• General Notes

  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 [Ref: Turton]
  
  '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]
  
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Details of Roland's family with Elena de Morville