Maria DE TORRES

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Family/Spouse: Bonifacio DE SALUZZO. Bonifacio and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Manfredo married Beatrice, Princess Of Savoy in 1233. Beatrice (daughter of Amadeo, Count Of Savoy Chablais Aosta and Marguerite (Ana) BE BOURGOGNE) was born about 1223 in Savoie, France; died in 1259 in Saluzzo-Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Thomas married Leugia DE CEVA in 1258. Leugia (daughter of Giorgio DE CEVA and Menzia) was born about 1240 in Saluzzo-Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy; died on 22 Aug 1291. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• After her marriage, Alasia di Saluzzo was styled as Countess of Arundel.: 1289

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Alice of Saluzzo, Countess of Arundel (died 25 September 1292), also known as Alesia di Saluzzo, was an Italian-born noblewoman and an English countess. She was a daughter of Thomas I of Saluzzo, and the wife of Richard Fitzalan, 8th Earl of Arundel. She assumed the title of Countess of Arundel in 1289.

Family
Alesia was born on an unknown date in Saluzzo (present-day Province of Cuneo, Piedmont); the second eldest daughter of Thomas I, 4th Margrave of Saluzzo, and Luigia di Ceva (died 22 August 1291/1293), daughter of Giorgio, Marquis of Ceva and Menzia d'Este. Alesia had fifteen siblings. Her father was a very wealthy and cultured nobleman under whose rule Saluzzo achieved a prosperity, freedom, and greatness it had never known previously.

Marriage and issue
Sometime before 1285, Alice married Richard Fitzalan, feudal Lord of Clun and Oswestry in the Welsh Marches, the son of John Fitzalan, 7th Earl of Arundel and Isabella Mortimer. Richard would succeed to the title of Earl of Arundel in 1289, thus making Alice the 8th Countess of Arundel. Along with her aunt, Alasia of Saluzzo who married Edmund de Lacy, Baron of Pontefract in 1247, Alice 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 of Provence.

Richard and Alice's principal residence was Marlborough Castle in Wiltshire, but Richard also held Arundel Castle in Sussex and the castles of Clun and Oswestry in Shropshire. Her husband was knighted by King Edward I in 1289, and fought in the Welsh Wars (1288-1294), and later in the Scottish Wars. The marriage produced four children:

Edmund Fitzalan, 9th Earl of Arundel (1 May 1285- 17 November 1326 by execution), married Alice de Warenne, by whom he had issue.

1.) John Fitzalan, a priest

2.) Alice Fitzalan (died 7 September 1340), married Stephen de Segrave, 3rd Lord Segrave, by whom she had issue.

3.) Margaret Fitzalan, married William le Botiller, by whom she had issue.

4.) Eleanor Fitzalan, married Henry de Percy, 1st Baron Percy, by whom she had issue.

Alice died on 25 September 1292 and was buried in Haughmond Abbey, Shropshire. Her husband Richard died on 09/03/1301 and was buried alongside Alice. In 1341, provision was made for twelve candles to be burned beside their tombs. The Abbey is now a ruin as the result of a fire during the English Civil War. Her many descendants include pretty much everybody in the Western Hemisphere.

Alisona married Richard FITZALAN in 1284 in Marlborough, Sussex, England. Richard (son of John FITZALAN and Isabella DE MORTIMER) was born on 3 Feb 1267 in Arundel, Sussex, England; died before 15 Jan 1302 in Arundel Castle, Sussex, England; was buried in 1302 in Haughmond Abbey, Shrewsbury, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]