Ala de Tickenham

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴⁶¹
"This Nicholaus had to wife Ala daughter and coheire of Guido als wido sonne of Tecius lord of Tyenham, by which mariage his estate in Tykenham and in diuvers faire lands inye Countyes of Somersett, Cambridge &c. was greatly advanced.

"This Ala in many of her Deedes of widowhood reverenceth her husbands memory with these words, dominus vir meus Nicholaus, and dominus meus Nicholaus my lord and husband ; my lord Nicholas, and the like.

"By her this Nicholas had issue Henry, who after mans estate, dyed without issue, And Roger, Jordan, and Ala marryed to Ralph Bloet with whom her sayd Father gave in mariage the forsaide Manor of Langstan, And hee dyed the fifth of May in the sixth yeare of Richard the first, Anno. 1189."

~The Berkeley Manuscripts, Volume I. pp. 46-47

Ala married Nicholas Fitz Robert, son of Robert "the Devout" Fitz Harding and Prioress Eve of Bristol.¹⁴⁶¹ (Nicholas Fitz Robert was born in Gloucestershire, England and died on 6 May 1189 in Tickenham, Long Ashton Somersetshire, England ¹⁴⁶¹.)