Ala

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ⁹⁰³
This Hellias Giffard son of Osberne Gifford was dead in 1130 when his on "Elyas" paid 100 marks for his inheritance of his father's estates. [Pipe Roll, 31 Henry I] He married Ala, and was named in 1090 in the Chartulary of St. Peter of Gloucester, and, with his wife Ala and his son Helias, appears in records again in 1121 of the same Chartulary. Besides Hellias, he had another unnamed son who ws the father of Richard Gifford, the Justiciary, living in 1175, and was the father of Gilbert, Mabilia and Matilda Gifford.

~The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1921, Vol. 75, pps. 59-62

Ala married Helias Giffard, son of Sir Osborne Gyffarde Knight of Stoke and Unknown.(Helias Giffard was born in Brimsfield, Gloucestershire, England and died in 1130 in Brimsfield, Gloucestershire, England ⁹⁰³.)