MORVILLE, Lady Elena de

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• Name	MORVILLE, Elena de
  Prefix	Lady
  Birth	1170	Kirkoswald, Cumberland, England
  Gender	Female
  Burial	Jun 1217	Dundrennan Abbey, Dundrennan, Galloway, Scotland
  Death	11 Jun 1217	Kirkcudbright, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
  WAC	9 Feb 1940	SGEOR
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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 Carlisle, Cumberland, Englandd. 20 Jul 1189, Dryburgh, Berwickshire, Scotland (Age 46 years)
  Mother	LANCASTER, Avice de ,   b. Abt 1148, Cumberland, Cumberland, England Cumberland, Cumberland, Englandd. 1 Jan 1191 (Age 43 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1167	Kirkoswald, Cumberland, England
  Family ID	F22171	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	GALLOWAY, Lord Lochlan ,   b. Abt 1161, Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotlandd. 12 Dec 1200, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England (Age 39 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1185	Kirkoswald, Cumberland, England
  Children	3 sons and 2 daughters
  + 1. FITZROLAND, Lord Alan ,   b. Abt 1180, Galloway, Wigtown, Scotland Galloway, Wigtown, Scotlandd. 25 Apr 1234, Legit, Kirkcudbright, Dumfriesshire, Scotland (Age 54 years)   2. GALLOWAY, de ,   b. Abt 1187, Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland   3. GALLOWAY, Ada de ,   b. Abt 1189, Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland   4. GALLOWAY, Earl Thomas ,   b. Abt 1190, Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotlandd. Abt 1231, Cupar, Fife, Scotland (Age 41 years)   5. GALLOWAY, Dervorguilla ,   b. Abt 1195, Galloway, Scotland Galloway, Scotlandd. Abt 1242, Rutlandshire, England (Age 47 years)
  Family ID	F18329	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  "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.