Person:William FitzAlan (34)

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William Fitzalan, 9th Earl of Arundel, 6th Baron Maltravers (23 November 1417 – 1487) was an English nobleman.

Born on 23 November 1417, William was the second son of John Fitzalan, 6th Earl of Arundel (1385–1421), and Eleanor Berkeley (d. 1455), daughter of John Berkeley of Beverston.

His elder brother John Fitzalan, 7th Earl of Arundel, died on 12 June 1435. The title passed to William's nephew Humphrey Fitzalan, 8th Earl of Arundel, who was only a six-year-old with no descendants. William thus became the heir presumptive and, when Humphrey died three years later on 24 April 1438, he succeeded to the title.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
2.   William Fitzalan, 16th Earl of Arundel, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
3.   WILLIAM FitzAlan (23 Nov 1417-1487, bur Arundel), in Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
4.   Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59)
   Volume 1 pages 248 and 249.