Mary (Isabel) FitzAlan 
Mary (Isabel) was born about 1323 in Corfham, Shropshire, England. Mary (Isabel)'s father was Edmund FitzAlan , 9th Earl of Arundel and her mother was Alice de Warenne. Her paternal grandparents were Richard I FitzAlan , 8th Earl of Arundel, MP and Alasia de Saluzzo; her maternal grandparents were William de Warenne , Sir Knight and Joan de Vere. She had a brother and two sisters, named Richard II "Copped Hat", Aline and Elizabeth. She was the second oldest of the four children. She died on August 29th, 1396.General Notes
Lady Mary FitzAlan (died 29 Aug 1396), daughter of 10th/3rd Earl of Arundel. [Burke's Peerage]
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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]
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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].)
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1172 in Oswestry Castle, Shropshire, England d.MAR 1239/40 in Clun, Shropshire, England
- b.May 1223 in Arundel Castle, Sussex, England d.<10 Nov 1267
- b.1190 in Arundel, Sussex, England d.> 1230
- b.14 Sep 1246 in Arundel, Sussex, England d.18 MAR 1271/72 in Clun, Shropshire, England
- b.1200 in Arklow, Wicklow, Leinster, Ireland d.19 Jul 1230 in Poitou, France
- b.1225 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England d.27 Nov 1283
- b.~ 1204 in Alton Castle, Cheadle, Staffordshire, England d.10 FEB 1246/47 in Alton Castle, Cheadle, Staffordshire, England
- b.3 FEB 1266/67 in Arundel, Sussex, England d.9 MAR 1301/02
- b.1190 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.06 Aug 1246 in Wigmore Abbey, Herefordshire, England
- b.~ 1231 in Cwmaron Castle, Radnorshire, Wales d.<30 Oct 1282 in Kingsland, Herefordshire, England
- b.~ 1207 in Caemarvonshire, Wales d.1251 in Windsor, Berkshire, England
- b.1248 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.> 1300
- b.~ 1197 in Brecknock, Breconshire, Wales d.02 May 1230 in Hanged by Llewelyn, Prince of Wales after intrigues w/ his wife
- b.~ 1222 in Gower, Glamorganshire, Wales d.BEF 23 MAR 1300/01
- b.1194 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.< 1246 in England
- b.01 May 1285 in Castle Marlborough, Sussex, England d.17 Nov 1326 in Beheaded at Hereford, Herefordshire, England
- b.~ 1180 in Saluzzo, Itally d.>22 Jul 1212 in (dvp)
- b.~ 1204 in Saluzza, Italy d.20 Oct 1244
- b.~ 1181 in Torres, Sardinia, Italy d.> 1215
- b.~ 1240 in Saluzzo, Italy d.03 Dec 1296
- b.1197 in Savoy, France d.13 Jul 1253
- b.~ 1215 in Savoy, France d.1259 in Saluzza, Itally
- b.1192 in Bourgogne, France d.1242
- b.~ 1271 in Saluzzo, Italy d.25 Sep 1292
- b.~ 1180 in Ceva, Italy d.1219
- b.~ 1210 in Ceva, Italy d.1268
- b.~ 1180 in Saluzzo, Itally
- b.~ 1240 in Ceva, Italy d.22 Aug 1291
- b.~ 1215 in Este, Italy
- b.~ 1323 in Corfham, Shropshire, England d.29 Aug 1396
- b.1130 in Normandy, France d.07 May 1202 in Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.1166 in Lewes, Sussex, England d.27 May 1240 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.1137 in Lewes, Sussex, England d.13 Jul 1199 in Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.>Aug 1231 in Warren, Sussex, England d.>Sep 1304 in Kennington, Surrey, England
- b.1146 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.14 May 1219 in Caversham Manor, England
- b.~ 1192 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.27 Mar 1248 in Tintern Abbey, Chapel Hill, Monmouthsire, England
- b.~ 1172 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1220 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.~ 1256 in Warren, Sussex, England d.15 Dec 1286 in Killed in a Tournament at Croyden (dvp)
- b.~ 1163 in Lusignan, Vienne, Poitou, France d.Nov 1219 in Damietta, Egypt
- b.~ 1186 in Lusignan, Vienne, Poitou, France d.~06 Jun 1246 in Surrey, England
- b.~ 1170 in Angouleme, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France d.>29 Aug 1233
- b.~ 1224 in Lusignan, Vienne, Poitou, France d.9 FEB 1255/56
- b.~ 1160 in Angouleme, Aquitaine, France d.16 Jun 1202 in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France
- b.1188 in Angouleme, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France d.31 May 1246 in Fontevrault Abbey, Maine-et-Loire, Pays-de-la-Loire, France
- b.~ 1170 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France d.14 Sep 1205 in France
- b.~ 1285 in Warren, Sussex, England d.<23 May 1338
- b.~ 1164 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d.<25 Oct 1221 in Hedingham Castle, Essex, England
- b.~ 1210 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d.<23 Dec 1263 in Hedingham Castle, Essex, England
- b.~ 1184 in Hatfield, Essex, England d.3 FEB 1244/45
- b.~ 1240 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d.<07 Sep 1296 in Hedingham Castle, Essex, England
- b.1155 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.03 Nov 1219 in Damietta, Egypt, on way to Holy Land
- b.~ 1195 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.AFT 3 FEB 1262/63
- b.1154 in Leicestershire, England d.ABT 12 JAN 1234/35 in England
- b.1261 in Hedingham Castle, Essex, England d.<23 Nov 1293 in Lewes Priory, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1144 in Herefordshire, England
- b.~ 1170 in Woolston, Essex, England d.1249 in Great Hormead, Royston, Hertfordshire, England
- b.~ 1231 in Great Hormead, Royston, Hertfordshire, England d.~07 Sep 1312
- b.1182 in North Molton, Devonshire, England d.<14 May 1238 in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1205 in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1187 in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England d.28 JAN 1231/32
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