Maud de Morville

Notes:

The village of Maulds Meaburn in Cumbria is named for her. According to a plaque in nearby King's Meaburn, dated 2000, the villages originally made up the manor of Meaburn. After her brother Hugh de Morville's support for the rebellion of 1173, his lands were confiscated by Henry II, who kept the part now called King's Meaburn and granted the other part to Maud, thus the name.

Accounts on various local-history sites vary from this. The Wikipedia pages for both Maulds Meaburn and King's Meaburn give a different version, in which Henry II granted Maud and Hugh their respective portions before Hugh rebelled. Other accounts appear to connect the separation of the two portions to Hugh's part in the murder of Becket, which does not seem to have been the case; see the footnote from K. J. Stringer quoted at the entry for Hugh. At any rate, it's clear that the village is named for this Maud de Morville.

Family/Spouse: William de Vipont. William died before 1204. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Robert de Vipont was born in of Appleby, Westmorland, England; died in 1228.

Notes:

Hereditary constable of Scotland. Founded Dryburgh Abbey, where he died as a canon.

Hugh married Beatrice de Beauchamp. Beatrice (daughter of Robert de Beauchamp) was born in of Houghton Conquest, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1118

Notes:

"Amongst the most eminent Norman families in the train of the Conqueror was that of Beauchamp, and amongst those that shared most liberally in the spoils of the conquest was Hugh de Beauchamp, the companion in arms of the victorious Norman, who obtained grants to a very great extent from his triumphant chief, as he appears at the general survey to be possessed of large estates in Hertford, Buckingham, and Bedfordshires, was the founder of this illustrious house in England. This Hugh had issue, Simon, who d. s.p.; Payne, ancestor of the Beauchamps of Bedford, that barony having been conferred upon him by William Rufus; Walter, but some doubts have been thrown upon the question of his having been son of Hugh, Sir H. Nicholas stating him to have been 'supposed of the same family'; Milo, of Eaton, co. Bedford; Adeline, m. to Walter le Espec, Lord of Kirkham and Helmesley, co. of York." [Burke's Peerage, and cum grano salis as usual. There's no evidence that the first Hugh de Beauchamp was a "companion in arms" to the Conqueror. For another, at least according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Simon de Beauchamp doesn't seem to have dsp'd.]

Hugh married Maud de Taillebois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]