Helen de Morville

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 11 June 1217.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Cawley.

Relationships

Father: Richard de Morville.

This relationship is given by Oram and by Keats-Rohan (p. 603).

Mother: Avicia de Lancaster.

This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 603).

Spouse: Roland, lord of Galloway.

This relationship is given by Oram, by Keats-Rohan (p. 603), and by PoMS no. 1220.

Children:

(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 PoMS no. 453.)

Alan of Galloway (died 1234) married (1) a daughter of Roger de Lacy, constable of Chester; married (2) Margaret, daughter of David, earl of Huntingdon; married (3) Rose, daughter of Hugh de Lacy, earl of Ulster.

Thomas (died 1231), earl of Atholl, married Isabel, countess of Atholl.

Devorguilla of Galloway married Nicholas Stuteville of Liddel.

Ada married Walter Bisset.

A daughter died young.

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]

Cawley, Charles. “HELEN de Morville” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

Oram, Richard D. ‘Roland, lord of Galloway (d. 1200)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.