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b) JOHN FitzAlan (-before 15 Mar 1240). An undated writ reports the death of "William Fitz Alan" is reported at "Clun in company with his brother John…at Easter last", dated to [1215][82].

m firstly ISABEL d'Aubigny, daughter of WILLIAM Earl of Arundel & his wife Mabel of Chester (-before 1240). The Annales Londonienses name "Mabiliam, Nicholaam, Ceciliam et Isabellam" as the four daughters of "secunda…Mabillia…uxor comitis de Arundelle", specifying that "Isabella" married "Johanni filio Alani"[83].

m secondly HAWISE de Blancminster, daughter of --- (-before 19 Sep 1242). Writs-Close were addressed to the sheriffs of Sussex and elsewhere relative to the assignment of the dower of "Hawyse de Albo Monasterio, widow of John fitz Alan" 15 Mar 1240[84]. Her dower devolved to the estate of her stepson John FitzAlan 19 Sep 1242[85].

John & his first wife had one child:

i) JOHN ([May 1223]-1267 before 10 Nov). The Annales Londonienses name "Johannem" as the son of "Johanni filio Alani" & his wife[86]. He succeeded his father in 1240 as Lord of Clun and Oswestry. The castle of Arundel was awarded to him 27 Nov 1243 as part of the inheritance of his maternal uncle Hugh de Albini Earl of Arundel, but he was never known by the title of Earl of Arundel[87].

m (before 10 Oct 1242) as her first husband, MATILDA de Verdun, daughter of --- (-27 Nov 1283). Two contradictory sources record Matilda’s parentage. The earlier document indicates that she was the daughter of Rohese, daughter of Nicholas de Verdun: “Roes de Verdun” paid the king to avoid demands for money from the executors of the will of “Johis fil Alani”, relating to money owed to “Johi fil pfati Johis qui duxit in ux fil pfate Roes”, dated 10 Oct 1242[88]. If this first document is correct, she was Matilda de Verdun, daughter of Theobald Butler [Le Botiller] & his second wife Rohese de Verdun ([1226/30]-[1243] or 27 Nov 1283. Secondly, a later document names Clementia, wife of Nicholas, as her mother: an undated inquisition (other related inquisitions are dated Feb 1273) after the death of "Robert Waleraund" which records that the deceased held "Stupellaunton [Steeple Lavington, otherwise Market Lavington, Wiltshire]...of the gift of Lady Maud de Albo Monasterio [=“Oswaldestre, which is called Blancmostre”, as recorded in the inquisitions of her son John, see below] sometime the wife of Sir John son of Alan, who had the land in free marriage from Lady Clemence de Verdun her mother"[89]. The original conveyance is recorded in an abstract of the 1269 fine by “Maud Whitechurch” to “Robert Walrond”[90]. If that second document is correct, she was Matilda de Verdun, daughter of Nicholas de Verdun & his wife Clementia le Botiler ([1220/25?]-27 Nov 1283). No document has been found which clarifies which of these two documents is correct, although no primary source has been identified which excludes the possibility of two different persons named Matilda de Verdun, whom John FitzAlan married successively. In that case, the requirement for a Papal dispensation for affinity for the second marriage could have been waived if the earlier commitment was a betrothal which was terminated by death before the marriage was completed. She married secondly ([[1269?]/18 Mar 1272]) Richard de Amundeville. Inquisitions after the death of [her son] "John son of Alan”, who died “Friday before the Annunciation, 56 Hen. III”, record in Sussex “Swaneburn mills in Arundel...Richard de Mandeville and Maud his wife hold 1/3 of the mills as dower of the said Maud”[91]. Matilda’s family origin and second marriage are confirmed by Inquisitions "Wednesday after Epiphany 12 Edw I", after the death of "Maud (late) the wife of Richard de Amundevyl alias Lady Maud de Verdun”, which name “Richard son of John (son) of the said Alan age unknown is her next heir...Richard son of Alan aged 18 at the feast of St. Michael last is her next heir”, found that she died “on Saturday after St. Katherine 12 Edw I”[92].

John & his wife had one child ...

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John Fitzalan (died 1240)

Wikipedia, updated 30 December 2020

John Fitzalan, 3rd Lord of Clun and Oswestry (1200–1240[1]) in the Welsh Marches in the county of Shropshire.

Family John succeeded his brother, William Fitz Alan, 2nd Lord of Oswestry and Clun, who died in 1215 without issue. They were sons of William Fitz Alan, 1st Lord of Oswestry and Clun (d. c1210) and the daughter of Hugh de Lacy, name unknown; The FitzAlans were descendants of Alan fitzFlaad, a Breton.[2]

Royal Conflicts
He was one of the feudal barons who became a target for the anger of King John of England, whose forces attacked Oswestry town and burned it in 1216. John FitzAlan was close to Llywelyn ap Iorwerth until 1217.

He was also a representative of the Crown in a dispute between King Henry III of England and the Welsh leader, Llywelyn the Great in 1226. In the same year he mediated between a neighbour, William Pantulf (died 1233),[3] Lord of Wem in Shropshire and Madog ap Gruffydd (died 1236), Lord of Powys and a cousin to Llywelyn ap Iorwerth.

In 1233/4 during the conflict between King Henry III, the Earl Marshal, and Llywelyn the Great, John FitzAlan sided firmly with the Crown and Oswestry was again attacked, this time by Welsh forces.

Marriage
He married Isabel d'Aubigny, daughter of William d'Aubigny, 3rd Earl of Arundel and Mabel of Chester, and they were parents of:

• John Fitzalan, Lord of Clun & Oswestry, and Arundel, whose grandson became Earl of Arundel.[4]

Notes

1. Cokayne, G. E., edited by Vicary Gibbs & H. A. Doubleday, The Complete Peerage, London, 1926, vol.v., p. 392
2. Cokayne (1926) vol. v., p.391-2
3. Dictionary of National Biography, Supplement (Volume 22), page 998. Accessed via ancestry.com paid subscription site, December 2018.
4. Cokayne (1926) vol. v., p. 392

Chetwynd-Stapylton, H. E. 1892. The Chetwynds of Ingestre Being a History of That Family from a Very Early Date. London: Longman’s, Green, and Co. pp. 13-15.

Archæologia Cambrensis, the Journal of the Cambrian Archæological Association, Vol. XI. Fifth Series. London: Charles J. Clark, 1894. p. 62.

Sharpe’s Peerage of The British Empire, Exhibiting Its Present State, and Deducing the Existing Descents from the Ancient Nobility of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 2. London: John Sharpe, John Andrews, John Hatchard and Son, and N. Hailes, 1830.

Eyton, Robert William. 1860. Antiquities of Shropshire, Vol. XI. London: John Russell Smith. pp. 229-231.

FitzAlans in: Transactions of the Shropshire Archæological and Natural History Society Established 1877, 3rd Series, Vol. IX. Shrewsbury: Adnitt & Naunton; Oswestry: Woodall, Mishall, Thomas & Co., 1909.