Sir Walter Fitz-Alan, 1st High Steward of Scotland

Abt 1108 - 1177  (~ 69 years)

• Name	Walter Fitz-Alan
  Title	Sir
  Suffix	1st High Steward of Scotland
  Born	Abt 1108	Paisley, Renfrewshhire, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  Died	1177
  Person ID	I9567	adkinshorton
  Last Modified	2 Jan 2013

  
  

  Father	Alan Fitz-Flaad, Sheriff of Shropshire,   b. About 1078, Dol, Bretagne, France
  Family ID	F26981	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Children	+ 1. Alan Fitz-Walter, 2nd High Steward of Scotland,   b. Abt 1126, Abbey, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland
  Family ID	F26980	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents

  Map of Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland

  
  

  Histories

  Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire, Scotland

  
  

• Notes

  The second son was Walter Fitz-Alan (d. 1177). He went to Scotland in the service [as a Knight] of King David I, and had large possessions conferred on him in Renfrewshire. Under the reign of Eadgar, King of Scotland (1097-1107), the Croun authority only extended south of the Forth of Clyde. The western islands and extreme north were possessed by the Norwegions. Eadgar was son of King Malcolm Canmore (reigned 1058-1093), and St. Margaret, sister of Eadgar Aetheling, who was sole representative of the Saxon Ruler of England after the death of King Harold and his brothers, at the battle of Hastings in 1066. Scotland and England, then at peace, and during this and the later reigns of Alexander I (1107-1124) and David I (1124-1153) many Norman Nobles entered the Scottish service in the wars against the Norwegians being rewarded by large grants of the captured lands. David I had been educated in England under the Norman teachers, and brought Normans and Norman customs with him to Scotland, amongst whom was Walter Fitz-Alan. He was created Dapifer (Steward or Seneschal) of the Royal Household, which title became hereditary in the family. He founded the Monastery of Paisley in 1160, and he and De Morville were witness to a charter of David I, to the Abbey o Melrose.