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Name:
William II Eaton Fitzalan
 Relationship to Richard de VERNON
Birth:
ABT 1105 Oswestry Castle, Shropshire, England
Father:
Alan Fitzflaald
Mother:
Aveline De Hesdin
Married:
Christian (Nmn-William) Fitzalan
Children:
Married:
Helen Peverel ABT 1135
Children:
Married:
Isabel De Say BEF 1146 1st Husband 2ND Wife
Children:
Robert De Eaton
Born: ABT 1145
Died: DECEASED
William III Fitzalan
Born: ABT 1148 Oswestry Castle, Shropshire, England
Died: 1210 Oswestry Castle, Shropshire, England
Married:
Christian Of Gloucester ABT 1135 1st Wife
Children:
Christian Fitzalan
Born: 1150 Oswestry Castle, Shropshire, England
Died: DECEASED
Death:
1160 Oswestry Castle, Shropshire, England aged 54
Remarks:
Name Prefix: Sir
Name Suffix: Baron Of Oswestry
William FitzAlan;feudal Baron of Oswestry, Sheriff Salop and Castellan of Shrewsbury 1138; besieged there as an adherent of the Empress Maud by King Stephen; restored to his lands by Henry II 1155 and set about recovering the Barony of Oswestry, by now in Welsh hands; founder of Haughmond Abbey; m. 1st Christian, possibly a niece of Robert FitzRoy, 1st Earl of Goucester of the 1122 cr., illegitimate son of Henry I, and had a daughter (Christian, m Hugh Pantulf); m 2nd Isabel....daughter and heir of Ingram de Say, feudal Lord of Clun, Salop and d. 1160. [Burke's Peerage]

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William FitzAlan, in the contest between King Stephen and the Empress Maud, being then governorof Shrewsbury and sheriff of the county of Salop, held the castle of Shrewsbury for the latter until it was taken by assault. He was also with the empress atthe siege of Winchester Castle in the 6th Stephen [1141], when she and her whole army were put to flight; and afterwards, continuing to adhere stoutly to thesame cause, he was reconstituted sheriff of Salop so soon as King Henry attained the crown. This William m. Isabel, dau. and heir of Helias de Say, Lady of Clun, niece of Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and dying some time before 1160, was s. by his son, William FitzAlan. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 200, Fitz-Alan, Earls of Arundel, Barons Maltravers]

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