Alice of Saluzzo, Countess of Arundel

Alice of Saluzzo
Alice of Saluzzo
Countess of Arundel
Born	Unknown; Eleanor Fitzalan
House	Aleramici (by birth); Fitzalan (by marriage)
Father	Thomas I of Saluzzo
Mother	Luigia di Ceva

Alice of Saluzzo, Countess of Arundel (died 25 September 1292)^[1] also known as Alesia di Saluzzo, was a Savoyard noblewoman and an English countess. She was daughter of Thomas I of Saluzzo, and the wife of Richard Fitzalan, 1st Earl of Arundel. She assumed the title of Countess of Arundel in 1289.

Family

Alice was born on an unknown date in

Marquis of Ceva.^[1] Alice 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.^{[citation needed]} She was niece of Alasia of Saluzzo, who in 1247 had married an English nobleman, Edmund de Lacy, Baron of Pontefract, and was a more distant kinswoman of Eleanor of Provence, queen consort of Henry III of England

.

Marriage and issue

Sometime before 1285, Alice married Richard Fitzalan,

Isabella Mortimer

. Richard would succeed to the title of Earl of Arundel in 1289, thus making Alice the 8th Countess of Arundel. Her marriage had been arranged by her kinswoman, the widowed queen consort Eleanor.

Richard and Alice's principal residence was

Scottish Wars. The marriage produced four^{[clarification needed]} children:^{[citation needed}

]

Alice de Warenne
, by whom he had issue.
John FitzAlan, a priest
Alice FitzAlan (died 17 Mar 1416), married Stephen de Segrave, 3rd Lord Segrave, by whom she had issue.
Margaret FitzAlan, married William le Botiller, by whom she had issue.
Henry de Percy, 1st Baron Percy
, by whom she had issue.

Alice died on 25 September 1292 and was buried in Haughmond Abbey, Shropshire. Alice's husband Richard died on 9 March 1302 and was buried alongside her. In 1341, provision was made for twelve candles to be burned beside their tombs.^[1] The abbey is now a ruin as the result of a fire during the English Civil War.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Cokayne, G. E. (1910). Gibbs, Vicary (ed.). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant (Ab-Adam to Basing). Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). London: The St Catherine Press. p. 241.

[CP-241-1] Cokayne, G. E. (1910). Gibbs, Vicary (ed.). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant (Ab-Adam to Basing). Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). London: The St Catherine Press. p. 241.

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