Page:The Complete Peerage Ed 1 Vol 1.djvu/167

ARUNDEL. 145 XL 1272, 8 «• 1. Richard Fitz-Alan, feudal Lord of Clun and 1289, Oswaldestre, and (according to the admission uf ] 433i") abovenamed) „ r Earl of Arundel, only h. and h. Ho was b. 3 Kel>. Via!, ami mi ion] no consequently only five years old at his father's death. According t<) ' GIover(") he was rr. KARL OK SUSSEX( r ) in 1289, when (being jn.st of age) he was knighted and " received the sword of thecouutu of Sussex " from King Kd. I " ut rocatur [Q.u? roretur] Comet ; " but M seems more probable that this creation tna as EA 1!L OK A RUNDEL, At all events we hear no more of the former title (Sussex) as connected with this family, but only of the title of Arundel, In (1201- 92) 20 Ed. I we find him summoned by two different writs as EARL OK ARUNDEL (Placita lie </uo warranto, 081), and in the roll of writs tested 24 June (12i)5), 23 Ed. I, a writ of summons to Pari, appears to have been addro.-sed to him as " Jlic'o. fl. Alan', Coin, Arundi.ll," ranking him as junior to all the other Karls. He fought in the Welsh wars (1288), in the Kreneh (1200), and in the Scotch wars in 12!)S, being present at the siege of t'a.'rlaveroek in 1'JOO. He ml before 1285 (when he was but 18) Alisona, da. of (-), Marquis de Saluzzo in Piedmont She it. 25 Sep. 12:12 and was bur. at Todinghain Priory, He d. early in 13(i2 in his 36th year ami was bur. with his ancestors. XII. 1302, Our 2. Edmund (Imtz-Alax), Earl of Arundel, s. mid h. to b. 1 May 1285 in the Castle of .Marlborough. His wardship was 1320. obtained by John, K.utl. OF SURREY and Sussex, whose granddaughter, Aliee, the only da. of his only s. William DE Warknnk, alias Pi.axta- gknkt (by Joan, da. of Robert [nB VeheJ, Karl Of OxFORn), he »!., in 1305, while still a minor. On » Nov. (lOOttj, 34 Ed. I, he was sum. to Pari, as Eaui. of Arundel, and took part in the Scotch wars in that year. In 1308 ha officiated as " Pmcerna "(*) at the coronation of Ed. II. In 1310 he was Commander Gen. north of the Trent, and in 1323 Chief Justiciary of North and South Wales. He was one of the few nobles who adhered to the King, and being taken prisoner by the Queen's (») See p. 138, note "c." ( b ) " If Glover (a most careful and learned genealogist of the time of Elizabeth) has stated this upon good authority, wbieb all, who know his character, will feel confident to be the case ; it disproves Vincent's assertion that Richard Kit/. Alan never had the county of Sussex." See Planches " Earls of Sussex." ( c ) "The Earldom of Sussex must at this period have been a subject of contention between the do Warrens and Kitz- Alans, for John dc Warren, Earl of Surrey, was receiving, at the very time that this investiture occurred, writs directed to him as Earl ofSmen. John de Warren was perhaps t he greatest noble of the time in which he jived, and his power and influence may have operated to induce Eitz-Alan to abandon lus claim upon the Earldom of Sussex and to adopt that [i.e. the Earldom of Arundel] by which his descendants have ever since been known." See " Courthope," p. 29. (' ) It is worthy of remark, in connection with the very doubtful right, either of his father or grandfather, to the Earldom of Arundel, that it was not till 12S2, viz. some- time after their death and during this Karl's minority, that Isabel,* widow of Hugh (dc Albini), Dowager Countess of Arundel, died. /( would almost appear (possibly owing to the largeness of her dower) that the Earldom teas not dealt uit/i during her lifetime: A somewhat parallel case occurs, later on, in this same family, when Richard, Earl of Arundel, who, in 1347, had sue. his maternal uncle the Earl of Surrey, did not assume the Earldom, of Surrey till the death of Joan, the Dowager Countess of Surrey in 1301. M See p. 140, note " h." A petition, however, is recited in Taylor's " Glory of Re- gality " (pp. 120-124), stating that the Karl " by his great power, though he never had uiiy of the manors attached to it, obtained the olliee." The manor of Kenninghall in "orfolk, which was one of these (three) manors, was subsequentl 'y in possession of the barls of Arundel and, late in the 17th century, the office is said' to belong to the then Uuke of Norfolk " as Karl of Arundel and Lord of the Manor of Kenninghall." Mr. Planche, in his " Karls of Sussex" has hopelessly confused this Isabel, the imdow, with Isabel the sister and (in her issue) coheir of Earl Hugh. Had this last Darned My been alive, she (and not her son, grandson, and great grandson), would (according to the decision of 1433) have been entitled to the Earldom of Arundel ; but this lady 'Red before her husband, who (himself) died three years before the said Earl Hugh,