__ __|__ ____________________| | | __ | |__|__ ______________________| | | __ | | __|__ | |____________________| | | __ | |__|__ _Hugh de MORVILLE ______| | | __ | | __|__ | | ____________________| | | | | __ | | | |__|__ | |______________________| | | __ | | __|__ | |____________________| | | __ | |__|__ | |--Hugh de MORVILLE* | | __ | __|__ | _Hugh de BEAUCHAMP _| | | | __ | | |__|__ | _Robert de BEAUCHAMP _| | | | __ | | | __|__ | | |____________________| | | | __ | | |__|__ |_Beatrice de BEAUCHAMP _| | __ | __|__ | ____________________| | | | __ | | |__|__ |______________________| | __ | __|__ |____________________| | __ |__|__
Hugh de Morville the younger, son of HUGH DE MORVILE 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."
On 30 Jan 96 Kathleen Much
me by email :
I believe it was Richard de Morville's brother Hugh who was one of the
murderers of Thomas a Becket. Don't have the books handy to check,
though. As I recall, he was subsequently disgraced and the family
dwindled in England. Richard of course was Constable of Scotland and
kept his lands there.
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