Note 444 — Chapter XII · WILLIAM THE LION—1165–1214.
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Ad cujus nutum omnium pendebat sententia, Ben. Ab. Roland was not yet Constable of Scotland, so that he was not acting in an official capacity. He succeeded to the hereditary dignity of his wife’s family on the death of his brother-in-law, William de Moreville in 1196. (Chron. Mel.)