clun, and Arundel, was an English nobleman and Marcher Lord with lands in the Welsh Marches.
  
  Only son and heir of John Fitzalan, Lord of Oswestry and Clun, from Shropshire, he was born . His mother was Isabel, the daughter of William d'Aubigny, 3rd Earl of Arundel by his wife, Mabel of Chester. John obtained possession of his paternal estates on 26 May 1244, aged 21 years.
  
  After the death of his mother's childless brother Hugh d'Aubigny, 5th Earl of Arundel, he inherited jure matris the castle and honour of Arundel in 1243, by which, according to Henry VI's "admission" of 1433, he was later retrospectively held to have become de jure Earl of Arundel. He was never styled as such during his lifetime, however.
  
  In 1257 the Welsh Lord Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, in the southern realm of the Kingdom of Powys, sought the aid of the Lord of Oswestry against Llywelyn ap Gruffudd. John Fitzalan was a surviving member of the English force that was defeated at the hands of the Welsh at Cymerau in Carmarthenshire.
  
  In 1258 he was one of the key English military commanders in the Welsh Marches and was summoned yet again in 1260 for further conflict against the Welsh.
  
  John vacillated in the conflicts between Henry III and the Barons. He fought on the King's side at the Battle of Lewes in 1264, where he was taken prisoner.
  
  By 1278 to 1282 his sons were engaged in Welsh border hostilities, attacking the lands of Llywelyn.
  
  He is buried at Haughmond Abbey in Shropshire.
  
  He married Maud de Verdon, daughter of Theobald le Botiller (Boteler) by his wife Rohesia de Verdon alias Rohese (daughter of Nicholas de Verdun and Clemence); by whom he had children including:
  - John Fitzalan III, eldest son and heir.
  - Joan FitzAlan (c. 1267 – after 6 October 1316), wife of Sir Richard of Cornwall (died 1296), an illegitimate son of Richard of England, 1st Earl of Cornwall and King of the Romans (1209–1272) (the second son of King John (1199–1216)) by his mistress Joan de Bath (alias de Valletort). [1]
  
  [1] John Fitzalan (1223–1267), Wikipedia.
  
  Richard FItz Alan Bio (According to Wiki)
  Richard FitzAlan, 8th Earl of Arundel (7th Earl of Arundel per Ancestral Roots) (3 February 1266/7 – 9 March 1301/2) was an English Norman medieval nobleman.
  
  Lineage
  
  He was the son of John FitzAlan,
  
  BIO
  BIO: Lord of Clun and Oswestry; Earl of Arundel
  
  ** from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm#JohnFitzAlandied1272
  
  JOHN ([May 1223]-1267 before 10 Nov). The Annales Lo
  
  === Notes and sources for John... ===
  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]

• m. 1244 in Arundel, Sussex, England
• m. ABT 1244

1. Matilda Arundel, b. 1244 in Besford, Tettenhall, Staffordshire, England     d. BEF 12 JUN 1309 in Moreton Castle, Shropshire, England
2. John Fitz Alan, b. 14 SEP 1246     d. 18 MAR 1271/72

1. Title: FitzAlan Family - Wikipedia
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FitzAlan;
   Page: He is from this noble family
   
2. Title: John FitzAlan (1223–1267), Wikipedia
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fitzalan_(1223%E2%80%931267);
   Note: John Fitzalan II (1223–1267), Lord of Oswestry, Clun, and Arundel, was an English nobleman and Marcher Lord with lands in the Welsh Marches. The son and heir of John Fitzalan, Lord of Oswestry and Clun, from Shropshire. His mother was Isabel, the daughter of William d'Aubigny, 3rd Earl of Arundel by his wife, Mabel of Chester. John obtained possession of his paternal estates on 26 May 1244, aged 21 years. After the death of his mother's childless brother Hugh d'Aubigny, 5th Earl of Arundel, he inherited jure matris the castle and honour of Arundel in 1243, by which, according to Henry VI's "admission" of 1433, he was later retrospectively held to have become de jure Earl of Arundel. He was never styled as such during his lifetime, however. He is buried at Haughmond Abbey in Shropshire 1267. He married Maud de Verdon, daughter of Theobald le Botiller (Boteler) by his wife Rohesia de Verdon alias Rohese (daughter of Nicholas de Verdun and Clemence);
   
3. Title: John FitzAlan II in The Complete Peerage
   Author: The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom : extant, extinct, or dormant by G. E. Cokayne, 1910, Volume 1, pp 239-240
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/completepeerageo01coka/page/238/mode/2up;
   
4. Title: John Fitzalan, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2Y-B45G : 23 November 2022), 6th Earl of Arundel, ; Burial, Shrewsbury, Shropshire Unitary Authority, Shropshire, England, Haughmond Abbey; citing record ID 84186441, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2Y-B45G;
   
5. Title: The Medieval Lands Project, "JOHN FitzAlan"
   Author: fmg.ac
   Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm#JohnFitzAlandied1267;
   Note: JOHN ([May 1223]-1267 before 10 Nov). The Annales Londonienses name "Johannem" as the son of "Johanni filio Alani" & his wife[84]. He succeeded his father in 1240 as Lord of Clun and Oswestry. The castle of Arundel was awarded to him 27 Nov 1243 as part of the inheritance of his maternal uncle Hugh de Albini Earl of Arundel, but he was never known by the title of Earl of Arundel[85]. m (before 1240) as her first husband, MATILDA de Verdun, daughter of NICHOLAS de Verdun & his wife Clementia --- (-27 Nov 1283). Her parentage and first marriage are confirmed by an inquisition after the death of "Robert Waleraund" which records that the deceased held "Stupellaunton [Wiltshire]...of the gift of Lady Maud de Albo Monasterio sometime the wife of John son of Alan, who had the land in free marriage from Lady Clemence de Verdun her mother"[86]. She married secondly Richard de Amundeville. Inquisitions "Wednesday after Epiphany 12 Edw I", after the death of "Maud (late) the wife of Richard de Amundevyl alias Lady Maud de verdun”, name “Richard son of John (son) of the said Alan [no Alan previously mentioned] age unknown is her next heir...Richard son of Alan aged 18 at the feast of St. Michael last is her next heir”, found that she died “on Saturday after St. Katherine 12 Edw I”[87]. John & his wife had one child: (a) JOHN (14 Sep 1245-18 Mar 1272, bur Haughmond Abbey, Shropshire). He succeeded his father in 1267 as Lord of Clun and Oswestry, and as owner of the title and honour of the castle of Arundel.