John (II) FitzAlan

Events

Date of Birth: 1223.

The date is given by Suppe (ODNB).

Date of Death: November 1267.

This date is given by Suppe (ODNB). The Complete Peerage (1:239) gives 1267, before 10 November.

Relationships

Father: John (I) FitzAlan (died 1240).

This relationship is given by Suppe (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (1:239; 5:392). It is recorded in fines of 26 Henry III (no. 546) and 28 Henry III (nos. 233-237).

Mother: Isabel, daughter of William d’Aubigny, earl of Arundel.

This relationship is given by Suppe (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (1:239; 5:392).

Spouse: Matilda (died 1283) de Verdun.

This relationship is given by Suppe (ODNB) and the Complete Peerage (1:239) give her as Maud, daughter of Theobald le Botiller, 2nd baron Butler, by his second wife, Rohese, daughter of Nicholas de Verdun. Vicary Gibbs, in a footnote (CP 1:240 a) notes that Rohese’s children bore the name Verdun rather than Butler. Rohese is mentioned in a fine of 26 Henry III (no. 546)

Children:

John (14 September 1245 - 18 March 1271/2) married Isabel, daughter of Roger (IV) de Mortimer of Wigmore.

References

Calendar of Inquisitions Post-mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office Volume II, Edward I (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1906).

Cavell, Emma. "Aristocratic Widows and the Medieval Welsh Frontier: The Shropshire Evidence: The Rees Davies Prize Essay" in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Sixth Series, Vol. 17 (2007), pp. 57-82.

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).

Henry III Fine Rolls Project. The National Archives and King’s College London (accessed 14 March 2015)

Suppe, Frederick. “FitzAlan, John (II) (1223-1267)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).