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  • Name MORVILLE, Elena de 
    Prefix Lady 
    Birth 1170  Kirkoswald, Cumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Burial Jun 1217  Dundrennan Abbey, Dundrennan, Galloway, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 11 Jun 1217  Kirkcudbright, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    WAC 9 Feb 1940  SGEOR Find all individuals with events at this location 
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    Person ID I41077  Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
    Last Modified 19 Aug 2021 

    Father MORVILLE, Constable Richard de ,   b. Abt 1143, Carlisle, Cumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this locationCarlisle, Cumberland, Englandd. 20 Jul 1189, Dryburgh, Berwickshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 46 years) 
    Mother LANCASTER, Avice de ,   b. Abt 1148, Cumberland, Cumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this locationCumberland, Cumberland, Englandd. 1 Jan 1191 (Age 43 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1167  Kirkoswald, Cumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F22171  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family GALLOWAY, Lord Lochlan ,   b. Abt 1161, Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationCarrick, Ayrshire, Scotlandd. 12 Dec 1200, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 39 years) 
    Marriage Bef 1185  Kirkoswald, Cumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 3 sons and 2 daughters 
    Family ID F18329  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 24 Jan 2022 

  • Notes 
    • "During the 1180s the king [William the Lion] struck up an alliance with Lachlan (or 'Roland'), lord of Galloway, who had married into the Anglo-Norman family of Moreville, and whose change of name neatly captures the interaction that was beginning between the native and foreign cultures. When in 1187 William was again faced by a northern uprising, it was Roland who captured its leader, Donald mac William, a distant kinsman of the king". p. 59: "Roland of Galloway's marriage to the Moreville heiress expanded the family's interests." [Ref: Political Development of the British Isles 1100-1400, by Robin Frame, Oxford, 1990, p. 42]

      "Roland, Lord of Galloway, the son of Uchtred. On the death of his uncle, Gilbert, in 1185, Roland rose in arms, and possessed himself of all of Galloway." Henry II threatened to invade in 1186; Roland agreed to swear fealty, give his three sons as hostages, and keep Uchtred's lands. Gilbert's son Duncan got Carrick. "Roland greatly increased his lands by marrying Eva, Ela, or Helena, daughter of Richard de Moreville, Constable of Scotland, who died 1196. Roland inherited the office of Constable. Issue: 1. Alan. 2. Thomas, Earl of Atholl. 3. ---, hostage in 1186. Daughter Ada married Sir Walter Bisset." [Ref: "Peerage of Scotland" by John Philip Wood, Edinburgh, 1813, v 1, pp. 612-13]

      "On the death of the cruel Gilbert in 1185, Roland, son of Uchtred, claimed the lordship of Galloway. . . . Roland, the father of Alan and Thomas, obtained extensive estates in the shires of Northampton, Huntingdon, and Bedford, in right of his wife, Elena de Moreville (Joseph Bain, "Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland", vol. i, p. 47)." [Ref: A History of Dumfries and Galloway" by Sir Herbert Maxwell, Edinburgh, 1896, p 56]

      "In 1200 Lachlan, alias Roland, son of Uhtred lord of Galloway, remembered . . . that his wife Helen de Morville, heir of her father Richard and of her grandmother Beatrice de Beauchamp, was entitled to four knights' fees respectively at Bozeat, Northants, Whissendine and Whitwell in Rutland, Offord in Huntingdonshire, and Houghton Conquest beside Bedford--the 5 hides at Houghton having been originally acquired by Hugh de Beauchamp, Beatrice's grandfather, probably not long before 1086." [Ref: The Anglo-Norman Era in Scottish History" by G.W.S. Barrow, Oxford, 1980, p 17]

      BURIAL: Also shown as Buried Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland.