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ALAN Dapifer, fitzFlaad b 1078 d 1114
Sheriff of Shropshire
ALAN FITZ FLAALD, Sheriff of Shropshire and founder of Sporle Priory.
He married Aveline (or Avelina), daughter of Ernulf de Hesdin, and had three sons -
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.
William Fitz Alan, was made High Sheriff of Shropshire by King Stephen of England in 1137. He married a niece of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester. His son, William (d. c1210) acquired by marriage the Lordship of Clun and he became designated "Lord of Clun and Oswestry". William is ancestor of the FitzAlan Earls of Arundel ; and WALTER FITZ ALAN, First High Steward. Walter fitz Alan, second son, became first hereditary High Steward of Scotland,and ancestor of the Stewart Kings of Scotland.
Simon fitz Alan, brother of Walter, who also went to Scotland and witnessed his brother´s Foundation Charter of Paisley Abbey.He may have been either a uterine brother (e.g. a child of Aveline and her second husband) or even an illegitimate brother. However records aren´t certain.
After Alan´s death, Avelina married Robert fitz Walter, Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, as shown in a grant, dated no earlier than 1126, in of their church at Chipping Norton to Gloucester Abbey. x