 Abt 1090 - 1161 (71 years)
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| Name |
Fergus Of Galloway |
| Prefix |
Lord |
| Birth |
Abt 1090 |
Of, Galloway, Wigtownshire, Scotland  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
1161 |
Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Edinburgshire, Scotland |
| Person ID |
I53441 |
Cecilie Family |
| Last Modified |
2 Jan 2010 |
| Family 1 |
Princess Elizabeth Of England, b. Abt 1095, Of, Talby, Yorkshire, England d. Yes, date unknown |
| Marriage |
Abt 1124 |
Of, Carrick, Arshire, Scotland |
| Children |
| | 1. Africa Of Galloway |
| | 2. Lord Uchtred Galloway, b. Abt 1100, Of Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland d. 22 Sep 1174, Scotland (Age 74 years) |
| | 3. Margaret De Galloway, b. Abt 1130, Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland d. Yes, date unknown |
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| Family ID |
F22152 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
1 Jan 2010 |
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| Notes |
- Notes for Fergus of Galloway:
Lord of GallowayThanks to http://www.hypertree.com/macdonal/fergus.html
In soc.genealogy.medieval, Kathleen Much posted the following on 3 January 1996:
[...] John Philip Wood, Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1813), vol. 1, pp. 612-13: Fergus, Prince of Lord of Galloway, flourished in the reign of David I. He became a canon regular in the abbey of Holyroodhouse. Left two sons, 1. Gilbert, ancestor of the Earls of Carrick. 2. Uchtred.
Sir Herbert Maxwell, A History of Dumfries and Galloway (Edinburgh, 1896), pp. 47-48: One of the boyhood companions of David I (taken to England as a boy by his sister Matilda when she married Henry I) was "Fergus, of the line of Galloway princes or native rulers. . . He married Elizabeth, natural daughter of Henry I, and sister of Sibilla, who married Alexander I, brother of David."
E. William Robertson, Scotland under her Early Kings (Edinburgh, 1862), pp. 356-357: "At some remote era the Lord of Galloway became dependant upon the king of Scotland, and Fergus, the first known prince of the province, was an attendant on certain state occasions at the royal court, whilst he acknowledged the superiority of his contemporary David by the payment of a certain tribute in time of peace, and by a contingent of turbulent soldiery in war; resembling, in other respects, an ally rather than a vassal, and enjoying a considerable degeee of independence within his hereditary dominions. He married Elizabeth, a natural daughter of Henry the First, and Afreca, his daughter by this union, became the wife of Olave and the mother of Godfrey, kings of Man and the Isles. [note: _Chron. St. Crucis_ 1160. The names of Fergus and his son, Uchtred, occur amongst the witnesses to the grant of Perdeyc on the 7th July 1136. Reg. Glasg., No. 3, 7."
K.J. Stringer, ed. Essays of the Nobility of Medieval Scotland (Edinburgh, 1985), p. 49, cites "G.W.S. Barrow, Bruce, p. 36, n. 2. Fergus of Galloway married an illegitimate daughter of Henry I." . . . "Roland's father Uhtred married Gunnilda daughter of Waltheof, lord of Allerdale in Cumberland."
John Philip Wood, Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1813), vol. 1, pp. 612-13: "Uchtred, youngest son, divided with Gilbert the extensive inheritance of Fergus. They led their forces to the army of King William the Lion, when he invaded Northumberland in 1174." The natives of Galloway rebelled. Gilbert and Uchtred gave homage to Henry II of England. Gilbert's son Malcolm murdered Uchtred 22 September 1174, and was resisted by Roland."
Sir Herbert Maxwell, A History of Dumfries and Galloway (Edinburgh, 1896), p. 54: "Fergus was succeeded in the lordship of Galloway by his son Uchtred. . . . His brother Gilbert, having first torn out his eyes and brutally mutilated him, put him to death." Blinding and castration was used in Celtic times to make a man ineligible for the kingship; Gilbert apparently thought himself a monarch and wanted his brother out of the way.
Robin Frame, Political Development of the British Isles 1100-1400 (Oxford, 1990), p. 42: "During the 1180s the king [William the Lion] struck up an alliance with Lachlan (or 'Roland'), lord of Galloway, who had married into the Anglo-Norman family of Moreville, and whose change of name neatly captures the interaction that was beginning between the native and foreign cultures. When in 1187 William was again faced by a northern uprising, it was Roland who captured its leader, Donald mac William, a distant kinsman of the king". p. 59: "Roland of Galloway's marriage to the Moreville heiress expanded the family's interests."
John Philip Wood, Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1813), vol. 1, pp. 612-13: "Roland, Lord of Galloway, the son of Uchtred. On the death of his uncle, Gilbert, in 1185, Roland rose in arms, and possessed himself of all of Galloway." Henry II threatened to invade in 1186; Roland agreed to swear fealty, give his three sons as hostages, and keep Uchtred's lands. Gilbert's son Duncan got Carrick. "Roland greatly increased his lands by marrying Eva, Ela, or Helena, daughter of Richard de Moreville, Constable of Scotland, who died 1196. Roland inherited the office of Constable. Issue: 1. Alan. 2. Thomas, Earl of Atholl. 3. ---, hostage in 1186. Daughter Ada married Sir Walter Bisset."
Sir Herbert Maxwell, _A History of Dumfries and Galloway_ (Edinburgh, 1896), p. 56: "On the death of the cruel Gilbert in 1185, Roland, son of Uchtred, claimed the lordship of Galloway. . . . Roland, the father of Alan and Thomas, obtained extensive estates in the shires of Northampton, Huntingdon, and Bedford, in right of his wife, Elena de Moreville (Joseph Bain, "Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland", vol. i, p. 47)."
G.W.S. Barrow, _The Anglo-Norman Era in Scottish History_ (Oxford, 1980), p. 17: "In 1200 Lachlan, alias Roland, son of Uhtred lord of Galloway, remembered . . . that his wife Helen de Morville, heir of her father Richard and of her grandmother Beatrice de Beauchamp, was entitled to four knights' fees respectively at Bozeat, Northants, Whissendine and Whitwell in Rutland, Offord in Huntingdonshire, and Houghton Conquest beside Bedford--the 5 hides at Houghton having been originally acquired by Hugh de Beauchamp, Beatrice's grandfather, probably not long before 1086."
K.J. Stringer, Earl David of Huntingdon (1985), p. 146, says Roland's widow Helena made gifts to St. Andrews Priory, Northampton, when her husband was buried there after his sudden death in 1200.
K.J. Stringer, ed. Essays of the Nobility of Medieval Scotland (Edinburgh, 1985): Roland died at Northampton a few days short of Christmas 1200, is buried at the Priory of St. Andrew there.
John Philip Wood, Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1813), vol. 1, pp. 612-13: "Alan, Lord of Galloway, died 1233, buried at Dundrennan. By his first wife, whose name is not known, he had a daughter Helen, married to Roger de Quincy [d. 28 April 1264]. . . He married secondly at Dundee in1209 Margaret, eldest daughter of David, Earl of Huntingdon, brother of Malcolm IV and William the Lion, by whom he had two daughters: 1. Dervegulde. 2. Christian, died without issue 1246. He married thirdly in 1228 a daughter of Hugh de Lacy, without issue."
K.J. Stringer, ed. Essays of the Nobility of Medieval Scotland (Edinburgh, 1985), p. 49, says Alan married a sister of John de Lacy, Constable of Chester and future Earl of Lincoln, Margaret, daughter of Earl David of Huntingdon, and Rose, daughter of Hugh de Lacy, Earl of Ulster. He does not say in that article why he thinks the first wife was a sister of John de Lacy; he published an article called "A New Wife for Alan of Galloway"
Robin Frame, Political Development of the British Isles 1100-1400 (Oxford, 1990), p. 59: "Alan held lands in Lothian, Cumbria (from where he imported tenants), Yorkshire, and the English east midlands; he also gained a title to large areas of eastern Ulster from King John, who was almost as much his lord as was William the Lion." p. 104: "Galloway . . . lost its regal status only slowly. Its ruler, Fergus, who died in 1161, was frequently called princeps, and once rex; he may, like Alexander I, have married an illegitimate daughter of Henry I. His successors abandoned the royal styles while retaining some regal attributes. . . .Alan son of Roland had an ease of manoeuvre and a range of contacts on either side of the Solway and the Irish Sea that marked him out as more than a baron of the king of Scots. It was only Alexander II's intervention upon his death in 1234, to exclude his bastard son and partition his lands between his daughters, that put a final end to Galloway's royal status; even then its identity survived in a distinctive law-code, whose tolerance of blood feud was offensive in the eyes of a conventional monarchy."
John Philip Wood, Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1813), I, 262: "Alexander, Earl of Buchan, married Elisabeth, second of the three daughters and coheirs of Roger de Quinci, Earl of Winchester, by Helen, eldest daughter and coheir of Alan, Lord of Galloway, constable of Scotland, and by her had issue, [Agnes, m. Gilbert de Umfraville, 8th Earl of Angus]." Helen was Alan's eldest daughter; she was not the daughter of Margaret of Huntingdon, whose children were Devorguilla and Christian.
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- [S1451] Given-Wilson, Chris and Curteis, Alice., Given-Wilson & Curteis (1984)., (Routledge & Kegan Paul: London, 1984.), p. 63. (Reliability: 3).
- [S1452] Weir, Alison., Weir (1989)., (The Bodley Head: London, 1989.), p. 49. (Reliability: 3).
- [S1761] Mc Dowall, John Kevan, Mc Dowall (1947), (Ayr, Scotland, UK: Homer McCririck, 1947.), p. 54 (Reliability: 3).
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