FitzFlàald, Sir Alan

1076 - 1121  (45 years)

• Name	FitzFlàald, Alan  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Title	Sir
  Birth	1076	Dol, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France   [1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Gender	Male
  Military	Mercenary for King Henry I of England  [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Life Event	1086  [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  	Witness to Mezuoit Charter in France
  Military	1097  [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  	Took part in the First Crusade
  Appointments / Titles	Lord  [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Appointments / Titles	Sir Knight  [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Life Event	Oswestry, Shropshire, England   [1, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  	Chevalier (Knight) breton et baron de Oswerty
  Life Event	Shropshire, England   [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  	Sheriff of Shropshire
  Life Event	Dol, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France   [1, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  	Steward of Dol
  FSID	K2NQ-X1C  [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Religion	Founder of the Sporle Priory  [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Death	1121	Oswestry Castle, Oswestry, Shropshire, England   [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Burial	1121	Shropshire, England   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Person ID	I33436	The Thoma Family
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	FitzAlan, Fledaldus,   b. 1046, Dol, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France d. 1106, Dol, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France (Age 60 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	verch Griffith, Guenta,   b. 1050, Dol, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France d. 1084, Wales (Age 34 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F12992	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	de Hesdin, Lady Avelina,   b. 1088, Hesdin-l'Abbé, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France d. 1126, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England (Age 38 years)
  Marriage	1114	Dol, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France   [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Children	1. FitzAlan, William I,   b. 8 Jan 1105, Shropshire, England d. 1160, Oswestry, Shropshire, England (Age 54 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F12988	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1076 - Dol, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France Life Event - Chevalier (Knight) breton et baron de Oswerty - - Oswestry, Shropshire, England Life Event - Sheriff of Shropshire - - Shropshire, England Life Event - Steward of Dol - - Dol, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France Marriage - 1114 - Dol, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France Death - 1121 - Oswestry Castle, Oswestry, Shropshire, England Burial - 1121 - Shropshire, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  After an anonymous work of 1874 drew attention to a strong connection between Alan Fitz Flaad and Brittany, and confirmed Flaad's relationship to Alan the Seneschal, J. Horace Round definitively established and publicized Alan Fitz Flaad's true Breton origins Alan had two wives, the first one died about 1114 and is not known by name, they had one child together, he then married Avelina before 1126 and had the rest of the children known. Do not merge those wives please. Check sources below. Alan fitz Flaad was a Breton knight, probably recruited as a mercenary by Henry, son of William the Conqueror, in his conflicts with his brothers. After Henry became King of England, Alan became an assiduous courtier and obtained large estates in Norfolk, Sussex, Shropshire, and elsewhere in the Midlands, including the feudal barony and castle of Oswestry in Shropshire. Progenitor of Stewart Kings of Scotland and FitzAlan Earls of Arundel

  
  

• Sources

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