Alan of Galloway

Lord of Galloway and Constable of Scotland

Events

Date of Birth: before 1199.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Oram.

Date of Death: about 2 February 1234.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Oram.

Place of Burial: Dundrennan Abbey.

The date is given by Oram.

Relationships

Father: Roland of Galloway.

This relationship is given by Oram and by PoMS, no. 451.

Mother: Helen de Morville.

This relationship is given by Oram and by PoMS, no. 451.

Spouse: a daughter of Roger de Lacy, constable of Chester.

This relationship is given by Oram and by PoMS, no. 451. Stringer (p. 104) states that one of Roger's daughters was "evidently" Alan's first wife. The Complete Peerage (12/2:753) states that Helen was the daughter of the first wife of Alan, without stating who that was. Some sources give Alan’s first wife as a daughter of Reginald, Lord of the Isles.

Spouse: Margaret, daughter of David, earl of Huntingdon. Married 1209.

This relationship is given by Oram, by Stringer, and by PoMS, no. 451.

Spouse: Rose, daughter of Hugh de Lacy, earl of Ulster.

This relationship is given by Oram and by PoMS, no. 451.

Children (by his first wife):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Oram.)

Helen married Roger de Quincy, second earl of Winchester.

Children (by Margaret):

Christina married William de Forz.

Dervorguilla married John de Balliol.

Children (illegitimate):

Thomas married a daughter of Ragnvald, king of Man.

References

Beam, Amanda, John Bradley, Dauvit Broun, John Reuben Davies, Matthew Hammond, Michele Pasin (with others), The People of Medieval Scotland, 1093 – 1314 (Glasgow and London, 2012), www.poms.ac.uk. [accessed 27 August 2014]

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Oram, Richard D. ‘Alan, lord of Galloway (b. before 1199, d. 1234)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Stringer, Keith. “Periphery and Core in Thirteenth-Century Scotland: Alan son of Roland, Lord of Galloway and Constable of Scotland” in Medieval Scotland: Crown, Lordship and Community (Alexander Grant and Keith J Stringer eds.) (Edinburgh University Press, 1998) pp. 82-113.