Edmund FitzAlan

2nd earl of Arundel

Events

Date of Birth: 1 May 1285.

Place of Birth: Marlborough Castle, Wiltshire.

The date and place are given by Given-Wilson (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (1:241).

Date of Death: 17 November 1326.

Place of Death: beheaded at Hereford.

The date and place are given by Given-Wilson (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (1:242). It is said to have taken 22 strokes to sever his head.

Place of Burial: Haughmond Abbey.

The place is given by Given-Wilson (ODNB).

Relationships

Father: Richard (I) FitzAlan (1267 - 1302), earl of Arundel.

This relationship is given by Given-Wilson (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (1:241).

Mother: Alasia, daughter of Tommaso, marquis of Saluzzo.

This relationship is given by Given-Wilson (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (1:241).

Spouse: Alice, daughter of William de Warenne. Married in 1305.

This relationship is given by Given-Wilson (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (1:242).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Richard (about 1313 - 24 January 1376) married (1) Isabel le Despenser; married (2) Eleanor of Lancaster.

Edmund entered the church.

Michael entered the church.

Alice married John de Bohun, earl of Hereford and of Essex, in 1325.

Aleyne (died 20 January 1386) married Roger Lestrange of Knockin.

Jane, said to have married Lord Lisle.

Katherine married (1) Henry Husee, lord Husee; married (2) Andrew Peverell.

References

Cawley, Charles. “Edmund” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Given-Wilson, C. “Fitzalan, Edmund, second earl of Arundel (1285 - 1366)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn. January 2008).