Sir
Hugh
(Hugh I)
"Constable of Scotland, Lord of Cunningham"
de Morville
formerly Morville
Born before in Cumberland, England
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Beatrice (Beauchamp) de Morville
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died
after age 56
in Burgh By Sands, Cumberland, , England
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Biography
Hugh de Morville (d.1162), Lord of Cunningham, founder of the Scot branch of the Morvilles, is sometimes mixed up with [his son] Hugh II de Morville, Lord of Westmorland (d.1173/4), who participated in Beckett's murder.[1][2]
Marriage
m. Beatrice de Beauchamp.[3] Issue:
- (disputed) Hugh II, Lord of Westmorland[2]
- Maud m. William de Vieuxpont
- (possibly) Richard de Morville (d.1189)[4]
- (disputed) Ada m. Roger Bertram[5]
- (possibly) Simon (d. 1167) m. Ada de Engaine
Sources
- ↑ Von Zatzikhoven & Meyer, 2011
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 (disputed) Hugh II may have been a son of Simon de Morville, who held the barony of Burgh-by-Sands, Cumberland, in right of his mother, Ada, daughter of William de Engaine.[citation needed] On the other hand, both Simon and Hugh I may have been brothers (Wikipedia). Hugh II m. Helewise de Stuteville; Also see Von Zatzikhoven & Meyer, 2011
- ↑ p. UNKNOWN (Wikipedia)
- ↑ Wikipedia: Richard de Morville
- ↑ Ada was the sister of Hugh II (Wikipedia). Therefore, his disputed parentage also casts hers in doubt.
- Geneajourney.com
- Richards, D. (n.d.). Plantagenet Ancestry, (pp. 101). N.p. (GS #940 D2t)
- Baker's Northmp (vol 1 p. 544). N.p. (GS #Q942.55 H2ba)
- Dict. of National Biography, (Vol. 39, pp. 169). N.p. (GS #Ref 920.042 D561n)
- Wurts' Magna Charta vol 3 p. 490. N.p. (GS #942 D22w)
- The Battle Abbey Roll vol 2 p. 243-44. N.p. (GS #942 D2bb)
- Notes & Queries vol 2 p. 466. N.p. (GS #942 B2n)
- Peerage of Scotland, (Vol 1., pp. 613). N.p. (GS #Q941 D22d)
- Von Zatzikhoven, U. & Meyer, K.J. (2011). German Romance: Lanzelet. DS Brewer, (pp. x). Google Books
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THE ANGLO-NORMAN ERA IN SCOTTISH HISTORY - The Ford Lectures delivered in the University of Oxford in Hilary Term 1977, by G.W.S. Barrow. Published 1980 . Pages 70-9. As far as families are concerned, the fate of the Morvilles could hardly stand in sharper contrast to that of the Stewarts. In modern Scotland the name of de Morville means nothing. The stem of the family had failed in the male line by 1196, and even of the baronial dynasties which succeeded to most of the de Morville inheritance the lords of Galloway, the de Quincys, and the Balliols all suffered extinction, biologically or politically, in the thirteenth and earlier fourteenth centuries. Yet in some respects the Morvilles in their early Scottish lordship take us further than the Stewarts into the heart of the Anglo-Continental when in whose toils the kingdom of Scotland was entangled. In the manner in which the de Morvilles gained lands, marriages, and high office the Norman network is revealed at its highest level of effectiveness. The commune of Morville in the canton of Bricquebec is about 25 km south of Cherbourg. The family, evidently of knightly rank, which was proprietorial enough to take a surname from the village belonged to the same class of minor but substantial gentry or petty nobility as the Bruces, who took their surname from the commune of Brix only 12 km northwest west of Morville. In Normandy and England, the de Morvilles looked for patronage to the lords of Vernon and their kinsmen the de Reviers, extensive landowners in Wessex, and from 1141 earls of Devon. It is indeed in Devon, Dorset, and Somerset that we find most evidence of the earliest Morville colonialism of lands in England. Reviers, however, is not in Cotentin but lies between Bayeux and Caen, in a district from which originated Ivo Taillebois, steward of William Rufus, and a number of dependants of Ivo's associate Hugh de Beauchamp, already in 1086 the greatest landowner in Bedfordshire under the king. Whether through the Redvers connection, or by some other route, Hugh de Morville, probably another of our younger sons, allied himself to the Beauchamps of Bedford by marrying Beatrice, daughter of Hugh de Beauchamp's younger son, Robert, and heiress of Houghton Conquest. [f.n. It seems probable that Beatrice was daughter of Robert younger son of Hugh de Beauchamp, and thus sister of Miles and Pain de Beauchamp]. Almost as soon as David of Scotland gained the Honour of Huntingdon about 1114 Hugh de Morville occurs as a witness to David's writs and charters, and for a fleeting moment William de Morville, a landowner in Dorset and probably Hugh's elder brother, also appears at David of Scotland's court.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Morville, Hugh de [d. 1162]. Keith Stringer
Soldier and courtier, was of unknown parentage. He hailed from Morville, near Valognes, in the Manche, and by c.1115 had joined the entourage of David, earl of Huntingdon, who became king of Scots in 1124. His earliest known landed base, no doubt the fruits of earl David's favour, was a sizeable tenancy centred on Bozeat, Northamptonshire, and Whissendine, Rutland, in the Huntingdon honour. He swiftly established himself as the foremost Anglo-Norman supported of the Scottish crown after David's enthronement, and witnessed now fewer than 108 of the surviving acts of royal governmence for the period 1124-63. His importance to the 'modernizing' Scottish monarchy was underline when David I appointed him as his constable and endowed him with the strategic regional fief of Lauderdale.
"The Acts of Malcolm IV, King of Scots, 1153-1165, Together with Scottish Royal Acts prior to 1152" Collected and edited by GWS Barrow. Published 1960.
Charter No 172 dated [1157-1162]. Malcolm, king of Scotland confirms to Dryburgh Abbey the grants made to it by its founders Hugh de Moreville and Beatrice de Beauchamp; by King David I and Earl Henry; and Walter de Lindsay.
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