Story of the Stewarts

wood for fire and building, and pasturage everywhere for
their flocks with his own.
He married Adeliza (otherwise Adelina or Avelina), sister
of Ernulph de Hesding (Picardy), the gallant defender of
Shrewsbury in a later reign, and one-third of whose lands,
after his barbarous execution by Stephen in 1138, came
to Alan's children in right of their mother. In the Charters
granted or witnessed by him he calls himself Alan Fitz-
Fladald or Flaald, a designation which, from the singularity
of the name, joined to other circumstances in the lives of
himself and his descendants, naturally points him out as
identical with that Alan Fitz-Flaald of Brittany who, in 1098,
granted to the Abbey of Marmoutier the Church of Guguan
or Cuguen, situated in the neighbourhood of the great castle
of the Viscounts of Dinan. " Flaald," the father of the
Breton "Alan," is undoubtedly identical with " Fledaldus "
who, about 1097, confirmed a grant, by his brother "Alan
Siniscallus " of Dol, of a site for the Abbey of Mezuoit attached
to the Church of St Florent de Saumur.
According to the author of " The Norman People," writ-
ing on the authority of the Chartulary of St Florent, this
grant was also confirmed by the superior of the district,
Oliver, Viscount of Dinan, whose Charter is witnessed by
Alan the Seneschal himself. About the same time also,
Geoffry, Viscount of Dinan, granted to the same abbey
certain lands near Dinan, which, as the deed bears, were