General Notes

Alan had a military summons in 1242 to attend the King into France, and in ten years had the whole of County of Cheshire and all North Wales placed under his government. In 45th of Henry III, 1261, he obtained a charter for a weekly market at Ashby La Zouche in Leicestershire, and for two fairs in the year at Swavesley. About this time he was made Justice itinerant for Counties Southampton, Buckinghamshire and Northampton and Warden of all the King's forests south of the Trent and Sheriff of Northampton. Upon the arbitration made by Louis, King of France, between Henry III and the barons, he was made one of the sureties on behalf of the King. In three years he was constituted Constable of the Tower of London and Governor of the Castle of Northampton. Sir Alan la Zouche was violently assaulted in Westminster Hall in 1268 by John, Earl of Warren and Surrey, upon a dispute between them regarding some landed property, and with his son Roger, who happened to be with him, was severely wounded. He married Elena, daughter and heir of Roger de Quincey, Earl of Winchester, and his wife Helena, daughter of Alan MacDonald and his wife, Margaret of Scotland, daughter of Prince David of Scotland, son of Prince Henry of Scotland and Ada de Warren, son of King David of Scotland and Maud, Countess of Huntington and Northumberland, son of Malcolm Conmore, King of Scotland, and Margaret, heiress of the Saxon Line. Roger de Quincey was son of Saire de Quincey, Surety for the Magna Charta, and his wife, Margaret de Bellomont, daughter of  Robert de Bellomont and Isabel de Vermandois, daughter of Hugh the Great Crusader, son of Henry I, King of France.