The Seneshals of Dol were the dapifers (French for stewards), a powerful Breton family from the village of Dol, near Mont-Sant-Michel on the northern coast of France. When William of Normandy attacked and conquered Britain at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, Alan FitzFlaald, heir of the Dapifer line, was listed as one of his companions. As such, Alan was given a grant of land at Oswestry at Shropshire. A few years later, the course of history took...
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