. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours. or Trevor, Earl of Hereford. He joinedthe crusade in 1191, {temp. Richard I.) butdying on his journey to Jerusalem, was his son, Sir Richard Alen, who wedded Anne,daughter of Sir Henry Harley, of Ormuch,in Glamorganshire, (ancestor of the Earls ofOxford), and left a son and heir, Sir Henry Alen, , daugh-ter of Sir Henry Maunsell, by whom he hada son and successor, Sir John Alen. This gentleman wed-de
. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours. or Trevor, Earl of Hereford. He joinedthe crusade in 1191, {temp. Richard I.) butdying on his journey to Jerusalem, was his son, Sir Richard Alen, who wedded Anne,daughter of Sir Henry Harley, of Ormuch,in Glamorganshire, (ancestor of the Earls ofOxford), and left a son and heir, Sir Henry Alen, , daugh-ter of Sir Henry Maunsell, by whom he hada son and successor, Sir John Alen. This gentleman wed-ded Alice, daughter of Sir Henry Rice, ofCastle Rice, in Wales, and was s. by hisson. Sir Charles Alen, who m. Dorothy,daughter of Sir Edward Seymour, ofMaiden Bradley, in the county of Wilts,(ancestor of the Duke of Somerset,) a\dleft a son, Sir John Alen. This gentleman wed-ded Arabella, daughter of Sir RichardLevison, knt. of Staffordshire, (of the familyof the Duke of Sutherland,) and was s. byhis son. Sir Philip Alen, whom. Isabella,daugh-ter of Sir Thomas Middleton, and wasfather of Sir William Alen, who wedded Anne,daughter of Sir John Osburn, of Kent,and left a Few families can show a more ancientineage than that of Alen, of St. Wolstans,*ieriving in direct and unbroken male de-scent from one of the companions in arrasof the Conqueror, whose name is enrolled atBattle Abbey, and still fewer have allied withnore distinguished and ennobled a pedigree drawn up by Sir Wil-Jam Hawkins, ulster king of arms, andluly recorded in the Heralds college, thefollowing account of this family is chieflytaken. Sir John Alen, knight banneret, nephevt3f the celebrated Robert Fitzhammon andRichard de Granville,| having distinguishedhimself at the battle of Hastings, obtainedfrom the Conqueror, large possessions infee in the counties of Norfolk, Cornwall,and Westmorland. He m. Dorothy, onlydaughter and heiress of Sir John Budgell, ofDevonshire, and was s. by his eldest son,
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