4990600. Lord Alan Fitz Roland & 4990601.
Matilda de Goldington.
~1230, Alan son of Roald born in Aston, England, s/o 9981200. Roland Fitz Alan.
~1240, Matilda born in England, d/o 9981202.
Peter de Goldington.
1247, Alan the heir when his father died.
1252, Matilda’s father died.
[––Adam & Matilda––]
4/1/1253, Remission to Alan son of Roald de Aston of the
king's rancour against him for taking to wife Maud, eldest daughter and one of
the heirs of Peter de Goldington, tenant in chief. (S) CPRs.
1253, A covenant between Alan son of Roald and Maud daughter
of Peter de Goldington, his wife, of the one part and Arnald Fedy of the other
part touching the wardship and marriage of the said Maud, and the manors of
Rople, Claxton and Wurthinton in the counties of Leicester and Lincoln, which
wardship Arnald had by gift of the king … Arnald quitclaims all plaint and
action which he had against the said Alan for having married the said Maud
without his assent, … restores to them the said manors with the advowsons of
the churches of Rople and Mere and all the appurtenances as testified in Maud's
charter of enfeoffment by her father … Alan gives Arnald 260 marks … Witnesses:
… Master William de Kilkenni, archdeacon of Coventry, Sir Henry de Wengham, Sir
William de Chaben[ais], Sir William de Grey, … (S) CPRs.
1254, Alan, lord of Aston, held the moor of Abbefeld,
Oxford. (S) Hist. of Oxford, V8, 1964, Lewknor.
1/1256-7, Alan son of Roland de Aston had a grant of free
warren in Aston Rowant, co. Oxford.
By 1256, Alan knighted.
1/8/1257, Exemption of Alan son of Roald de Aston from being
put on assizes, juries or recognitions, and from being made sheriff, &c. He
has lands in the county of Leicester. (S) CPRs.
1257, Alan granted free warren in all his demesne lands.
7/11/1257, Ratification of a grant by Arnald Fedyn, sometime
king's yeoman, to Alan son of Roald of a grant first made to Arnald of the
wardship of the lands whereof Peter de Goldinton, tenant in chief, enfeoffed
Maud his younger daughter, then within age, in the counties of Leicester and
Lincoln, to whom the said Peter gave no guardian; with the wardship of a third
part [dower rights of his wife] of all the lands which the said Peter held in
chief in the counties of Northampton and Buckingham; to hold during the
minority of the said Maud, with the marriage of the said Maud. (S) CPRs.
5/14/1264, Lord Edward (I) and his father King
Henry III captured by Montfort at the battle of Lewes, “at the Mill of the
Hide”. An estimated 2700 died. Lord Edward and his knights penetrated the
center of Montfort’s army, but was flanked on both sides by armored calvary.
[This barons’ revolt started in 1258 with the imposition on the king of the
“Provisions of Oxford”. The revolt was led by Simon de Montfort, earl of
Leicester.]
8/5/1264, Safe conduct until Michaelmas for … with their
households, horses, arms, harness and goods, coming to the king; and for their
greater security … until the said feast for Alan son of Roald and Agnes his
daughter … (S) CPRs. [Apparently some sort of uprising in Oxford.]
7/31/1265, Lord Edward (I) defeated Simon de
Montfort’s son Simon at the battle of Kenilworth, Warwickshire. Most of
Montfort’s forces were captured, Simon taking refuge in the castle.
9/12/1265, Simple protection, until Easter, for the
following … Alan son of Roald. (S) CPRs.
5/18/1266, Simple protection for 1 year for Alan son of
Roald. (S) CPRs.
5/1267, Lord Edward suppressed the barons at the battle of the Isle of Ely, in the fens
of the Ouse River in northern Cambridgeshire. The rebels were under the
leadership of John d’Eyville. [This battle ended the 2nd Barons
War.]
5/21/1267, Protection for 1 year for Alan son of Roald, going
to the Holy Land. (S) CPRs.
5/1269, Alan son of Roald gives half a mark for having a
writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire. (S) Fine Rolls, H.III,
no.554.
11/16/1272, Edward I succeeded Henry III as King of England.
[While on crusade.]
1275, Alan, lord of Aston, granted to Osney abbey a fishery
called Northlongwater, between Rowney and Queenborough, and 2 islands in Newewerewater.
(S) Hist. of Oxford, V13, 1996, Bampton and Weald.
8/1278, To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to cause
Isabella, late the wife of William de Hastinges, tenant in chief, to have again
seisin of a messuage, 4½ virgates of land, 3 acres of wood and a mill in Cotes
and Ravenesthorp, taken into the king's hands by reason of William's death, as
the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that Alan son of Roald and
Matilda his wife granted the lands, etc., to Isabella and her heirs by a fine
made between them in the late king's court before his justices in eyre at
Northampton. (S) CCRs.
1279, Alan held Aston manor, and the hamlets of Stokenchurch
and Copcourt for half a knight’s fee, besides certain rents in Chalford, and an
estate at Wormsley in Stokenchurch.
6/6/1279, Commission of oyer and terminer to … and Robert
Malet touching the trespasses of Alan son of Roald de Estwode in removing the
accustomed metes and baulks between the wood of Richard de Fuleham and the wood
of the said Alan in Stokenchirch, co. Oxford, and not permitting the said
Richard to repair the same, and cutting and carrying away the trees growing in
the said metes. (S) CPRs.
12/14/1281, Acquittance to Alan son of Roald, late sheriff
of Oxford, for the payment, by the king's command, to Thomas de Pampesworth, …
of £50.
(S) CPRs.
1284, Alan, lord of Aston, held an estate which included 2/3
of the chief messuage in Great Abbefeld, Oxford. (S) Hist. of Oxford, V8, 1964,
Lewknor.
1/20/1287, Commission
to Alan son of Roald … in the county of Oxford, to enforce the articles of the
statutes made at Winchester … (S) CPRs.
11/25/1290, Robert Bardolf', querent, … Alan, son of Roald,
and Maud, his wife, put in their claim. (S) Feet of Fines, Leicestershire, CP
25/1/123/38, number 191.
10/26/1291, IPM of Simon de Scaccario. Oxford: … Abbefeld. A
capital messuage &c. … and part of Alan son of Roald rendering 6s. and 1lb.
pepper and 1lb. cummin, and to a nun of Merkyate 7s. yearly. … (S) CIsPM.
1294, Sir Alan Fitz Roland involved in the chaining of
persons that fled to the church for sanctuary [Alan was execommunicated for his
part in the incident, but was later absolved of the crime.]
6/9/1295, IPM of Robert Malet. Oxford: Stockenechirch. A
messuage, 100a. arable, 3a. wood, and a horse-mill, held of Alan son of Roald,
rendering 21s. yearly. … (S) CIsPM.
1295, Alan died.
6/20/1295, Writ for IPM of Alan son of Roald. Leicester: Kylmundecote.
The manor, together with 8 virgates of land … 21 virgates of land in villenage,
and 6 marks of assised rent from free tenants … Worthington. 11 virgates of
land in bondage, and 114s. 6d. assised rent of free tenants, held, of the
inheritance of Maud his wife, of Theobald de Verdon … Claxton. A messuage, 4
virgates of land in demesne, and 10 virgates of land in villenage, of the
inheritance of his wife … Roald son of Alan, is his next heir, and of full age.
Oxford: Aston [Rouaud]. The manor … Rouard his eldest son, aged 30 and more, is
his next heir … (S) CIsPM.
[––Matilda––]
4/12/1304, Isabel, who was the wife of William de
Hastingges, querent, and Maud, who was the wife of Alan, son of Roald
(Roaldus), deforciant. The manors of Worthynton' and Claxton'. Isabel has
acknowledged the manors to be the right of Maud. For this, Maud has granted to
Isabel the manors and has rendered them to her in the court, to hold to Isabel
and the heirs of her body, of Maud and her heirs for ever, rendering yearly 1
rose. (S) Feet of Fines, Leicestershire, CP 25/1/123/43, number 303.
7/3/1310, Order to send one of themselves who can most
conveniently be spared to Is[abella], late the wife of William de Hasting', and
to Matilda, late the wife of Alan son of Roald, to receive recognisance from
them and to do what is necessary in the matter of a plea between them, wherein
the said Is[abella] has impleaded the said Matilda before the king by his writ
of the manor of Roppeleye [Hampshire]. (S) CCRs.
(S) A Hist. of the Co. of Oxford: V8: 1964, Aston Rowant.
(S) Hist. of the Co. of Buckingham, V3, 1925. (S) Early Yorkshire Charters, V5,
Honor of Richmond, Pt2, Farrer, 2013, P94.
Family notes:
·
Contemporary are ‘Alan son of Roland’ of
Richmond [York], and ‘Alan son of Roland’ of Dodbrook [Devon].
Child of Alan and ?:
i. Agnes Fitz Alan,
born by 1264 in Aston, Oxfordshire, England.
Children of Alan and Matilda:
i. Roland Fitz Alan,
born ~1265 in Aston, Oxfordshire, England.
Bef. 1300, Roland died, leaving his brothers John and Henry
as heirs.
ii. John Fitz Alan,
born ? in Aston, Oxfordshire, England.
By 1316, John died, leaving his brother Henry as heir.
iii. Henry Fitz Alan
(2495300), born ~1275 in Aston, Oxfordshire, England.
9/1335, John de Nowers is a plaintiff in a suit which gives
the daughters of Peter de Goldington and their descendents for 4 generations,
showing Henry as son of Matilda, as well as his heir Roger. (S) FMG, Pedigrees
from the Plea Roll, P10-11.
