Alan fitz Flaad was a Breton knight, probably recruited as a mercenary by Henry I of England in his conflicts with his brothers.
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Miniature from illuminated Chronicle of Matthew Paris, showing Henry enthroned and symbolically holding a church. Alan fitz Flaad's business at court seems invariably to have involved donations to the church.
The very long nave of Norwich Cathedral, a Norman foundation under construction in Alan's day. He both witnessed grants to the cathedral and made considerable donations of his own.
Dol Cathedral (Saint-Samson cathedral) in Dol, Brittany today. The present building was begun about a century after the time of Alan Fitz Flaad.
Mont St Michel, the isolated Breton monastery, on the Norman border, which Henry held against his brothers, William Rufus and Robert Curthose, in 1091In their orbit 4
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Alan fitz Flaad was a Breton knight, probably recruited as a mercenary by Henry I of England in his conflicts with his brothers. After Henry became King of England, Alan became an assiduous courtier and obtained large estates in Norfolk, Sussex, Shropshire, and elsewhere in the Midlands, including the feudal barony and castle of Oswestry in Shropshire. His duties included supervision of the Welsh border. He is now noted as the progenitor of the FitzAlan family, the Earls of Arundel (1267-1580), and the House of Stuart, although his family connections were long a matter of conjecture and controversy.
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