FitzAlan is an English

patronymic surname A patronymic surname is a surname originated from the given name of the father or a patrilineal ancestor. Different cultures have different ways of producing patronymic surnames. For example, early patronymic Welsh surnames were the result of th ...

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origin, descending from the Breton knight

Alan fitz Flaad Alan fitz Flaad (c. 1078 – after 1121) was a Breton knight, probably recruited as a mercenary by Henry I of England in his conflicts with his brothers. After Henry became King of England, Alan became an assiduous courtier and obtained large es ...

(d. 1120), who accompanied king Henry I to England on his succession. He was grandson of the Seneschal of the

Bishop of Dol The Breton and French Catholic diocese of Dol existed from 848 to the French Revolution. It was suppressed by the Concordat of 1801. Its see was Dol Cathedral. Its scattered territory (deriving from the holdings of the Celtic monastery, and inclu ...

. The FitzAlan family shared a common patrilineal ancestry with the House of Stuart. The FitzAlans held the

Earldom of Arundel Earl of Arundel is a title of nobility in England, and one of the oldest extant in the English peerage. It is currently held by the Duke of Norfolk, and is used (along with the Earl of Surrey) by his heir apparent as a courtesy title. The ea ...

from 1267 to 1580. Variants of this surname include Fitz-Alan, Fitzalan, Fitzallen, and Fitz Alan. The noble family of bearing this surname would eventually abandon their patronymic in favor of a toponymic surname, Arundel or Arundell, a reference to their title in the

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, but use of the FitzAlan surname is often retained in the historical literature.

Family members

Notable people with the surname FitzAlan include: * Walter Fitz Alan (d. 1177) * William FitzAlan, Lord of Oswestry (1105–1160), an important Marcher lord and supporter of Empress Matilda, elder brother of Walter Fitz Alan. * William Fitz Alan, 1st Lord of Oswestry and Clun (died 1210), son of William FitzAlan, Lord of Oswestry, and a Marcher lord under the early Plantagenet kings. *

William Fitz Alan, 2nd Lord of Oswestry and Clun William Fitz Alan was a Norman nobleman who lived in Oswestry and Clun near Shrewsbury, along the medieval Welsh Marches. William was the son of William Fitz Allan, controlling the castles of Clun and Oswestry and later became the High Sheri ...

(died 1215), son of William Fitz Alan, 1st Lord of Oswestry and Clun; he came into conflict with King John. * John Fitzalan, 3rd Lord of Oswestry and Clun (1200–1240), son of William Fitz Alan, 1st Lord of Oswestry and Clun; he married into the d'Aubigny family, thus acquiring the Arundel earldom for the FitzAlans. * John FitzAlan 6th Earl of Arundel (1223–1267) * John FitzAlan, 7th Earl of Arundel (1246–1272) *

Richard FitzAlan, 8th Earl of Arundel Richard FitzAlan, 1st Earl of Arundel (3 February 1267 – 9 March 1302) was an English nobleman and soldier. Lineage He was the son of John Fitzalan III and Isabella Mortimer, daughter of Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Wigmore and Maud de B ...

(1267–1302), who received a writ in 1289, at his majority, summoning him to Parliament; this is thought to perhaps be a creation of another Earldom of Arundel.G E Cokayne, et al., The Complete Peerage (London 1910-1958, 3rd of 14 vols.) * Richard FitzAlan, 1st or 8th Earl of Arundel (1267–1302) * Edmund FitzAlan, 2nd or 9th Earl of Arundel (1285–1326) (forfeit 1326) * Richard FitzAlan, 3rd or 10th Earl of Arundel (1313–1376) (restored 1331) * Richard FitzAlan, 4th or 11th Earl of Arundel (1346–1397) (forfeit 1397) * Thomas FitzAlan, 5th or 12th Earl of Arundel (1381–1415) (restored 1400) * John FitzAlan, 6th or 13th Earl of Arundel (1385–1421) * John FitzAlan, 7th or 14th Earl of Arundel (1408–1435) * Humphrey FitzAlan, 8th or 15th Earl of Arundel (1429–1438) * William FitzAlan, 9th or 16th Earl of Arundel (1417–1487) * Thomas FitzAlan, 10th or 17th Earl of Arundel (1450–1524) * William FitzAlan, 11th or 18th Earl of Arundel (1476–1544) * Henry FitzAlan, 12th or 19th Earl of Arundel (1512–1580) *

Eleanor FitzAlan Eleanor Fitzalan (c. 1284 – July/August 1328) was an alleged daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 1st Earl of Arundel and his wife Alice of Saluzzo. She became the wife of Henry de Percy, 1st Baron Percy. Their son was Henry de Percy, 2nd Baron Percy. ...

(ca. 1284 – ca. 1328) * Bryan FitzAlan, Lord FitzAlan (d. 1306) *

Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan Elizabeth de Mowbray, Duchess of Norfolk (née Lady Elizabeth Fitzalan; 1366 – 8 July 1425) was an English noblewoman and the wife of Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk. Through her eldest daughter, Lady Margaret Mowbray, Elizabeth was an a ...

(1366–1425) * Thomas FitzAlan (died 1430), English knight Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk (1815–1860), the 13th Earl of Arundel of the Fourth Creation (1580), revived the use of the Fitzalan surname in the

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form "Fitzalan-Howard". Edmund FitzAlan-Howard (1855–1947), son of the 14th Duke of Norfolk was raised up to the Peerage as "Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent" in 1921 when he was appointed

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Lady Marcia Fitzalan-Howard Lady Marcia Mary Josephine Fitzalan-Howard (born 10 March 1953), known as Marsha Fitzalan, is an English actress. Personal life Born in 1953, Marcia FitzAlan-Howard was the third daughter of Major Miles Fitzalan-Howard, 17th Duke of Norfolk an ...

(b. 1953), daughter of the 17th Duke of Norfolk, uses the stage name Marsha Fitzalan as an actress.

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