Roland of Galloway

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 19 December 1200.

Place of Death: Northampton.

The date and place are given by Oram.

Place of Burial: The Abbey of St Andrew.

The place is given by Oram.

Relationships

Father: Uhtred, lord of Galloway.

This relationship is given by Oram and by PoMS no. 453.

Mother: Gunnilda, daughter of Waltheof of Allerdale in Cumbria.

This relationship is given by Oram and by PoMS no. 453.

Spouse: Helen de Morville. Married before 1185.

This relationship is given by Oram and by PoMS no. 453.

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]

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