William FitzAlan , Baron of Oswestry 
William was born about 1105 in Oswestry Castle, Shropshire, England. William's father was Alan FitzFlaald , Baron of Oswestry and his mother was Aveline de Hesdin. His paternal grandfather was Flaald FitzAlan Dapifer of Dol; his maternal grandparents were Arnulf (Ernulf) Seigneur de Hesdin and Emmelina de Normandy. He had a brother named Walter. He was the older of the two children. He died in 1160 in Oswestry Castle, Shropshire, England.General Notes
William FitzAlan; feudal Baron of Oswestry, Sheriff Salop and Castellan of Shrewsbury 1138; besieged there as an adherent of the Empress Maud by King Stephen; restored to his lands by Henry II 1155 and set about recovering the Barony of Oswestry, by now in Welsh hands; founder of Haughmond Abbey; m. 1st Christian, possibly a niece of Robert FitzRoy, 1st Earl of Goucester of the 1122 cr., illegitimate son of Henry I, and had a daughter (Christian, m Hugh Pantulf); m 2nd Isabel....daughter and heir of Ingram de Say, feudal Lord of Clun, Salop and d. 1160. [Burke's Peerage]
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William FitzAlan, in the contest between King Stephen and the Empress Maud, being then governor of Shrewsbury and sheriff of the county of Salop, held the castle of Shrewsbury for the latter until it was taken by assault. He was also with the empress at the siege of Winchester Castle in the 6th Stephen [1141], when she and her whole army were put to flight; and afterwards, continuing to adhere stoutly to the same cause, he was reconstituted sheriff of Salop so soon as King Henry attained the crown. This William m. Isabel, dau. and heir of Helias de Say, Lady of Clun, niece of Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and dying some time before 1160, was s. by his son, William FitzAlan. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 200, Fitz-Alan, Earls of Arundel, Barons Maltravers]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1046 in Dol, St Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France d.> 1101
- b.~ 1078 in Dol, St Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France d.> 1122 in Oswestry Castle, Shropshire, England
- b.~ 1105 in Oswestry Castle, Shropshire, England d.1160 in Oswestry Castle, Shropshire, England
- b.~ 1038 in Hesdin, Picardy, France d.> 1091 in England
- b.~ 1076 in Hesdin, Picardy, France d.1126
- b.~ 1040 in Normandy, France
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William and Christian of were married in a religious ceremony about 1135 in 1st wife. They had a daughter named Christian.
William and Isabel de were married in a religious ceremony before 1146 in 1st husband 2nd wife. They had a son named William.
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Children
William FitzAlan , Baron of Oswestry, Sir Knight
William was born about 1148 in Oswestry Castle, Shropshire, England. He died in 1210 in Oswestry Castle, Shropshire, England.
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