We have already established that the first lord of Tatton was Alan de Tatton, first recorded in 1186. Ormerod vol 1 pg439. Also, we know that one moiety of Tatton was held by the prior of St. John of Jerusalem. Alan de Tatton became the 5^th prior of the order of Jerusalem in 1190 with the title Alan de St. Cross. See the list of priors here: -  https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol1/pp193-204#h3-s4 Peter Hackham is the 19^th. Prior. A study of “British history online” established that Alan de Tatton also went by the names Alban (Roman), Alanus, Alan de Cross & Alanus de Tatton & was raised to the bishopric of Bangor on 16^th April 1195, but died on 19^th March 1196. The records mention that Alan de Tatton spent most of his episcopate in England with the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem. The evidence proves that the line of Tatton descends directly from prior Alan of the order of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, & continued through his son Alanus filius de Alani de Tatton who took his surname from the land charter he had received from his father in fee tail. Interestingly, the son of Alanus de Alani de Tatton was named Quenild de Tatton. This is not a coincidence that his Christian name is synonymous with the name of the village & Manor housing the Knights of St. John Hospitaller in Quenington, in the Cotswolds. As early as the late 12th century, the order had begun to achieve recognition in the Kingdom of England and Duchy of Normandy. As a result, buildings such as St John's Jerusalem and the Knights Gate, Quenington in England were built on land donated to the order by local nobility. It was Pope Gregory 1^st who built the first hospital in Jerusalem in AD603. Later in AD800, Emperor Charlemagne enlarged Probus' hospital and added a library to it. The monastic Hospitaller Order was created following the First Crusade by Blessed Gerard de Martigues.  Raymond du Puy, who succeeded Gerard as master of the hospital in 1118, organized a militia from the order's members, dividing the order into three ranks: knights, men at arms, and chaplains. Raymond offered the service of his armed troops to Baldwin II of Jerusalem, and the order from this time participated in the crusades as a military order, in particular distinguishing itself in the Siege of Escalon of 1153. The Hospitallers and the Knights Templar became the most formidable military orders in the Holy Land. Frederick Barbarossa, the Holy Roman Emperor, pledged his protection to the Knights of St. John in a “charter of privileges granted in 1185”. This is also the year before Alan de Tatton, later prior of the English order of St John of Jerusalem in 1190, is found to be in possession of a charter for the seat of Tatton. To expand this a little further, research has unveiled that Alan as the 5th Prior from 1190-1196 is known to have used the private seal of his predecessor Garnier de Nablus 4^th Prior from 1184-1190 and which was also used by Garnier’s predecessor Ralph de Dive 3^rd Prior from 1178.  As far as the names are concerned, at this early part of Feudal Medieval England, titles of overseeing Lords would often have affixed to their names the place where they were officiating at a particular time & depending on which part of their affairs they were dealing with. An example here is when Alan, or officially Alanus filius de Alani de Tatton, grants lands of Tatton called “Bruchel” to William de Massey (nephew of the 5^th Baron de Massey). Before Edw 1^st.                                                                              GL                                  

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