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Alan la Zouche; undertook military service Gascony 1242-3,Justice of Chester and the four cantrefs (administrativedistricts, precursors of counties) of North Wales 1250 and asDeputy under Prince Edward (later Edward II) Feb 1253/4 [sic.Edward II was born 1284, must have been Edward I], Justiciar ofIreland 1256-58, Justice of the Forest South of Trent andConstable of Rockingham Castle 1261-64, Constable of NorthamptonCastle 1261-63 and Feb-June 1267, Sheriff of Northants 1261-64,Warden of the City and Constable of the Tower of London 1267-68;m. by 1242 Ellen/Helen (d. by 20 Aug 1296), 3rd daughter of 2ndEarl of Winchester of the Feb 1206/7 creation and d. 10 Aug 1270of injuries inflicted by the 7th Earl of Surrey of the 1088creation, the said Earl being one of the parties to a lawsuit inwhich Alan was involved, leaving [Roger] with four younger sons.[Burke's Peerage]--------------------------------Sir Alan la Zouche (son of Roger), d. 12 Aug 1270, Lord Zoucheof Ashby la Zouche, co. Leicester, Constable of the Tower ofLondon, and a descendant of the Counts of Porhoet in Brittany.[Magna Charta Sureties]--------------------------------Sir Alan la Zouche in the 26th Henry III [1242] had a militarysummons to attend the king into France, and in ten yearsafterwards had the whole county of Chester and all North Walesplaced under his government. In the 45th of the same reign[1272] he obtained a charter for a weekly market atAshby-la-Zouche, in Leicestershire, and for two fairs in theyear at Swavesey. About the same time he was constituted wardenof all the king's forests south of Trent, as also sheriff ofNorthamptonshire. In the 46th he was made justice itinerant forthe cos. Southampton, Buckingham, and Northampton; and upon thearbitration made by Lewis, King of France, between Henry III andthe barons, he was one of the sureties oh behalf of the king. Inthree years afterwards he was constituted constable of the Towerof London and governor of the castle at Northampton. Sir AlanZouche was violently assaulted in Westminster Hall in 1268 byJohn, Earl of Warren and Surrey upon occasion of a disputebetween 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, andby her (who d. 1296] had issue, Roger, his successor, and Eudo,from whom the Zouches, Barons Zouche, of Harynworth derive. Alanle Zouche d. in 1269 and was s. by his elder son, Roger. [SirBernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and ExtinctPeerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 598, Zouche,Baron Zouche, of Ashby, co. Leicester]-------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------ALAN LA ZOUCHE, son and heir, was to have seisin of his lands,having done homage, 16 June 1238. He took part in the capture ofWilliam Marsh, June 1242; served in Gascony, 1242-43; wasgranted a weekly market and yearly fair at Swavesey, 26 June1244, and at Ashby, 4 May 1261; Justice of Chester and of thefour cantreds in North Wales, 2 July 1250, continuing as Deputyunder Prince Edward, February 1253/4-October 1255; Commissionerto mediate between Llewelin, Prince of North Wales, and hisbrother David, 31 January 1253/4. Having gone to Ireland in theservice of Prince Edward early in 1256, he was Justiciar ofIreland from before 27 June 1256 till shortly before 21October1258. During the Barons' Wars he stood firmly for theKing. He was among the tenants summoned to London cum serviciisque nobis debent, Easter 1260, and again cum equis et armis,February 1260/1; was granted a pension of 50 marks a year, 4April 1261; Justice of the Forest South of Trent and Constableof Rockingham Castle, 12 June 1261-64; Constable of NorthamptonCastle, 12 June 1261-July 1263, and again, 28 February-June1267; Sheriff of Northants, 9 July 1261-64; was sent hurriedlyto defend the march of Wales against Llewelin, December 1262;was one of the King's supporters who, at Windsor, 16 December1263, declared themselves willing to accept the arbitration ofthe King of France; and was appointed Keeper of cos. Devon,Somerset and Dorset, 24 December 1263. According to someaccounts he was taken prisoner by Sir John Giffard at the battleof Lewes, 14 May 1264, but escaped and was recaptured in thegarb of a monk. He was one of the 12 Commissioners, appointed 31August, who were responsible for the Dictum of Kenilworth, 31October 1266; and he was Warden of the City and Constable of theTower of London, 23 or 25 June 1267-April 1268. He married,before 1242, Helen, or Ellen, 3rd daughter and coheir of Roger(DE QUENCY), 2nd EARL OF WINCHESTER, CONSTABLE OF SCOTLAND, byhis 1st wife, Helen, 2nd but 1st surviving daughter and coheirof Alan, LORD OF GALLOWAY, CONSTABLE OF SCOTLAND. In the courseof a lawsuit with John (de Warenne), Earl of Surrey, he and hisson Roger were violently assaulted by the Earl before theJustices in Westminster Hall on the Octave of St. John (1 July)1270, whereby he received wounds of which he died, 10 Augustfollowing. His widow, who received Brackley in her pourparty andwas patron of the Hospital there, was summoned to send herservice to Wales in 1277 and 1282. She died shortly before 20August 1296.[Complete Peerage XII/2:932-4, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
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