Biography of Edmund Fitzalan 9th Earl Arundel 1285-1326
Paternal Family Tree: Fitzalan
On 18 Mar 1272 [his grandfather] John Fitzalan 7th Earl Arundel (age 25) died. His son [his father] Richard Fitzalan 8th Earl Arundel (age 5) succeeded 8th Earl Arundel Sussex.
Before 1285 [his father] Richard Fitzalan 8th Earl Arundel (age 17) and [his mother] Alice Saluzzo Countess Arundel were married. She by marriage Countess Arundel Sussex. He the son of John Fitzalan 7th Earl Arundel and Isabella Mortimer Countess Arundel. He a great x 3 grandson of King John "Lackland" of England.
On 01 May 1285 Edmund Fitzalan 9th Earl Arundel was born to Richard Fitzalan 8th Earl Arundel (age 18) and Alice Saluzzo Countess Arundel.
On 09 Mar 1302 [his father] Richard Fitzalan 8th Earl Arundel (age 35) died. He was buried at Haughmond Abbey [Map]. His son Edmund Fitzalan 9th Earl Arundel (age 16) succeeded 9th Earl Arundel Sussex.
Before 1306 Edmund Fitzalan 9th Earl Arundel (age 20) and Alice Warenne Countess Arundel were married. She by marriage Countess Arundel Sussex. He the son of Richard Fitzalan 8th Earl Arundel and Alice Saluzzo Countess Arundel. They were third cousin once removed. He a great x 4 grandson of King John "Lackland" of England.
In 1306 [his son] Richard Fitzalan 10th Earl Arundel 8th Earl Surrey was born to Edmund Fitzalan 9th Earl Arundel (age 20) and [his wife] Alice Warenne Countess Arundel.
In 1306 [his daughter] Katherine Fitzalan was born to Edmund Fitzalan 9th Earl Arundel (age 20) and [his wife] Alice Warenne Countess Arundel.
On 22 May 1306 the Feast of the Swans was a collective knighting of two hundred and sixty seven men at Westminster Abbey [Map].
At the feast following the knightings two swans were brought in. King Edward "Longshanks" I of England (age 66) swore before God and the swans to avenge the death of John Comyn 3rd Lord Baddenoch - see Robert "The Bruce" murders John "Red" Comyn.
King Edward "Longshanks" I of England (age 66) first knighted his son King Edward II of England (age 22).
King Edward II of England (age 22) then knighted the remaining two-hundred and sixty six including ...
Hugh "Younger" Despencer 1st Baron Despencer (age 20)
Edmund Fitzalan 9th Earl Arundel (age 21)
John le Blund, Mayor of London
William Brabazon
Roger Mortimer 1st Baron Mortimer of Chirk (age 50)
Piers Gaveston 1st Earl Cornwall (age 22) - this may have been the first time Piers Gaveston 1st Earl Cornwall (age 22) and King Edward II of England (age 22) met?
John Harrington 1st Baron Harington (age 25)
John Maltravers 1st Baron Maltravers (age 16)
Roger Mortimer 1st Earl March (age 19)
William Montagu 2nd Baron Montagu (age 31)
John Mowbray 2nd Baron Mowbray (age 19)
Thomas Multon 1st Baron Multon (age 30)
[his brother-in-law] John Warenne 7th Earl Surrey (age 19)
On 02 Dec 1307 King Edward II of England (age 23) held a tournament to celebrate Piers Gaveston's (age 23) recent wedding. Gaveston (age 23) took the opportunity to humiliate the older nobility including [his brother-in-law] John Warenne 7th Earl Surrey (age 21), Humphrey Bohun 4th Earl Hereford 3rd Earl Essex (age 31) and Edmund Fitzalan 9th Earl Arundel (age 22) further increasing his unpopularity.
On 09 Jun 1312 Piers Gaveston 1st Earl Cornwall (age 28), under the protection of Aymer de Valence 2nd Earl Pembroke (age 37), stayed at The Rectory, Deddington whilst en route south. Aymer de Valence 2nd Earl Pembroke (age 37) left Piers Gaveston 1st Earl Cornwall (age 28) there whilst he left to visit his wife. The following morning Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick (age 40), with Edmund Fitzalan 9th Earl Arundel (age 27), Humphrey Bohun 4th Earl Hereford 3rd Earl Essex (age 36) and John Botetort 1st Baron Botetort (age 47) arrested Piers Gaveston 1st Earl Cornwall (age 28) and took him to Warwick Castle [Map].
Around 15 Jun 1312 Piers Gaveston 1st Earl Cornwall (age 28) was tried at Warwick Castle [Map] by Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick (age 40), Humphrey Bohun 4th Earl Hereford 3rd Earl Essex (age 36), Thomas Plantagenet 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster, Earl of Salisbury and Lincoln (age 34) and Edmund Fitzalan 9th Earl Arundel (age 27). He was condemned to death.
Before 1316 [his son-in-law] Henry Hussey 2nd Baron Hussey (age 24) and [his daughter] Katherine Fitzalan (age 9) were married. She the daughter of Edmund Fitzalan 9th Earl Arundel (age 30) and Alice Warenne Countess Arundel. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King John "Lackland" of England.
Around 1320 [his daughter] Eleanor Fitzalan was born to Edmund Fitzalan 9th Earl Arundel (age 34) and [his wife] Alice Warenne Countess Arundel.
Around 1320 [his daughter] Elizabeth Fitzalan was born to Edmund Fitzalan 9th Earl Arundel (age 34) and [his wife] Alice Warenne Countess Arundel.
On 09 Feb 1321 [his son] Richard Fitzalan 10th Earl Arundel 8th Earl Surrey (age 15) and [his daughter-in-law] Isabel Despencer Countess Arundel (age 9) were married at Havering atte Bower [Map]. She by marriage Countess Arundel Sussex. He the son of Edmund Fitzalan 9th Earl Arundel (age 35) and Alice Warenne Countess Arundel. They were half third cousin once removed. He a great x 5 grandson of King John "Lackland" of England. She a great granddaughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England.
In 1325 [his son-in-law] John Bohun 5th Earl Hereford 4th Earl Essex (age 18) and [his daughter] Alice Fitzalan Countess Essex and Hereford were married. She by marriage Countess Essex, Countess Hereford. She the daughter of Edmund Fitzalan 9th Earl Arundel (age 39) and Alice Warenne Countess Arundel. He the son of Humphrey Bohun 4th Earl Hereford 3rd Earl Essex and Princess Elizabeth of Rhuddlan Countess Essex, Hereford and Holland. They were half third cousins. He a grandson of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King John "Lackland" of England.
Froissart. Oct 1326. AND then this tiding spread about the realm so much, that at the last it came to the knowledge of the lords by whom the queen (age 31) was called again into England. And they apparelled them in all haste to come to Edward (age 13) her son, whom they would have to their sovereign lord. And the first that came and gave them most comfort was Henry earl of Lancaster (age 45) with the wry neck, called Tort Col, who was brother to Thomas earl of Lancaster, beheaded as ye have heard herebefore, who was a good knight and greatly recommended, as ye shall hear after in this history. This earl Henry (age 45) came to the queen (age 31) with great company of men of war, and after him came from one part and other earls, barons, knights and squires, with so much people that they thought them clean out of perils, and always increased their power as they went forward. Then they took counsel among them that they should ride straight to the town of Bristow [Map], whereas the king (age 42) was, and with him the Spencers. The which was a good town and a strong, and well closed, standing on a good port of the sea, and a strong castle, the sea beating round about it. And therein was the king (age 42) and Sir Hugh Spencer the elder (age 65), who was about ninety of age, and Sir Hugh Spencer (age 40) his son, who was chief governour of the king (age 42) and counselled him in all his evil deeds. Also there was the [his son] earl of Arundel (age 20), who had wedded the [his daughter-in-law] daughter (age 14) of sir Hugh Spencer (age 40), and di at Bristow, and besieged the town round about as near as they might: and the king (age 42) and sir Hugh Spencer the younger (age 40) held them in the castle [Map], and the old sir Hugh Spencer (age 65) and the earl of Arundel (age 41) held them in the town. And when the people of the town saw the great power that the queen (age 31) was of (for almost all England was of her accord), and perceived what peril and danger evidently they were in, they took counsel among themselves and determined that they would yield up the town to the queen (age 31), so that their lives and goods might be saved. And so they sent to treat with the queen and her council in this matter; but the queen nor her council would not agree thereto without she might do with sir Hugh Spencer (age 65) and with the earl of Arundel (age 20) what it pleased her. When the people of the town saw they could have no peace otherwise, nor save the town nor their goods nor their lives, in that distress they accorded to the queen (age 31) and opened the gates, so that the queen (age 31) and sir John of Hainault (age 38), and all her barons, knights and squires, entered into the town and took their lodgings within, as many as might, and the residue without. Then sir Hugh Spencer (age 65) and the earl of Arundel (age 20) were taken and brought before the queen (age 31), to do her pleasure with them. Then there was brought to the queen her own children, John her son (age 10) and her two daughters [Note. Eleanor of Woodstock Plantagenet (age 8) and Joan of the Tower Queen Consort Scotland (age 5)], the which were found there in the keeping of the said sir Hugh Spencer (age 65), whereof the queen had great joy, for she had not seen them long 'before. Then the king (age 42) might have great sorrow and sir Hugh Spencer the younger (age 40), who were fast enclosed in the strong castle, and the most part of all the realm turned to the queen's part and to Edward (age 13) her eldest son.
Froissart. WHEN the queen (age 31) and her barons and all her company were lodged at their ease, then they besieged the castle [Map] as near as they might. The queen (age 31) caused sir Hugh Spencer (deceased) the elder and the earl of Arundel (age 41) to be brought forth before Edward her son (age 13) and all the barons that were there present, and said how that she and her son (age 13) should take right and law on them according to their deserts. Then sir Hugh Spencer (deceased) said, 'Madam, God be to you a good judge and give you good judgment1, and if we cannot have it in this world, I pray God we may have it in another.' Then stept forth Sir Thomas Wake (age 29), a good knight and marshal of the host, and there openly he recounted their deeds in writing, and then turned him to another ancient knight to the intent that he should bring him on that case fauty1, and to declare what should be done with such persons, and what judgment they should have for such causes. Then the said knight counselled with other barons and knights, and so reported their opinions, the which was, how they had well deserved death for divers horrible deeds, the which they have commised, for all the trespass rehearsed before to justify to be of truth;3 wherefore they have deserved for the diversities of their trespasses to have judgment in three divers manners-first, to be drawn, and after to be headed, and then to be hanged on the gibbet. This in likewise as they were judged so it was done and executed before the castle of Bristow [Map] in the sight of the king and of sir Hugh Spencer the younger (deceased). This judgment was done in the year of our Lord MCCCXXVI., on Saint Denis' day in October [Note. Saint Denis' day is 09 Oct not 27 Oct?].
Note 1. This should be, 'God give us a good judge and good judgment ' ; but Verard's edition, from which the translation was made, has 'vous' for 'nous.'
Note 2. This appears to mean, ' To the intent that he should find him guilty on the charge' ('fauty' for 'faulty'); but the original means, 'To the intent that he should declare upon his fealty (féaulté) what should be done with such persons,' etc.
Note 3. Or rather as follows: ' That the accused had well deserved death for divers horrible deeds which they had heard in that place rehearsed, and held them for true and manifest.'
Before 17 Nov 1326 Edmund Fitzalan 9th Earl Arundel (age 41) was captured by John Charleton 1st Baron Cherleton (age 58) at Shrewsbury, Shropshire [Map] whilst attempting to gather troops to suport King Edward II of England (age 42). On 17 Nov 1326 he was beheaded with a blunt sword requiring twenty-two strokes at Hereford [Map]. His son [his son] Richard Fitzalan 10th Earl Arundel 8th Earl Surrey (age 20) succeeded 10th Earl Arundel Sussex.
After 17 Nov 1326 Edmund Fitzalan 9th Earl Arundel (age 41) was reburied at Haughmond Abbey [Map].
After 17 Nov 1326 Edmund Fitzalan 9th Earl Arundel (age 41) was buried at Franciscan Church, Hereford.
[his daughter] Alice Fitzalan Countess Essex and Hereford was born to Edmund Fitzalan 9th Earl Arundel and Alice Warenne Countess Arundel.
[his daughter] Aline Fitzalan Baroness Strange Knockin was born to Edmund Fitzalan 9th Earl Arundel and Alice Warenne Countess Arundel.
[his daughter] Michael Fitzalan was born to Edmund Fitzalan 9th Earl Arundel and Alice Warenne Countess Arundel.
[his daughter] Edmund Fitzalan was born to Edmund Fitzalan 9th Earl Arundel and Alice Warenne Countess Arundel.
[his daughter] Mary Fitzalan Baroness Strange Blackmere was born to Edmund Fitzalan 9th Earl Arundel and Alice Warenne Countess Arundel.
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Great x 4 Grandfather: William Fitzalan
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Fitzalan
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Fitzalan
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Fitzalan 6th Earl Arundel 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William D'Aubigny 2nd Earl Lincoln 2nd Earl Arundel
Great x 3 Grandfather: William D'Aubigny 3rd Earl Lincoln 3rd Earl Arundel
Great x 2 Grandmother: Isabel D'Aubigny 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh de Kevelioc Gernon 5th Earl Chester Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mabel Gernon Countess Lincoln and Arundel 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Bertrade Montfort Countess Chester
GrandFather: John Fitzalan 7th Earl Arundel 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Hervey Butler
Great x 3 Grandfather: Theobald Walter
Great x 2 Grandfather: Theobald Butler
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Vavasour
Great x 3 Grandmother: Maud Vavasour
Great x 1 Grandmother: Maud Verdun Countess Arundel
Father: Richard Fitzalan 8th Earl Arundel 3 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh Mortimer
Great x 3 Grandfather: Roger Mortimer
Great x 4 Grandmother: Matilda Gernon
Great x 2 Grandfather: Ralph Mortimer
Great x 4 Grandfather: Walchelin Ferrers
Great x 3 Grandmother: Isabel Ferrers
Great x 1 Grandfather: Roger Mortimer 1st Baron Mortimer of Wigmore Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Iorwerth "Drwyndwn aka Flat Nosed" Aberffraw
Great x 3 Grandfather: Llewellyn "The Great" Aberffraw
Great x 4 Grandmother: Marared ferch Madog Mathrafal
Great x 2 Grandmother: Gwladus verch Llewelyn "Dark Eyed" Aberffraw Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: King John "Lackland" of England Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan Plantagenet Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Adela Plantagenet
GrandMother: Isabella Mortimer Countess Arundel 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William de Braose 4th Baron Bramber
Great x 3 Grandfather: Reginald de Braose 9th Baron Abergavenny
Great x 4 Grandmother: Maud "Lady of Hay" St Valery Baroness Bramber
Great x 2 Grandfather: William de Braose
Great x 3 Grandmother: Graecia Briwere
Great x 1 Grandmother: Maud de Braose
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Fitzgilbert
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Marshal 1st Earl Pembroke
Great x 4 Grandmother: Sybil of Salisbury
Great x 2 Grandmother: Eva Marshal
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard "Strongbow" Clare 2nd Earl Pembroke
Great x 3 Grandmother: Isabel Clare Countess Pembroke
Great x 4 Grandmother: Aoife NI Diarmait Macmurrough Countess Pembroke and Buckingham
Edmund Fitzalan 9th Earl Arundel 4 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
GrandFather: Thomas I Marquess Saluzzo 5 x Great Grand Son of King William "Conqueror" I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Humbert Savoy III Count Savoy
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Savoy I Count Savoy
Great x 4 Grandmother: Beatrice Macon Countess Savoy
Great x 2 Grandfather: Amedeo Savoy IV Count Savoy
Great x 4 Grandfather: William I-Count Geneva
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Geneva Countess Savoy
Great x 1 Grandmother: Beatrice Savoy Marchioness of Saluzzo 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King William "Conqueror" I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Odo II Duke Burgundy
Great x 3 Grandfather: Hugh III Duke Burgundy 2 x Great Grand Son of King William "Conqueror" I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Marie Blois Duchess Burgundy Great Grand Daughter of King William "Conqueror" I of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Burgundy Countess Savoy 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King William "Conqueror" I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Guigues V Count of Albon and Grenoble
Great x 3 Grandmother: Beatrice of Albon Duchess Burgundy
Mother: Alice Saluzzo Countess Arundel 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King William "Conqueror" I of England