Ancestry of
Cokie Roberts

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Alan of Galloway

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• • 23rd Great-grandfather of Cokie Roberts — 26th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 50377854 
  • Father:
  • Roland of Galloway 
  • Mother:
  • Helena de Morville   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1175 
  • Birth Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 1234 
  • Death Location:
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  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Abbey of Dundrennan 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Margaret of Huntingdon
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1209 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Dervorguilla of Galloway (Ahnentafel No:25188927 )

  • Notes: 

  • Lord of Galloway

    Alan of Galloway's surname is also seen as FitzRoland.

• Additional marriages for Alan of Galloway

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  • Spouse:
  • Helen de I'Isle

• Sources for Alan of Galloway

  • ¹ Adams, Arthur, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (1964), 60.
  • ² Paul, Sir James Balfour, ed., The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, Vol. 4, Edinburgh: David Douglas (1907), 139-141.
  • ³ Paul, Sir James Balfour, ed., The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, Vol. 5, Edinburgh: David Douglas (1908), 32, 277.
  • ⁴ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. II, p. 562.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 463.
  • ⁶ Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650, Lancaster, Mass: (1950), 55.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Alan of Galloway", _Lord_of_Galloway, (accessed 03/01/2010).
  • ⁸ Wurts, John S., Magna Charta, New York: Brookfield Publishing Company (1942), 113, 1654.

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