Ada de Morville

  General Notes:

Carl Boyer's, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain American's using [Sander's English Baronies, p. 131], p.26, Roger Bertram, Baron of Mitford, was of record in 1172, and died before Michaelmas in 1777 [Sanders, 131]. He married Ada de Morville, daughter of Hugh de Morville, constable to David King of Scots, and founder of Dryburgh Abbey. ⁷²²

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Roger II Bertram was the son and heir of William II Bertram by Alice, sister of Robert d'Umfraville, who gave her Great Babington in free marriage. William II was the son and heir of Roger I by Ada, his wife. Roger I was the son and heir of William I, founder of Brinkburn priory by Hawise, daughter of Guy Balliol, who gave her Stainton in free marriage. [Cartularies of Brinkburn and Newminster, passim: Deed in Hodgson, ut spra, pp. 24, 26 and in Walbran, Gainford, appendix, no. 35]

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 160, footnote (a)

• Family Background.
Hugh de Morville was the son (or possibly grandson of Simon de Morville and Ada, daughter and heiress of William de Engaine, lord of Burgh by Sands. Maud and Ada de Morville were the children of this Hugh, the Constable, and both married ino the social millieu of Anglo-Norman England. By 1171, Ada was the wife of Roger Betram, lord of Miltford In Northumberland. Maud married William Vieuxpont, whose family held important estates in Scotland, England and Normandy.

Information found in two snippets on GoogleBooks:

Lanzelet, by Ulrich von Zataikhove, Thomas Kerth
Essays on the Nobility of Medieval Scotland, by Keith John Stringer

Ada married Sir Roger I Bertram Knight, son of William I Bertram and Hawise de Balliol.³³¹ (Sir Roger I Bertram Knight was born in Mitford, Northumberland, England and died before Sep 1177 in England ⁷²².)