Ancestral Trails 2016 » Alice FITZALAN (1374-1415)

Personal data Alice FITZALAN 

• She was born in the year 1374 in Arundel Castle, Arundel, Sussex.
• Title: Lady of Powis, Baroness Cherleton
• (Ancestry) : House of FitzAlan.
• She died October 1415 in Arundel Castle, Arundel, Sussex, she was 41 years old.
• A child of RICHARD FITZALAN and ELIZABETH de BOHUN

Household of Alice FITZALAN

(1) She is married to John CHERLETON.

They got married March 1391/92 at Powys, Glamorgan, Wales, she was 17 years old.

(2) She is married to Henry BEAUFORT.

They got married at Not married.

Child(ren):

1. Joan BEAUFORT  1393-1479 

Notes about Alice FITZALAN

Alice FitzAlan, Baroness Cherleton (1378-1415) was an English noblewoman, being the daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel. She was the wife of John Charleton, 4th Baron Cherleton.

Lady Alice was born in Arundel Castle, Sussex in 1378, one of the seven children of Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel by his first wife Elizabeth de Bohun. She had two brothers, including Thomas Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel, and four sisters, Lady Eleanor FitzAlan, Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan, Lady Joan FitzAlan, and Lady Margaret FitzAlan. Her paternal grandparents were Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel and Eleanor of Lancaster, and her maternal grandparents were William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton and Elizabeth de Badlesmere.

On 21 September 1397, her father was executed at Tower Hill, Cheapside for high treason against King Richard II of England.

Marriage and love affair
Sometime before March 1392 Alice married John Cherleton, 4th Lord Cherleton (25 April 1362 - 19 October 1401). According to popular belief, following her marriage she became the mistress of Cardinal Henry Beaufort, and bore him an illegitimate daughter, Jane Beaufort. In Philip Yorke's The Royal Tribes of Wales, he states that Cardinal Beaufort left an illegitimate daughter by Alice, daughter of Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel.

Genealogist Douglas Richardson also confirms the affair between Alice and the Cardinal. Beaufort did indeed father an illegitimate daughter, Jane Beaufort, possibly before Henry took holy orders on 7 April 1397.

Jane and Sir Edward Stradling had three sons and a daughter, Katherine. Alice's husband died on 19 October 1401, and she herself died before October 1415 around the age of 37.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_FitzAlan,_Baroness_Cherleton

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