Baron Alan La Zouche 
Alan was born in 1210 in Ashby, Leicester, England. Alan's father was Roger La Zouche and his mother was Margaret. His paternal grandparents were Alan La Zouche Earl of Brittany and Alice deBelmeis. He had a sister named Loretta. He died at the age of 60 on August 12th, 1270.General Notes
Alan had a military summons in 1242 to attend the King into France, andin ten years had the whole of County of Cheshire and all North Walesplaced under his government. In 45th of Henry III, 1261, he obtained acharter for a weekly market at Ashby La Zouche in Leicestershire, and fortwo fairs in the year at Swavesley. About this time he was made Justiceitinerant for Counties Southampton, Buckinghamshire and Northampton andWarden of all the King's forests south of the Trent and Sheriff ofNorthampton. Upon the arbitration made by Louis, King of France, betweenHenry III and the barons, he was made one of the sureties on behalf ofthe King. In three years he was constituted Constable of the Tower ofLondon and Governor of the Castle of Northampton. Sir Alan la Zouche wasviolently assaulted in Westminster Hall in 1268 by John, Earl of Warrenand Surrey, upon a dispute between them regarding some landed property,and with his son Roger, who happened to be with him, was severelywounded. He married Elena, daughter and heir of Roger de Quincey, Earl ofWinchester, and his wife Helena, daughter of Alan MacDonald and his wife,Margaret of Scotland, daughter of Prince David of Scotland, son of PrinceHenry of Scotland and Ada de Warren, son of King David of Scotland andMaud, Countess of Huntington and Northumberland, son of Malcolm Conmore,King of Scotland, and Margaret, heiress of the Saxon Line. Roger deQuincey was son of Saire de Quincey, Surety for the Magna Charta, and hiswife, Margaret de Bellomont, daughter of Robert de Bellomont and Isabelde Vermandois, daughter of Hugh the Great Crusader, son of Henry I, Kingof France.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.1056 d.1094
- b.1087 in Rohan, Brittanny, France
- b.1112 in Rohan, Brittanny, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.1070 in Bretagne, Indre, France d.17 Sep 1148
- b.1094 in Bretagne, Indre, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.1072 d.UNKNOWN
- b.1136 in Harringworth, Northamptonshire d.1190 in North Melton, Devonshire
- b.1030 d.UNKNOWN
- b.1072 d.1119
- b.1036 d.UNKNOWN
- b.1116 d.UNKNOWN
- b.1038
- b.1078
- b.1060 in Montfort,Amaury,Ile de France,France d.14 Feb 1116/1117 in Fontevrault,France
- b.1166 in Ashby, Leicestershire, England d.UNKNOWN
- b.1140 d.UNKNOWN
- b.1060 in Briquessart, Livry, France d.1128 in Cheshire, Cheshire, England
- b.1096 in Gernon Castle, Normandy, France
- b.1054 in Mercia, England d.1136
- b.1095 in Gernon Castle, Normandy, France
- b.1056 in Normandy, France d.1099
- b.1078 d.1154
- b.1060
- b.1210 in Ashby, Leicester, England d.12 Aug 1270
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They had a son named Eudes.
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