Talk:Alan fitz Flaad

Ancestor of the Stewart Royal Family
According to this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_de_Brus,_1st_Lord_of_Annandale, Mr. Alan FitzFlaad was the ancestor of the Stewart Royal Family - proof and inclusion of this into this article would be good. Mabuska (talk) 22:23, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Flaad
Is there any speculation who Flaad was? CsikosLo (talk) 14:43, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Spelling of the name
All the genealogies spell the name 'Flaald' not 'Flaad.' Also the Wiki page about the first high steward spells it 'Flaald.'  Why is the second letter 'l' missing from the name throughout this page? Safulop (talk) 17:23, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, Flaald is more common. You will also find Flahald and even deviant spellings like Float, and many more. There isn't a missing l, but a wide variation in usage, partly reflecting lack of orthographic uniformity at the time and partly the evolution and mutation of names as they pass through different languages: Breton, French, Anglo-Saxon, probably Scots and Old Norse too. The l after an a has mostly been elided altogether or else become au in French, for example. I'm not sure it matters in the title of the article or in the text so much. The real problem is that whatever spelling is adopted people who come across it in other versions may be inhibited from finding it in wikipedia. I wrote a lot of the present article, but didn't start it, so I just went along with what I found, as the sources vary quite a lot. So change the spelling by all means but ideally I think we need to lay a trail of redirects to get potential readers to their target. Sjwells53 (talk) 13:35, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

Arrival
1st para:

'''Flaad and his son Alan had come to the favourable notice of King Henry I of England who, soon after his accession, brought Flaad and Alan to England. Eyton, consistently following the theory of the Scottish origins of the Stewarts, though this was because he was part of the entourage of the Queen, Matilda of Scotland.'''

'though this' = 'thought this' ?

Not changing it in case it means something other... Claverhouse (talk) 17:43, 27 February 2022 (UTC)