Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
NameFergus Lord Of Galloway, 26G Grandfather
Spouses
1Joan Of Gloucester, 26G Grandmother
FatherHenry I 'Beauclerc' King Of England (~1068-1135)
MotherMistress* Of King Henry
Web Notes notes for Fergus Lord Of Galloway
"The first Lord or Prince of Galloway on record is Fergus, styled ‘of Galloway', who appears as a witness to a charter by King David I, granting land to the Church of Glasgow on 7 July 1136 when that church was dedicated.... Little is known of his personal history, but like King David I...he gave liberally to the church, and was the founder of several abbeys in his own district. ...Towards the close of his life, and after King David's death, Fergus appears to have been drawn by the claims of relationship to take part in the insurrection of Donald MacBeth, or at least to afford him shelter in his territories. There Donald was pursued by King Malcolm IV, who succeeded in 1160 in reducing the rebellious district to submission, and Fergus, perhaps because of advancing age, took the cowl, and became a monk in the then new Abbey of Holyrood, where he died in 1161." Source: The Scots Peerage, ed. Sir J. B. Paul
Weis" "Ancestral Roots. . ." (38:24), (121B:26). Weis does not identify his parents. SP says that Fergus is the first lord or prince of Galloway on record (p.135). SP knows of no ancestry for Fergus. He is first mentioned on 7 July 1136 as a witness to a charter of David I. He died in 1161 at Holyrood Abbey as a monk (p.136).
Fergus, Prince of and Lord of Galloway, flourished in the reign of DAVID I. He became a canon regular in the abbey of Holyroodhouse. Left two sons, Gilbert, ancestor of the Earls of Carrick, and UCHTRED. He was one of the boyhood companions of DAVID I, taken to England as a boy by DAVID's sister MATILDA when she married KING HENRY I. He was 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." Afreca, his daughter by this union, became the wife of Olave and the mother of Godfrey, kings of Man and the Isles.
At some remote era the lord of Galloway became dependent 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 degree of independence within his
hereditary dominions.
Weis" "Ancestral Roots. . ." (38:24), (121B:26). Weis does not identify his parents. SP says that Fergus is the first lord or prince of Galloway on record (p.135). SP knows of no ancestry for Fergus. He is first mentioned on 7 July 1136 as a witness to a charter of David I. He died in 1161 at Holyrood Abbey as a monk (p.136).
Fergus, Prince of and Lord of Galloway, flourished in the reign of DAVID I. He became a canon regular in the abbey of Holyroodhouse. Left two sons, Gilbert, ancestor of the Earls of Carrick, and UCHTRED. He was one of the boyhood companions of DAVID I, taken to England as a boy by DAVID's sister MATILDA when she married KING HENRY I. He was 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." Afreca, his daughter by this union, became the wife of Olave and the mother of Godfrey, kings of Man and the Isles.
At some remote era the lord of Galloway became dependent 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 degree of independence within his
hereditary dominions.