1287 Births; Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, Richard Aungerville, Margaret de Clare, Lady Badlesmere, Alice de Warenne, Countess of Arundel (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, Richard Aungerville, Margaret de Clare, Lady Badlesmere, Alice de Warenne, Countess of Arundel, Oliver Ingham, Robert Iii of Artois, Frederick Iv, Burgrave of Nuremberg, Nasr, Sultan of Granada, Frederick I of Saluzzo, Margaret of Castello, John Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings, Tang Di, Wang Mian, Wang Mien, Konoe Tsunehira. Excerpt: Alice de Warenne Alice de Warenne, Countess of Arundel (15 June 1287 23 May 1338) was a noble English heiress to the Earldom of Surrey, and wife of Edmund Fitzalan, 9th Earl of Arundel . Family Alice, the only daughter of William de Warenne and Joan de Vere, was born on 15 June 1287 in Warren, Sussex, six months after her father was accidentally killed in a tournament on 15 December 1286. On the death of her paternal grandfather, John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey in 1304, her only sibling John de Warenne, 8th Earl of Surrey succeeded. He became estranged from his childless wife and they never reconciled, leaving Alice and her issue heirs to the Surrey estates and title. Marriage to the Earl of Arundel In 1305, Alice married Edmund Fitzalan, 9th Earl of Arundel, the son of Richard Fitzalan, 8th Earl of Arundel and Alice of Saluzzo . They had nine recorded children. Their chief residence was Arundel Castle in Sussex. Arundel inherited his title on 9 March 1302 upon his father's death. He was summoned to Parliament as Lord Arundel in 1306, and was later one of the Lords Ordainers . He also took part in the Scottish wars. The Earl of Arundel and his brother-in-law John de Warenne were the only nobles who remained loyal to King Edward II, after Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March returned to England in 1326. He had allied himself to the King's favourite Hugh le Despenser, and agreed to th...