• General Notes

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  Alan Dinan of Burton. Alan died in 1159 and in 1122 was the youn ger son of Geoffrey, lord of Dinan in Brittany (F. Pearse Chope , The Last of the Dynhams, Transactions of the Devonshire Associ ation 50 [1918]: 432). In 1242-43, it was stated that Alan Dynan t (Dinan) fought the champion of the king of France between Gyso rs and Trie (Book of  Fees, 2:937). This incident is dated abou t 1111 (Edward A. Freeman, Norman Conquest of England [Oxford, 1 876], 5: 181). The contemporary writer Suger does not mention Al an; he tells that King Henry I of England refused to meet King L ouis the Fat of France in single combat on the bridge at Gysor s (De Vita Ludovici Grossi Regis, Recueil ties Historiens ties G aules et de la France [1877], 12:29). The record of 1242-1243 st ates that the land in Burton came to Alan "de done domine Regi s Henrici, avi dominus Regis Ricardi." Strictly speaking, avi me ans grandfather, but in this context it seams to mean great-gran dfather, for the king in 1111 was Henry I. Elsewhere, in 1212 i n the reign of King John, we read of the 12 librates of land i n Compton "quam Rex Henriaus avus dedit Gilberto Crispin" (Boo k of Fees, 1:106). As seen above, Stapleton identifies this kin g as Henry II, so that avus is used to mean Henry, the king befo re Richard, before the present king, John.[MARSHALL.FTW]
  
  SOURCE NOTES:
  Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists, 6th Edition,
  Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1988.

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