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"daughter and heir of Warine, Sheriff of Shropshire, temp. William the Conqueror." The underlying reasoning seems to be that Alan held the lands formerly held by the sheriffs of the county and goes back at least as far as William Dugdale, but it was rejected by Eyton, not least because of lack of any evidence. He noted that
* William fitz Alan, in grants of his Sussex estates to Haughmond Abbey, referred to his mother as Adelina
* in the account by Orderic Vitalis

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