Giorgio del Vasto

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Also called Giorgio di Ceva. Marquis of Ceva. "Ruled for a time collegially with several of his brothers and continued actively the policies of his father." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

Family/Spouse: Menzia. Menzia was born about 1210 in Ceva, Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Aluyisia; Aloisia; Luisia; Luigia; Alusia di Ceva.

Aluigia married Tomasso di Saluzzo in 1258. Tomasso (son of Manfredo III di Saluzzo and Beatrice of Savoy) was born in 1239 in Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy; died on 3 Dec 1296. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Alasia di Saluzzo; Alasia del Vasto di Saluzzo.

"Along with her aunt Alasia de Saluzzo who married Edmund de Lacy, 2nd earl of Lincoln, in 1247, Alasia was one of the first Italian women to marry into an English noble family. Her marriage had been arranged by the late King Henry III's widowed queen consort Eleanor de Provence." [Leo van de Pas]

CP has her buried at Todingham Priory, but Chris Phillips's compilation of corrections to CP includes Douglas Richardson's note in Jan 2002 that "the bodies of both Richard and Alesia were at Haughmond Abbey, Shropshire, by 1341, when provision was made for 12 candles to burn in the church of Haughmond around their tombs."

Alice married Richard Fitz Alan in Nov 1282. Richard (son of John Fitz Alan and Isabella de Mortimer) was born on 3 Feb 1267 in of Arundel, Sussex, England; died on 9 Mar 1302; was buried in Haughmond Abbey, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 31 Mar 1342

Alice married Stephen de Segrave before 27 Jan 1314. Stephen (son of John de Segrave and Christian de Plessets) was born about 1285 in of West Hatch, Wiltshire, England; died before 12 Dec 1325 in Aquitaine, France; was buried in Chaucombe Priory, Chaucombe, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William le Boteler. William (son of William le Boteler and Beatrice) was born on 8 Sep 1298 in of Wem, Shropshire, England; died on 22 Dec 1361. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry de Percy. Henry (son of Henry de Percy and Eleanor de Warenne) was born on 25 Mar 1273 in Petworth, Sussex, England; died on 2 Oct 1314 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England; was buried in Fountain Abbey, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1 May 1285, Marlborough Castle, Wiltshire, England

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.

Edmund married Alice de Warenne after 30 Dec 1304. Alice (daughter of William de Warenne and Joan de Vere) died between 1330 and 23 May 1338. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]