General Notes

John Fitz-Alan took up arms with the other barons temp. John, but, upon the accession of King Henry [1216], having had letters of safe conduct to come in and make his peace, he had livery of the lands of his inheritance, upon paying, however, a fine of 10,000 marks. This feudal lord m. 1st, Isabel, 2nd dau. of William de Albini, Earl of Arundel, and sister and co-heir of Hugh, last earl of that family, by whom he had a son, John, his successor. He m. 2ndly, Haws de Blancminster, and dying in 1239, was s. by his son, John Fitz-Alan. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 200, Fitz-Alan, Earls of Arundel, Barons Maltravers]