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Together they were responsible for the security of much of the frontier from the lower edge of
Cheshire to southern Herefordshire. Among other things, Isabella was charged with victualing Oswestry Castle for the incoming garrison at the start of the Anglo-Welsh war of 1282 and, several years earlier, with overseeing much needed repairs to the same castle.
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nineteenth-century sources have led to the enduring misconception that
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earl of
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It was during her protracted widowhood that
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Isabella's husband died, aged around 25, in the spring of 1272, leaving underage children. The couple's son
Richard FitzAlan was a boy of about five at the time of his father's death and was committed to the wardship of his maternal grandfather, Roger Mortimer of Wigmore. Serious errors in our
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