• Sir David Olifard (c.1113/1117 – c. 1170) was the first recorded Justiciar (of the Lothians), governing the southern half of Scotland south of the rivers...
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  • Olifard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: David Olifard (c.1113/1117 – c. 1170), Justiciar of the Lothians Walter Olifard (c. 1150–1222)...
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  • rivers Forth and Clyde (excluding Galloway). Sir Walter Olifard was the eldest son of Sir David Olifard In a charter in the Melrose Abbey collection both father...
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  • the kings. David Olifard (c.1165–c.1170) Robert Avenel, Richard Comyn, Robert de Quincy, Geoffrey de Melville (c.1170xc.1178) Walter Olifard the Elder...
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    pipe roll of 1130. Maybe the progenitor of the Olifard family was "David Holyfard", godson of King David I of Scotland and in 1141 his protector; who was...
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    structures of the Middle Ages in Scotland". King David I granted the barony of Bothwell to David Olifard (or Olifant), Justiciar of Lothian, in the mid...
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  • daughter of David, Earl of Huntingdon Christian, who married Sir Walter Olifard, Justiciar of the Lothians and son of Sir David Olifard. Anderson, Rev'd...
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  • Walter de Moray, and a daughter of Sir Walter Olifard of Bothwell who was the son of Sir David Olifard of Bothwell. He and his son were amongst the Scottish...
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    originally part of the Barony of Bothwell, which barony was created for David Olifard (ancestor of the current chief of the Oliphants) by King Malcolm IV...
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    David Olifard, who is commonly held to be the progenitor of the clan, in 1141 got lands at Crailing from King David I of Scotland whose life Olifard had...
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  • Elizabeth Bruce and Sir Walter Oliphant commissioned a cover to the Oliphant (Olifard and Olifaunt) tomb. This cover was made of Tournai marble and is one of...
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    Bracholy, Boharm and Arteldol (died c. 1226), married a daughter of David de Olifard, had issue. Andrew de Moravia, parson of Duffus. G.W.S. Barrow, "Badenoch...
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  • Moray was a son of William de Moravia of Petty and a daughter of David de Olifard. He had succeeded his father by 1226 and accompanied King Alexander...
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  • Succeeded by Patrick II Preceded by (?) Walter Olifard the Elder Justiciar of Lothian 1195–1205 Succeeded by David Lindsay the Elder & Gervase Avenel...
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  • 1222. He died before October 1226. William, married a daughter of David de Olifard, they are known to have had the following issue: Walter de Moray (died...
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  • in England and Scotland by a family of Norman origin. The early forms Olifard and Oliphard (likely "olif" conjoined with the intensive suffix "-ard")...
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    In about 1360 Helena, or Elena, assigned Kellie to her kinsman Walter Olifard (or Oliphant) of Aberdalgie who was married to Elizabeth, a daughter of...
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  • of King Alexander II of Scotland (1214–49) when it belonged to Walter Olifard, Justiciar of Lothian. The Barony of Drumsargard passed to Archibald Douglas...
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    to Sir William Olifard (8th chief) in 1317 by Robert the Bruce. Robert the Bruce's daughter, Elizabeth, married Sir William Olifard's great nephew, Sir...
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    the death of David Oliphant in 1770. The earliest mention of Lord Oliphant is around the Tournai marble tombstone of Sir William Olifard's effigy in Aberdalgie...
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