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Alan, IV Earl of Richmond, was born about 1100. He married
Bertha Conan. Bertha was the daughter and heiress of Conan, reigning
Duke of Brittainy. Bertha was the great granddaughter of
William the Conqueror
and his wife Maud/Mathilda who was the daughter of Baldwin V, Count of
Flanders, who was fifth in descent from Ethelwida, daughter of Alfred the
great, and 10th in descent from Charlemagne. Comparing the Crawford
Coat-of-arms with the one of Brittainy bears out this claim.
Reginald, Earl of Crawford, died in 1146. He married a
Swane. Reginald was the youngest son of Alan, Earl of Richmond.
In the 12th Century, Reginald received extensive grants of land from David
I of Scotland in Strath Cluyd of Clydesdale, where his immediate
descendants adopted the name of Crawford, then forming one of the largest
baronies of Scotland. Reginald beat back the enemies of King David
I, of Scotland, at the ford of a stream in the old Roman road about three
miles from Kilbirnie, the King bestowed upon him the name and title of
Earl of Crawford. His first son, Cauterus Crawford, who lived during
the reign of King William, 1142-1214, succeeded him as Earl of Crawford.
Succonus Swain, father of Reginald's wife, was the son of
Thor Longus, Lord of Tippermuir and Superior Lord of the lands of
Crawford in Upper Clydesdale, who settled in Scotland between
1069-1074. The grandfather of Swain was Leofwine, born before 1000 and
lived in Northumberland England.
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*Clements', E.J.T., The History of the Crawford Family, published in Our
Ancestors: Editor: Miss Pauline Young, Box 129, Liberty, S.C., Feb., 1953,
Vol 1.
*Clements', E.J.T., The History of the Crawford Family, published in Our
Ancestors: Editor: Miss Pauline Young, Box 129 Liberty S.C.: Jan., 1953,
Vol 1, No. 10 gives the lineage of Bertha Conan.
*Stephens'
Crawford Genealogy by Mrs. Lucinda Frances.
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