John (III) FitzAlan

Events

Date of Birth: 14 September 1245.

The date is given by Cawley, who doesn’t give a specific citation. The Complete Peerage (1:240) gives 14 September 1246, while Suppe (ODNB) gives simply 1245.

Date of Death: 18 March 1271/2.

The date is given by the Complete Peerage (1:240). Suppe (ODNB) gives 1272/3. John's inquisition post mortem (CIPM 1:812) states that he died on the Friday before the Annunciation, 56 Hen. III.

Place of Burial: Haughmond Abbey, Shropshire.

The place is given by the Complete Peerage (1:240).

Relationships

Father: John (II) FitzAlan (1223 - 1267).

This relationship is given by Suppe (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (1:240).

Mother: Matilda (died 1283), daughter of Theobald le Botiller.

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

Spouse: Isabel, daughter of Roger (III) de Mortimer of Wigmore.

This relationship is given by Suppe (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (1:240).

Children:

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

Richard (3 February 1267 - 9 March 1302), earl of Arundel, married Alasia di Saluzzo.

Matilda married (1) Philip Burnell; married (2) Robert (VI) de Brus; married (3) Simon Criketot.

References

Calendar of Inquisitions Post-mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office Volume I, Henry III (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1904).

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).

Cawley, Charles. “John” 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).

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

Tout, T.F. “Fitzalan, Richard (I), first earl of Arundel (1267 - 1302)” rev. Nigel Saul, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).