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Alain (Alan) Fitzflaald Baron Of Salop Of DOL

Alain (Alan) Fitzflaald Baron Of Salop Of DOL[1]

Male Abt 1078 - 1114  (~ 36 years)

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  • Name Alain (Alan) Fitzflaald Baron Of Salop Of DOL 
    Born Abt 1078  Dol, Bretagne, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christened Of, Shropshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    AFN H118-70 
    Alt. Birth 1085 
    Alt. Birth 
    • Dol, Normandie, France
    Titled
    • Baron of Oswaldestre
    Titled
    • Baron of Mileham
    Titled
    • Baron of Norfolk
    Titled
    • Baron of Salop
    Name Alain Of DOL 
    Name Alan FITZFLAALD 
    Occupation
    • Sheriff of Shropshire
    _UID 999CDE694EA6439DAECC4C0BE4B55E799101 
    Died 1114 
    Person ID I10594  Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 5 Feb 2012 

    Father Fledaldus Baron Of St Floren Of DOL,   b. Abt 1050, Of, Dol-DE-Bretagne, Ille-Et-Vilaine, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1080  (Age ~ 30 years) 
    Mother Domina NORTON,   b. Abt 1055,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married Abt 1077 
    Family ID F2660  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Adeliza De HESDIN,   b. Abt 1079, Pas DE Calais, Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1126  (Age ~ 48 years) 
    Married Abt 1105 
    Children 
     1. Jordan FITZALAN,   b. Abt 1103, Of, Tuxford, Nottinghamshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Walter High Steward Of Scotland FITZALAN,   b. Abt 1105, Of, Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1177  (Age ~ 72 years)
     3. Sir William II Eaton FITZALAN, Baron Of Oswestry,   b. Abt 1105, Oswestry Castle, Shropshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1160, Oswestry Castle, Shropshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 55 years)
     4. Sibil FITZALAN,   b. Abt 1109, Of, Dol, Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F5303  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • having participated in the Conquest, obtained by the gift of King William the Conqueror, the barony and castle of Oswaldestre, Salop, and Milcham, Norfolk, some of which belonged to Meredith, Prince of Powys ap Bleddyn, King of Powys. He received the shreivalty of Shropshire from King Henry I. While his parentage is more or less obscure, there is evidence to show that Flaald, his father, lived in Brittany and was a brother of Alain, seneschal of Dol, descended from the old Armonican counts of Dol and Dinan.

      Alain Fitz Flaald was also the father or grandfather of William Fitzalan, steward to David I, King of Scotland, ancestor of the Stuarts, kings of that country. Alain Fitz Flaald was also the father of William Fitzalan, to whom Henry II gave in second marriage Isabel de Say, baroness of Clun, the greatest heiress of Shropshire. He was ancestor of John Fitzalan, who married Isabel, sister and co-heiress of Hugh d'Albigny. Upon a division of Hugh's property at his death in 1243, the castle of Arundel was assigned to John, son of the aforementioned John and Isabel, who thus became the first Earl of eventually passed to Mary, daughter and heiress of Henry Fitzalan, who carried it, together Arundel of the Fitzalan line. This property with the earldom and the barony of Maltravers, to her husband Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, in which family it still remains. Alain Fitz Flaald and his wife Adeline were benefactors to priory of Castle Acre, early in the reign of Henry I

      The Complete Peerage vol.V,pp.391-392.


      Source: lorenfamily.com

  • Sources 
    1. [S397] J. K. Loren, J.K. Loren Dec 8 2003.