Alice de Warenne, Countess of Arundel

Alice de Warenne, Countess of Arundel (15 June 1287 – 23 May 1338) was an English noblewoman and heir apparent to the Earldom of Surrey. In 1305, she married Edmund FitzAlan, 2nd Earl of Arundel.

Family Alice, the only daughter of William de Warenne (1256-1286) and Joan de Vere, daughter of Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford, was born on 15 June 1287 in Warren, Sussex, six months after her father was accidentally killed in a tournament on 15 December 1286. On the death of her paternal grandfather, John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey in 1304, her only sibling John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey succeeded to the earldom. He became estranged from his childless wife and they never reconciled, leaving Alice as the heir presumptive to the Surrey estates and title.

Marriage to the Earl of Arundel In 1305, Alice married Edmund Fitzalan, 2nd Earl of Arundel, the son of Richard Fitzalan, 1st Earl of Arundel and Alice of Saluzzo. He had initially refused her, however, by 1305, he had changed his mind and they were wed. and their chief residence was Arundel Castle in Sussex.

Arundel inherited his title on 9 March 1302 upon his father's death. On 17 November 1326 in Hereford, Arundel was beheaded by order of the Queen, leaving Alice de Warenne a widow. Her husband's estates and titles were forfeited to the Crown following Arundel's execution, but later restored to her eldest son, Richard FitzAlan.

Alice died before 23 May 1338, thus the title of Surrey eventually came into the FitzAlan family and passed to Alice's son, Richard.

Issue Richard FitzAlan, 3rd Earl of Arundel, 8th Earl of Surrey, known as Copped Hat, (1306 Arundel Castle, Sussex – 24 January 1376), also succeeded to the title of Earl of Surrey on 12 April 1361. He married firstly Isabel le Despenser, whom he later repudiated, and was granted an annulment by Pope Clement VI on 4 December 1344 on the grounds that he had been underage and unwilling. He had a son Edmund FitzAlan who was bastardised by the annulment. His second wife, whom he married on 5 February 1345, by Papal dispensation, was Eleanor of Lancaster, with whom he had apparently been having an affair, Eleanor FitzAlan Michael FitzAlan, a clerk

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