Alice Fitz Alan

  General Notes:

Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 28:34-35 & Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, Weis, 35:8, gives Alice's parents as Edmund Fitz Alan and Sibyl Montagu, daughter of William Montagu. Most other sources, Burke and Collins including, also call Alice the daughter of Sir Edmund Fitz Alan. Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, on the other hand makes her the daughter of Richard Fitz Alan and Isabel Despenser and the sister of Edmund.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ¹¹⁷¹
Sir Leonard Carew, son and heir age 20 at death of his father, died 4 Oct 1369, Inq. p.m. 14 Edw. III, No.12, and married Alice, daughter of Edmund Fitz-Alan de Arundell, Kt., younger brother to Richard Earl of Arundell. Sir Leonard and Alice were parents of Thomas Carew, Baron Hydron, son and heir, age 8 years at the death of his father, ob. 9 Hen. VI, who married to Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Sir William Bonville of Shute.

~The Visitations of Cornwall: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1530, 1573 & 1620, pp. 67, 70

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Sir Leonard de Carew, born 1342 and died 1370, married Alice, the daughter of Richard Fitz Alan and his first wife Isabel le Despenser, daughter of Sir Hugh le Despenser, the younger by Eleanor, daughter and coheir of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, pp. 242-244

Alice married Sir Leonard de Carew Knight, son of Sir John de Carew Knight and Margaret de Mohun, in 1366 in Moulsford, Berkshire, England ¹¹⁷¹.^,1209 (Sir Leonard de Carew Knight was born on 23 Apr 1342 in Stoke Fleming, Devonshire, England and died on 9 Oct 1369 in Moulsford, Berkshire, England ¹¹⁷¹.)