• General Notes

  Flaald of Dol, Dapifer of Dol is the first of the family that can be documented in history.  His existence is amply proved by a remarkable reference to property held in England for centuries afterwards held by the FitzAlans. In an inquest made in the hundreds of Laundiz, in Norfolk, in the reign of Edward I., in the year 1275, the jurors note:” they say also that the manor of Melam with its pertinents was in the hands of King William the bastard at the conquest, and the said king gave the said manor to a certain soldier, who was called Flancus, who came with the said king into England, its parts and all its pertinents, and afterwards the said manor descended from heir to air to John the son of Alan, who is now in the custody of the king,”&c.
  
  Flaald was born in about the year 1016

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