Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: Mercenary for King Henry I of England
• Appointments / Titles: Lord
• Appointments / Titles: Sir Knight
• Life Event: Oswestry, Shropshire, England; Chevalier (Knight) breton et baron de Oswerty
• Life Event: Shropshire, England; Sheriff of Shropshire
• Life Event: Dol, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France; Steward of Dol
• FSID: K2NQ-X1C
• Religion: Founder of the Sporle Priory
• Life Event: 1086; Witness to Mezuoit Charter in France
• Military: 1097; Took part in the First Crusade

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

Alan married de Hesdin, Lady Avelina in 1114 in Dol, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France. Avelina (daughter of de Hesdin, Sir Ernulf and Baladon, Lady Emmelina) was born in 1088 in Hesdin-l'Abbé, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; died in 1126 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England; was buried in 1126 in Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Oswestry, Shropshire, England; Lord
• FSID: LCTX-HJN

Notes:

William FitzAlan (1105–1160) was a nobleman of Breton ancestry. He was a major landowner, a Marcher lord with large holdings in Shropshire, where he was the Lord of Oswestry, as well as in Norfolk and Sussex. He took the side of Empress Matilda during the Anarchy and underwent considerable hardship in the Angevin cause before regaining his lands and former status. William's younger brother, Walter fitz Alan (d. 1177), became ancestor of the royal House of Stuart.

Background and early life
William was born around 1105. He was the eldest son and heir of Alan fitz Flaad, a Breton noble whose family were closely associated with the sacred environs of Dol-de-Bretagne, close to the border with Normandy and a short distance south-west of the great abbey of Mont Saint-Michel. Alan was a close ally of Henry I of England (1100-1135), who was determined to insert reliable supporters into strategically key areas after the disloyalty of Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, who had a strong support network in the Marches. Alan received extensive fiefs in Shropshire and Norfolk from around the beginning of Henry's reign and more as he proved his worth. Much of the Shropshire land was taken from the holdings of Rainald de Bailleul, ancestor of the House of Balliol, as was land around Peppering, near Arundel in Sussex.[1]

William's mother was Avelina de Hesdin. Her father was Ernulf de Hesdin (also transcribed as Arnulf), a crusader baron from Hesdin in Artois, which was a fief of the County of Flanders and only loosely attached to France. Ernulf built up large holdings in Staffordshire and Gloucestershire. After his death in the First Crusade, Avelina's brother, also called Ernulf, inherited his lands and titles.

Baron and rebel
William succeeded his father around 1114, probably still aged under 10. He was appointed the High Sheriff of Shropshire by Adeliza of Louvain, the second wife of Henry I.[2] His first notable appearance is as a witness to King Stephen's charter to Shrewsbury Abbey in 1136.

As Sheriff of the county, William was also castellan of Shrewsbury Castle. In 1138, he joined in the revolt against Stephen and garrisoned the castle against the king. After resisting the attacks of the royal army for a month,[2] he fled with his family in August 1138, leaving the castle to be defended by his uncle, Ernulf de Hesdin. When the town fell, Stephen acted in anger, hanging Ernulf and 93 others immediately, frightening the local people and magnates into transferring their allegiance to him.[2]

William was deprived of his lands and titles and spent the next fifteen years in exile, until the accession of Henry II to power in place of Stephen in 1153–4.[2][3] He was a close supporter of the Angevin cause, accompanying the Empress or her son on numerous occasions. He was present with Empress Matilda at Oxford in the summer of 1141,[4] and shortly after at the siege of Winchester Castle. He remained in attendance on her at Devizes, witnessing the charter addressed to himself by which she grants Aston to Shrewsbury Abbey. In June 1153 he was present with Henry FitzEmpress, then Duke of Normandy, at Leicester. It was during this period that his younger brother, Walter, used the family's royal connections to make a new career in Scotland under David I of Scotland, an uncle of the Empress.

William's active support did not end with Henry's accession to the throne. In July 1155, when the king marched against Hugh de Mortimer, a turbulent Marcher lord who had been a key supporter of Stephen, and recaptured the castles at Shrewsbury and Bridgnorth, William FitzAlan was the chief beneficiary. At Bridgnorth 'the king restored his lands' and William there received the feudal homage of his tenants. Thus he regained his paternal fief. He was also restored as High Sheriff of Shropshire in 1155, holding the post until his death in 1160.

Benefactor
It was probably between 1130 and 1138 that FitzAlan made the first recorded grant to Haughmond Abbey: a fishery at Preston Boats on the River Severn, near Shrewsbury.[1] It is possible that there was a hermitage or a small religious community at Haughmond even in his father's time, and a small church from this earlier period has been revealed by excavations on the site, so it is not clear that William was the founder of the abbey. However, it was he who set it on a secure financial basis, with a series of important land grants in Shropshire and Sussex, which were reciprocated by other magnates in the region. Haughmond received lands from the Empress, confirmed by Stephen and Henry II. William continued to make benefactions to it when he returned from exile, including the wealthy portionary church of Wroxeter, declaring his intention to increase the number of priests there too. He also made grants to nearby Lilleshall Abbey, another Augustinian house.[5] Though not the founder of Wombridge Priory, a smaller Augustinian house, he sanctioned its foundation by the Hadley family, his vassals.[6] It was, however, Haughmond that became the FitzAlan shrine, with all heads of the family after William buried there for a century and a half.[1]

Death and burial
William died around Easter 1160. He was buried at Shrewsbury Abbey, according to Eyton, noted in the Haughmond Abbey history ("After William FitzAlan (I), who left his body for burial in Shrewsbury Abbey").[1]

Family and heritage
William's first wife was Christiana. She was the niece of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, an illegitimate son of Henry I, and thus cousin to William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester, who was a principal supporter of the Empress. She was the mother of his heir and other children.

William's eldest son and heir was also called William FitzAlan.
Christiana, their daughter married Hugh Pantulf, 4th Baron of Wem, a later High Sheriff of Shropshire.
His wife Christiana died before William regained his ancestral estates in 1155. Henry II therefore gave him the hand of Isabel de Say.[7] She was the sole heiress of Helias de Say, who held the lordship of Clun[8] and was an early benefactor of Haughmond Abbey. Clun was to pass to the FitzAlans on the death of Helias, but he outlived William, so it passed to his son, the second William. Isabel brought prestige as well as land.

The FitzAlans remained important Marcher lords and magnates in central England for several centuries. A strategic marriage with their Sussex neighbours, the d'Aubigny family, brought the FitzAlans the rich and important Earldom of Arundel. This they held from 1243 until 1580. It was as earls of Arundel that William FitzAlan's descendants made their most important mark on the history of England.

In literature
The taking of Shrewsbury in 1138 by King Stephen, including the escape of William FitzAlan and the hanging of the supporters who did not escape, was the historical background for the novel One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters.[9] Agents of FitzAlan are characters in a few of the later novels in The Cadfael Chronicles.

Buried:
Abby

William married of England, Christiana in 1140 in Oswestry, Shropshire, England. Christiana was born in 1120 in England; died in 1153 in Oswestry, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: LH5H-7RJ

Christiana married Pantulf, Hugh in 1170 in Wem, Shropshire, England. Hugh (son of de Pantulf, Ivo and de Verdun, Alicia) was born in 1145 in Wem, Shropshire, England; died on 28 Dec 1224 in Wem, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Life Event: Joan Pantulf d/p Hugh Pantulf & Christiana FitzAlan she had a sister Juiana - 1211 - Philip Haudenby (Holdenby) & Jusliana his wife, held certain lands in Haldenby, which after for death should have descended as his inherirance to ROBERT Trian , her nephew were summoned for enduring to defraud the said Robert, by the adoption of a child and passing the child (Albert Hartstone) as their own
• Life Event: William De Trian was her first husband, William Bouqueto her second, and Philip D\'Aubigny her third.
• FSID: LBPZ-4RC
• Birth: 1194, Oxenton, Gloucestershire, England

Notes:

Joan Pantulf
d/p Hugh Pantulf & Christiana FitzAlan

she had a sister Juiana - 1211 - Philip Haudenby (Holdenby) & Jusliana his wife, held certain lands in Haldenby, which after for death
should have descended as his inherirtance to ROBERT Trian , her nephew
were summoned for enduring to defraud the said Robert, by the adoption of a child and
passing the child (Albert Hartstone) as their own

William De Trian was her first husband, William Bouqueto her second, and Philip D'Aubigny her third.

Family/Spouse: de Trian, William. William (son of de Trian, Robert) was born in 1160 in Kent, England; died in 1207 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: LBP7-HKB

Notes:

Eustachia Trian, Heir of brother
d/o William Trian, of Oxenton, Gloucester & Joan Haudenby
b- Oxenton, Gloucester, England
m- 1- 1203 - Robert Neville d- 1220
(nephew of Stepfather Philip Aubigny)

m- 2- after 1220 -Ralph de la Haye
d- 1253

1214 - heir of brother Robert Trian - Oxenton, Gloucester & Holdenby, Northampton & Brampton, Northamptonshire, & land Tarring Neville, Sussex

25 April 1214 - order to Bishop of Wincester to give seisin to ROBERT Neville, the manor of Oxenton, Gloucester, which was held by Robert Trian, his wife Eustachia's brother

Eustache married de la Haye, Ralph V in 1221. Ralph (son of de la Haye, Ralph IV and Burwell, Sarah) was born in 1185 in Burwell, Lincolnshire, England; died in Jun 1254 in Burwell, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: LZN4-53B

Notes:

Joane was the widow of Ralph, son of Hugh

Joane married FitzHugh, Ralph in 1245. Ralph (son of FitzRalph, Lord Hugh and de Gresley, Agnes) was born in 1222 in Greasley, Nottinghamshire, England; died in 1258 in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: GZ7Q-74N

Eustacia married de Ros, William II in 1278 in England. William (son of de Ros, Sir William I and FitzPiers, Lucy) was born in 1244 in Ingmanthorpe, Yorkshire, England; died on 28 May 1310 in Yorkshire, England; was buried on 28 May 1310 in Greyfriars, York, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: LJYJ-67D

Notes:

Lucy Ros
d/o William Ros,Knt, & Eustchie FitzRaplh
b- 1270 - Ingmanthorpe, Yorkshire, England
m- sir, Robert III Plumpton her marriage portion - rent in Middleton & Langber, pasture & wood in Nesfield
d- 1332 - Plumpton, Yorkshire, England

Lucy married Plumpton, Robert in 1294 in Plumpton in Spofforth, Yorkshire, England. Robert was born in 1275 in Plumpton in Spofforth, Yorkshire, England; died in 1324 in Plumpton in Spofforth, Yorkshire, England; was buried in 1325 in Spofforth, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: L23X-LTL

Notes:

sir,William Plumpton, Lord of Jesmond by right of wife's dower, Sheriff of Yorkshire 1349
s/o sir Robert III Plumpton & Lucia Ros
b- 1295 - Plumpton, Spofforth, Yorkshire, England
m-1- 1322 - Alice Beaufitz, heiress d- by 1334 no suviving issue
m-2- 1334 - 3rd husband - Christina Mowbray
d- 13622 - Plumpton, Yorkshire, England

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Plumpton-3
Biography
Sir William de Plumpton was born circa 1297 at of Plumpton, Yorkshire, England, the son of Sir Robert de Plumpton and Lucia de Roos.[1][2]

"Sir William de Plumpton was descended through his mother from William the Lion, King of Scotland. [COMPLETE PEERAGE (hereafter CP) 11: 92-93, 117-118.] Plumpton's first marriage was to Alice, daughter and heir of Sir Henry Beaufiz [also seen as Beaufitz and Byaufiz]. They were married no later than 14 April 1322, the date of a settlement by his father upon Sir William and Alice, his wife, and heirs of their bodies of the manor of Nesfield. [PLUMPTON CORRESPONDENCE, ed. Thomas Stapleton, CAMDEN SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS no. 4 (1839), p. xx.] At the death of Sir Henry in 1325, Alice was said to be aged 28 and more. [CIPM 6: 399.] If she were born about 1297, and considering that this was likely the first marriage for each of them, Sir William's birth year can be estimated at 1295. No surviving children resulted from this marriage and Alice was dead by 30 June 1334 when Christiana de Emeldon's dower was "made to the said William and Cristiana." [CCR Edward III 1333-1337, p. 319.]

"The Plumptons had since ancient times held most of their Yorkshire properties as tenants of the Percys, and in 1295, Sir Robert de Plumpton, Sir William's grandfather, adopted "the armorial insignia of his lord paramount, 'the Sire de Percy,'" slightly modified. [Stapleton, pp. xvii-xix.] William de Plumpton had been knighted by 19 September 1328 when he and his brother-in-law Sir Peter de Middelton witnessed a charter by Sir Henry Percy. [CPR Edward III 1327-1330, p. 398.]

"On 24 August 1330, before Sir William married Christiana, a commission of oyer and terminer convened to hear the complaint of John, Lord Mowbray, that a large number of men, including Plumpton and Sir Peter de Middelton, had "entered his free chaces and warrens" at Kirkby Malzeard and other Mowbray holdings in Yorkshire and had "hunted there without license, and carried away deer, hares, rabbits, partridges, and pheasants." [CPR Edward III 1327-1330, p. 569.] Henry and Geoffrey le Scrope, members of the commission, were related to Plumpton. Geoffrey's wife was Juetta de Ros, a sister of Plumpton's mother Lucy de Ros. The complaint made by Mowbray may reflect enmity arising from the fact that Plumpton had acquired an interest in the manor of Kirkby Malzeard through his father-in-law, Sir Henry Beaufiz, who held "the manor of Kirkeby Malasart, now in the king's hand through the forfeiture of John de Moubray," a reference to Lord Mowbray's father who was executed after being captured at Boroughbridge in 1322. [CIPM 6: 399.]

"Neighborly relations may have improved for many years, because it was not until 20 August 1351 that a commission of oyer and terminer was convened on the complaint of John, Lord Mowbray, that Plumpton, who was then the Sheriff of York, and others had entered Mowbray's free chace at Kirkby Malzeard, hunted therein, carried away deer, and assaulted his men. On the same day, another such commission looked into a complaint made by Blanche de Mowbray that Plumpton and others had "broke her closes and houses" and drove away oxen and cows at several other Mowbray holdings in Yorkshire. [CPR Edward III 1350-1354, pp. 159-160.] Blanche is identified as the daughter of John de Mowbray on 10 August 1349 in CCR 23 Edward III 1349-1354, p. 51. The last of Lord Mowbray's complaints of poaching against Plumpton and several other prominent Yorkshire men was heard by a commission of oyer and terminer on 20 October 1354. This action again complained of an entry into his free chace at Kirkby Malzeard as well as at Burton in Lonesdale, County of York, the hunting and carrying away of deer, and assaults upon his men. [CPR Edward III 1354-1358, p. 130.]

"Kirkby Malzeard, a locale of all three of Lord Mowbray's complaints of poaching against Plumpton and his associates, was a major holding of the Mowbrays. [CIPM 3: 357.] As noted above, Plumpton also had an interest in Kirkby Malzeard through his father-in-law who had acquired it from the Crown after its forfeiture by John I, Lord Mowbray, executed following the Battle of Boroughbridge. On 24 April 1345, Plumpton received a license for the alienation in mortmain affecting some of his holdings in Kirkby Malzeard and elsewhere in Yorkshire for the celebration of divine services in the church of St. Wilfrid, Ripon, for his good estate, his soul when he is dead, and the souls of his parents, ancestors, and heirs. [CPR Edward III 1343-1345, p. 455.] In any event, Kirkby Malzeard continued to be listed as one of the four Mowbray manors in Yorkshire. [CIPM 11: 138-139 (1361).]

"Although the Plumpton holdings were mostly in Yorkshire, he eventually acquired an estate in Nothumberland which was not part of Christiana's dower. As early as 1346 and as late as 1358, "William de Plumpton and Christiana his wife" held the manor of Brenkley, located 7 miles NNW of Newcastle, of Sir John de Eure for one-eighth of a knight's fee. [FEUDAL AIDS 4: 57-59; and NCH 12: 522-523.]

"Sir William de Plumpton served as a Member of Parliament representing Yorkshire in 1331. [Godfrey Richard Park, PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION OF YORKSHIRE (1886), p. 288.] He was on many occasions called upon for his services in the North of England. On 10 February 1354 and again on 2 July 1354, Plumpton and others were appointed justices to enforce the Statute of Labourers in parts of Yorkshire. [CPR Edward III 1354-1358, pp. 58-61.]

"On 20 January 1347, an order of appointment by the king's council noted that "William de Plumpton who is of the retinue of Henry de Percy" was "about to go in his company to the march of Scotland for the defence thereof." [CFR Edward III 1337-1347, p. 493.] The Percys, long an important family in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, had become dominant landowners in Northumberland as the result of their 1309 purchase of Alnwick from the Bishop of Durham. [CP 10: 458.] King Edward III having made over to Henry Percy the reversionary interests in Warkworth and other Clavering estates on 2 March 1328, they passed to the Percy family in 1332 upon the death of John de Clavering. [W. Percy Hedley, NORTHUMBERLAND FAMILIES (1968) 1: 161.] Sir William de Plumpton was no doubt a member of Henry Percy's retinue because Plumpton owed knight's service to Percy (1301-1352), his feudal lord. Percy must have called upon Plumpton for services in his retinue with some frequency. Percy took "part in the siege of Berwick, of which he was made the keeper, and fought at Halidon Hill." [CP 10: 461.] This is the battle in which Richard de Emeldon was killed.

"Plumpton and Lord Mowbray served together at least four times on commissions of oyer and terminer. First, Mowbray and Plumpton served on a commission convened on 8 February 1350 to hear a complaint by Christopher Maillore that several miscreants had "broke his close and houses" at Hoton Conyers, Yorkshire, and done other damage. [CPR Edward III 1348-1350, p. 520.] On 6 July 1352, Lord Mowbray and two others were added to a commission of which Plumpton was a member and which looked into a claim that a ship had been broken up and its timbers carried away. [CPR Edward III 1350-1354, p. 289.] On 10 July 1356, Plumpton, Lord Mowbray, and three others were members of a commission that heard a complaint that an abbot, his fellow monks, and others had besieged a house near Knaresborough in Yorkshire and carried away goods. [CPR Edward III 1354-1358, p. 498.] Last, on 26 June 1361, Lord Mowbray and Plumpton served together on a commission that heard a complaint by the Abbot of Fountains that disturbers of the peace had entered his free chaces and free warrens, felled trees, and carried away game from several places in Yorkshire. [CPR Edward III 1358-1361.] This may have been the last time that Lord Mowbray and Sir William de Plumpton were together as Mowbray died on 4 October 1361. [CP 9: 383.]

"Plumpton's life, too, was coming to an end. "He died 36 Edw. III. 1362, towards the close of the year." [Stapleton, p. xxi.] Christiana survived her husband for about a year, the date of her death in 1363 being given both as "20 December" and the "Saturday after Christmas." [CIPM 11: 459-460.]William de Plumpton ... " [3]

Marriage & Children
A settlement for the marriage Sir William de Plumpton and Alice Beaufitz was made on 14 April 1322; They had no issue.[4][5]
Sir William de Plumpton married, secondly, Christian Mowbray before 24 February 1334. They had 1 son & 1 daughter:[4][5]
Sir Robert
Alice, wife of Sir Richard de Sherburne, & of Sir John le Boteler
Sources
↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 365.
↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 385.
↑ http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/sources/mowbray/christiana2.shtml
↑ 4.0 4.1 Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 365-366.
↑ 5.0 5.1 Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 385-386.
"Royal Ancestry" D. Richardson 2013 Vol. IV p. 387
See Also:
http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/sources/mowbray/christiana1.shtml

Family/Spouse: de Mowbray, Lady Christina. Christina (daughter of de Mowbray, Sir John I and de Braose, Alienora) was born in 1305 in Plumpton in Spofforth, Yorkshire, England; died on 25 Dec 1362 in Plumpton in Spofforth, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: 2MBY-TCW
• Occupation: Knight
• Birth: 1340, Plumpton in Spofforth, Yorkshire, England

Family/Spouse: Plumpton, Isabella. Isabella was born in 1349 in Clifton, Yorkshire, England; died in DECEASED in Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: LJRH-PDY

William married de Gisburn, Alice in 1381 in Yorkshire, England. Alice (daughter of Gisburn, John de and de Gisburn, Ellen) was born in 1364 in Spofforth, Yorkshire, England; died on 5 Dec 1423 in Spofforth, Yorkshire, England; was buried after 5 Dec 1423 in Spofforth, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: GQ4Q-Z5S
• Birth: 1374, Plumpton in Spofforth, Yorkshire, England

Jane married Mallory, William in 1394 in Plumpton in Spofforth, Yorkshire, England. William was born in 1370 in Shawbury, Shropshire, England; died in 1421 in Hutton Conyers, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]