ID: I5000
Name: Roland 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Sex: M
Change Date: 20 MAY 2004
Birth: ABT 1164 in Galloway, Perthshire, Scotland 5
Death: DEC 1200 in Northamptonshire, England 2 4 5
Burial: Abbey of Saint Andrew, Northamptonshire, England
Occupation: Lord of Galloway, Constable of Scotland 1189-1200
Note:
Roland, the father of Alan and Thomas, obtained extensiveestates 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 analliance with Lachlan (or 'Roland'), lord of Galloway, who hadmarried into the Anglo-Norman family of Moreville, and whosechange of name neatly captures the interaction that wasbeginning between the native and foreign cultures. When in 1187William was again faced by a northern uprising, it was Rolandwho captured its leader, Donald mac William, a distant kinsmanof the king'. p. 59: 'Roland of Galloway's marriage to theMoreville heiress expanded the family's interests.' [Ref:Political Development of the British Isles 1100-1400, by RobinFrame, Oxford, 1990, p. 42]

'Roland, Lord of Galloway, the son of Uchtred. On the death ofhis uncle, Gilbert, in 1185, Roland rose in arms, and possessedhimself of all of Galloway.' Henry II threatened to invade in1186; Roland agreed to swear fealty, give his three sons ashostages, and keep Uchtred's lands. Gilbert's son Duncan gotCarrick. 'Roland greatly increased his lands by marrying Eva,Ela, or Helena, daughter of Richard de Moreville, Constable ofScotland, who died 1196. Roland inherited the office ofConstable. 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 ofUchtred, claimed the lordship of Galloway. . . . Roland, thefather of Alan and Thomas, obtained extensive estates in theshires of Northampton, Huntingdon, and Bedford, in right of hiswife, Elena de Moreville (Joseph Bain, 'Calendar of DocumentsRelating to Scotland', vol. i, p. 47).' [Ref: A History ofDumfries 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 herfather Richard and of her grandmother Beatrice de Beauchamp, wasentitled to four knights' fees respectively at Bozeat,Northants, Whissendine and Whitwell in Rutland, Offord inHuntingdonshire, and Houghton Conquest beside Bedford--the 5hides at Houghton having been originally acquired by Hugh deBeauchamp, Beatrice's grandfather, probably not long before1086.' [Ref: The Anglo-Norman Era in Scottish History' by G.W.S.Barrow, Oxford, 1980, p 17]




Father: Uchtred b: ABT 1118 in Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland
Mother: Gunnild OF DUNBAR b: 1126 in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland

Marriage 1 Elena (Helena) DE MORVILLE b: ABT 1172 in Kirkoswald, Cumberland, England
Married: ABT 1185 in Kirkoswald, Cumberland, England
Children
Has Children Alan MacDonal named in the Magna Charta b: ABT 1186 in Galloway, Wigtownshire, Scotland
Has Children Thomas OF GALLOWAY b: ABT 1190 in Galloway, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Has Children Devorguilla OF GALLOWAY b: ABT 1195 in Galloway, Perthshire Scotland

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