• Thumbnail for Alan Durward
    Alan Hostarius (or Alan Durward) (Scottish Gaelic: Ailean Dorsair) (died after 1264, or in 1275) was the son of Thomas de Lundin, a grandson of Gille...
    6 KB (640 words) - 16:40, 19 December 2024
  • Durward may refer to: Alan Durward (died after 1264 or in 1275), effective ruler of Scotland at several times during the minority of Alexander III Durward...
    880 bytes (136 words) - 23:08, 19 June 2021
  • "Hostarius" (or Durward). He married a daughter, whose name is not known, of Máel Coluim, Earl of Atholl, and by her he sired at least two sons, Alan and Cailean...
    5 KB (597 words) - 03:58, 11 November 2024
  • Coluim son of Gille Críst, Earl of Mar), d. 1231 Alan Durward (son of Thomas), d. 1275 The family of "Durward" (a later name for hostarius) may have held the...
    2 KB (227 words) - 19:04, 13 April 2024
  • Alan Durward Mickle (20 August 1882 – 15 May 1969) was an Australian writer of essays and verse. Mickle was born in East Melbourne, the elder son of David...
    3 KB (304 words) - 22:08, 30 July 2023
  • nationalistic Walter Comyn, Earl of Menteith, the other by pro-English Alan Durward, Justiciar of Scotia. The former dominated the early years of Alexander's...
    4 KB (377 words) - 18:46, 1 December 2024
  • 1241], 1241–44. Alan Durward, Royal Hostarius, 1244–51 Philip de Meldrum or Ferdarg (Feradach) and Michael de Monte Alto, 1251–53 Alan Durward, Royal Hostarius...
    5 KB (604 words) - 17:19, 19 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Colban, Earl of Fife
    and she was likely one of the three daughters and coheiresses of Sir Alan Durward and wife Marjory, illegitimate daughter of Alexander II of Scotland....
    4 KB (405 words) - 16:41, 19 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Baron Ferrers of Groby
    Groby, Leicestershire, (d.1287) by his first wife Anne Durward, 2nd daughter of Alan Durward and his wife Margery of Scotland, and grandson of William...
    4 KB (445 words) - 12:24, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alexander III of Scotland
    parties, the one led by Walter Comyn, Earl of Menteith, the other by Alan Durward, Justiciar of Scotia. The former dominated the early years of Alexander's...
    21 KB (2,078 words) - 03:38, 9 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alexander II of Scotland
    Scotland. He also had an illegitimate daughter, Marjorie, who married Alan Durward. Alexander II has been depicted in historical novels: Sword of State...
    14 KB (1,503 words) - 04:17, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Urquhart Castle
    Lundin. On de Lundin's death a few years later it passed to his son Alan Durward. It is considered likely that the original castle was built soon after...
    30 KB (3,638 words) - 07:04, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan
    London, 1745. (Latin) [1] Young, Alan; Robert the Bruce's Rivals: The Comyns, 1213–1314, (East Linton, 1997). Young, Alan and Cumming, George; The Real Patriots...
    5 KB (356 words) - 17:36, 20 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Royal bastard
    Alexander II's (r. 1214–1249) illegitimate daughter Marjorie married Alan Durward. Robert the Bruce (r. 1306–1329) had possibly six illegitimate children...
    30 KB (3,808 words) - 11:03, 7 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1249
    minority causes a struggle for control of affairs between Walter Comyn and Alan Durward, Justiciar of Scotia. Summer – Second Swedish Crusade: A Swedish expedition...
    12 KB (1,427 words) - 08:16, 16 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kincardine O'Neil Hospital, Aberdeenshire
    reference to a hospital being built comes from the 1233 Charter by Alan the Durward. Confirmatory evidence can be found in 1296 in the Second Ragman Roll...
    27 KB (3,563 words) - 16:00, 17 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby
    of Groby. He married firstly Anne Durward, possibly the widow of Colbán, Earl of Fife and a daughter of Alan Durward, by whom he had issue: William Ferrers...
    9 KB (1,139 words) - 17:34, 20 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Máel Coluim II, Earl of Fife
    during the minority and after, and in Scotland may have been allied with Alan Durward. He was fined in Northumberland on 24 April 1256, for not appearing before...
    7 KB (606 words) - 13:57, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for William II de Soules
    about two generations earlier, had married Ermengarde, daughter of Alan Durward by Marjorie, illegitimate daughter of Alexander II of Scotland. A son...
    6 KB (678 words) - 09:02, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Montrose, Angus
    dedicated to the Virgin Mary is said to have been founded in 1230 by Alan Durward but the precise location is unknown. In 1244 the town succumbed to fire...
    66 KB (6,789 words) - 10:35, 8 November 2024
  • alliance helped fight off the ambitions of the Durwards, who were then in prime favor with the king. Alan Durward used his descent from a daughter of Gille...
    3 KB (360 words) - 00:05, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for De Soules
    through the marriage of William I de Soules and Ermengarde, daughter of Alan Durward by Marjorie, illegitimate daughter of Alexander II of Scotland. Their...
    2 KB (165 words) - 05:18, 21 January 2024
  • this time to the powerful political figure Alan Durward; this however, rests solely in the fact that Alan styles himself "Count of Atholl" in a few documents...
    2 KB (182 words) - 10:57, 6 August 2024
  • minority causes a struggle for control of affairs between Walter Comyn and Alan Durward, Justiciar of Scotia. Summer – Second Swedish Crusade: A Swedish expedition...
    443 bytes (11,107 words) - 00:57, 13 February 2024
  • Montrose, Scotland. The Chronica Extracta claimed that it was founded by Alan Durward. It was however abandoned at some point in the 14th century. In the early...
    3 KB (285 words) - 23:09, 24 November 2024
  • Scotland later in the 1240s. He took a prominent role as a supporter of Alan Durward during the minority of Alexander III of Scotland, and appears to have...
    7 KB (893 words) - 20:37, 7 October 2024
  • but was provided to the hospital of Kincardine O'Neil by its patron Alan Durward in 1233–4. Duncan, Earl of Five consented to the hospital and its pertinents...
    74 KB (946 words) - 11:24, 27 July 2024
  • 1251. In 1255, the Durwards staged a coup at Roxburgh and ousted the "Comyn faction" from effective power. Unfortunately for Alan Durward, Comyn's supporter...
    34 KB (4,653 words) - 00:42, 13 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Henry le Despenser
    Margaret de Quincy William, 1st Baron Ferrers of Groby Alan Durward, Justiciar of Scotia Anne Durward Marjory (illegitimate daughter of Alexander II of Scotland)...
    37 KB (4,472 words) - 07:54, 10 October 2024
  • John was one of those with court influence. The Comyns were ousted by Alan Durward, but returned to power in 1257-8, before provoking a strong English reaction...
    9 KB (762 words) - 22:47, 20 August 2024