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http://www.martinrealm.org/genealogy/zouche.htm

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Alan La ZOUCHE

Born: ABT 1157, Harringworth, Northampton, England

Died: 1190

Father: Geoffrey La ZOUCHE

Mother: Hawise De FERGANT

Married: Alice De BELMEIS ABT 1181, Losselin, Morbihan, France

Children:

1. William La ZOUCHE of Belmeis

2. Roger La ZOUCHE

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Alan La ZOUCHE

Born: ABT 1157, Harringworth, Northampton, England

Died: 1190

Father: Geoffrey La ZOUCHE

Mother: Hawise De FERGANT

Married: Alice De BELMEIS ABT 1181, Losselin, Morbihan, France

Children:

1. William La ZOUCHE of Belmeis

2. Roger La ZOUCHE

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The de la Zouche family descended from Alan de la Zouche, sometimes called Alan de Porhoët and Alan la Coche (c. 1136–1190), a Breton who settled in England during the reign of Henry II. He was the son of Vicomte Geoffrey I de Porhoët and Hawisa of Brittany. He married Adeline (Alice) de Belmeis, daughter of Phillip de Belmeis and Maud la Meschine and died at North Melton in Devon. He obtained Ashby in Leicestershire (called after him Ashby-de-la-Zouch) by his marriage.

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Alan was also called Alan Ceoche.

Alan la Zouche lived before 1172 in England.

Alan la Zouche was of North Molton in 1185 in Devonshire, England.

See "My Lines"

( http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cousin/html/p378.htm#i6932 )

from Compiler: R. B. Stewart, Evans, GA

( http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cousin/html/index.htm ) -------------------- http://gen.culpepper.com/ss/p43937.htm

http://www.geneajourney.com/zouche.html

http://www.gurganus.org/ourfamily/pedigree.cfm?pid=2817

http://gen.culpepper.com/ss/p43937.htm

That the Zouches branched from the Earls of Brittany is admitted by all genealogists, but they do not coincide in the exact line of descent. William la Zusche to the monks of Swavesey, in Cambridgeshire, the grants made by his ancestors to the abbey St. Segius and Bacchus, in Anjou (to which the priory of Swavesey was a cell), calls Roger la Zusche, his father, and Alan la Zusche, his grandfather. This William died in the first year of the reign of King John, and was succeeded by his brother, Roger. Ref: Burke, pp. 598-599.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashby_de_la_Zouch_Castle

The site originated as a Norman fortified manor house in the 12th century founded by Alain de Parrhoet, la Zouch, out of Breton, France. During the next three centuries it was extended by his descendants, but when the Zouch succession line ended in the 14th Century, the castle changed ownership many times. In 1461, the castle reverted to the Crown after the then owner James Butler, the 5th Earl of Ormonde, was executed after the Battle of Towton.

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