Edmund Fitz Alan Earl of Arundel

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• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Edmund Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel, son and heir, born 1 May 1285, in the Castle of Marlborough. His wardship was obtained by John, Earl of Surrey, whose granddaughter he married. He was knighted, with Edward, the King's son, and many others, 22 May 1306. On 9 Nov 1306 he was summoned to Parliament as Earl of Arundel, and took part in the Scottish wars of that year. On 25 February 1307/8 he officiated as Pincerna at the coronation of Edward II. In 1316, he was Captain General north of the Trent. For a long time he was in opposition to the King, and was violent against Piers Gaveston, who had beaten him in a tournament. However in 1321 he changed sides, and married his first son to a daughter of Hugh le Despenser, being thereafter one of the few nobles who adhered to the King. In 1323, he was Chief Justiciar of North and South Wales. Warden of the Welsh Marches 1325.

Edmund Fitz Alan married, in 1305, while still a minor, Alice, only daughter of William de Warenne (only son and heir apparent of John, Earl of Surrey), by Joan, daughter of Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford. Having been captured in Shropshire by the Queen's party, he was, without trial, beheaded at Hereford, 17 Nov 1326 in his 42^nd year. He was subsequently attainted, when his estates and honors became forfeited. His widow (who, in her issue was, in 1347, sole heir of her brother John, Earl of Surrey and Sussex, and consequently of the great family of Warenne) was living 1330, but died before 23 May 1338.

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, (Arundel), pp. 241-242, Vol. XIV, p. 38

• 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 Plantagenêt, 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 Alice de Warenne, daughter of William Warenne and Joan de Vere. (Alice de Warenne was born before 1285 in Warren, Sussex, England ¹⁴¹ and died before 23 May 1338 in England ¹⁴¹)