Hugh de Morville

- Bef 1174

• Name	Hugh de Morville
  Gender	Male
  Died	Bef 1174  [1]
  Siblings	3 siblings
  + 1. Maud de Morville   2. Hugh de Morville ,   d. Bef 1174 + 3. Ada de Morville + 4. Richard de Morville ,   b. 1125, of Lauder in Lauderdale, Berwickshire, Scotland ,   d. 1189  (Age 64 years)
  Person ID	I554	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	11 Nov 2015

  
  

  Father	Hugh de Morville,   b. of Morville, Manche, Normandy, France ,   d. 1162, Dryburgh Abbey, Roxburghshire, Scotland
  Mother	Beatrice de Beauchamp,   b. of Houghton Conquest, Bedfordshire, England
  Family ID	F3905	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  One of the murderers of Thomas Becket; excommunicated by Alexander III, 25 March 1171. Died without issue. Not to be confused with Hugh de Morville of Burgh-by-sands, d. 1202, who was this Hugh de Morville's cousin. "If we take the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as a whole, there are merely two important examples of partition between surviving sons, and each arose in exceptional circumstances rather than from any deep-seated family desire 'to keep English estates distinct from Scottish'. The Brus partition of c. 1138 was followed by the division of the Moreville lands: the former had been precipitated by war, the later was dictated by King Henry II. In the 1140's King David had settled the lordship of north Westmoreland upon his Constable, Hugh de Moreville of Lauderdale and Cunningham (d. 1162). But when the northern shires were surrendered in 1157, Henry II recognized the Moreville title only on the condition that Hugh stood down in favor of his (oldest?) son and namesake, subsequently a member of Henry II's military household, an Angevin royal justice, and one of the assassins of Thomas Becket. King Henry's concern to reassert systematically his powers in the north country was made fully explicit when Hugh II died on pilgrimage to Jerusalem in c. 1173. Most of Westmoreland proper thereupon escheated to the crown, although Hugh was survived by his brother Richard, successor in 1162 to Lauderdale and Cunningham and the Constableship of Scotland, and by his sister Maud, wife of William de Vieuxpont II. Here the royal will made a rare intervention in succession and descent." [Earl David of Huntingdon by K. J. Stringer, Edinburgh University Press, 1985, p. 196. A footnote reads: "It has usually been assumed that the younger Hugh de Moreville's estates escheated for his support of the Scots in 1173-4."]

  
  

• Sources

  [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing.