 William the Conqueror granted Alan Rufus a significant English fief, later known as the Honour of Richmond, in about 1071.Alan Rufus is first mentioned as a witness (along with his mother Orguen and brothers Gausfridus, Willelmus, Rotbertus, Ricardus) to a charter dated to 1056/1060, issued by his father Eozen to the Abbey of Saint-Aubin in Angers (q.v.Albinus of Angers).