Roland Lord of Galloway Constable of Scotland

   Another name for Roland was Lochlann Lord of Galloway.

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 38:25 - Married to Elena de Morville, 69:29 - father of Devorguilla who married Nicholas II de Stuteville, 184A:8, 236:9 ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁸⁷⁴
Roland, Lord of Galloway and constable of Scotland, styled as "Roland, son of Uchtred," in the charter of Annandale grant by King Wiliam, the Lion, which may be dated about 1166, along with his father and uncle. He was also at the Scottish Court in 1180, when he was one of the judges who decided a dispute between the monks of Melrose and Richard Morvill the Constable, later to be his father-in-law. He greatly resented his father's death, but he seems to have bided his time until the dath of his uncle Gilbert, when he rapidly collected a large force, and swept over Galloway, devasting the territory, salying the richer and more powerful inhabitants, and seizing their lands, where he planted forts to secure his authority.

King Henry II, of England, wanted to be Protector of Galloway, and was not happy about this. He marched a large force to Carlisle. War was averted and Roland was persuaded to meet the two Kings at Carlisle. Peace was arranged and Roland gave his three sons as hostages for his good faith, while King William assigned that part of ancient Galloway, call Carrick to Roland's cousins Duncan, son of Gilbert, which he accepted, renouncing all claims and any rights his father had in Galloway proper.

Roland was named Justiciar, and also Constable betwee 1189 and 1198. He founded the Abbey of Glenluce in 1190. The last public act of Roland was to accompany King William to Lincoln, where on 22 Nov 1200, King William swore fealty to King John for his English fiefs. He died in Northampton, and died there on 19 Dec 1200. He was buried in the Abbey of St. Andrew. His wife was Elena, daughter of Richard and sister of William de Morville. She was the heir of both, and through her, after the death of her brother William, aquired the extensive estates of the Morvilles and the office of Constable of Scotland. He paid the exchequer seven hundred marks of silver as a relief duty. Elena survived her husband, and appears in various transactions concerning her property up to 11 Jun 1217, when she died. The children of Roland and Eleana were:

Alan, Lord of Galloway
Thomas, married Isabella, Countess of Atholl, and became the Earl of Atholl in right of her.
Unnamed son, referred to with his brothers in 1186, when the three were given as hostages to King Henry II.
Ada, married in 1233 to Walter Bisset of Aboyne.

~The Scots Peerage, Vol. IV, pp. 138-139

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Roland Lord Galloway.
William of Newburgh names "fratri nefarie interempto filius Rollandus" [William of Newburgh II.XXXIV, p. 187]. "...Huctred son of Fergus, Gilebert son of Fergus...Rolland son of Huctred..." witnessed the charter dated to [1166] under which William King of Scotland confirmed the grant of property to "Robert de Brus" [Calendar of Documents Scotland (Bain), Vol. I, 105, p. 14]. "Roland de Galweia fil Uchtredi costabularius reg Scott" donated property "apud Lochkendeloch" to Kelso monastery by charter dated to (abt 1200) [Kelso, Tome I, 254, p. 211].

Roland married Helen, daughter of Richard de Morville, Constable of Scotland [Domesday Descendants, p. 603.]. The Extracta ex Cronicis Scocie records that "Rothonaldus…dominus Galuidie, pater magni Alani" succeeded "Willelmo de Moreuilla constabulario Scocie" and married his sister [Extracta ex Cronicis Scocie, p. 82.]. "Rodland de Galloway gives the K. 500 marks to have a recognizance by twelve free men of the vicinage of Bosiate, whether Richard de Moreville father of his wife Helena was seized of a knight's fee in Bosiaute" in Northampton, dated 1200 [Calendar of Documents Scotland (Bain), Vol. I, 294, p. 47].

Roland married Elena de Morville, daughter of Richard de Morville Constable of Scotland, Lord of Cunningham and Avice de Lancaster, about 1183 in Kirkoswald, Cumberland, England ¹⁶⁰.^,874 (Elena de Morville was born in 1153 in Kirkoswald, Cumberland, England and died on 11 Jun 1217.)