John FitzAlan, 7th Earl of Arundel (14 September 1246 – 18 March 1272) was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 nobleman. He was also feudal Lord of Clun

Clun

Clun is a small town in Shropshire, England. The town is located entirely in the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The 2001 census recorded 642 people living in the town...

 and Oswestry

Oswestry

Oswestry is a town and civil parish in Shropshire, England, close to the Welsh border. It is at the junction of the A5, A483, and A495 roads....

 in the Welsh Marches

Welsh Marches

The Welsh Marches is a term which, in modern usage, denotes an imprecisely defined area along and around the border between England and Wales in the United Kingdom. The precise meaning of the term has varied at different periods...

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Family

He was the son of John FitzAlan, 6th Earl of Arundel

John FitzAlan, 6th Earl of Arundel

John FitzAlan , Lord of Oswestry and Clun, and de jure Earl of Arundel, was a Breton-English nobleman and Marcher Lord with lands in the Welsh Marches.-Family:...

 (d. 1267), and Maud de Verdun, daughter of Theobald le Botiller

Theobald le Botiller

Theobald le Botiller, also known as Theobald Boteler, Theobald Butler, 2nd Baron Butler was the son of Theobald Walter, 1st Baron Butler and Maud le Vavasour. He had livery of his lands on 18 July 1222....

 (or Boteler) and Rohese (or Rohesia) de Verdun. His paternal grandparents were John Fitzalan, Lord of Oswestry

John Fitzalan, Lord of Oswestry

John FitzAlan, Lord of Clun and Oswestry in the Welsh Marches in the county of Shropshire.-Family:John succeeded his brother, William FitzAlan, Lord of Clun and Oswestry, who died in 1216 without issue. They were sons of William FitzAlan of Oswestry and Isabel, daughter and heiress of Ingram de...

 and Isabel d'Aubigny.

Marriage

Lord Arundel married Isabella Mortimer (died 1292), daughter of Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Wigmore and Maud de Braose

Maud de Braose, Baroness Wigmore

Maud de Braose, Baroness Wigmore was a noble heiress, and one of the most important, being a member of the powerful de Braose family which held many lordships and domains in the Welsh Marches...

 in 1260. They had a son Richard FitzAlan, 8th Earl of Arundel

Richard FitzAlan, 8th Earl of Arundel

Richard FitzAlan, 8th Earl of Arundel was an English Norman medieval nobleman.- Lineage :...

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