Alan La Zouche 
Alan was born about 1203 in Ashby, Leicestershire, England. Alan's father was Roger La Zouche and his mother was Margaret Bisset. His paternal grandparents were Alan La Zouche and Alice De Belmeis; his maternal grandparents were Lord De Biseth Henry and Albreda Fitzrichard De Halton. He had two brothers and two sisters, named Odo La Zouche Of, William, Loretta and Alice. He died on August 10th, 1270.General Notes
Constable of the Tower of London 2
Event: Ancestor M
Christening: North Molton, Devonshire, England
Note: Sir Alan La Zouche in the 26th Henry III [1242] had a military summons to attend the king into France, and in ten years afterwards had the whole county of Chester and all North Wales placed under his government. In the 45th of the same reign [1272] he obtained a charter for a weekly market at Ashby-la-Zouche, in Leicestershire, and for two fairs in the year at Swavesey. About the same time he was constituted warden of all the king's forests south of Trent, as also sheriff of Northamptonshire. In the 46th he was made justice itinerant for the cos. Southampton, Buckingham, and Northampton; and upon the arbitration made by Lewis, King of France, between Henry III and the barons, he was one of the sureties oh behalf of the king. In three years afterwards he was constituted constable of the Tower of London and governor of the castle at Northampton. Sir Alan Zouche was violently assaulted in Westminster Hall in 1268 by John, Earl of Warren and Surrey upon occasion of a dispute between the regarding some landed property, and with his son, Roger, who happened to be with him, severely wounded. He m. Elena, dau. and heir of Roger de Quinci, Earl of Winchester, and by her (who d. 1296] had issue, Roger, his successor, and Eudo, from whom the Zouches, Barons Zouche, of Harynworth derive. Alan le Zouche d. in 1269 and was s. by his elder son, Roger. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 598, Zouche, Baron Zouche, of Ashby, co. Leicester]
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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)
- d.< 1074
- b.~ 1066 d.> 1092
- b.~ 1086 in Porhoët, Brittany, France d.1141
- b.~ 1010
- b.~ 1035 d.~ 1092
- b.~ 1136 in North Molton, Devon, England d.~ 1190 in North Molton, Devon, England
- b.1036 d.13 Apr 1084
- b.~ 1068 d.1119
- b.~ 1036
- b.~ 1110 in Brittany, France
- b.1043 d.14 Apr 1109
- b.1068 d.01 Jun 1147 in Jerusalem, Palestine, Holy Land
- b.~ 1060 in Montfort Amauri, , France d.14 Feb 1115-1116
- b.~ 1158 in England d.<14 May 1238
- b.~ 1036
- b.~ 1066 in Harringworth, Northamptonshire, England
- b.~ 1096 in Harringworth, Northamptonshire, England
- b.~ 1138 in Tong, Shropshire
- b.~ 1070 in Chester, Cheshire, England d.Jan 1126-1127 in Chester, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1100 in Gernon Castle, Normandy, France d.~ 1132 in Egremont, Cumberland, England
- b.~ 1040 in Mercia, England
- b. in Harringworth, Northamptonshire, England d.> 1190
- b.~ 1070 in Normandie, France
- d.~ 1153
- b.~ 1203 in Ashby, Leicestershire, England d.10 Aug 1270
- b.~ 1074
- b. in Kidderminster, Worcester, England d.1176
- b.~ 1078
- b.~ 1150 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England d.1208
- b.~ 1179 d.Aft 28 Jan 1231-1232
- b.~ 1090 in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1110 in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England d.1157
- b.~ 1128 in Halton, Yorkshire, England d.< 1163
- b.~ 1085 d.1153
- b.~ 1085
- b.~ 1156 d.> 1213
- b.~ 1130 in Sprotborough, Yorkshire, England
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They had a son named Roger.
Family Notes
CHAN17 May 2004
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Children
Roger La Zouche
Roger was born about 1242 in Ashby, Leicestershire, England. He died before October 15th, 1285 in Ashby, Leicestershire, England.
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