When Dom Mendo Allan de Bragança was born about 0980, in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France, his father, Duc Alain III de Bretagne Conde V de Nantes, was 22 and his mother, Condeza NE ODUARIZ, was 22. He married Princesa da Armênia Joana Romaz Yohannes Artzrouni about 1024. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He died in 1050, in Bragança, Bragança, Portugal, at the age of 71.
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King Sancho III of Navarre, Aragon and Castile dies and his lands become separate Kingdoms.
Scottish and northern English: variant of Allen . This is the more common form of the name in Scotland and northern England. See also McAllen .
History: An early bearer of this surname in North America was William Allan, a British soldier who took his family to the newly founded city of Halifax, NS, Canada, in 1749. His son John (1746–1805) was a Revolutionary soldier who eventually (1783) founded the settlement of Allan's Island, Passamaquoddy Bay, ME.
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