Sir Alan de Richmond, Kt., 3rd Constable of Richmond Castle

The third constable of Richmond Castle who married Olivia de Croft. Records indicate that during the first year of the reign of Richard I (1189) he owed the king 200 marks for the custody of Richmond Castle. In 1193, he paid 10 marks and owed 190. In the second year of the reign of John (1201) he gave the king 300 marks and 3 palfreys (horses) to be the constable of Richmond Castle, and by their service to retain the same title for his heirs. In 1208, he gave King John an additional 200 marks and 4 palfreys to have Richmond Castle, which had been taken from him, and to have the King's letter patent granting him military jurisdiction which he thought the castle should possess. (Note: The Thackeray records claim this line should descend through Roald, son of Roaldus "Le Enasse", but the Plantagenet-Harrison history claims, Roald had no children and thus the line descent is through Alan).

http://www.richmondancestry.org/richmond_family.shtml

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From the British History Online page:

From: 'Parishes: Fingall', A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 1 (1914), pp. 232-236.

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64747

Date accessed: 16 July 2010.

Roald may have died in the lifetime of Earl Conan (ob. 1171), who granted to Alan son of Roald his constableship and the whole fee as Roald had held it. (fn. 51) This grant may possibly have been obtained to strengthen the title of Alan, for the dispute with the family of Rollos had probably arisen before 1184, (fn. 52) when Richard de Rollos seems to have shared the fee equally with Alan. (fn. 53) In 1201 Alan gave King John 300 marks and three palfreys for the restoration of the office of constable in fee. (fn. 54) The Rollos had a knight's fee in Normandy, (fn. 55) and retired there when the Normans left England, possibly quitclaiming (fn. 56) their English lands to the second Roald son of Alan, (fn. 57) who succeeded his father in 1201.

From the Early Richmonds webpage:

http://www.richmondancestry.org/richmond_family.shtml

Records indicate that during the first year of the reign of Richard I (1189) he owed the king 200 marks for the custody of Richmond Castle. In 1193, he paid 10 marks and owed 190. In the second year of the reign of John (1201) he gave the king 300 marks and 3 palfreys (horses) to be the constable of Richmond Castle, and by their service to retain the same title for his heirs. In 1208, he gave King John an additional 200 marks and 4 palfreys to have Richmond Castle, which had been taken from him, and to have the King's letter patent granting him military jurisdiction which he thought the castle should possess. (Note: The Thackeray records claim this line should descend through Roald, son of Roaldus "Le Enasse", but the Plantagenet-Harrison history claims, Roald had no children and thus the line descent is through Alan).

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Alan, son of Roald ("Le Ennase") de Richmond - The third constable of Richmond Castle who married Olivia de Croft. Records indicate that during the first year of the reign of Richard I (1189) he owed the king 200 marks for the custody of Richmond Castle. In 1193, he paid 10 marks and owed 190. In the second year of the reign of John (1201) he gave the king 300 marks and 3 palfreys (horses) to be the constable of Richmond Castle, and by their service to retain the same title for his heirs. In 1208, he gave King John an additional 200 marks and 4 palfreys to have Richmond Castle, which had been taken from him, and to have the King's letter patent granting him military jurisdiction which he thought the castle should possess. (Note: The Thackeray records claim this line should descend through Roald, son of Roaldus "Le Enasse", but the Plantagenet-Harrison history claims, Roald had no children and thus the line descent is through Alan).