Edmund FitzAlan

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Sir Edmund FitzAlan (* around 1327, † after 1377) was an English knight.

Edmund FitzAlan came from the Anglo-Norman family FitzAlan . He was the eldest son of Richard FitzAlan and his first wife Isabel le Despenser . The marriage of his parents was supposed to strengthen the alliance between the FitzAlan and Despenser families , but his two grandfathers were executed as traitors after the fall of King Edward II in 1326. After his father won the favor of King Edward III. had won, his marriage to Isabel was politically worthless. With the support of the king, he had Pope Clement VI annulled his marriage in 1344 . While his mother still received some goods as severance pay, Edmund and his siblings were declared illegitimate . The seventeen-year-old Edmund was thereby disinherited, against which he protested constantly but unsuccessfully.

Edmund was knighted in 1352. Before July 1349 he had married Sibyl Montagu , a daughter of William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury and his wife Catherine Grandison . He had at least three children with her:

  • Elizabeth (also Alice) FitzAlan († 1385/1386)
  1. ∞ Leonard Carew (1342-1369)
  2. ∞ Sir John de Meriet († 1391)
  1. ∞ Richard Sergeaux († 1393)
  2. ∞ John Cornewall, 1st Baron Fanhope

Little is known of Edmund's later life, and the year of his death is also unknown.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ C. Given-Wilson: Fitzalan, Richard, third earl of Arundel and eighth earl of Surrey (c. 1313-1376). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
personal data
SURNAME FitzAlan, Edmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fitzalan, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English knight
DATE OF BIRTH around 1327
DATE OF DEATH after 1377