Baron Roger de Merlay 
Roger was born in 1173 in Morpeth Castle, Morpeth, Northumberland, England. Roger's father was Lord Roger de Merley of Morpeth and his mother is Alice Stuteville. His paternal grandfather was Baron and Earl Ralph de Merley of Morpeth and his paternal grandmother is Juliana de Dunbar; his maternal grandfather was Sheriff Roger de Stuteville of Northumberland. He had a brother and a sister, named Roger and Agnes. He was the oldest of the three children. He died at the age of 66 in 1239.General Notes
Name Prefix: Sir
Name Suffix: Baron Merlay
BIOGRAPHY: Roger de Merlay the 2nd confirmed the privileges to the Borough of Morpeth, a copy of his seal is illustrated. When he was a minor in 1188 Duncan, 6th Earl of Fife, gave Henry II 500 marks for having the wardship of him and license to marry his daughter Ada. In 1194 he paid 20 marks for being excused from going with the King to the wars in Normandy. His quoto of œ7 to the 2nd and 3rd scutage of Richard I was accounted for at the Exchequer in the first year of King John, in which year he paid a fine of 20 marks and two good palfreys for the privilege of having a market and fair in his Manor of Morpeth. He also gave to the monks of Newminster 20s a year out of the mill of Stanton, and for the good of the souls of his mother Alice and his son Ranulph gave to God and the Church of St. Peter at Brinkburne, and the canons serving God there, common pasture in his woods on the south side of Coquet. In 1224 he was acquitted of the services due from him to the Castle of Newcastle for his loyalty in taking up arms for the King against the Earl of Chester. He died 1239 and was buried at Newminster. He improved the Town of Morpeth and promoted the hospital of Catchburn.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 1035 in Normandy, France
- b.1060 in Normandy, France d.1095 in Morpeth, Northumberland, England
- b.1085/1090 in Morpeth, Northumberland, England
- b.ABT 1115/1122 in Morwick, Durham, England d.1160 in Morpeth, Northumberland, England
- b.~ 1036 in St Sauver, Manche, Normandy, France d.> 1084 in Aubigny, Calvados, France, France
- b.1070 in York, England
- b.~ 1040 in Montbrai, Manche, Normandie, France
- b.ABT 1087/1102 in Morwick, Durham, England
- b.~ 1050 in L'Aigle, France d.1085
- b.~ 1078 in L'Aigle, France
- b.~ 1054 in Avranches, Normandy, France
- b.1140/1149 in Morpeth Castle, Morpeth, Northumberland, England d.1188 in Northumberland, England
- b.~ 1015 in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland d.1045
- b.1040 in Northumberland, England d.15 Dec 1072 in Ubbanford, Scotland
- b.~ 1020 in Northumberland, England
- b.ABT 1073/1090 in Dunbar, East-Lothian, Scotland d.22 Aug 1138
- b.~ 1042 in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland
- b.ABT 1113/1115 in Dunbar, Burgh, Scotland
- b.1054 in Bearley, Dunbar, Burgh, Scotland d.1095 in Argyll of the Clan Fife of Scotland
- b.~ 1074 in Bearley, Dunbar, Burgh, Scotland d.~ 1095
- b.1173 in Morpeth Castle, Morpeth, Northumberland, England d.1239
- b.1070/1075 in Estouteville, Normandy, France d.> 1106 in Normandy, France
- b.1100 in Cottingham, Yorkshire, England d.1183
- b.1075 in Lincolnshire, England
- b.1147 in Weston, Colville, England d.~ 1192 in Joffa, Holy Land
- b.ABT 1084/1085 in Lazenby, Cumberland, England
- b.1100/1104 in Cottingham, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1161 in Brandesburton In Holderness, Yorkshire, England d.< 1194
- b.~ 1100 in Gressenhall, Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1130 in Gressenhall, Norfolk, England
- b.1160 in Gressinghall, Norfolk, England d.> 1202
- b.~ 1135 in Gressenhall, Norfolk, England
- b.ABT 1149/1150
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They had a daughter named Isabel.
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Children
Lady Isabel de Merlay of Warkworth
Isabel was born about 1199 in Northumberland, England. She died after 1256.
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