Richard Fitz Alan Earl of Arundel

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷³³
Richard Fitz Alan did not attain his actual majority until 3 Feb 1288, 21 years after his birth. He had livery of his inheritance much earlier. The Feodary of 1284, styles him as the Heir of John fitz Alan. Proof of his full possession of Arundel in 1285 is shown in his military summonses, the earliest was in 1267 and 1288. He is first sylized as the Earl of Arundel in 1292.

In Oct 1294, Richard Earl of Arundel was appointed Commander of the Forces destined for the relief of Bere Castle, whie Roger le Strange, Peter corbet, Fulk Fitz Warin and Bogo de Knovile were ordered to muster under his command. His first summons to Parliament bears the date 1 Aug 1295. On 24 Jun 1301, he received a military summons against the Scots.

The King's Writ of Diem Clausit, on the death of Richard Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel, bears the date 15 Jan 1203. In the following inquests held a year later, his son Edmund was found to have been 18 years of age on 1 May 1301. The wife of Earl Richard is said by Dugdale to have been Alizon, the daughter of the Marquis de Saluce, an Italian. This marriage took place before Richard had completed his 16 year, for his son, Edmund, was born within three months after that anniversary. This marriage must have taken place at about the same time as the marriage of his Uncle, Edmund de Mortimer of Wigmore, who was married to a Spaniard. The sons of both marriages became deadly foes. They died within five years of each other, both by the hand of the Executioner.
~Antiquities of Shropshire, pgs. 260-262

Richard married Alisia di Saluzzo, daughter of Tommaso Marchese di Saluzzo and Luisa di Seva ⁷²¹.^,733 (Alisia di Saluzzo was born in Italia, died on 25 Sep 1291 in England ⁷²¹ and was buried in 1291 in Haughmond Abbey, Shropshire, England ⁷²¹.)