General Notes

Constable of the Tower of London, a descendant in the male line
of the Counts of Porhoet in Brittany.
REF Theroff. Justiciar of Ireland

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]