Hugh de Morville, of Burgh & Knaresborough

Hugh DE MORVILLE of Burgh & Knaresborough was born about 1138 in Burgh-by-Sands, Cumberland, England and died 1202, Knaresborough Castle, West Riding Yorkshire, England. Other names for Hugh were Hugh DE MOREVILLE and Hugh de MOREVILLE. He was Forrester of Cumberland and lord of the border barony of Burgh.

• parents: Sir Simon DE MORVILLE of Burgh-By-Sands (Abt 1118-Before 1141) & Ada D' ENGAINE Heiress of Burgh-by-Sands (Abt 1122-)

Married

1. Aft 1184 to Helewise (Helewise, Heloise, Hawise) DE STUTEVILLE, daughter of Sir Robert III DE STUTEVILLE of Cottingham and Hawise (Helewise) MURDAC, as her 2nd husband; she 1st married William de Lancaster, and 3rd married William Greystoke. Helawise was born about 1156 in Lazenby, Cumberland, England and died after 1228.

Children

1. Ada DE MORVILLE Co-heiress of Cumberland and Westmorland born circa 1185 in Cumberland, England and died after 1230 of Burgh by Sands, Cumberland, England. Married 1) Richard de Lucy. Married 2) Thomas de Multon.
2. Joanna DE MORVILLE Co-heiress of Cumberland was born circa 1185 of Burgh by Sands, Cumberland, England and died before 22 Apr 1247 of Burgh by Sands, Cumberland, England. Married Richard Gernon.
3. Sir Hugh DE MORVILLE of Burgh-by-Sands+. Married

Notes

• from Dennis Theriot

I do not believe that Hugh de Morville, of Burgh-by-Sands was the murderer of Becket. I will quote K. J. Stringer, "Earl David of Huntingdon", p 196, Edinburgh University Press, 1985: "If we take the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as a whole, there are merely two important examples of partition between surviving sons, and each arose in exceptional circumstances rather than from any deep-seated family desire 'to keep English estates distinct from Scottish'. The Brus partition of c. 1138 was followed by the division of the Moreville lands: the former had been precipitated by war, the later was dictated by King Henry II. In the 1140's King David had settled the lordship of north Westmoreland upon his Constable, Hugh de Moreville of Lauderdale and Cunningham (d. 1162). But when the northern shires were surrendered in 1157, Henry II recognized the Moreville title only on the condition that Hugh stood down in favor of his (oldest?) son and namesake, subsequently a member of Henry II's military household, an Angevin royal justice, and one of the assassins of Thomas Becket. King Henry's concern to reassert systematically his powers in the north country was made fully explicit when Hugh II died on pilgrimage to Jerusalem in c. 1173. Most of Westmoreland proper thereupon escheated to the crown, although Hugh was survived by his brother Richard, successor in 1162 to Lauderdale and Cunningham and the Constableship of Scotland, and by his sister Maud, wife of William de Vieuxpont II. Here the royal will made a rare intervention in succession and descent." Stringer goes on in a note: " It has usually been assumed that the younger Hugh de Moreville's estates escheated for his support of the Scots in 1173-4."

According to this "Hugh the Murderer" was the son of Hugh de Morville (d 1162) and Beatrice de Beauchamp. So I will repeat what I said in my last e-mail, I believe that Simon de Morville of Burgh-by-Sands, ID: I04650, was (1) the brother of Hugh the Constable, (2) father of Hugh of Burgh-by-Sands, and (3) uncle of Hugh the Murderer. Stringer may be wrong, but that is my reference. Apparently, Hugh the Murderer left no children.

Links

• http://www.celtic-casimir.com/webtree/6/31269.htmFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Hugh de Morville
Baron of Burgh
Died 1202
Noble family Morville family
Hugh de Morville (died 1202) Baron of Burgh, Lord of Kirkoswald, was an English noble.[1]

He was the only son of Simon de Morville and Ada d’Engaine. He succeeded to his father’s estates and later his mother’s more significant inheritance. Hugh was granted a licence in 1201, by King John of England to crenellate his manor house at Kirkoswald in 1201. He died in 1202 and his wife Helewise remarried William de Greystoke. He is sometimes confused with a kinsman, Hugh de Morville, Constable of Scotland, whose parentage is unclear. He maintained familial ties with English, Scottish and Welsh cousins as a way to maintain peace and prosperity. His strategically located castle at Kirkoswald was destroyed by Scotland in 1314 and rebuilt shortly thereafter.

Marriage and issue
Hugh married Helewise, the widow of William fitz William de Lancaster (son of William de Lancaster I). Hugh's kinsman Richard de Morville, Constable of Scotland after his father, was married to William fitz William's sister Avice. Helewise was the daughter of Robert de Stuteville and Helewise Murdac, they are known to have had the following known issue:

Joan de Morville, married Richard Gernun and had issue.
Ada de Morville, married firstly Richard de Luci, with issue and married secondly Thomas de Multon, also with issue.
References

The Register: Burgh-by-Sands, in Register and Records of Holm Cultram, ed. Francis Grainger and W G Collingwood (Kendal, 1929), pp. 1-4. (Record series of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, vol 7)

* http://washington.ancestryregister.com/MORVILLE00006.htm#i4079

A Norman knight who made his fortune in the service of David Fitz Malcolm, Prince of the Cumbrians (1113–24) and King of Scots (1124–53).... 1167), of Kirkoswald in Cumbria, who married Ada de Engaine, heiress of .