Bryan FitzAlan, Baron FitzAlan Knt. (died 1 June 1306) was
Lord of the Manor of
Bedale
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in
Richmondshire,
Askham Bryan
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in the Ainsty, Bainton, Heworth &c., in
Yorkshire, Bicker and Graby in
Lincolnshire, a
J.P. &c. He was appointed a
Guardian of Scotland
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on 13 June 1291, and was brother-in-law to King
John of Scotland.
Family
He was the son of Sir Alan FitzBryan, Knt., Lord of the Manor of Bedale, &c., (who was slain shortly before 17 May 1276 by Payn de Keu of Brandesburton in self-defence) and his spouse, Agnes, (who was still alive in July 1267) said to be a daughter of Sir Randolph FitzHenry of Ravensworth in Richmondshire. The family claim direct descent from
Conan II, Duke of Brittany
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and
Earl of Richmond.
[Cokayne (1926) vol. v., p. 393]
In 1275–6 Gilbert de Stapleton arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against him and others touching a tenement in Thorntoncolling', Yorkshire. In 1280–1 Peter de Mauley arraigned an assize of darrein presentment against him touching the church of Bampton, Yorkshire. In 1280–1 Peter de Mauley arraigned an assize of darrein presentment against him touching the church of Beyntoz.
On the Wednesday before St. Martin, 1290, he founded by charter, at Bedale, a chantry which he appropriated to
Jervaulx Abbey
Jervaulx Abbey in East Witton, 14 miles north-west of the city of Ripon, was one of the great Cistercian abbeys of Yorkshire, England, dedicated to St Mary in 1156. It is a Grade I listed building.
The place name ''Jervaulx'' is first att ...
to pray for the souls of the late Countess of Richmond, of Alan his father and Agnes his mother, Muriel his (first) wife, and Thomas, Robert, and Theobald, his sons, &c.
On 20 September 1291, he had a licence to crenellate his house at
Killerby, near
Catterick, in the
wapentake of
East Hang, according to
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Scotland
Sir Bryan was on the King's service in
Wales in 1277 and 1287. On 1 May 1285, being about to go beyond the seas on pilgrimage, he had Letters of Protection from the Crown for two years. He was Constable of both
Roxburgh Castle
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and
Jedburgh
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Castle from 4 August 1291 to 18 November 1292, and those of
Dundee and
Forfar from 1290 until the same day. He was present at the assemblies held at
Berwick-upon-Tweed in October and November 1292 during the discussions surrounding the
Great Cause. As a Guardian of Scotland he was one of those commanded on 18 November 1292 to give sasine of the
Kingdom of Scotland to
John de Balliol
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.
On 12 July 1297 he was appointed Captain for the defence of
Northumberland and, on 18 October following, a Keeper of the Scottish Marches in that county. He was constituted Keeper of Scotland, at a salary of 2,000 marks a year, on 18 August 1297. He served at the
Battle of Falkirk
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on 22 July 1298, and was at the siege of
Caerlaverock Castle
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in July 1300.
Peerage
Sir Bryan was summoned for Military Service from 6 April 1282 to 7 November 1302, to a Military Council on 14 June 1287, and to attend upon the King at
Salisbury on 26 January 1298. He was summoned to parliament from 24 June 1295 to 22 January 1305 by Writs directed to ''Briano filio Alani'' whereby he is held to have become Lord FitzAlan. As he took part in the
Barons' Letter to the Pope, dated 12 February 1301.
[Cokayne (1926) vol. v., p. 394]
Death
Lord FitzAlan was buried in Bedale Church next to his first wife. The lordship passed into abeyance with the death of Lord Lovell in the
Wars of the Roses
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. This was true until Lord Beaumont petitioned for the restoration of titles, following the discovery of the remains of the said
Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell in a chamber. It was previously thought that his line was not entitled to succeed him, but it turned out that there was a technicality and so, the Errington assumer of the name Stapleton of Carlton Towers, who had inherited from Lord Lovell's sister, ended up having the titles reversed to him. The Duke of Norfolk married the Baroness Beaumont and thus, the Lordship of Bedale is genetically Howard these days, although, also as
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reports, they no longer own any land in the township of Bedale. Long occupants of
Aiskew
Aiskew is a village in the civil parish of Aiskew and Leeming Bar, in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England. The village is situated to the immediate north-east of Bedale and separated from it by Bedale Beck.
History
Remains of ...
and recusant supporters of Catholic revival in the 19th century, the FitzScolland, FitzAlan, Stapleton, Grey of Rotherfield, Deincourt, Lovell, Errington, etc. family inheritance is now taken to be assumed by the
Beresford-Peirse baronets, who are part of a long line of landlords from different local families who bought their way into the manor, or foreigners who were appointed there from the time of Henry VII and Elizabeth I, beginning with the attainders of Lovell and of Simon Digby in the
Rising of the North. The most recent time of disruption in the land ownership (which ultimately failed) was when Parliament charged the Stapletons with papacy and the Peirses with malignancy, as a means of purging the Catholic and Anglican stronghold out of this region.
Marriage
He married twice: (1) Muriel (surname unknown), who died before 8 November 1290 and is buried in Bedale Church, and (2) before 2 July 1297, Maud, who was buried in the Church of the
Black Friars
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at
York.
[Cokayne (1926) vol. v., p.395] This second wife was a daughter of
John de Balliol
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(d. 1268), Lord of
Barnard Castle
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, by his spouse
Devorguilla (d. 1290) daughter of
Alan, Lord of Galloway
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(d. 1234). Devorguilla was a great-great-granddaughter of King
David I of Scotland
David I or Dauíd mac Maíl Choluim ( Modern: ''Daibhidh I mac haoilChaluim''; – 24 May 1153) was a 12th-century ruler who was Prince of the Cumbrians from 1113 to 1124 and later King of Scotland from 1124 to 1153. The youngest son of Malc ...
. His widow, Maud, was living 10 April 1340, when she granted the advowson of the church of Rokeby, together with a messuage and a bovate and a half of land, to Egglestone Abbey to celebrate services for her good estate during her lifetime, and for her soul after her death, and for the souls of Brian her husband and John de Grey of Rotherfield, their ancestors and heirs, and all the faithful deceased.
Of Lord FitzAlan's sons by his first marriage (Thomas, Robert and Theobald) nothing is known, but it appears they were all dead by 1290 when he commissioned a chapel dedicated to prayers for them and their mother. His daughters by his second marriage were his co-heirs in his landed estates. They were also co-heiresses to his brother, Theobald.
The
Lordship of the Manor of Bedale passed via the eldest daughter:
* Agnes, (b. 1298) whose marriage was granted on 10 May 1306 (when she was just 8 years old) to Sir Miles de Stapleton of Carlton,
Yorkshire for his younger son: Sir Gilbert Stapleton, Knt., (died 1321). Their son, Sir
Miles Stapleton of Bedale
Sir Miles Stapleton of Bedale (or of Cotherstone) KG (1320?–1364) was an English knight, one of the Knights Founder of the Order of the Garter.
Biography
He was the eldest son of Sir Gilbert de Stapleton, Knt. (d. 1321), and paternal grandson ...
, was a Knight Founder of the
Order of the Garter. Their great-great-grandson, Sir
Miles Stapleton
Sir Miles Stapleton, KG (c. 1408 – 1 October 1466) was Lord of the Manor of Ingham, Norfolk and ''de jure'' Baron Ingham of Ingham, Norfolk, and Lord of the Manor of Bedale, Yorkshire.
Family
Sir Miles Stapleton was the son of Sir Br ...
of Bedale, also held the feudal barony of
Ingham, Norfolk
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The c ...
.
[Foster, Joseph,
''The Dictionary of Heraldry - Feudal Coats of Arms and Pedigrees'', London, pp. 180-81, 1989 reprint of 1902 original.]
The present heir is
Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 18th Duke of Norfolk, grandson of
Mona Fitzalan-Howard, 11th Baroness Beaumont
Mona Josephine Tempest Fitzalan-Howard, 11th Baroness Beaumont, Baroness Howard of Glossop, OBE (née Stapleton; 1 August 1894 – 31 August 1971) was a British peer.
Personal life
Mona was the elder of two daughters of Miles Stapleton, 10th Bar ...
, whose paternal forebear Nicholas Errington assumed the surname Stapleton upon marriage to the Stapleton heiress.
* Katherine (1300 - d. before 7 August 1328) married Sir
John de Grey, 1st Baron Grey of Rotherfield, K.G. (9 October 1300 – 1 September 1359).
References
Sources
*''Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford, 1904. (Entry).
*Foster, Joseph, editor, ''The Visitation of Yorkshire 1584/85'' by Robert Glover,
Somerset Herald
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, plus that made in 1612 by Richard St.George,
Norroy King of Arms
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, London, 1875, pp. 294, 332, where Sir Bryan's
Arms are given as: "Barry of eight Or and Gules".
*Richardson, Douglas, ''Plantagenet Ancestry'',
Baltimore
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, Maryland: 2004, pp. 554, 682.
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13th-century births
1306 deaths
14th-century English people
Barons in the Peerage of England
People from Bedale