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Personal data Alan of Galloway , Constable of Scotland 

• He was born about 1186 in Galloway, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
• (Bullet ) in the year 1215 in named in MAGNA CHARTA, King John advisor.
• He died in the year 1234 in Abbey of Dundren, Kirkcudbright, Scotland.Source 4
• A child of Roland Lord of Galloway and Elena de Morville
• This information was last updated on February 4, 2023.

Household of Alan of Galloway , Constable of Scotland

(1) He is married to Helen de Lisle.

They got married at Alternate Wife.

(2) He is married to Alice de Lacy.

They got married about 1204 at 1st wife.Sources 4, 5

Child(ren):

1. Helen Mac Donal Galloway  ± 1208-> 1245 

(3) He is married to Margaret de Huntingdon.

They got married in the year 1209 at Dundee, Scotland.Sources 4, 6

Child(ren):

1. Christian of Galloway  ± 1218-< 1246
2. Devorgilla of Galloway  ± 1220-???? 
3. Marian of Galloway  ± 1218-???? 

Notes about Alan of Galloway , Constable of Scotland

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Alan of Galloway, named in the Magna Charta, 1215, Constable of Scotland,1215-1234, Lord of Galloway, d. 1234; m. (1) N.N., daughter or sister ofRoger de Lacy, of Pontefract, Constable of Chester (Tr. Dumfrieshire andGalloway Natural History Society 49: 49-55); m. (2) 1209, Margaret deHuntingdon, daughter of David of Huntingdon (son of Henry of Huntingdonand grandson of David I "The Saint", King of Scots) and Maud of Chester(SP IV, 138-143). [Magna Charta Sureties, line 139-1] Note: MCS hasHelen dau by 1st wife.

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Alan, Lord of Galloway, named in the Magna Charta, Constable of Scotland,1215-1234, d. 1234; m. (1) a daughter of Hugh de Lacy, Earl of Ulster(died 1243) by his first wife, Lesceline, daughter of Bertram de Verdun(Orpen, Ireland under the Normans III chart, p. 286) or daughter orsister of Roger de Lacy of Pontefract (Trans. of the Dumfrieshire &Galloway Nat. Hist. Soc., 49:49-55); m. (2) 1209, Margaret ofHuntingdon. [Ancestral Roots, line 38-26] Note: AR has Helen as daughterby 1st wife.

Note: I have chosen AR's ancestry for Miss de Lacy. Other possibilitiesexist. CP, in its article on Hugh de Lacy, states that he had no issueby his 2nd wife, but does not say that about his 1st wife (leaving openthe possibility/probability of issue by his 1st marriage). In CP'sarticle on Roger de Quincy, CP states that Helen is a daughter by Alan's1st wife, without indicating anything about her identity.

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The following posted by Curt Hofemann, (XXXXX@XXXX.XXX), putsdoubt as to MCS & AR's ordering & number of wives, as well as Miss deLacy's ancestry:

Buried: Abbey of Dundren, Kirkcudbright, Scotland [Ref: Robert C. Bradleyhttp://www.bradleygenealogy.info/nindex.htm#sx]

Dundrennan [Ref: "Peerage of Scotland" by John Philip Wood, Edinburgh,1813, v 1, pp. 612-13]

"Alan, Lord of Galloway, died 1233, buried at Dundrennan. By his firstwife, whose name is not known, he had a daughter Helen, married to Rogerde Quincy [d. 28 April 1264]. . . He married secondly at Dundee in 1209Margaret, eldest daughter of David, Earl of Huntingdon, brother ofMalcolm IV and William the Lion, by whom he had two daughters: 1.Dervegulde. 2. Christian, died without issue 1246. He married thirdly in1228 a daughter of Hugh de Lacy, without issue." [Ref: "Peerage ofScotland" by John Philip Wood, Edinburgh, 1813, v 1, pp. 612-13]

Alan married a sister of John de Lacy, Constable of Chester and futureEarl of Lincoln, Margaret, daughter of Earl David of Huntingdon, andRose, daughter of Hugh de Lacy, Earl of Ulster. [Ref: "Essays of theNobility of Medieval Scotland" K.J. Stringer ed., Edinburgh, 1985, p 49]

He married NN FitzRichard the daughter of John FitzRichard and Alice deVere. [Ref: Dave (XXXXX@XXXX.XXX)ol.com ((XXXXX@XXXX.XXX)) message to Gen-Medieval 5 Jan1999 citing Weis MC5 139-1] - Under notes for John FitzRichard isindicated "John [de Lacy] Constable of Chester. --- W E Wightman, *TheLacy Family in England and Normandy, 1066-1194, genealogical chartfollowing p 260. Inherited the Barony of Halton and Constableship ofChester from his stepgrandfather."

Research note: Stringer indicates she was the sister & Weis indicatesdaughter of John de Lacy. Is this a disagreement about identity of herfather or did the 1st John de Lacy also have a son John?... Curt

p. 59 "Alan held lands in Lothian, Cumbria (from where he importedtenants), Yorkshire, and the English east midlands; he also gained atitle to large areas of eastern Ulster from King John, who was almost asmuch his lord as was William the Lion."

p. 104: "Galloway . . . lost its regal status only slowly. Its ruler,Fergus, who died in 1161, was frequently called princeps, and once rex;he may, like Alexander I, have married an illegitimate daughter of HenryI. His successors abandoned the royal styles while retaining some regalattributes. . . .Alan son of Roland had an ease of manoeuvre and a rangeof contacts on either side of the Solway and the Irish Sea that markedhim out as more than a baron of the king of Scots. It was only AlexanderII's intervention upon his death in 1234, to exclude his bastard son andpartition his lands between his daughters, that put a final end toGalloway's royal status; even then its identity survived in a distinctivelaw-code, whose tolerance of blood feud was offensive in the eyes of aconventional monarchy." [Ref: Political Development of the British Isles1100-1400, by Robin Frame, Oxford, 1990]

Below is from Douglas Richardson ((XXXXX@XXXX.XXX)) message tosoc.genealogy.medieval 13 Sep 2002:
ALAN FITZ ROLAND, lord of Galloway, hereditary Constable of Scotland,born in or before 1175 (adult by 1196). He married possibly in 1200_____ OF CHESTER (descendant of Charlemagne), daughter of John [FitzRichard] of Chester (died 1190), hereditary Constable of Chester, Baronof Pontefract, co. York, by Alice, daughter of Roger Fitz Richard, ofWarkworth, co. Northumberland. She had as her maritagium the manor ofKippax, co. Yorkshire [see note below]. They had two daughters, Ellenand _____ (died 1213 in England - see below). He married (2nd) in 1209MARGARET OF HUNTINGDON (descendant of Charlemagne), daughter of David ofScotland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (6th and youngest son of Malcolm III,King of Scotland), by Maud, daughter of Hugh, 6th Earl of Chester. (Note:in a l14 Sep 2002 correction message Douglas Richardson stated: Iincorrectly stated that Alan Fitz Roland's father-in-law, David, Earl ofHuntingdon, was the son of King Malcolm III of Scotland. Earl David wasactually King Malcolm's great-grandson.) Her maritagium probablyincluded lands in Harringworth, co. Northampton. They had two daughters,Devorguille and Christian (wife of William de Forz, Count of Aumale). In1212 King John requested him to send 1,000 of his best and most activeGalwegians to Chester for his expedition against the Welsh. Thefollowing year King John granted him an enormous tract of land in Antrimand Derry consisting of 140 knights' fees. He was one of 16 laymen bywhose counsel King John claimed to have granted Magna Carta. He married(3rd) in 1229 ROHESE (or ROSE) DE LACY, daughter of Hugh de Lacy, Earl ofUlster, by his lst wife, Lesceline, daughter of Bertram de Verdun,seneschal of Ireland. By one of his wives, he evidently had a son,Thomas, who died without issue before 1234. He also had an illegitimateson, Thomas (living 1296). In 1229 he was summoned to go abroad withKing Henry III. ALAN FITZ ROLAND died in 1234, and was buried atDundrennan Abbey in Galloway. In 1236 his widow's father, Hugh de Lacy,created an insurrection in Galloway at the succession of Alan's estates.She was living in 1237.

[Note: The identity of Alan Fitz Roland';s first wife is proven by asuit dated 1214 regarding Kippax, co. York, in which Alan is stated tohave married a sister of Richard [recte Roger], father of John [de Lacy][constable] of Chester. The year previously in 1213, an unnamed daughterof Alan died as a hostage in the custody of Robert Fitz Roger, ofWarkworth, co. Northumberland. It was customary in this period to placeforeign born hostages with a near relative in England. Robert Fitz Rogerin question was the maternal uncle of Alan of Galloway's first wife, andthus would have been closely related to Alan's child].

References:
K. J. Stringer, Medieval Scotland: 140-155 (not seen).
Liber Cartarum Sancte Crucis (Bannatyne Club): 19-20 (not seen).
Chron. De Mailros (Bannatyne Club): 108 (not seen).
Mathew Paris, Chron. Mag., 3: 304 (not seen).
M. Paris, 5: 341.
J. Stevenson, ed., Chronicon de Lanercost (Maitland Club) (1839): 40 (notseen)
George Ormerod, Hist. of the County Palatine of Chester, 1 (1819):509-510 (Alan and his first wife were possibly married in 1200, when herbrother, Roger de Lacy, was employed for safe conduct of the King ofScotland to the court of England. Ormerod identifies a sister Alice forRoger but doesn't provide her marital history. Quite possibly Alice wasthe 1st wife of Alan Fitz Roland).

Cal. Charter Rolls, 1 (1895): 156.
Arch. & Hist. Coll. relating to Ayrshire & Galloway, 10 (1899): 64.
Scots Peerage, 4 (1907): 139-143.
James Wilson, ed., Register of the Priory of St. Bees (Surtees Soc., vol.126) (1915): viii-xi, 71-72, 97-98 ("A great man in his day, who treatedwith King John in apparent independence of his own sovereignity").

Trans. Dumfriesshire & Galloway Nat. Hist. and Antiq. Soc., 3rd ser., 5(1916-18): 258-264; 36 (1959): 115-122; 49 (1972): 49-55.

C.P., 6 (1926): 646-647 (sub Huntingdon).
VCH Northampton, 4 (1937): 3.
Curia Regis Rolls, 7 (1935): 85-86 (suit by Alan of Galloway re. Kippax,co. York which he had in marriage with the aunt of John [de Lacy],constable of Chester).

Paget (1957), 132:1 (sub Clavering); 311: 1 (sub Lacy, Earl of Lincoln).
C.P., 12 Part 2 (1959): 168-171.
R.C. Reid, ed., Wigtownshire Charters (Scottish Hist. Soc.) (1960): xxxix.
I. J. Sanders, English Baronies (1960): 118-119.
Art Cosgrave, ed., New Hist. of Ireland, 2 (1987): 19.
Alan O. Anderson, Early Sources of Scottish History, 2 (1990): 492-495.
K. J. Stringer, ed., Essays on the Nobility of Medieval Scotland (19__):44-61 ("a great leader whose naval exploits on the western seaboard ofScotland won him respect in contemporary Norse circles").

Gerard J. Brault, ed., Rolls of Arms, Edward 1 (1272-1307), 2 (1997): 188(Galloway arms: Azure, a lion rampant argent crowned or, displayed in anescutcheon in the sinister canton of the arms of Hugh de Balliol (died1271), of Bywell, co. Northumberland).

Regards,
Curt

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