Helen of Galloway
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: after 21 November 1245.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by the Complete Peerage (12/2:753).
Place of Burial: Brackley.
The place is given by the Complete Peerage (12/2:753).
Relationships
Father: Alan, lord of Galloway and constable of Scotland.
This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (4:197; 12/2:753), by Oram (ODNB, Alan of Galloway), and by PoMS, no. 451, no. 6518.
Mother: a daughter of Roger de Lacy, constable of Chester.
This relationship is given by Oram (ODNB, Alan of Galloway) and by PoMS, no. 451. 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: Roger de Quincy, second earl of Winchester.
This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (12/2:753) and by Oram (ODNB, Roger de Quincy).
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 Oram.)
Margaret married William de Ferrers, fifth earl of Derby.
Elizabeth (Isabella) married Alexander Comyn, earl of Buchan.
Helen married Alan de la Zouche.
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. ‘Quincy, Roger de, earl of Winchester (c. 1195-1264)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Oram, Richard D. ‘Alan, lord of Galloway (b. before 1199, d. 1234)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.