Alice of Saluzzo, Countess of Arundel
Alice of Saluzzo | |
|---|---|
| Countess of Arundel | |
| Born | Unknown Saluzzo,Piedmont,Italy |
| Died | 25 September 1292 |
| Buried | Haughmond Abbey,Shropshire,England |
| Noble family | Aleramici(by birth) Fitzalan (by marriage) |
| Spouse(s) | Richard Fitzalan, 1st Earl of Arundel |
| Issue | Edmund Fitzalan, 2nd Earl of Arundel John Fitzalan Alice Fitzalan Margaret Fitzalan Eleanor Fitzalan |
| Father | Thomas I of Saluzzo |
| Mother | Luigia di Ceva |
Alice of Saluzzo, Countess of Arundel(died 25 September 1292)[1]also known asAlessia di Saluzzo,was aSavoyardnoblewoman and an English countess. She was daughter ofThomas I of Saluzzo,and the wife ofRichard Fitzalan, 1st Earl of Arundel.She assumed the title of Countess of Arundel in 1289.
Family
[edit]Alice was born on an unknown date inSaluzzo(present-dayProvince of Cuneo,Piedmont); the second-eldest daughter of Thomas I, 4th Margrave of Saluzzo, and Luigia di Ceva, daughter of Giorgio,Marquis of Ceva.[1]Alice had fifteen siblings. Her father was a very wealthy and cultured nobleman under whose rule Saluzzo achieved a prosperity, freedom and greatness it had never known previously.[citation needed]She was niece of Alasia of Saluzzo, who in 1247 had married an English nobleman,Edmund de Lacy, Baron of Pontefract,and was a more distant kinswoman ofEleanor of Provence,queen consort ofHenry III of England.
Marriage and issue
[edit]Sometime before 1285, Alice married Richard Fitzalan,feudal lordofClunandOswestryin theWelsh Marches,the son ofJohn Fitzalan, 7th Earl of ArundelandIsabella Mortimer.Richard would succeed to the title of Earl of Arundel in 1289, thus making Alice the 8th Countess of Arundel. Her marriage had been arranged by her kinswoman, the widowed queen consort Eleanor.
Richard and Alice's principal residence wasMarlborough CastleinWiltshire,but Richard also heldArundel CastleinSussexand the castles of Clun and Oswestry inShropshire.Her husband was knighted by KingEdward Iin 1289, and fought in the Welsh Wars (1288–1294), and later in theScottish Wars.The marriage produced:
- Edmund FitzAlan, 2nd Earl of Arundel(1 May 1285 – 17 November 1326 by execution),[2]marriedAlice de Warenne,by whom he had issue.
- John FitzAlan,[2]a priest
- Alice FitzAlan (died 17 Mar 1416), married Stephen de Segrave, 3rd Lord Segrave, by whom she had issue.
- Maud, married Philip Burnell[2]
- Margaret FitzAlan, married William le Botiller,[2]by whom she had issue.
- Eleanor FitzAlan,marriedHenry de Percy, 1st Baron Percy,by whom she had issue.
Alice died on 25 September 1292 and was buried inHaughmond Abbey,Shropshire. Alice's husband Richard died on 9 March 1302 and was buried alongside her. In 1341, provision was made for twelve candles to be burned beside their tombs.[1]The abbey is now a ruin as the result of a fire during theEnglish Civil War.
References
[edit]- ^abcCokayne, G. E.(1910).Gibbs, Vicary(ed.).The Complete Peerageof England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant (Ab-Adam to Basing).Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). London: The St Catherine Press. p. 241.
- ^abcdGiven-Wilson 2004.
Sources
[edit]- Given-Wilson, Chris (2004). "Fitzalan, Richard, first earl of Arundel".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography(online ed.). Oxford University Press.(Subscription orUK public library membershiprequired.)