• General Notes

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  Robert de Vitre, father of Eleanor, was married to Emma, daughte r of Alan Dinan of Burton. Alan died in 1159 and in 1122 was th e younger son of Geoffrey, lord of Dinan in Brittany (F. Pears e Chope, "The Last of the Dynhams", Transactions of the Devonshi re Association 50 [1918]: 432). In 1242-43, it was stated that A lan Dynant (Dinan) fought the champion of the king of France bet ween Gysors and Trie (Book of  Fees, 2:937). This incident is da ted about 1111 (Edward A. Freeman, Norman Conquest of England [O xford, 1876], 5: 181). The contemporary writer Suger does not me ntion Alan; he tells that King Henry I of England refused to mee t King Louis the Fat of France in single combat on the bridge a t Gysors (De Vita Ludovici Grossi Regis, Recueil ties Historien s ties Gaules et de la France [1877], 12:29). The record of 1242 -1243 states that the land in Burton came to Alan "de done domin e Regis Henrici, avi dominus Regis Ricardi." Strictly speaking , avi means grandfather, but in this context it seems to mean gr eat-grandfather, for the king in 1111 was Henry I. Elsewhere, i n 1212 in the reign of King John, we read of the 12 librates o f land in Compton "quam Rex Henriaus avus dedit Gilberto Crispin " (Book of Fees, 1:106). As seen above, Stapleton identifies thi s king as Henry II, so that anus is used to mean Henry, the kin g before Richard, before the present king, John.[MARSHALL.FTW]
  
  SOURCE NOTES:
  Watney, Vernon James, The Wallop Family and their Ancestry, Oxford:John
  Johnson, 1928.  LDS Film#1696491 items 6-9.
  
  Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists, 6th Edition,
  Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1988.

Details of Robert's family with Emma de la Guerche

Details of Robert's family with Emma De DINAN