William FitzAlan, 18th Earl of Arundel, 8th Baron Maltravers (1476 – 23 January 1544) was an English

England

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 peer

Peerage

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, styled as Lord Maltravers from 1487 to 1524.

FitzAlan was the son of Thomas FitzAlan, 17th Earl of Arundel

Thomas FitzAlan, 17th Earl of Arundel

Thomas FitzAlan, 17th Earl of Arundel, 7th Baron Maltravers was the son of William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel and Joan Neville, daughter of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury and Alice Montagu. He married Margaret Wydeville , who was a younger sister of Queen Elizabeth...

 and on 15 February 1510 he married Lady Anne Percy

Anne FitzAlan, Countess of Arundel

Anne FitzAlan , Countess of Arundel English noblewoman born in Leconfield, Yorkshire, England to Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland and Lady Maud Herbert. On 15 February 1510/11 Anne married William FitzAlan, 18th Earl of Arundel, son of Thomas FitzAlan, 17th Earl of Arundel and Lady Margaret...

, a daughter of the 4th Earl of Northumberland

Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland

Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, KG son of Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland and his wife Eleanor Poynings, daughter of Richard Poynings, Lord Poynings....

. He succeeded to the title of 18th Earl of Arundel on the demise of his father Thomas in 1524 and became Lord Chamberlain

Lord Chamberlain

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 in 1526.

FitzAlan bore the Sceptre with the Dove

Sceptre with the Dove

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 at the coronation of Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn ;c.1501/1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of Henry VIII of England and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right. Henry's marriage to Anne, and her subsequent execution, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that was the...

 in 1533 and later took part in her trial in 1536. During the Dissolution of the Monasteries

Dissolution of the Monasteries

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 he was given large areas of land in Sussex

Sussex

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, including Michelham Priory

Michelham Priory

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. He died in 1544 and was buried at Arundel Castle

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His only son was Henry Fitzalan, 19th Earl of Arundel

Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel

Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel was an English nobleman, who over his long life assumed a prominent place at the court of all the later Tudor sovereigns, probably the only person to do so.-Court career:...

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