Alan 1st Baron la Zouche , of Ashby, Sir 
Alan 1st Baron was born on October 9th, 1267 in North Molton, Devonshire, England. Alan 1st Baron's father was Roger la Zouche , Lord of Ashby, Sir Knight and his mother was Ela de Longespee. His paternal grandparents were Alan la Zouche , Lord of Ashby, Sir and Ellen (Helen) (Elena) de Quincy; his maternal grandparents were Stephen de Longespee , Earl of Ulster and Emmeline de Ridelisford. He was an only child. He died at the age of 46 on March 25th, 1314 in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, England (dspm).General Notes
Alan la Zouche, 1st Lord (Baron) (La) Zouche, so created by writ of summons to Parliament 6 Feb 1298/9; b. 9 Oct 1267; undertook military service in Flanders, Gascony and Scotland; fought in the vanguard at Battle of Falkirk (Edward I's victory over William Wallace) 1298; Constable of Rockingham Castle and Keeper of the forests between Oxford and Stamford bridges Feb 1311/2-Feb 1313/4; m. (?)Eleanor, daughter of 1st Lord (Baron) Segrave, and dspm just prior to 25 March 1314, when according to later doctrine such hereditary honour as was created by the writ of Feb 1298/9 fell into abeyance between his daughters and coheirs. [Burke's Peerage]
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Alan la Zouche, b. North Molton 9 Oct 1267, d. shortly bef. 25 Mar 1313/4, Lord Zouche of Ashby 1299-1314, Governor of Rockingham Castle and Steward of Rockingham's Forest; probably m. Eleanor, daughter of Nicholas Segrave. [Magna Charta Sureties]
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This feudal lord, b. 1267, having distinguished himself in the wars of Gascony and Scotland, temp. Edward I, was summoned to parliament by that monarch as a Baron, 26 January, 1297, and he had regular summonses from that period until 7th Edward II, 26 November 1313. In the 5th Edward II [1312], his lordship was constituted governor of Buckingham Castle, in Northamptonshire, and steward of Rockingham Forest. He d. in 1314, leaving by Eleanor, his wife, dau. of Nicholas de Segrave, three daus., his co-heirs, viz., I. Ellen, m. 1st Nicholas St. Maur, and 2ndly, Alan de Charlton; Maud Zouche, m. Robert, Lord Holland; Elizabeth, a nun at Brewood, co. Stafford. Amongst these three daus. and co-heirs of Alan le Zouche, a partition was made in the 8th Edward II [1315] of their father's lands, excepting the manor of Ashby-de-la-Zouche which the deceased lord gave to his kinsman, William de Mortimer, who thereupon assumed the surname Zouche. At the decease of Lord Zouche, the Barony of Zouche of Ashby fell into abeyance between his daus., as it still continues with their representatives. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 598-9, Zouche, Baron Zouche, of Ashby, co. Leicester]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1095 in Rohan, Morbihan, Bretagne, France d.1141 in Josselin, Morbihan, Bretagne, France
- b.< 1132 in Rohan, Morbihan, Bretagne, France d.1190 in North Molton, Devonshire, England
- b.~ 1100 in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Anjou/Pays de la Loire, France
- b.1182 in North Molton, Devonshire, England d.<14 May 1238 in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, England
- b.< 1106 in of Ashby, Leicestershire & Tong, Shropshire, England d.< 1158
- b.~ 1150 in of Ashby, Leicestershire & Tong, Shropshire, England
- b.~ 1131 in Skipton-in-Craven, Yorkshire, England d.1190
- b.~ 1210 in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, England d.12 Aug 1270
- b.~ 1132 in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England d.~ 1176
- b.1156 in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England d.<04 Apr 1211 in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England
- b.1135 in Cany, Sein-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1187 in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England d.28 JAN 1231/32
- b.~ 1128 in Halton Castle, Skipton, Yorkshire, England d.1163 in Halton Castle, Skipton, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1158 in Halton Castle, Skipton, Yorkshire, England d.< 1199
- b.~ 1130 in Sprotbrough, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England d.> 1193 in Halton Castle, Skipton, Yorkshire, England
- b.BET 1240 AND 1242 in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, England d.15 Oct 1285 in Brockley, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
- b.~ 1138 in Long Buckley, England, Northamptonshire, England d.<29 Sep 1198
- b.1155 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.03 Nov 1219 in Damietta, Egypt, on way to Holy Land
- b.~ 1135 in Leuchars, Fifes, Scotland d.<Jun 1203
- b.1174 in Winchester, Hamptonshire, England d.25 Apr 1264 in Buckley, Northamptonshire, England
- b.< 1135 in Leicestershire, England d.31 Aug 1190 in Durazzo, Greece (went on crusade 1179)
- b.1154 in Leicestershire, England d.ABT 12 JAN 1234/35 in England
- b.~ 1130 in Leicestershire, England d.01 Apr 1212 in Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1225 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.<20 Aug 1296
- b.1164 in Galloway, Perthshire Scotland d.19 Dec 1200 in Northamptonshire, England
- b.1186 in Galloway, Wigtownshire, Scotland d.1234 in Abbey of Dundren, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
- b.~ 1170 in Kirkoswald, Cumberland, England d.11 Jun 1217 in Abbey of Dundren, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
- b.~ 1208 in Carrick, Argyllshire, Scotland d.>21 Nov 1245 in England
- b.~ 1176 in Ulster, Ireland d.<26 Dec 1242 in Franciscan Friars Convent, Carrickfergus, Ireland
- b.~ 1194 in Ulster, Ireland
- b.~ 1175 in Alton, Cheadle, Staffordshire, England d.< 1234 in Ulster, Ireland
- b.09 Oct 1267 in North Molton, Devonshire, England d.25 Mar 1314 in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, England (dspm)
- b.24 Aug 1113 in Anjou, France d.07 Sep 1151 in Chateau, Eure-et-Loire, Normandy, France
- b.5 MAR 1132/33 in Le Mans, Maine, France d.06 Jul 1189 in Chinon near Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
- b.FEB 1102/03 in London, Middlesex, England d.10 Sep 1167 in Notre Dame, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
- b.~ 1176 in England d.7 MAR 1225/26 in Salisbury Castle, Wiltishire, England
- b.1115 in of Corfham and Culminton, Salopshire, England d.< 1190 in Godstow, Oxfordshire, England
- b.1136 in Clifford Castle, Hay, Herefordshire, England d.1176 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England
- b.~ 1109 in Northumberland, England d.< 1185 in Clifford Castle, Hay, Herefordshire, England
- b.1216 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.23 JAN 1274/75 in of Sutton, Northampshire, England
- b.~ 1120 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.27 Mar 1168 in Slain in Poitou, France
- b.1154 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.17 Apr 1196
- b.~ 1120 in Alencon, Orne, Normandy, France d.04 Oct 1174
- b.1188 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England d.24 Aug 1261 in Lacock, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1120 in Vitre, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France d.11 Nov 1173
- b.1158 in Brittany, Normandy, & England d.<12 Aug 1233
- b.~ 1123 in Burton, England
- b.~ 1246 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.<19 Jul 1276
- b.~ 1146 in Carriebenan, Kildare, Ireland d.> 1226
- b.~ 1181 in Carriebenan, Kildare, Ireland d.12 Dec 1244
- b.~ 1105 in of Narberth & Pebidiog, Wales d.1158 in killed
- b.~ 1151 in of Narberth & Pebidiog, Wales
- b.1216 in Kildare, Ireland d.1276
- b.~ 1186 in England
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They had two daughters named Elena (Ellen) and Maud.
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Children
Elena (Ellen) la Zouche
Elena (Ellen) was born in 1288 in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, England. She died after October 1334.
Maud la Zouche
Maud was born in 1289 in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, England. She died at the age of 60 on May 31st, 1349 in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England.
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