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• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1184 in Galloway, Perth, Scotland.
• Titel: Lord of Galloway
• (Alternative Name) : Alan FitzRoland.
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1234 in Kirkcudbright, Kincardineshire, Scotland, hij was toen 50 jaar oud.
• Een kind van ROLAND OF GALLOWAY en ELENA MORVILLE

Gezin van ALAN OF GALLOWAY

(1) Hij is getrouwd met MARGARET OF HUNTINGDON.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1209 te Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, hij was toen 25 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Marion of GALLOWAY  ± 1211-????
2. HELEN OF GALLOWAY  1209-???? 
3. Christiana of GALLOWAY  1213-1246
4. DEVORGUILLA OF GALLOWAY  1215-???? 

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Alice de LACY.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1200 te Galloway, Perth, Scotland, hij was toen 16 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Henry of GALLOWAY  1205-> 1245

(3) Hij is getrouwd met Rohese de LACY.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1228 te Kintyre, Argyll, Scotland, hij was toen 44 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Margaret de QUINCY  ± 1222-????

Notities over ALAN OF GALLOWAY

Alan of Galloway (before 1199 - 1234), also known as Alan fitz Roland, was a leading thirteenth-century Scottish magnate. As the hereditary Lord of Galloway and Constable of Scotland, he was one of the most influential men in the Kingdom of Scotland and Irish Sea zone.

Alan first appears in courtly circles in about 1200, about the time he inherited his father's possessions and offices. After he secured his mother's inheritance almost two decades later, Alan became one of the most powerful magnates in the Scottish realm. Alan also held lands in the Kingdom of England, and was one of King John's advisors concerning Magna Carta. Alan later played a considerable part in Alexander II of Scotland's northern English ambitions during the violent aftermath of John's repudiation of Magna Carta. Alan participated in the English colonisation of Ulster, receiving a massive grant in the region from the English king, and simultaneously aided the Scottish crown against rebel claimants in the western and northern peripheries of the Scottish realm. Alan entered into a vicious inter-dynastic struggle for control of the Kingdom of the Isles, supporting one of his kinsman against another. Alan's involvement in the Isles, a region under nominal Norwegian authority, provoked a massive military response by Haakon IV of Norway, causing a severe crisis for the Scottish crown.

As ruler of the semi-autonomous Lordship of Galloway, Alan was courted by the Scottish and English kings for his remarkable military might, and was noted in Norse saga-accounts as one of the greatest warriors of his time. Like other members of his family, he was a generous religious patron. Alan died in February 1234. Although under the traditional Celtic custom of Galloway, Alan's illegitimate son could have succeeded to the Lordship of Galloway, under the feudal custom of the Scottish realm, Alan's nearest heirs were his surviving daughters. Using Alan's death as an opportunity to further integrate Galloway within his realm, Alexander forced the partition of the lordship amongst Alan's daughters. Alan was the last legitimate ruler of Galloway, descending from the native dynasty of Fergus, Lord of Galloway.

Family
Alan was married three times. His first wife appears to have been a daughter of Roger de Lacy, Constable of Chester. It was likely upon this union that Alan gained the English lordship of Kippax as maritagium from his father-in-law. Alan's second marriage, to David's daughter Margaret, is dated to 1209 by the Chronicle of Lanercost and Chronicle of Melrose. The date of Alan's third marriage, to Hugh's daughter Rose, is generally thought to date to 1229, as stated by the Chronicle of Lanercost. Another possible date for this marriage is about a decade earlier. Alan's second marriage, therefore, allied him to the Scottish royal family, and his first and third marriages allied him to the two main branches of the powerful Lacy family-firstly the Pontefract branch, and afterwards the Woebley branch.

Alan had several children from his first two marriages, although only daughters appear to have reached adulthood. One daughter from his first marriage died whilst a Scottish hostage of the English king, her death being reported in June 1213. Helen, another daughter from Alan's first marriage, married Roger de Quincy (died 1264). Although the date of this union is unknown, it was probably on this occasion that her husband came into possession of Kippax. At some point before 1234, Christiana, one of Alan's daughters from his second marriage, married William de Forz (died 1260). In 1233, Dervorguilla (died 1290), a younger daughter from Alan's second marriage, married John de Balliol, Lord of Barnard Castle (died 1268). In addition to his illegitimate son Thomas, Alan had a like-named legitimate son. The latter, a product of Alan's second marriage, was his only known legitimate male offspring. Although the date of this son's death is unknown, he may have lived into in the 1220s.

Death
Thomas, Alan's brother, died in 1231, possibly from injuries suffered in a tournament accident. Alan's death, about three years later in 1234, is recorded by the Annals of Ulster, the Chronicle of Melrose, and the Chronicle of Lanercost-the later specifying the month February. Alan's body was interred at Dundrennan Abbey, a Cistercian religious house founded by his paternal great-grandfather. There amongst the monastic ruins, a particular dilapidated effigy of grey stone is generally identified as his. As the last Gallovidian ruler in the legitimate patrilineal line descended from Fergus, Alan's death brought an abrupt end to about half a century of stable Gallovidian rule under he and his father, and the lack of a legitimate male heir to succeed himself led to a sudden succession crisis.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_of_Galloway

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