William FitzAlan Baron of Oswestry 
William FitzAlan Baron of was born in 1110 in Oswestry,Shropshire,England. William FitzAlan Baron of's father was Alan Fitz Flaad De Hesdin Baron of Oswestry and his mother was Adeliza heiress of Shropshire. His paternal grandparents were Flaald (Fledaldus) Baron of St. Florent and Gwentha Princess of Wales; his maternal grandparents were Sheriff Warine of Shropshire and Ameria Montgomery. He had a brother named Walter FitzAlan I High Steward of. He was the younger of the two children.General Notes
William Fitz Alan, who in the contest between King Stephen and the Empress Maud, being then Governor of Shrewsbury and Sheriff of Salop, held the Castle for the Empress (daughter of Henry I, King of England and widow of the Emperor of Germany. She married 2nd Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, and their son Henry II was first King of the House of Plantagenet) until it was taken by assault. He was also with the Empress at the seige of Winchester Castle in the 6th of King Stephen (1140) when she and her whole party were put to flight. Afterwards, continuing to adhere stoutly to the same cause, he was reconstituted Sheriff of Salop so soon as Henry II obtained the crown.
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.0990 d.1043
- b.1022 d.UNKNOWN
- b.0998 d.UNKNOWN
- b.1042 d.UNKNOWN
- b.1058 in of,Rhuddlan,Flintshire,Wales
- b.1082 in Oswestry,Shropshire,England d.1122
- b.~ 1040
- b.1066 d.UNKNOWN
- b.14 MAY 978 in Chester,Cheshire,England (Mercia) d.31 Aug 1057 in Bromley,Staffordshire,England (Mercia)
- b.~ 0994 in of,Mercia,,England d.1059 in of,Mercia,,England
- b.~ 1010 in Buckinghamshire,England d.> 1086 in Coventry,Warwickshire,England (Mercia)
- b.~ 1044
- b.1110 in Oswestry,Shropshire,England d.UNKNOWN
- b.1068 d.UNKNOWN
- b.1090 d.UNKNOWN
- b.1070 d.UNKNOWN
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