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Alan (FitzWalter) IInd High Steward of Scotland (1150 - 1204)

Born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotlandmap
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Husband of — married 1170 [location unknown]
Husband of — married 1170 [location unknown]
Husband of — married 1174 [location unknown]
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Died at about age 54 in Dundonald, Kyle, Ayrshire, Scotlandmap
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Medieval Scotland
Alan (FitzWalter) IInd High Steward of Scotland was an inhabitant of Medieval Scotland.
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Preceded by
Walter Fitzalan
2nd High Steward of Scotland
Succeeded by
Walter Stewart

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Biography

Alan FitzWalter was the second Great Steward of Scotland; allegedly Crusader with Richard I (Richard Coeur de Lion). He was wife was possibly Eve, possibly daughter of Sweyn, Thor's son, overlord of Crawford. [Burke's Peerage]

The title of High Steward or Great Steward was given in the 12th century to Walter Fitzalan, whose descendants founded the "Royal" House of Stewart, Clan Stewart and all other Stewart cadet branches. In 1371, the last High Steward inherited the throne, and thereafter the title of High Steward of Scotland has been held as a subsidiary title to that of Duke of Rothesay, held by the heir-apparent. Thus, currently, The Prince of Wales is High Steward of Scotland, sometimes known as the Prince and Great Steward of Scotland.

Issue

Sources differ as to the wife and children of Alan.

Medlands says his wife is unknown and rejects Eve as wife. He credits Alan and his unknown wife with only one child, Walter.[1]

Sir James Balfour Paul cites unknown wife and two children, David and Walter.[2]

  1. David[3][2]
  2. Walter, who succeeded his father as High Stewart.[1][3][2]
  3. Leonard, designed son of Alan, Steward of the King of Scots, who is noted in the _Liber Vitæ_ of Durham as bestowing a bezant yearly on the convent, was probably also a son (_Illustrations of Scottish History_, 18).[3]
  4. Avelina, who was, in 1200, carried off by Duncan, son of Gilbert, afterwards Earl of Carrick (Hoveden, _Rolls Series_, iv. 145).[3]

Disproven and unproven issue

  1. Simon, is found in some unsourced trees. Simon was misattributed as a son of Alan, when he actually is a brother of Alan.

Burial

Paisley Abbey, Paisley, Renfrew, Scotland

Research Notes

Discussion about wives and childrens

Alex Stewart, in an e-mail, has sources that give a second wife (Alesta) for Alan:

Regarding Alan FitzWalter Stewart c.1126-1204 I notice you have his wife as Margaret of Galloway from Carrick, Ayrshire. In the excellent book The Stewart Dynasty 1993 by Stewart Ross he says, "Alan married twice....his first wife was Eva, daughter of Swain, son of the first recorded sheriff of Lothian....it linked the steward to an established Anglian dynasty and to an office which the king was seeking to extend around the kingdom. Unfortunately Eva died young, leaving no children.

The steward's second marriage was an altogether more ambitious business. His partner this time was Alesta, daughter of Morgrund, the Celtic Earl of Mar."

I wrote to Stewart about his sources and he wrote back helpfully that he had used: GWS Barrow and WW Scott's The Acts of William 1 King of Scots (EUP 1971); AA Duncan's Scotland, The Making of the Kingdom, Mercat 1989 and A O Anderson's Early Sources of Scottish History Oliver and Boyd 1922.

He has no mention of the marriage between Alan and Margaret of Galloway, although he does refer to the harrowing of Galloway at that time and a forging of a later Carrick-Stewart close connection.

I noticed that Leo had Eve, daughter of Swain, as the mother of Alan so I wrote to him in May and presented Stewart Ross's points but I heard no more and he remains with Eve.

I noticed someone else has written to you about Alan's mother, and in your reply you do not seem confident about Margaret. I do not say you are wrong; I do not know. Stewart says that Alan was a shadowy character! I am now looking in several books on Scottish history to note points on the Stewart-Carrick connection.


NOTE: I have seen a number of posts to SGM concerning various combinations of the three wives for Alan, including several that doubt the ancestry given to Eve above; and there is doubt over which children might be born to which wives. I have found two threads in SGM which name the three wives that I have for Alan. Despite Alex Stewart's source which names Eve 1st, and 2ndly Alesta, I have followed Suzanne Doig (SGM), in assigning an order to his wives, and then distributed his children among all three. I do not have a great deal of confidence that I am entirely correct, but then I am probably not entirely wrong either. Alan, son of Walter, and second High Stewart of Scotland, is supposed to have accompanied Richard Cœur de Lion to the Crusades. He is said to have married Eva, her name was certainly Eva (_Reg. Prior S. Andree_, 257) but her parentage is unknown daughter of Swan, son of Thor, Lord of Tippermuir and Tranent, but this seems to be founded on a mistaken reading by Duncan Stewart of a charter in the Register of Scone.(1) He died in 1204, leaving issue:-

  1. David, who appears as a guarantor of King Alexander's engagement to marry the Princess of England; and
  2. Walter, who succeeded his father as High Stewart.
  3. Leonard, designed son of Alan, Steward of the King of Scots, who is noted in the _Liber Vitæ_ of Durham as bestowing a bezant yearly on the convent, was probably also a son (_Illustrations of Scottish History_, 18).
  4. Avelina, who was, in 1200, carried off by Duncan, son of Gilbert, afterwards Earl of Carrick (Hoveden, _Rolls Series_, iv. 145).

(1) _Liber de Scon_, No. 125. The person referred to being Alan, son of Walter Ruthven. Cf. the charter cited, and the _Chartulary of Lindores_, Scot. Hist. Soc. Ed. 30, 244. [Ref: SP I:12 as emended by SP IX:1]

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Chapter 6. KINGS of SCOTLAND (STEWART), A. HIGH STEWARDS of SCOTLAND", Medlands, http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTLAND.htm#WalterFitzAlandied1177B
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Paul, James Balfour, Sir, 1846-1931, The Scots peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, Volume 1, page 12 (Edinburgh : D. Douglas, 1904), https://archive.org/stream/scotspeeragefoun01pauluoft#page/12/mode/1up
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Alan fitz Walter, 2nd High Steward of Scotland", Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_fitz_Walter,_2nd_High_Steward_of_Scotland

See also:

  • The Phillips, Weber, Kirk, & Staggs families of the Pacific Northwest, by Jim Weber, Rootsweb.com
  • Ramsburgh, Edith Roberts. A Page in Heraldry, "Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine" (The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, April 1923) Vol. 57, No. 4, Whole No. 368, Page 229. This source cites a date of death of 1153 and seems to have other errors.




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Alan FitzFlaald (FitzFlaald-16) was on crusade with Robert Duke of Normandy and Godfry de Bouillon.

Hubert Fitz Walter, Bishop of Salisbury with Richard on 3rd Crusade, obtained permission from Saladin to visit Holy Sepulchre and celebrate holy offices there. He treated for the exchange of prisoners at Tyre. He returned to Canterbury where he died.

I also found an Alan of Galloway and constable of Scotland with Richard. Son of Roland. Alan had 2 dau who married to Baliol and Quincy.

From The English Crusaders by James Cruikshank Dansey, Esq. MDCCI.

People of Medieval Scotland there is mention of a wife - Eva. http://db.poms.ac.uk/record/source/5891/
posted by Eugene Quigley
The Foundation for Medieval Genealogy states the name of Alan's wife is not known. They further state he only had one son - Walter. http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTLAND.htm#WalterFitzAlandied1177B

The Scots Peerage, Sir James Balfour Paul, Ed., 1904 Vol 1, p.12 http://archive.org/stream/scotspeeragefoun01pauluoft#page/12/mode/2up doesn't identify wives and only lists two children - David & Walter.

posted by Eugene Quigley

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