Alan

• Name	Alan
  Birth	of Cocking, Sussex, England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I30345	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	18 Sep 2020

  
  

  Children	+ 1. William fitz Alan,   b. of Cocking, Sussex, England
  Family ID	F18121	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Sep 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Lord of Cocking, Sussex temp. Henry I. "There was a church at Cocking in 1086. This was a prebend of the collegiate church of St. Nicholas at Arundel and when that college was converted into a priory subject to the abbey of Séez the church passed to the abbey. In 1200 there was a suit between Brian, son of Ralph, and Gunnor his wife against the abbot of Séez, who was represented by William, prior of Arundel. Brian and Gunnor claimed the advowson in Gunnor's name, on the ground that her great-grandfather Alan had been seised of it and had presented Humphrey de Pallingham in the reign of Henry I. The abbot of Séez against this claimed that the advowson of Cocking belonged to the prebend of Arundel which the monks of Séez had from Roger de Montgomery, who founded the church of Arundel and was the overlord of Cocking at the time of the Domesday Survey. In the autumn of the same year Ralph and Gunnor released their right in the advowson of Cocking Church to the abbot, who in return gave Gunnor a palfrey." [Victoria County History of Sussex, citation details below, volume 4, "Cocking," pp. 43-47]

  
  

• Sources

  [S4384] George Eldridge, Hydrographer, and Eliza Jane His Wife: Their Ancestors and Their Descendants by Henry James Young. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: 1982. [S1157] The Victoria County History of Sussex. Portions online, linked from medievalgenealogy.org.uk.