Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
NameRichard DE MORVILLE, 25G Grandfather
FatherHugh DE MORVILLE (~1110-1162)
MotherBeatrice DE BEAUCHAMP (~1115->1150)
Spouses
1Avice Of Lancaster, 25G Grandmother
FatherWilliam Of Lancaster Lord Of Kendal (~1105-~1170)
MotherGundred DE WARENNE (~1117->1166)
ChildrenElena (~1172-1217)
Web Notes notes for Richard DE MORVILLE
He was the principal minister of WILLIAM THE LION.
K.J. Stringer, ed. "Essays of the Nobility of Medieval Scotland" (Edinburgh, 1985), p. 64, gives name of Richard de Morville's wife as Avicia. Richard of course was Constable of Scotland and kept his lands there.
G.W.S. Barrow, The Kingdom of the Scots (London, 1973), pp. 323-4: "Morville is from Morville, a few kilometres south-west of Brix, and the Morvilles were prominent tenants on the Honour of Huntingdon. The family's main stem were vassals of the Norman Honour of Vernon, which had its caput at Nehou a few miles further south. The closeness of the Scottish Morvilles to the Norman and Wessex lines of the family is shown by the fact that Morville charters in Scotland were witnessed by Alexander de Nehou, Richard de Nehou, and William de Nehou." D.G. Manuel, Dryburgh Abbey (Edinburgh, 1922), p. 47: quotes Chalmers, Caledonia iv, ch. 1, p. 503: "Hugh de Morville came from Burg in Cumberland. . . . [He] became Constable of Scotland. . . . He was the original founder of the monastery of Dryburgh, and died in 1162. By Beatrice de Bello Campo, his wife, he left Richard de Morville, who . . . became the principal minister of William the Lion." Hugh had "assumed the canonical robe of the monks of Dryburgh." K.J. Stringer, ed. Essays of the Nobility of Medieval Scotland (Edinburgh, 1985), p. 64, gives name of Richard de Morville's wife as Avicia. G.W.S. Barrow, The Anglo-Norman Era in Scottish History (Oxford, 1980), p. 17: "In 1200 . . . Helen de Morville, heir of her father Richard and of her grandmother Beatrice de Beauchamp, was entitled to four knights' fees respectively at Bozeat, Northants, Whissendine and Whitwell in Rutland, Offord in Huntingdonshire, and Houghton Conquest beside Bedford--the 5 hides at Houghton having been originally acquired by Hugh de Beauchamp, Beatrice's grandfather, probably not long before 1086." And p. 31: "As a consequence of Malcolm IV's subjugation of Galloway in 1160, Hugh de Morville the younger, son of Hugh de Morville the elder who died, as constable of the king of Scots and founder of Dryburgh Abbey, in 1162, was put in possession of Borgue, between Kirkcudbright and Gatehouse of Fleet, but evidently abandoned this estate after the anti-foreign revolt of Uhtred and Gilbert of Galloway in 1174, when, as Roger of Howden tells us, the Gallovidians slew or expelled the officials placed over them by the Scottish Crown, killed many Frenchmen and Englishmen, and destroyed those castles--no doubt of the motte and bailey type--which the incomers had had time to erect in that stubbornly separatist province."
K.J. Stringer, ed. "Essays of the Nobility of Medieval Scotland" (Edinburgh, 1985), p. 64, gives name of Richard de Morville's wife as Avicia. Richard of course was Constable of Scotland and kept his lands there.
G.W.S. Barrow, The Kingdom of the Scots (London, 1973), pp. 323-4: "Morville is from Morville, a few kilometres south-west of Brix, and the Morvilles were prominent tenants on the Honour of Huntingdon. The family's main stem were vassals of the Norman Honour of Vernon, which had its caput at Nehou a few miles further south. The closeness of the Scottish Morvilles to the Norman and Wessex lines of the family is shown by the fact that Morville charters in Scotland were witnessed by Alexander de Nehou, Richard de Nehou, and William de Nehou." D.G. Manuel, Dryburgh Abbey (Edinburgh, 1922), p. 47: quotes Chalmers, Caledonia iv, ch. 1, p. 503: "Hugh de Morville came from Burg in Cumberland. . . . [He] became Constable of Scotland. . . . He was the original founder of the monastery of Dryburgh, and died in 1162. By Beatrice de Bello Campo, his wife, he left Richard de Morville, who . . . became the principal minister of William the Lion." Hugh had "assumed the canonical robe of the monks of Dryburgh." K.J. Stringer, ed. Essays of the Nobility of Medieval Scotland (Edinburgh, 1985), p. 64, gives name of Richard de Morville's wife as Avicia. G.W.S. Barrow, The Anglo-Norman Era in Scottish History (Oxford, 1980), p. 17: "In 1200 . . . Helen de Morville, heir of her father Richard and of her grandmother Beatrice de Beauchamp, was entitled to four knights' fees respectively at Bozeat, Northants, Whissendine and Whitwell in Rutland, Offord in Huntingdonshire, and Houghton Conquest beside Bedford--the 5 hides at Houghton having been originally acquired by Hugh de Beauchamp, Beatrice's grandfather, probably not long before 1086." And p. 31: "As a consequence of Malcolm IV's subjugation of Galloway in 1160, Hugh de Morville the younger, son of Hugh de Morville the elder who died, as constable of the king of Scots and founder of Dryburgh Abbey, in 1162, was put in possession of Borgue, between Kirkcudbright and Gatehouse of Fleet, but evidently abandoned this estate after the anti-foreign revolt of Uhtred and Gilbert of Galloway in 1174, when, as Roger of Howden tells us, the Gallovidians slew or expelled the officials placed over them by the Scottish Crown, killed many Frenchmen and Englishmen, and destroyed those castles--no doubt of the motte and bailey type--which the incomers had had time to erect in that stubbornly separatist province."