Alain "Dapifer" fitz Flaald, Seneschal of Dol

• Preferred Name: Alain "Dapifer" fitz Flaald, Seneschal of Dol^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: 1093 in Dol-de-Bretagne, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France at LATI: N8.5506 LONG: E1.7497
  
• Birth: 1024 in Dol De Bretagne, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France at LATI: N8.5506 LONG: E1.7497 with note: find a grave
  
• FSID: LCTX-FHH
  
• Nickname:
  
• Alt.+Birth: ABT 990 in Blois, France at LATI: N7.5813 LONG: E0.2699
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Flaald, Herediary Steward of Dol "Flaald or Fleald; living 1080; active on the Welsh border c1101. [Burke's Peerage] FLAALD Dapifer, the second son of ALAN "Dapifer", occurs as "Float filius Alani dapiferi" at the dedication of Monmouth Priory 1101. He is also mentioned as brother of Alan, the other "Dapifer." He left a son ALAN , Sheriff of Shropshire" born - 31 Dec 1059 died - Palestine - married - unkown born - died - Children 1.Alan Fitz Flaald , feudal Baron of Oswestry.
  
  The FitzAlan Name
  FitzAlan is an English surname ultimately of Norman-Breton origin. The family originated in Brittany, in France, and shares common ancestry with the Scottish Stewarts as descendants of the eponymous
  
  Breton knight
  Alan fitz Flaad (c. 1078 – after 1121) was a Breton knight, probably recruited as a mercenary by Henry I, son of William the Conqueror, in his conflicts with his brothers.[1] After Henry became King o
  
  Alan Fitz Flaad
  The list of Companions of Duke William at Hastings contains the name Alan Fitz Flaad. These were the commanders. They were the elite who had provided men, ships, horses, and supplies for the venture.
  
  === !FLEANCE fled to North Wales, and tender ===
  !FLEANCE fled to North Wales, and tendered himself useful to the king of that country. He obtained as his reward, from GRYFFUDTH AP LLEWELLYN, Prince of Wales, his daughter NESTA or Mary, in marriage. (duffus.com)
  
  === Genealogy ===
  https://archive.org/stream/studiesinpeerage02rounuoft#page/128/mode/2up
  
  === -Dapifer of Dol (c. 1045) -Dapifer Dolen ===
  -Dapifer of Dol (c. 1045) -Dapifer Dolensis Brittany

1. Flaald Fitz Flaald Seneschel De Dol, b. 1046     d. 1106

1. Title: BRITTANY, DUKES & NOBILITY from fmg.ac
   Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BRITTANY.htm#AlanFitzFlaalddiedbefore1114;
   Note: BANQUO (Known from Ancient poem of Shakespeare's Macbeth) - 1. HATO [I] . "…De nostris hominibus: Hato et Willelmus, butellarius" witnessed the undated charter (dated to [1027/39]) under which "Junkeneus archiepiscopus" donated "plebiculam Guernuidel" to Redon[1272]. Two brothers, parents not known. The name and chronology suggests that Hato [I] may have been their father, but no primary source has been identified which confirms that this affiliation is correct beyond doubt. 1. FLAALD (-[1070/76]). "Goscelinus de Dinam…Rivallonus frater eius…Arveus…Radulfus…filius Donnalloni" donated "suam partem de decima terræ sancti Paterni" to Angers Saint-Nicolas by charter dated to [1050], witnessed by "Fretaldus et Hato pater eius"[1273]. m ---. The name of Flaald´s wife is not known. Flaald & his wife had three children: a) ALAIN (-[before 1114]). Hereditary Seneschal of Dol. "Maino filius Theogineti […Theonus]" donated the churches of Gugnen and Voël to Combourg priory, with the consent of "filiis suis Haimone et Gauterio, et Alanus filius Flaudi", by undated charter[1274]. - see below. b) FLAAD . “Alanus Siniscallus” granted rights to Mezvoit, a cell of Saint-Florent near Dol, with the consent of “Fledaldus frater eius”, in return for admitting his brother Rhiwallon into the fraternity[1275]. "Flaald son of Flaald" witnessed a charter dated Jan 1087 which records a donation of land at Mezvoit to Dol[1276]. c) RIVALLON . “Alanus Siniscallus” granted rights to Mezuoit, a cell of Saint-Florent near Dol, with the consent of “Fledaldus frater eius”, in return for admitting his brother Rhiwallon into the fraternity[1277]. Monk at St Florent, Saumur. 2. HATO [II] . "Goscelinus de Dinam…Rivallonus frater eius…Arveus…Radulfus…filius Donnalloni" donated "suam partem de decima terræ sancti Paterni" to Angers Saint-Nicolas by charter dated to [1050], witnessed by "Fretaldus et Hato pater eius"[1278]. Paul Fox interprets the last phrase in this document and assumes that Hato was the father of Flaald, implying that he was the same Hato who is named in the charter dated to [1027/39] which is quoted above[1279]. However, it is extremely unusual in contemporary documentation for a father to be named after his son. It is therefore more likely that "pater" in the document represents a transcription error for "frater" and that Hato was the same person as the brother of Flaald who is named in the following document. This of course does not prevent the brothers Flaald and Hato being the sons of the earlier Hato, but no source has been identified which confirms that this parentage is correct. "…Hatonis fratris Flotardi…" witnessed the charter dated to [1060] under which "Guillaume fils de Rivallon" restored property to Mont-Saint-Michel, with the consent of "sa mère Heremburge et de ses frères Jean et Gelduin"[1280].
   
2. Title: Alan Dol, Seneschal of Dol, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGH-XVSB : 25 May 2022), Alan Dol, Seneschal of Dol, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID 119017811, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGH-XVSB;
   
3. Title: Article by Fox, Paul. A. (2009) The Archbishops of Dol and the Origin of the Stewarts
   Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/phocadownload/userupload/foundations3/JN-03-01/061Dol.pdf;
   
4. Title: Paul A. Fox Article on Case for Hato, father of Flaad & Genealogy of Alan fitz Alan
   Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/phocadownload/userupload/foundations3/JN-03-01/061Dol.pdf;
   Page: Source for Hato.
   
5. Title: "The Stewarts of Appin," by J.H.J. and D. Stewart by John Hope J. Stewart, Duncan Stewart
   Author: Publication date: 1880 Collection: europeanlibraries Digitizing sponsor: Google Book from the collections of Oxford University Language: English
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/stewartsappinby00stewgoog/page/n24/mode/2up?q=William+FitzAlan;
   
6. Title: Round's Calendar of Documents Preserved in France, Vol I
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/calendardocumen00roungoog/page/n7/mode/2up;
   Page: Source for Alan Dapifer Dolensis.
   
7. Title: "The Archbishops of Dol and the Origin of the Stewarts" by Paul A Fox • Foundations (2009)
   Author: Search for the "FitzAlan" or "FitzFlaald" surnames, then go the "Source" area. You will find a link to the: 061Dol.pdf
   Publication: Name: http://wikitree.com/wiki/Dol-4;
   Note: It contains the most up-to-date research into the origins of the "House of Stewart / Stuart" and related families.
   
8. Title: J.H. Round: Studies in Peerage and Family History
   Author: I am very grateful to Mary Kifissia (née Stewart), who has transcribed most of J. Horace Round's paper on "The Origin of the Stewarts", from "Studies in Peerage and Family History" (Westminster, Archibald Constable and Co., Ltd., 1901, pages 115-146), and to Rick Eaton for permission to reproduce her transcript here.
   Publication: Name: http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/sources/round/studies.shtml;
   Note: Of the problems upon which new light is thrown by my Calendar of documents in France relating to English history, none, probably, for the genealogist, will rival in interest the origin of the Stewarts. It has long been known that the Scottish Stewarts and the great English house of Fitz Alan possessed a common ancestor in Alan, the son of Flaald, living under Henry the First. This was established at some length by Chalmers in his Caledonia (1807) on what he declared to be "the most satisfactory evidence."1 According to him, "Alan the son of Flaald, a Norman, acquired the manor of Oswestrie, in Shropshire, soon after the Conquest," and "married the daughter of Warine, the famous sheriff of Shropshire." Mr Riddell, the well-known Scottish antiquary, followed up the arguments of Chalmers, in 1843, with a paper on the "Origin of the House of Stewart,"2 in which he accepted and enforced the views of Chalmers, including his theory that Walter Fitz Alan brought with him to Scotland followers from Shropshire and gave them lands 1 Vol. I, pp. 572-575. 2 Stewartiana, pp. 55-70. 115 there. But research has hitherto been unable to determine the origin of Flaald father of Alan, or even to find, in England, any mention of his name. No less an authority on feudal genealogy than the late Mr Eyton devoted himself to a special investigation on the subject of Alan "Fitz Flaald,"1 and arrived at the conclusion that, after all, he was a grandson of "Banquo, thane of Lochaber,", whose son "Fleance" fled to England. "My belief is," Mr Eyton wrote, "that the son of Fleance was named Alan ... and that he whom the English called Alan Fitz Flaald was the person in question."2 He admitted, however, of the priories of Andover, Sele, and Sporle, cells of the Abbey of St. Florent de Saumur, that he could "show a connection between Alan Fitz Flaald or his descendants and each of these cells3, which suggested an Angevin origin, and for which he could not account. But where he really advanced our knowledge was in showing that Alan Fitz Flaald married, not (as alleged) a daughter of Warine the sheriff, but Aveline daughter of Ernulf de Hesdin, a great Domesday tenant. I have now been able to trace Ernulf to Hesdin (in Picardy) itself, in connection with which his daughter 'Ava' also is mentioned.4 In 1874, an anonymous 1 History of Shropshire (1858), VII. 211-232. 2 Ibid, p. 227. It is essential to bear in mind that the old Scottish writers made Walter, the first Steward, a son of 'Fleance', wholly ignoring Alan his real father (see p. 119 below). This invalidates their whole story. 3 Ibid, p. 219. 4 See Preface to my Calendar, p. xlvii. 116 work, The Norman People, approached the problem from the foreign side, and adduced evidence to prove that Flaald was a brother of Alan, seneschal of Dol. But there was still not forthcoming any mention of Flaald in England, while the rashness and inaccuracy which marred that book resulted in his being wrongly pronounced a "son of Guienoc." The great pedigree specially prepared a few years ago for the Stuart exhibition by Mr W. A. Lindsay (now Windsor Herald) still began only with Alan son of Flaald, to whom a daughter of Warine the sheriff was assigned as wife. Moreover, in the handsome work on The Royal House of Stuart (1890), which had its origin in that exhibition, Dr. Skelton could only tell us that "there was (if the conclusions of Chalmers are to be accepted) an Alan son of Flathauld, a Norman knight, who soon after the Conquest obtained a gift of broad lands in Shropshire" (p. 5). Alan, we shall find, was not a Norman; the lands he was given were widely scattered; and he did not obtain them "soon after the Conquest." The latest authoritative statement on the subject is that, it would seem, of Sheriff Mackay in the Dictionary of National Biography (1896).1 He tells us, of the House of Stewart, that 1 This passage is found in the biography of the first Stewart king, so that I only lighted upon it after this paper was written. It gave me the clue to Mr. Hewison's book, of which I had not previously heard, but which I have now read just in time to add his results to this paper (24th Jan., 1900). 117 Its earlier genealogy is uncertain, but an ingenious and learned, though admittedly in part hypothetical, attempt to trace it to the Banquho of Boece and Shakespeare, Thane of Lochaber, has been recently made by the Rev. J. K. Hewison (Bute in the Olden Time [Vol. II] pp. 1-38, Edinburgh, 1895).1 Mr Hewison's volume opens with the words:- The origin of the royal house of Stewart has long remained a mystery, perplexing historical students, who feel tantalized at knowing so little concerning the hapless victim of the jealousy of King Macbeth - Banquo, round whom Shakespeare cast the glamour of undying romance, and to whom the old chroniclers of Scotland traced back the family of Stewart. The author's 'glamour' augurs ill, and in spite of the unique advantage he enjoyed in having access to the late Lord Crawford's MS. collections on the subject, we soon find ourselves wandering, alas, with Alice in Wonderland. It may be concluded that Walter, the son of Fleadan, son of Banchu, is identical with Walter, son of [A]llan (or Flan), son of Murechach of the Lennox family, if not also with Walter, son of Amloib, son of Duncan of the other genealogy. Chronology easily permits of the equation of Murdoch, the Maormor of Leven ... with Banchu ... who might have survived even his son Fleance -- we, meantime, only assuming that Fleance was slain in Wales. Ban-chu, the pale warrior, would be his complimentary title; the old surname of his family ... also descended to his son, Flan-chu, the red or ruddy warrior, known to his Irish kinsmen as Fleadan. We are surely coming to the Man-chu dynasty. But no. This Irish form of the name Fleadan tan (i.e. either Fleadan the Tanist or Fleadan the younger) imports a significant idea - 1 Vol. XLVIII, p. 344. 118 namely, flead ... a feast, which corresponds in signification with Flaald ... Then there bursts upon us yet another discovery:- Fleanchus ... is the Latinised form of Flann-chu, the Red or Ruddy Dog ... and is also a sobriquet - the Bloodhound. ... This nomenclature is evidently a reminiscence of the dog-totem or dog-divinity, etc., etc. There remains, however, the standing puzzle1 why Walter the first Stewart was made by the old romancers a son of Fleance son of Banquo, though his father was indisputably Alan son of Flaald. One solution offered by our author is that "Ailin or Allan may have become the family name"; but his own view is that The native name of Banquo's son would be the common Goidelic one Flann, which signifies rosy or fair, and has an equivalent in Aluinn, beautiful, fair, to which the word Alan, both in Britanny and Ireland, may be traced. Thus it was that 'Flann' would become 'Alan' in Britanny, "more especially when, in the vulgar tongue of Dol, the former, denoting a pancake, would sound like a nickname." And if we should still have our doubts, is there not, at Dol, to this day - an imposing edifice, built of granite, in the purest Norman style of architecture of the twelfth century, which tradition names 'La maison des Plaids,' and avers was the revenue office and court-house of the archbishops. this name, "the House of the 1 See p. 116, note 2, above. It will be seen that to assert, as here, that Alan and 'Fleance' were the same will not overcome this difficulty.
   
9. Title: Rober le Strange (1232-1276), Le Strange Records: A Chroncile of the Early le Stranges of Norfolk and the Marches of Wales
   Author: Le Strange Records: A Chroncile of the Early le Stranges of Norfolk and the Marches of Wales, Hamon le Strange, M.A., F.S.A., Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1916
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/lestrangerecords00lestuoft/page/346/mode/2up?view=theater&q=Stanley;
   Note: page 172 " The wife of Robert le Strange was Alianora, or Eleanor, second daughter and co-heiress of William de Whitchurch [de Albo Monasterio], from whom he ultimately acquired and transmitted to his descendants a considerable inheritance ; William, who died before June n, 1260, left four daughters ; the eldest, Berta, was an imbecile, and died in 1281" page 206 "This Eleanor (the daughter and co-heir of William de Blancminster, or Whit- church) was relict of Robert le Strange, Lord in her right of Blackmere, who died in 1276. page 386 Index Strange, Robert le (1266-1276), 98, 153, 170-175, 288, 289, 360
   Page: Good source for Eyton Charters.
   
10. Title: Origins of the Stewarts (stewards of Scotland )
    Publication: Name: https://archive.org/stream/studiesinpeerage02rounuoft#page/128/mode/2up;
    
11. Title: Ancestral File (R)