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Personal data Roland Lord of Galloway, Constable of Scotland 

• Alternative names: Roland Lord of Galloway, Roland Galloway, Roland of Galloway, Lord of Galloway
• He was born in the year 1164 in Galloway, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
• Alternative: He was born in the year 1164 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.Source 7
• Alternative: He was born about 1164.
• He died on December 19, 1200 in Northamptonshire, England, he was 36 years old.Source 7

  Age: 36

• Alternative: He died December 1208, he was 44 years old.
• Alternative: He died on December 19, 1200 in Northamptonshire, England, he was 36 years old.Sources 1, 3
• He is buried in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England.Source 7
• Alternative: He is buried in Priory of St Andrew, Northampton, England.
• A child of Uchtred and Gunnild of Dunbar

Household of Roland Lord of Galloway, Constable of Scotland

He is married to Elena de Moreville.

They got married at Kirkoswald, Cumberland, England.

Child(ren):

1. Alan of Galloway,  ± 1186-1234 
2. Lady Mary Devorgulle de Galloway,  1192-1242 

Notes about Roland Lord of Galloway, Constable of Scotland

The following information was in a post-em from Curt Hofemann, curt_hofemann@@yahoo.com:d Thomas, obtained extensive estates in the shires of Northampton, Huntingdon, and Bedford, in right of his wife, Elena de Moreville [Ref: Turton]ck 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]rd 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]nd, 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]d . . . 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]

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