Alisona DE SALUZZA

1269 - 1292  (23 years)

• Name	Alisona DE SALUZZA
  Born	18 May 1269	Saluzzo, Piedmont, Italy   [1]
  Gender	Female
  After her marriage, Alasia di Saluzzo was styled as Countess of Arundel.	1289  [1]
  FamilySearch ID	MKZ1-482
  _UID	A8F6D11FFDBB456EA1B3FF5AE71C21DFA91A
  Buried	1292	Haughmond Abbey, Shropshire, England   [1]
  Died	25 Sep 1292	Arundel, Sussex, England   [1]
  Person ID	I23427	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	13 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	Thomas DE SALUZZA,   b. Abt 1234, Saluzzo-Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy ,   d. 23 Dec 1296  (Age ~ 62 years)
  Mother	Leugia DE CEVA,   b. Abt 1240, Saluzzo-Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy ,   d. 22 Aug 1291  (Age ~ 51 years)
  Married	1258
  	NOTE MARRIED
  Family ID	F11655	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Richard FITZALAN,   b. 3 Feb 1267, Arundel, Sussex, England ,   d. Bef 15 Jan 1302, Arundel Castle, Sussex, England  (Age 34 years)
  Married	1284	Marlborough, Sussex, England
  Children	1. Edmund FITZALAN,   b. 1 May 1273, Castle, Marlborough, Sussex, England ,   d. 17 Nov 1326, Hertfordshire, England  (Age 53 years)   2. Eleanor FITZALAN,   b. Abt 1284, Arundel, Sussex, England ,   d. Bef 29 Aug 1328, Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, England  (Age ~ 44 years)   3. Sibyl FITZALAN,   b. 1285, Arundel, Sussex, England, United Kingdom ,   d. 1330, Arundel, Sussex, England, United Kingdom  (Age 45 years)   4. John FITZALAN,   b. Abt 1287, Arundel, Sussex, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Maud FITZALAN,   b. Abt 1289, Arundel, Sussex, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown   6. Margaret FITZALAN,   b. 1302, Arundel, Sussex, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	13 Dec 2022
  Family ID	F10838	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 13 Dec 2022), entry for Alisona DE SALUZZA, person ID MKZ1-482. (Reliability: 3).