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ARUNDEL. " Pincema " at the King's nuptials (1236) on behalf of his said son-in-law, who was still a minor wad, at that time, excommunicated.^ 1 ) Notwithstanding his minority be had, however, shortly before, viz. in 1234, obtained, for 2500 marks, possession nut only of his paternal estates, but also those which he inherited by the death of his umtrrnnl uncle Itanulpb, Earl of Chester. In 1212 lie Was one of the seven Earfa who neoMOpanie'l the King in his expedition to (iuieuue. He'/, "'in the Bower at 1m youth " 7 Ha* 124'!, and was bur. with his ancestor* at Vy:aondham Priory On Ids death the large estates of the family were divided between his four sisters ami coheirs or their issue, while the K.UM.mi.u OP Sussex reverted to the Crown. His Widow survived him nearly forty years, during which long period the family of Vila. Alan, though in possession of the Castle of Annuld, nerer attuned the title of Kaiii. of Aiu ndki.. She ,/. 1282 and was bur. at Mutuant, in Norfolk, in the conventual church which she had there founded. IX. 1243, G? Jou.v Tnz-Ai.AX, feudal Lord of Ci.r.v a.vd OswaI.DF.stke, eo. Salop, s. and h. of John Fitz-Alan of the same by his first wife, Isabel, da. of William, and 2nd sister and. in her issue, coheir of Hugh (DK Alhin'i), Earls ok Sussex, &e., abovonamed, tuc. his father (whom his mother had predeceased) in 1240. To him, by writ dat. 27 Nov. 124:1, was awarded (in right of hU deceased mother) the Castle and Honour of Arundel, whereby (according to the almissioii() of 1433 abovenamed) he became Maui, of Anus del, and, though still a minor, obtained possession of Arundel (as well as of bis paternal estates en. Salop) on payment of £1000. I!y the title, however, of Earl of AliuxDKi. he ncra- appears to have been known (either in his lifetime or afterwards), although he lived 28 years after the acquisition of tlmt Castle and Honour. In an inspexiums of 2 Ed. I (1273-4) be is expressly called " Dontiiuis dc Arundel " (i.e. Lord of the Honour of Arundel), awl in several other instruments he is ranked among the Barons of the Kingdom, while iu his Tttq. p. m o rte m his a. and h. is described (merely) as "fit d'ni Joh 'is A/ani." He toot part iu the Welsh war 1258, and, though sometimes he leagued with the Parous agaiust the Crown, was, while fighting on the Royal side, taken prisoner at the battle of Lewes in 1264 together with the King. 1 le ffl, Maud, da. of Rhys DB Vehdon. H e d. 1263. His widow m. Richard de AmuNDeyillk and d. (1283) 12 Ed. 1. X. 12G8. 7? John Fitz-Alan, feudal Lonn of Clun axd Oswalpkstrk, and (according to the admission^') of 1433 abovcnauml) E.viiL of Arundel, only s. and b., 6. 14 Sep. 1246. He did homage for his estates Dec. 1268. He, also (as Mr. Courthope remarks), though " 22 years at his father's decease was never knon-u ( c ) as Earl of Arundel, and it is incredible that, if he had ever borne that title, as annexed to the Castle and Honour, the fact would have been omitted in the inquisition which finds him to have died seized (1272), 56' Hen. Ill, of that Castle and Honour held bij the 4th part of a Haiioxy." He »t. Isabel da. of Hoger de Mortimer, feudal Lord of Wigmore, by Maud, da. and coheir of William DE BbaOSB of Brecknock. He (/. 18 March 1272 and was bur. in the monastery of Haghmon, Salop. His widow m. before (1273) 1 Ed. I, llalph Ardennk, and, (for a third husband), m. 2 Sep 1285, at Poling, Robert de HaSTTSOS, for tvhieh mamige, having omitted to obtain the Royal lie., she was lined A'1000. She was living in 1300. ( il ) This excommunication was by Edmund (de Abingdon). Archbishop of CtaterbaiJ (1233-45), on account of his Grace's dogs having been seized in the forest of Arundel (•>) See p. 138, note "c." W These words must, Mr. Plauehe says, be qualified, and should run " never known during his lifetime," as, in a patent of 35 Ed. I, in reference to Edmund Fitz Alan, s. of Richard, Earl of Arundel, we find the words sub nomine Johannii iilii Ahw> quondam Cotnitis Arundellhe, antccessoris pricfali Kdmundi, which is eertainlyan acknowledgment, however late, that Edmund's grandfather, John Kite Alan, mis Kan of Arundel ;— yet in 8 Ed. I (1280) (a few years only after the death of the said John) we find his widow Isabel, to whom the custody of the Castle and Honour of Anuidd was committed, spoken of, not as the widow of the Earl of Arundel, but (merely) as ' epuc fail uxor Joh'is Filii Aluni."