Richard I , 8th Earl of Arundel, Mp FITZALAN

                   Eleanor (died July or Aug 1328), sister of Richard de Arundel.  [Burke'sPeerage]
                  

                   Edmund Fitz Alan, 9th/2nd Earl of Arundel; born 1 May 1285; knighted1306, Capt General north of Trent 1316, having origianally opposed EdwardII and his favourite Piers Gaveston changed sides and was on of only ahandful of magnates who stayed loyal to Edward; Chief Justiciar of Northand South Wales 1323, Warden of Welsh Marches 1325; married 1305 Alice,sister and in her issue eventual heir of John de Warenne, 8th Earl ofSurrey of the 1088 creation, and was summarily beheaded at Hereford 17Nov 1326, after being taken prisoner by adherents of Queen Isabella (wifebut opponent of Edward II), following which he was posthumously strippedof his lands and titles.  [Burke's Peerage]

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Edmund Fitz-Alan, 8th Earl of Arundel. We find this nobleman, from the34th Edward I [1306], to the 4th of the ensuing reign [1311], constantlyengaged in the wars of Scotland; but he was afterwards involved in thetreason of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, yet not greatly to his prejudice,for, in the 10th Edward II [1317], his lordship was constitutedlieutenant and captain-general to the king, from the Trent northwards, asfar as Roxborough, in Scotland, and for several years subsequently, hecontinued one of the commanders of the English army in Scotland, in whichservice he so distinguished himself, that he obtained a grant from thecrown of the confiscated property of Lord Badlesmere, in the city ofLondon and county of Salop, as well as the escheated lands of John, LordMowbray, in the Isle of Axholme, and several manors and castles, part ofthe possessions (also forfeited) of Roger, Lord Mortimer, of Wigmore. Butthose royal grants led, eventually, to the earl's ruin, for, after thefall of the unhappy Edward into the hands of his enemies, Lord Arundel,who was implacably hated by the queen and Mortimer, suffered death bydecapitation at Hereford, in 1326. His lordship m. 1305, the Lady AlicePlantagenet, sister and sole heir of John, last Earl of Warren and Surreyof that family, by whom he had issue, Richard, his successor; Edmund(Sir), m. Sibil, dau. of William Montacute, Earl of Salisbury, and hadone dau., Alice, m. to Leonard, Lord Carew; Alice, m. to John de Bohun,Earl of Hereford; Jane, m. to Warine Gerrard, Lord L'Isle; and Alaive, m.to Sir Roger le Strange. His lordship was s. by his eldest son, RichardFitz-Alan. [Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage,Ltd, London, 1883, p. 200, Fitz-Alan, Earls of Arundel]