Aveline de Hesdin

Family/Spouse: Alan fitz Flaald. Alan (son of Flaald of Dol) died after 1114. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William fitz Alan was born in of Oswestry, Shropshire, England; died in 1160; was buried in Shrewsbury Abbey, Shropshire, England.
2. Walter fitz Alan was born about 1110; died in 1177; was buried in Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire, Scotland.

Family/Spouse: Robert fitz Walter. Robert (son of Walter de Caen) was born in of Horsford, Norfolk, England; died in 1130. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Hesdin, Picardy, France

Notes:

Also Ernulf, Seigneur de Hesding; Arnulf.

From the size and extent of his landholdings listed in Domesday he must have been a favorite of the Conqueror, but despite many unsourced claims little is actually known of his life. Modern interest in him appears to have developed after the 1850s, when Shropshire historian Robert William Eyton proved that he was the father of the Avelina who married Alan fitz Flaad, making Ernulf an ancestor both of the Stewart dynasty and of the FitzAlan earls of Arundel.

He was accused of supporting de Mowbray's rebellion in 1095. According to the Hyde chronicle, which claims this accusation was unjust, his representative in the ensuing trial-by-combat defeated the king's champion, but Ernulf was so disgusted by the accusation that he renounced his lands in England and left forever, enlisting in the First Crusade where (it is claimed) he died at Antioch.

He is the subject of a quite meticulous Wikipedia article which provides a painstaking account of what is known and what is only hypothesized about him.

Ernulf married Emmeline. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]