Edmund Fitz Alan Earl of Arundel
- Born: 1 May 1285, Marlborough Castle, Wiltshire, England 721
- Marriage: Eleanor Plantagenęt of Warenne
- Died: 17 Nov 1326, Hereford, Herefordshire, England at age 41 721,737
 Noted events in his life were:
• Background Information. 737
Edmund Fitz Alan was the 8th Earl of Arundel. He was made a knight of the Bath with Prince Edward in 24 Edward I. During this reign, England engaged in constant war with Scotland. In 10 Edward II, he was made the lieutenant and captain general to the King, from the Trent northwards, as far as Boxborough in Scotland, and in several years subsequently, he was one of the commanders of the English army in Scotland, in which service he was so diestinguished that he gained a grant from the crown of the confiscated property of Lord Baddlesmere, in the city of London and county of Salop, as well as the lands of John, Lord of Moubray, in the Isle of Axholme, and several monors and casltes, part of the possession also forfeited by Roger, Lord of Mortimer, of Wigmore. Edmund was hated by Mortimer and the Queen, and he was captured at Hereford in 1326. He was taken prisoner and then beheaded.
Edmund married Alice Plantagenęt, sister and sole heir of John, last Earl of Warren and Surrey of that family. Through her, the descendents of Edmund Fitz Alan became the Earls of Warren. Their children were:
• Richard, his successor
• Sir Edmund, married Sibil, daughter of William Montacute, Earl of Salisbury
• Alice, married to John de Bohun, Earl of Hereford.
• Jane, married to Warine Gerrard, Lord of L'Isle
• Alaive, married to Sir Roger le Strange.
~Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronatage of The British Empire, pg. 200
Edmund married Eleanor Plantagenęt of Warenne, daughter of William Warenne and Joan de Vere. (Eleanor Plantagenęt of Warenne died before 23 May 1338 in England 721.)
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