Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Edmund Fitz Alan
1285 - 1326 (41 years)-
Name Edmund Fitz Alan [1] Birth 1 May 1285 Marlborough Castle, Wiltshire, Engand 
[2, 3] Gender Male Alternate birth 1 May 1285 Marlborough Castle, Wiltshire, England [2, 3] Death 17 Nov 1326 Hereford, Herefordshire, England [2, 3] Burial Haughmond Abbey, Shropshire, England [2, 3] 
Siblings3 siblings Person ID I2674 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK Last Modified 30 Apr 2018
Father Richard Fitz Alan, b. 3 Feb 1267, of Arundel, Sussex, England d. 9 Mar 1302 (Age 35 years) Mother Alice di Saluzzo, b. of Saluzzo, Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy d. 25 Sep 1292 Marriage Nov 1282 [2, 4] Family ID F5664 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Alice de Warenne d. Between 1330 and 23 May 1338 Marriage Aft 30 Dec 1304 [2] Children + 1. Mary de Arundel d. 29 Aug 1396 + 2. Aline de Arundel d. 20 Jan 1386 + 3. Elizabeth de Arundel d. 11 Mar 1384 + 4. Eleanor de Arundel d. Bef 30 Mar 1347 + 5. Richard Fitz Alan, b. Abt 1313, of Arundel, Sussex, England d. 24 Jan 1376, Arundel, Sussex, England (Age ~ 63 years)Family ID F1617 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 28 Aug 2019
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Notes - Also called Edmund Arundel. Earl of Arundel. An opponent of Gaveston, he became one of the Lords Ordainers, and one of those before whom Gaveston was tried before he was killed. Edmund Fitz Alan was also among the magnates who refused to help Edward II against Scotland, resulting in the disaster at Bannockburn. However, around the time his son Richard was betrothed to Hugh Dispenser the Younger's daughter Isabel, Fitz Alan began a rapprochement with the king. This would ultimately result in Fitz Alan's execution on the order of Roger Mortimer. According to a one account, a blunt sword was ordered, and his beheading took 22 strokes.
"Though he was never canonised, a cult emerged around the late earl in the 1390s, associating him with the 9th-century martyr king St Edmund. This veneration may have been inspired by a similar cult around his grandson, Richard Fitz Alan, 11th Earl of Arundel, who was executed by Richard II in 1397." [Wikipedia]
Just to drive home the point that association with the Despensers never works out for anybody, in 1344 his son Richard sought and obtained an anullment from his marriage to Isabel le Despenser, on the grounds that the betrothal had been inflicted on him in childhood and without his consent.
- Also called Edmund Arundel. Earl of Arundel. An opponent of Gaveston, he became one of the Lords Ordainers, and one of those before whom Gaveston was tried before he was killed. Edmund Fitz Alan was also among the magnates who refused to help Edward II against Scotland, resulting in the disaster at Bannockburn. However, around the time his son Richard was betrothed to Hugh Dispenser the Younger's daughter Isabel, Fitz Alan began a rapprochement with the king. This would ultimately result in Fitz Alan's execution on the order of Roger Mortimer. According to a one account, a blunt sword was ordered, and his beheading took 22 strokes.
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Sources - [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998.
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- [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998.