Mary (Isabel) FITZALAN^[1]

Abt 1323 - 1396  (~ 73 years)

• Name	Mary (Isabel) FITZALAN  [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Birth	Abt 1323	Corfham, Shropshire, England
  Gender	Female
  Alt. Birth	Abt 1332	Corfham, Shropshire, England
  	Alt. Birth
  Alt. Birth	Abt 1332	Of Corfham, Shropshire, England
  	Alt. Birth
  Alt. Death	29 Aug 1396
  	Alt. Death
  Alt. Death	29 Aug 1396
  	Alt. Death
  _FSFTID	GJJ5-Q3G
  _FSLINK	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GJJ5-Q3G
  _UID	E480EB67188745ED90C37B8B119B0D1AB380
  Death	29 Aug 1396  [2, 4]
  Person ID	I10180	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	13 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	Richard "Copped Hat" FITZALAN,   b. Abt 1313, Of Arundel, Sussex, England d. 24 Jan 1376, Arundel, Sussex, England (Age ~ 63 years)
  Mother	Isabel LE DESPENCER,   b. Abt 1312, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England d. 11 Jan 1371, Arundel, Sussex, England (Age ~ 59 years)
  Marriage	9 Feb 1320	Kings Chapel, Havering-Atte-Bower, Essex, England
  Annulled	4 Dec 1344	Arundel, Sussex, England,   [6]
  Family ID	F2972	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John 4Th Baron Le STRANGE, Of Blackmere, Sir,   b. Abt Apr 1322, Whitchurch, Shropshire, England d. 12 May 1361, Blakemere, Weobley, Herefordshire, England (Age ~ 39 years)
  Marriage	1352	England
  Children	1. Ankaret Baroness Le STRANGE,   b. Apr 1361, Whitchurch, Shropshire, England d. 1 Jun 1413 (Age ~ 52 years)
  Family ID	F5075	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Lady Mary FitzAlan (died 29 Aug 1396), daughter of 10th/3rd Earl of Arundel. [Burke's Peerage] -------------- Mary (Isabel) fitz Alan, d. 29 Aug 1396; [m.] John Lestraunge [sic.], b. c Easter 1322, d. 12 May 1361, MP 1360, 4th Lord Strange of Blackmere. [Magna Charta Sureties] --------------- Note: In "Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage", www. medievalgenalogy.org.uk, it states "Mary was the daughter of Edmund, the 9th Earl of Arundel, not Richard the 10th Earl (see Arundel, vol 1, p. 244, note b)." This would also correct Burke's as well any other book that uses CP as a source. Following is the discussion of the evidence: CP Corrections, Volume 14, p.596 retains the identification of John Strange's wife Mary as a daughter of Richard, the 10th earl, but mentions Margaret Aston's argument, in Thomas Arundel, chart following p.436 (1967), that Mary was instead the daughter of Edmund, the 9th earl. It adds that if this were so, Mary would have been aged about 40 when her son John was born. Margaret Aston cites two records that place Mary as a sister - not a daughter - of Richard, the 10th earl: (i) in a petition to the Pope in 1364, she calls herself "Mary la Straunge, lady of Corfham, widow, and sister of the Earl of Arundell" [Cal. Papal Petitions, 1342-1419, p.484] and (ii) in Richard's will he refers to her as his sister [Reg. Sudbury, Lambeth, f.95v, cited by Aston, loc. cit.]. A third independent piece of evidence is an agreement between the attorneys of Richard, earl of Arundel and Surrey, and the attorneys of Isabel, late the wife of John Lestrange of Blakemere, concerning Isabel's dower, which refers to this John [Mary's son] as the earl's nephew, which "agreement shall be affirmed in the king's chancery" [Cat. Ancient Deeds vol. 3, C3059: English abstract of a French original]. This agreement is undated, but was probably made soon after 28 November 1375, when an order was enrolled to the escheator in Shropshire, to take an oath from Isabel not to marry without the king's licence, and to assign her dower in the presence of Richard, earl of Arundel, or his attorneys, sending the assignment under seal to be enrolled in chancery [Cal. Close Rolls 1374-77, p.176]. A note was later added to the agreement, recording the delivery of dower by the assent of Richard, now earl of Arundel, and the other executors of Richard, the former earl [who had died in January, 1375/6]. This was perhaps in June 1376, when following Isabel's unlicenced remarriage it was ordered that she should have her dower with the "assent of Richard now earl of Arundell and other the executors of Richard late earl of Arundell" [Cal. Close Rolls 1374-77, p.378]. As to the chronology, Mary's son John Lestrange was born in the early 1350s [Complete Peerage volume 12, part 1, p. 344], while Edmund, the 9th earl of Arundel, married while a minor in 1305 and was executed in 1326. From this it appears that Mary could have been under 30 when John was born. (However, Mary's daughter Ankaret, the eventual heir, was born later, about 1361 [p.345].)

  
  

• Sources

  [S579] Jim Weber. [S845] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999, 8-32 (Reliability: 3). [S289] Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles M o s l e y Editor-in-Chief, 1999, 2506, 26 May 2003. (Reliability: 3). [S25] Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 34-7 (Reliability: 3). [S222] Some Corrections and Additions to the Complete Peerage, www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/cp/index.shtml, CP I - Arundel (Reliability: 3). [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 13 Dec 2022), entry for Richard "Copped Hat" FITZALAN, person ID LYK6-VQ2. (Reliability: 3).