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unusual facts about Alan Rufus


Odo, Count of Champagne

Odo was, with Alan Rufus and Roger of Poitou, one of the commanders of the army sent by King William II to besiege William de St-Calais at Durham Castle after the Rebellion of 1088, and who signed St-Calais's guarantee of personal safety.


Brian of Brittany

He is not to be confused with his brother Alan the Red to whose lands he succeeded, nor with his brother Stephen's son Alan the Black, nor with his cousin Alan Fergant.

Odo, Count of Penthièvre

Alan Rufus (alternatively Alain Le Roux, or Alan Ar Rouz in Breton, called Count Alan in the Domesday Book, his name means "Red Deer") (d. between 1093 and 1098) - effectively the first Earl of Richmond, though the majority of his manors were in East Anglia.


see also

Odo, Count of Penthièvre

Stephen, Count of Tréguier married Havise of Guingamp - succeeded Alan Rufus and Alan the Black as de facto Earl of Richmond.