[2] Prince David of Scotland held Cotentin in northern France, given to him by King Henry I of England some time after 1106.
Soon after, Hugh de Morville joined David's small military retinue in France.
These comprised the Lordship of the Regality of Lauderdale, together with detached estates at Saltoun, Haddingtonshire, Nenthorn and Newton Don, Berwickshire, at Dryburgh on the Tweed opposite Old Melrose, and probably also at Heriot in Midlothian.
[13] Hugh married Beatrice de Beauchamp, the heiress of the manor of Houghton Conquest in Bedfordshire.
[citation needed] By Beatrice he had at least two sons and two daughters, including:[5] Hugh eventually retired as a canon to his foundation at Dryburgh Abbey, where he soon died in 1162.