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Roland de Dinan

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  • Name Roland de Dinan 
    Gender Male 
    Died 1184 
    Person ID I7096  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Alan de Dinan,   d. Abt 1157 
    Mother Agnorie of Brittany 
    Family ID F3147  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “AGNORIE OF BRITTANY, married ALAN DE DINAN, Chev., son of Geoffroi, Vicomte of Dinan (died 1123), Domesday tenant in Devonshire. They had one son, Roland, Knt. [seigneur of Dinan], and one daughter, Emma. About 1120 his father divided the barony of Dinan and his English lands between him and his brother, Oliver. Alan's share of the Breton territory comprised one-third of the territory of the barony. It included the southern half of the town of Dinan and lands extending south from there to the south-eastern limits of the barony (where Alan made the castle of Becherel his caput). The additional grant to Alan of important manors in England may, however, have been intended to make his share equal to Oliver's. As a young man, Alan won the favor of King Henry I of England by his military exploits. He was granted the manor of Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) [in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire by the king. He also was granted the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire sometime before 1130. In 1130 he was pardoned 16s. of danegeld in Cambridgeshire. He was an adherent of King Stephen. Alan founded a priory of Marmoutier at his new caput at Becherel. SIR ALAN DE DINAN died about 1157.
      Du Paz Histoire généalogique de plusieurs Maisons illustrés de Bretagne (1619): 16-18 & 25 (author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André [II] de Vitré, as the daughter of [Count] Étienne and his wife, Havoise), 51-54. Le Baud Histoire de Bretagne, avec les Chroniques des Maisons de Vitra et de Laval (1638): 27-30 (Les Chroniques de Vitré: author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André [II] de Vitré, as the daughter of Étienne, Count of Penthièvre). Morice Histoire Ecclésiastique et Civil de Bretagne 1 (1750): xvii-xviii (Counts of Penthievre ped) (author misidentifies husband of Agnorie of Brittany as "Olivier, Seigneur de Dinan"). La Comtesse de la Moire-Rouge Les Dinans et leur Juveigneurs (1892). Farrer Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 41-42. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 75 (author identifies Agnorie of Brittany as wife of Olivier II de Dinan). Jones Fam. of Dinan in England in the Middle Ages (1987). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XIII.31 (author assigns Agnorie of Brittany as wife of Olivier II, seigneur of Dinan). Meazey Dinan an Temps des Seigneurs (1997). Everard & Jones Charters of Duchess Constance of Brittany & her Family, 1171-1221 (1999): 196. Everard Brittany & the Angevins: Province & Empire 1158-1203 (2004): 56, 189-192. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 46. Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 433.
      Children of Agnorie of Brittany, by Alan de Dinan:
      i. ROLAND DE DINAN, Knt., seigneur of Dinan in Brittany, also lord of East Ginge (in West Hendred), Berkshire, Cheveley, Cambridgeshire, Nutwell, Devon, Gussage St. Michael, Dorset, Meon and Ringwood, Hampshire, Wymondley, Hertfordshire, Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) [in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire, Corton Denham and Buckland Denham, Somerset, and Wepham, Sussex, son and heir. Sometime before 1161, he was granted the manor of Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire, which manor he briefly forfeited for rebellion in Brittany c. 1167-8. He likewise held the manor of Gussage St. Michael, Dorset in 1167-8. He gave the manor of Chieveley, Cambridgeshire to his sister, Emma, when she married Robert de Vitré, retaining an overlordship which was forfeited in 1168. He served as Governor of Brittany c.1175-78. At some unknown date, he gave half a hide of land at Ickleford, Hertfordshire to the nuns of Sopwell Priory, Hertfordshire. SIR ROLAND DE DINAN died in 1184. Morice Memoirs pour Servir de Preuves à l'Histoire ecclesiastique et civile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 663 (charter of Roland de Dinan, seigneur of Dinan), 664 (charter of Roland de Dinan to Marmoutiers Abbey names his father, Alan de Dinan, and his nephew [nepote], Alan de Vitré). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 2 (1844): xlvi. Bull. & Mémoires de la Société Archéologique du Départment d'Ille-et-Vilaine 17 (1885): 370- 371. Desc. Cat Ancient Deeds 3 (1900): 441-451 (D. 381). VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 607. Book of Fees 1(1920): 92. Farrer Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 41-42. VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 302-307. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. VCH Hertford 4 (1971): 422-426. VCH Cambridge 9 (1989): 292-295; 10 (2002): 46. Jankulak Medieval Cult of St. Petroc (2000): 174-175 ("Roland de Dinan is perhaps best known in his Breton context as one of the barons who rebelled against Henry II in 1167-8 and who later became Henry's Breton royal agent. Roland's role in Eudon II's struggle against Henry II is only noted by Robert of Torigny in 1168, although Tonnerre and le Patourel, for example, have dated Roland's opposition to Henry from 1160. It is clear that Roland was involved in the 1167-8 rebellion: Robert of Torigny tells us that Roland's castle at Becherel was besieged and captured by Henry's forces ... The Breton lords were pardoned, and on Christmas Day 1169 Geoffrey II Plantagenet, in the presence of his father, received the homage of the Breton lords at Nantes."), 217-222 (Appendix III).
      ii. EMMA DE DINAN, married ROBERT [III] DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré in Brittany [see MORTAIN 4].”