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 AKUNDEL. 149 S Vpril 1-t'iO, he had directed his burial to Us at AvumleL His widow if. the next ycir 14:J0. Her will, directing her burial to bo at tliu Abbey of Abbotsbury, dat. ll May im, V- 28 Oct following. XX. 1 13-5- to or 3. Hu.mpiihi'y (Fiiz-Ai.an) Kaiu, rw Akixijkl, &c, only cliibl ami h. by second wife,//. 13 or 30 Jan. 1438 and 0 he wa« Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports. In 1471 he was made K.G. He assisted as " I'inecrnn" nt the coronation of Richard III, as also at that of Henry VII, which King received knighthood at his hands shortly before that cerenvmy. He founded the " Arundel Mass" (by erift of the manor of Aynhoe, c... Northampton", to lie celebrated at Mag. Coll., Oxford. He m. Joau, da. of Hichard (Nkvill'i EvKL ok Sm.imu iiy, by Alice, da. and h. of Thomas (Moxtacute) also Earl of Naliswiiv. She^who was sister of Richard, Kaiu, of WARWICK, well known as the '• Kins,'- Maker" i was tutu, at Arundel. He d. early in the year 14SS in his 71st year, and was hut', there. XXII. 1 tss 17 w 10' Thomas ( Fitz-Ai.ax, afftu Aklwueli.), Karl uf Anrsiif.1, kn., s. and h. He (as " Lord Mnllraveis") was made KB. at the coronation of Kcl. IV in 1461, and K.G. 2(5 Feb. 1473-4. It appears from the (tolls of Pari, that in (1471) 11 Ed. IV, he sat as LOUD MALTHA VERS, though there is no record) c ) of his having been so sum. till 15 Nov. (14S2), 22 Ed. IV, when the writ addressed to him .v.p.) was " Thomie A RUN* DELL HE MALTRAVKRS.'V) in The title of Duke of Touraine was afterwards conferred by the French King, Charles VII, on Archibald t Douglas), 3rd Earl of Douglas [S.] in 1424, but became ex. mi failure of his issue male, iu I 140. (*') His maternal inheritance, the property of the Bryan family, passed t(j his half sister Avice 8t»fford,6. 4 Dec. 1423, who m. James Butler, afterwards Earl of Wiltshire. See an interesting article, by B. W. Greenfield, in "N. and Q.," 5 s. iii, 172. ( c ) This summons was not till eight years after the admission (1433) which confirmed the Earldom of Arundel to the Fitz-Alan family. The delay is accounted for by the absence in France of Karl John and the minority of his successor. It is probable, also, that this William may have been sum. some two or three years e:irlicr, but the lists of summonses from 1 1'SS to 1441 are (unfortunately) lost. (•') PRECEHEKCV OF THE EARLS OF ARUNDKL. In 144t>, Thomas (Court enay), Earl of Devon, challenged the precedence of the Earl of Arundel. The decision of the King, with consent of the Lords of Pari., was "that William, now Earl of Arundel, have, keep, and enjoy his seat, place and pre-eminence in the High Court of Pari., and in the King's Councils and elsewhere in the King's high presence, as Earl of Arundel, bij reason of the Castle, Honour and Lordship of A rundel, as wotohipfully as evev did any of his ancestors, Eavls of Arundel, afore his time, abort the said Earl of Devonshire and his heirs, without letting, challenge or interruption of Lhe said Earl of Devonshire or of his heirs or of any other person." Hot. Pari., v. 110. " Thus ended," adds Canon Tierney, "a controversy which, in its results, confirmed this Parliamentary decision of 1433 and established the Earldom ni its original supremacy of honour above every other similar title of dignity." — See Tienicy's " Hist, of Arundel," vol. i, p. 138. (°)From 13 to 21 Ed. IV no writs are extant. '!) Ri.dk.-t Sons of Peeks sum. to Paul. v.f. in ohk of thbir Fathers' Peerages. [A list of such, down to 32 Car. II, is given at p. 579 of Dugdale's "Summons."] Those sum. in and before the 16th century are as under. I. Thomas Fitz Alan, alhs Ahundkll, s. and b. ap. of William, Earl of Arundel, sum. as Loru Ahundkll de Maltha vkrs, 22 Ed. IV, 1 Ric. Ill and 1 Hen. VII, being Vlie first instance of any so summoned.