Flaad (?)

Citations

1. [S1012] Alan Fitz Flaad, Flaad and his son Alan had come to the favourable notice of King Henry I of England who, soon after his accession, invited Alan to England with other Breton friends, and gave him forfeited lands in Norfolk and Shropshire, including some which had previously belonged to Ernulf de Hesdin and Robert de Belleme.[9]
   
   "Flaad filius Alani dapiferi" was present at the dedication of Monmouth Priory in 1101/2, and his son Alan was a witness to two charters of Henry I confirming the foundation of Holy Trinity Priory, York, as a cell of Marmoutier. Alan also founded Sporle Priory on land he held in Norfolk (probably at Sharrington), as another cell of St. Florent.[9][10]
   
   Alan fitz Flaad married Ada (or Avelina), daughter of Ernoulf de Hesdin (killed on crusade at Antioch).[11][12] Their issue was:
   William fitz Alan, eldest son (d. 1160), made High Sheriff of Shropshire by King Stephen of England in 1137. He married a niece of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester.[13] His son William (d. c1210) acquired by marriage the Lordship of Clun and he became designated "Lord of Clun and Oswestry".[14] William is ancestor of the FitzAlan Earls of Arundel.[15]
   Walter fitz Alan, second son, became 1st hereditary High Steward of Scotland,[13] and ancestor of the Stuart Kings of Scotland.
   Jordan fitz Alan, of Burton, who inherited lands in Brittany, and restored to the Priory of St. Florent at Sele, West Sussex, the mill at Burton given it by his father.[16]
   Simon, brother of Walter, who also went to Scotland and witnessed his brother's Foundation Charter of Paisley Abbey.[17] Round suggests he may have been either a uterine or even a bastard brother.[18] - en.wikiipedia.org/wiki/Alan_fitz_Flaad.
2. [S1014] J. H. Round, The Origin of the Stewarts, pages 116-117 - It was Alan also who founded Sporle Priory, Norfolk (No. 1149), on land he held there, as another cell of St. Florent, the Bretons who witness his charter further attesting his origin. Among them is seen Rhiwallon "Extraneus," the founder of the Norfolk family of Le Strange, which, more than five centuries later, was so ardent in its loyalty to Alan's descendants, the Stuart kings of England.⁵ It will have been observed that "Float filius Alani dapiferi" is assumed above to have been the brother, not a son, of the crusader. This assumption is based upon the facts that the crusader's gift at Mezuoit was 'conceded' by his brother 'Fledald,' who was, therefore, his heir at the time, and that his office of "dapifer" at Dol was afterwards held -- a fact hitherto unsuspected -- by descendants of Alan fitz Flaald. The crusader, it must therefore be inferred, left no heir. - www.edivalgenealogy.org.uk/sources/rouned/stewarts1.shtml.
3. [S506] Note: Senescal - lord high chamberlain or steward; chief commander of a town; lord chief of justice;.