Richard Fitz Alan Earl of Arundel

  General Notes:

Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 28:31 ¹⁶⁰, Sir Richard Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel, married Alaisia di Saluzzo, who was born on 4 Feb 1266/7 and died 25 Sep 1292. Alaisia was daughter of Tommaso I, di Saluzzo and Luisa di Ceva, daughter of Goorge di Ceva, Marquis di Ceva. Tommaso di Saluzzo was the son of Manfredo III, Marquis of Saluzzo (died 1244) by his wife Beatrix de Savoie. Beatrix (died 1259) was daughter of Amadeus IV comte de Savoie (born 1197, died 1258), son of Tomás comte de Savoie (born 1178, died 1233) and his wife Margaret (or Beatrix) of Geneva.

  Information about this person:

• 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

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Richard Fitz Alan, feudal Lord of Clun and Oswestry and (according to the admission of 1443), Earl of Arundel, only son and heir, born 3 Feb 1266/7, and was only 5 years old at his father's death. He had seizin of his lands 8 Dec 1287. According to Glover he was created Earl of Sussex in 1289, when he was knighted and "received the sword of the county of Sussex" from Edward I, but it seems more probable that this creation was as Earl of Arundel. At all events no more is heard of the former title (Sussex) as connected with this family, but only of the title of Arundel. On 12 Feb 1290/1 there is a grant to him as Richard Arundel, Earl of Arundel. In Oct 1292 he was summoned by a writ directed to the Earl of Arundel, and was summoned to Parliament 24 Jun 1295, by a writ directed Ricardo filio Alani Comiti Arundell, ranking him as junior to all the other Earls. He fought in the Welsh wars 1288, in Gascony 1295-1297, and in the Scottish wars 1298-1300, being present at the siege of Carlaverock in 1300. He signed the Barons' letter to the Pope, 12 Feb 1300/1.

Richard married, before 1285, Alasia, daughter of Tommaso I, Marquis of Saluzzo in Piedmont [1244-99], by Luisa, daughter of Giorgio, Marquis of Ceva. She died 25 September 1292, and was buried at Todingham Priory. He died 9 March 1301/2, in his 36th year, and was buried with his ancestors.

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, (Arundel), p. 240

Richard married Alisia di Saluzzo, daughter of Tommaso Marchese di Saluzzo and Luisa di Seva .^,733 (Alisia di Saluzzo was born in Italia, died on 25 Sep 1292 in England ¹⁴¹ and was buried in 1292 in Todingham Priory ¹⁴¹.)