Alan la Zouche; undertook military service Gascony 1242-3, Justice of C hester and the four cantrefs (administrative districts, precursors of c ounties) of North Wales 1250 and as Deputy under Prince Edward (later E dward II) Feb 1253/4 [sic.
Edward II was born 1284, must have been Edward I], Justiciar of Ireland 1 256-58, Justice of the Forest South of Trent and Constable of Rockingha m Castle 1261-64, Constable of Northampton Castle 1261-63 and Feb-June 1 267, Sheriff of Northants

1261-64, Warden of the City and Constable of the Tower of London 1267-6 8; m. by 1242 Ellen/Helen (d. by 20 Aug 1296), 3rd daughter of 2nd Earl o f Winchester of the Feb 1206/7 creation and d. 10 Aug 1270 of injuries i nflicted by the 7th Earl of
Surrey of the 1088 creation, the said Earl being one of the parties to a l awsuit in which Alan was involved, leaving [Roger] with four younger so ns. [Burke's Peerage]

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Sir Alan la Zouche (son of Roger), d. 12 Aug 1270, Lord Zouche of Ashby l a Zouche, co. Leicester, Constable of the Tower of London, and a descen dant of the Counts of Porhoet in Brittany. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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Sir Alan la Zouche in the 26th Henry III [1242] had a military summons t o attend the king into France, and in ten years afterwards had the whol e county of Chester and all North Wales placed under his government. In t he 45th of the same reign
[1272] he obtained a charter for a weekly market at Ashby-la-Zouche, in L eicestershire, and for two fairs in the year at Swavesey. About the sam e time he was constituted warden of all the king's forests south of Tre nt, as also sheriff of

Northamptonshire. In the 46th he was made justice itinerant for the cos . Southampton, Buckingham, and Northampton; and upon the arbitration ma de by Lewis, King of France, between Henry III and the barons, he was o ne of the sureties on behalf of
the king. In three years afterwards he was constituted constable of the T ower of London and governor of the castle at Northampton. Sir Alan Zouc he was violently assaulted in Westminster Hall in 1268 by John, Earl of W arren and Surrey upon

occasion of a dispute between the regarding some landed property, and w ith his son, Roger, who happened to be with him, severely wounded. He m . Elena, dau. and heir of Roger de Quinci, Earl of Winchester, and by h er (who d. 1296] had issue,

Roger, his successor, and Eudo, from whom the Zouches, Barons Zouche, o f Harynworth derive. Alan le Zouche d. in 1269 and was s. by his elder s on, Roger. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct P eerages, Burke's Peerage,
Ltd., London, 1883, p. 598, Zouche, Baron Zouche, of Ashby, co. Leicest er]

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ALAN LA ZOUCHE, son and heir, was to have seisin of his lands, having d one homage, 16 June 1238. He took part in the capture of William Marsh, J une 1242; served in Gascony, 1242-43; was granted a weekly market and y early fair at Swavesey, 26

June 1244, and at Ashby, 4 May 1261; Justice of Chester and of the four c antreds in North Wales, 2 July 1250, continuing as Deputy under Prince E dward, February 1253/4-October 1255; Commissioner to mediate between Ll ewelin, Prince of North
Wales, and his brother David, 31 January 1253/4. Having gone to Ireland i n the service of Prince Edward early in 1256, he was Justiciar of Irela nd from before 27 June 1256 till shortly before 21 October1258. During t he Barons' Wars he stood

firmly for the King. He was among the tenants summoned to London cum se rviciis que nobis debent, Easter 1260, and again cum equis et armis, Fe bruary 1260/1; was granted a pension of 50 marks a year, 4 April 1261; J ustice of the Forest South of
Trent and Constable of Rockingham Castle, 12 June 1261-64; Constable of N orthampton Castle, 12 June 1261-July 1263, and again, 28 February-June 1 267; Sheriff of Northants, 9 July 1261-64; was sent hurriedly to defend t he march of Wales against

Llewelin, December 1262; was one of the King's supporters who, at Winds or, 16 December 1263, declared themselves willing to accept the arbitra tion of the King of France; and was appointed Keeper of cos. Devon, Som erset and Dorset, 24 December
1263. According to some accounts he was taken prisoner by Sir John Giff ard at the battle of Lewes, 14 May 1264, but escaped and was recaptured i n the garb of a monk. He was one of the 12 Commissioners, appointed 31 A ugust, who were responsible

for the Dictum of Kenilworth, 31 October 1266; and he was Warden of the C ity and Constable of the Tower of London, 23 or 25 June 1267-April 1268 . He married, before 1242, Helen, or Ellen, 3rd daughter and coheir of R oger (DE QUENCY), 2nd EARL
OF WINCHESTER, CONSTABLE OF SCOTLAND, by his 1st wife, Helen, 2nd but 1 st surviving daughter and coheir of Alan, LORD OF GALLOWAY, CONSTABLE O F SCOTLAND. In the course of a lawsuit with John (de Warenne), Earl of S urrey, he and his son Roger
were violently assaulted by the Earl before the Justices in Westminster H all on the Octave of St. John (1 July) 1270, whereby he received wounds o f which he died, 10 August following. His widow, who received Brackley i n her pourparty and was
patron of the Hospital there, was summoned to send her service to Wales i n 1277 and 1282. She died shortly before 20 August 1296.

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The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walt er Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999 Page: 74-3, 90-3

Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederic k Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999

Page: 53-29

Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the Unit ed Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000

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1. *@Eudo la Zouche b: ABT 1244 in Ashby, Leicestershire, England
2. *@Roger la Zouche b: ABT 1242 in Ashby, England
3. *@Margery la Zouche b: ABT 1247 in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, England