Roland fitz Uchtred

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Also called Lachlan, de Galwaye, Galloway. "Known in his youth as Lachlan, his preference in adulthood for being known as Roland, the Norman-French equivalent of Lachlan, symbolizes the spread of foreign influences into Galloway which followed the overthrow in 1160 of his grandfather, Fergus of Galloway." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

Hereditary Constable of Scotland, 1196-1200 (jure uxoris).

Roland married Ellen de Morville before 1185. Ellen (daughter of Richard de Morville and Avice de Lancaster) died on 11 Jun 1217 in Galloway, Perthshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Alan fitz Roland died about 2 Feb 1234; was buried in Dundrennan Abbey, Kircudbright, Scotland.
2. Devorguilla of Galloway died after Jan 1240.

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Slain by his brother Gilbert in a dispute over the fruits of William the Lion's invasion of Northumberland.

Uchtred married Gunnild of Dunbar. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Fergus married (Unknown wife of Fergus of Galloway) about 1120. (Unknown died in 1161 in Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland; was buried in 1166 in Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Many sources, including the usually-reliable Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, assert that she was a natural daughter of Henry I, but there appears to be no actual contemporary evidence for it. A fairly detailed discussion of this can be found in this thread on SGM; despite the participants' disagreements, it appears that they all acknowledge that no actual proof exists showing such a relationship.

On 22 Feb 2019, Peter Stewart pointed out that there is also no factual basis for asserting that her name was Elizabeth.

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Also called Waldeve. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him "of Allerdale in Cumbria."

"It has been asserted that he became Abbot of Croyland in 1124 and was deposed in 1138, but there is good reason for believing that the Abbot must have been another Waldeve." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below.]

Waltheof married Sigrid. Sigrid died after 1138. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Sigarith.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Between 1040 and 1048
• Alternate death: Abt 1075

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Earl of Northumberland; Lord of Carlisle and Allerdale. Visited Rome, 1061.

"Gospatric, earl of Northumbria (d. 1073x5), magnate, was the son of Maldred, whose father, Crinan, named in one source as Crinan 'the thegn', is usually identified with the lay abbot of Dunkeld of that name, who was father of Duncan I, king of Scots, and was killed in battle in 1045. That identification cannot be regarded as certain, but there is no doubt that Maldred was a man of high status, who married Ealdgyth, the daughter of Earl Uhtred of Northumbria and his wife, Ælfgifu, daughter of King Æthelred II, and that Ealdgyth was Gospatric's mother." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

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Also called Aldred; Maldred MacCrinan.

According to The Scots Peerage (citation details below), he was probably killed in the same battle as his father Crinan, attempting to avenge the murder of his brother Duncan by Macbeth.

The Henry Project calls Maldred a "probable" child of the Crinan who married Bethoc, daughter of Malcolm II, King of Scotland (this Crinan and Bethoc being the parents of the Scots king Duncan I), but THP also notes that there is no direct evidence that Bethoc was Maldred's mother.

From The Henry Project:

Maldred is given as a son of a Crinán in three of the works of Simeon of Durham, with Crínán given the title of "thane" (tein) in one of these works. Maldred married Ealdgyth, daughter of Uhtred, earl of Northumbria, by whom he Dolphin, Waltheof, and Cospatric (ancestor of the House of Dunbar) ["Postea vero illo, scilicet Ucthredo, proficiente magis et magis in re militari, rex Ethelredus filiam suam Elfgivam ei copulavit uxorem. Ex qua habuit filiam Aldgitham, quam pater in conjugium dedit Maldredo filio Crinan tein, ex qua Maldredus Cospatricum, patrem Dolphini et Walteofi, et Cospatrici." Sim. Durh., De Obsessione Dunelmi, c. 2 (1: 216); "... Cospatricus, filius Maldredi filii Crinani ... Erat enim ex matre Algitha, filia Uchtredi comitis, quam habuit ex Algiva filia Agelredi Regis. Hanc Algitham pater dedit in conjugium Maldredo filio Crinani." Sim. Durh., Historia Regum, c. 159 (2: 199); "Deinde Uctredus filius Walthefi administravit comitatum omnium Northanhymbrorum provinciarum. Huic rex Eathelredus suam filiam Ælfgeovam dederat uxorem. Ex qua filiam habens Aldgitham, dedit in conjugium prædiviti cuidam, Maldredo filio Crinani: de qua habuit Cospatricum comitem, patrem Dolphini, Walthefi, et Cospatrici." Sim. Durh., De Primo Saxonum Adventu (2: 383)]. Anderson states that Maldred appears to have ruled in Cumbria [ESSH 1: 577], but there does not seem to be a clear source for that statement [however, see ESSH 2: 37 for the possible Cumbrian origin of Maldred's son Cospatric I]. No primary source explicitly identifies the Crínán who was Maldred's father with the Crínán who was Duncan's father.

[Key to abbreviations in the above:]

Sim. Durh. = Thomas Arnold, ed., Symeonis Monachi Opera Omnia, 2 vols. (Rolls Series 75, 1882-5.)

ESSH = Alan Orr Anderson, Early Sources of Scottish History, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1922, reprinted Stamford, 1990). [Contains English translations of many of the primary records.]

Maldred married Ealdgyth of Northumbria. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Aeldgyth; Ealdgith; Algitha; Edith.

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Earl of Northumbria. On his way to a meeting with king Cnut, Uchtred and forty of his men were slain by a force led by Northumbrian magnate Thurbrand the Hold, supposedly with assistance of Uchtred's servant Wighill and with the connivance of Cnut. This either set off, or was the first recorded act of, a Northumbrian blood feud that lasted several decades.

Uchtred married Ælfgifu about 1014. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Elgiva, Algiva.