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

Abt 1078 - 1114  (~ 36 years)

• Name	Alain (Alan) Fitzflaald Baron Of Salop Of DOL
  Birth	Abt 1078	Dol, Bretagne, France
  Christening	Of, Shropshire, England
  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
  Death	1114
  Person ID	I10594	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2012

  
  

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

  
  

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

  
  

• 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

  [S397] J.K. Loren Dec 8 2003, J. K. Loren.