The Earl of Fife or Mormaer of Fife was the ruler of the province of Fife in medieval Scotland, which encompassed the modern counties of Fife and Kinross...
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IV, Earl of Fife [Duncan IV] (1289–1353) was a Scottish nobleman who was Guardian of Scotland and the last native Scottish Mormaer of Fife from 1289 until...
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the son of Gille Míchéil, Mormaer of Fife and Unknown Macduff. He is known to have fathered two sons and one daughter: Duncan II, his son and heir, succeeded...
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Coluim II (or Maol Choluim II, usually anglicized as Malcolm II), was a 13th-century Mormaer of Fife who ruled the mormaerdom or earldom of Fife between...
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Earl of Atholl (redirect from Mormaer of Atholl)
The Mormaer or Earl of Atholl was the title of the holder of a medieval comital lordship straddling the highland province of Atholl (Ath Fodhla), now...
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held offices from David II. In particular, George Dunbar's brother John Dunbar, the Lord of Fife who lost his claim on Fife and Sir Robert Erskine's...
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resigned the title in 1371. She was the only child of Duncan, Earl of Fife, by his wife Mary de Monthermer, daughter of Ralph, Lord Monthermer and Princess...
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the medieval Earl of Fife. Though in the Irish peerage, the title's name refers to Fife in Scotland. William Duff, 1st Earl Fife, had previously been...
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Ethelred of Scotland (redirect from Ethelred, Earl of Fife)
the office Mormaer (Earl) of Fife, but this is now disputed. The source of the confusion was the Gaelic notitia of a grant to the Céli Dé (Culdee) monks...
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Duke of Fife is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom that has been created twice, in both cases for the Earl of Fife. In 1889, Lord Fife married...
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said to have been by violence and he too is called king rather than mormaer. Duncan, pp. 29–30, 32–33 and compare Hudson, The Prophecy of Berchán, pp....
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nephew Robert II. David II was born on 5 March 1324 at Dunfermline Abbey in Fife, one of twin sons born to King Robert the Bruce, and Elizabeth de Burgh. Soon...
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938, is that of Dubacan, mormaer of Angus or son of the mormaer. Unlike the report of 918, on this occasion, the title mormaer is attached to a geographical...
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Kingdom of Alba (section Duncan I to Alexander I)
in old Gaelic, today Pitgaveny near Elgin), the Mormaer of Moray, Macbeth defeated and killed Duncan, and took the kingship for himself. After Macbeth's...
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Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany (redirect from Murdoch Stewart, Earl of Fife)
kings, (Robert II, Robert III, and James I). In addition, Duke Robert held the titles of Earl of Menteith (28 February 1361), Earl of Fife (1361; resigned...
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Domhnall I, Earl of Mar (category 13th-century mormaers)
Robert de Brus, then Earl of Carrick. Domhnall married Helen after 1266 (sometimes called Ellen or Elen), the widow of Maol Choluim II, Earl of Fife. It...
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at the same point in time. Causantín, Mormaer of Fife, judex magnus in Scotia, 1128x30 Duncan II, Mormaer of Fife, 1154x1164-1203 Matthew, Bishop of Aberdeen...
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Morggán, Earl of Mar (category Mormaers of Mar)
Morggán of Mar is the first Mormaer or Earl of Mar to appear in history as "more than a characterless name in a witness-list.". He is often known as Morgrund...
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Mormaer of Strathearn, who besieged the king. Given that Earl Ferchar heads the list of those named, it is presumed that Donnchad II, Mormaer of Fife...
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Donnchadh, Earl of Carrick (redirect from Duncan of Carrick)
to) a charter of Maol Domhnaich, Earl of Lennox, son and heir of Mormaer Ailean II, to the bishopric of Glasgow regarding the church of Campsie. There...
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Thorfinn the Mighty (redirect from Thorfinn II, Earl of Orkney)
died in that year, which is clearly a description of the Mormaer of Moray rather than Malcolm II. Arnór's poetry is quoted verbatim in the saga, interspersed...
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Late in the year King William returned south, leaving Maol Choluim, Mormaer of Fife, as his lieutenant in Moray. Gofraid soon afterwards captured a royal...
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Robert the Bruce (redirect from Robert de brus)
desperate attempt to take Queen Elizabeth de Burgh, Margery de Bruce, as well as King Robert's sisters and Isabella of Fife. They were betrayed a few days later...
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younger grandson William to be made Earl of Northumberland. Donnchad I, Mormaer of Fife, the senior magnate in Scotland-proper, was appointed as rector, or...
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King Edgar in response to the killing of his father Duncan II by the Mormaer of Mearns in 1094. De Situ Albanie, a document written between 1202 and 1214...
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Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany (redirect from Robert Stewart, Earl of Fife)
to the Earldoms of Menteith and Fife allowed him to assume those titles, becoming Earl of Menteith and Earl of Fife. In 1362 the couple had a son and...
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Robert III of Scotland (redirect from John II of Scotland)
younger brother Robert, Earl of Fife, to whom the council transferred the lieutenancy in December 1388. In 1390, Robert II died and Carrick ascended the...
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The Mormaer of Caithness was a vassal title mostly held by members of the Norwegian nobility based in Orkney from the Viking Age until 1350. The mormaerdom...
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(died 721) Mormaers in Scotland Donnchadh, Earl of Carrick Donnchad I, Earl of Fife Donnchad II, Earl of Fife Donnchadh III, Earl of Fife Donnchadh IV...
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Earl of Mar (redirect from Mormaer of Mar)
The first Mormaer of Mar is usually regarded as Ruadrí (fl. 1131), mentioned in the Book of Deer. Some modern sources give earlier mormaers, i.e. Muirchertach...
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