William FITZALAN, 16th Earl Of Arundel, Kg, Sir^[1]

1417 - Aft 1487  (69 years)

• Name	William FITZALAN  [2, 3]
  Suffix	16th Earl Of Arundel, Kg, Sir
  Born	23 Nov 1417	Arundel Caslte, West Sussex, England   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Name	21st\16Th\9Th Earl Of ARUNDEL
  _UID	733659C342D64D918A09D07033CF21B96A57
  Died	Aft Sep 1487	Arundel Caslte, West Sussex, England   [2, 3]
  Buried	Arundel Chapel, Sussex, England
  Person ID	I14325	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2012

  
  

  Father	John FITZALAN, 13th Earl Of Arundel, Kb, Sir,   b. 1 Aug 1385, Ditton Manor, Stoke Pogis, Buckinghamshire, England ,   d. 21 Apr 1421, Arundel Caslte, West Sussex, England  (Age 35 years)
  Mother	Eleanor BERKELEY,   b. Abt 1390, Beverstone Castle, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England ,   d. 1 Aug 1455, Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England  (Age ~ 65 years)
  Married	Bef 1407	1st Husband   [2, 4]
  Family ID	F6879	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joan NEVILLE,   b. Abt 1423, Castle Raby, Durham, England ,   d. Bef 9 Sep 1462, Arundel Caslte, West Sussex, England  (Age ~ 39 years)
  Married	Aft 17 Aug 1438  [2, 5, 6, 7]
  Children	1. Thomas FITZALAN, 17th Earl Of Arundel, Kb, Kg,   b. 1450, Arundel Caslte, West Sussex, England ,   d. 25 Oct 1524, Downly Park, Singleton, Sussex, England  (Age 74 years)
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016
  Family ID	F3505	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  William Fitz Alan, 16th/9th Earl of Arundel, KG (1471); born 23 Nov 1417; Yorkist, fought at Lancastrian victory of 2nd Battle of St Albans 17 Feb 1461, Constable of Dover Castle and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports 1471 and 1483-87; founder of "Arundel Mass" at Magdalen College Oxford; married after 17 Aug 1438 Lady Joan Nevill(e), daughter of 1st/5th Earl of Salisbury, and died late autumn 1487. [Burke's Peerage] Note: William's elder brother John, b. 14 Feb 1407/8, d. 12 Jun 1435 was 14th Earl of Arundel; his son Humphrey, b. 30 Jan 1429, d. unmarried 24 Apr 1438 was 15th Earl of Arundel. ----------------------- EARLDOM of ARUNDEL (XXI, 16 or 9) 1438 WILLIAM [FITZ ALAN otherwise MAUTRAVERS], Earl of Arundel, &c., uncle and heir [of Humphrey (XX, 15 or 8) Earl of Arundel, b. 30 Jan 1429, d. unmarried 24 Apr 1438, son of John (XIX, 14 or 7) Earl of Arunde, b. 14 Feb 1407/8, d. aft. 12 Jun 1435], born 23 November 1417, and, when of full age, obtained livery of his lands in November 1438. Summoned to Parliament (a) on 3 December 1441 as Earl of Arundel (b). Justice in Eyre of all forests south of the Trent 1459-61 and 1483-85. Took part with the Yorkists in their defeat at the second battle of St. Albans, 17 February 1461. On 1 May 1471, he was Constable of Dover Castle, and the Warden of the Cinque Ports, and again 1483 till his death. K.G. 1471. He assisted as Pincerna at the coronation of Richard III, as also as that of Henry VII, which King received knighthood at his hands shortly before that ceremony. He founded the "Arundel Mass" [by gift of the manor of Aynho, co. Northampton] to be celebrated at Magd. Coll., Oxford. He married, after 17 August 1438 [when his marriage was granted to his future father-in-law], Joan, 1st daughter of Richard [Nevill], Earl of Salisbury, by Alice, suo jure Countess of Salisbury. She [who was a sister of Richard, Earl of Warwick] died shortly before 9 September 1462, and was buried at Arundel. He died there late in 1487, in his 71st year and was buried there. [Complete Peerage I:248-9, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)] (a) This summons was not till eight years after the admission (1433) which confirmed the Earldom of Arundel to the Fitz Alan family. The delay is accounted for by the absence in France of Earl John, and the minority of his successor [Hymphrey]. It is probable, also, that this William may have been summoned some two or three years earlier, bu the lists of summones from 1438 to 1441 are unfortunately lost. (b) PRECEDENCY of the EARLS of ARUNDEL. In 1446 Thomas Courtenay, Earl of Devon, challenged the precedence of the Earl of Arundel. The decision of the King, with consent of the Lords of Parliament, was "that William, now Earl of Arundel, have, keep, and enjoy his seat, place and pre-eminence in the High Court of Parliament, and in the King's Councils and elsewhere in the King's high presence, as Earl of Arundel, by reason of the Castle, Honour and Lordship of Arundel, as worshipfully as ever did any of his ancestors, Earls of Arundel, afore his time, above the said Earl of Devonshire and his heirs, without letting, challenge or interruption of the said Earl of Devonshire or of his heirs or of any other person." "Thus ended," adds Canon Tierney, "a controversy which, in its results, confirmed this Parliamentary decision of 1433 and established the Earldom in its original supremacy of honour above every other similar title of dignity."

  
  

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