sources as mormaers, in others as Kings of Moray, and in others as Kings of Alba. The ruling kin-group of Moray, sometimes called the House of Moray, attained...
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William fitz Duncan (category Mormaers of Moray)
that William was Mormaer of Moray. As this source had no reason to deceive, it is highly likely that William was made the ruler of Moray after the defeat...
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James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray (c. 1531 – 23 January 1570) was a member of the House of Stewart as the illegitimate son of King James V of Scotland...
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Dean of Moray in the years before 1253. In that year he was consecrated as the successor of Simon de Gunby and Radulf of Lincoln as Bishop of Moray. Through...
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Earl of Strathearn (redirect from Mormaer of Strathearn)
Mormaer of Strathearn is a title of Scottish nobility, referring to the region of Strathearn in southern Perthshire. Of unknown origin, the mormaers are...
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perhaps the revolt of Óengus of Moray, the Mormaer of Moray, the crushing of which led to the colonisation of Moray by foreign burgesses, and Franco-Flemish...
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influence so far north at the time, beyond the lands of the powerful Mormaers of Moray, is questionable. The Norse saga which mentions Donnchad does not...
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Máel Coluim, King of Strathclyde, 10th century Máel Coluim of Moray, Mormaer of Moray 1020–1029 Máel Coluim (son of the king of the Cumbrians), possible...
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Maol Choluim I, Earl of Lennox (category Mormaers of Lennox)
Mormaer Maol Choluim I of Lennox (English: Malcolm I) ruled the Mormaerdom of Lennox, between 1250 and 1303, succeeding his father Maol Domhnaich. He...
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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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Brigte, Mormaer of Strathearn, 1172x1199 William Comyn, Earl of Buchan, 1205–32 Walter fitz Alan, High Steward, appointed 2 Feb 1231/2 to 1241 Philip de Melville...
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his grandfather on a circuit of the kingdom, accompanied by Donnchad, Mormaer of Fife, and a large army. Donnchad had been styled rector, perhaps indicating...
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Earl of Ross (redirect from Mormaer of Ross)
or Mormaer of Ross was the ruler of the province of Ross in northern Scotland. In the early Middle Ages, Ross was part of the vast earldom of Moray. It...
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de Moravia, Earl of Strathearn (1276–1346), also known as Maurice Moray or Murray, was a Scottish nobleman. Moray was the eldest son of Sir John de Moray...
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Hebrides and his nearest and most dangerous rivals, the kings or "mormaers" of Moray. Malcolm pursued a strategy of marrying his daughters into these regional...
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Domhnall II, Earl of Mar (redirect from Donald Mormaer, 8th Earl of Mar)
Stanhope Park. In 1332 the regent of Scotland, Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray, died. On 2 August Domhnall was elected as the new regent at a meeting of...
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appears to have been compensated with the extensive lands of Óengus, Mormaer of Moray, grandson of king Lulach, who was killed in battle against David I's...
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Lossiemouth (redirect from Lossiemouth, Moray)
independent provinces. Indeed, King David put down a rebellion by the Mormaer of Moray in 1130 and it is possible that Stotfield dated from shortly after...
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latter took David ten years, and involved the destruction of Óengus, mormaer of Moray. David's victory allowed him to expand his control over more distant...
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Hugh, Earl of Ross (redirect from Hugh de Ross, 4th Earl of Ross)
in tSagairt as Mormaer of Ross (1323–1333). Hugh de Ross was the eldest son and heir of William II, Earl of Ross by his wife Euphemia de Berkeley, or Barclay...
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Gruoch (category House of Moray)
1032, Gruoch was married to Gille Coemgáin mac Maíl Brigti, the Mormaer (Earl) of Moray, with whom she had at least one son, Lulach mac Gille Coemgáin...
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briefly Queen Consort of Alba, and the mother of William fitz Duncan, mormaer of Moray. After King Donnchad was killed in November 1094 it is likely that...
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Gartnait, Earl of Mar (category Mormaers of Mar)
Gartnait of Mar, Earl of Mar – Gartnait mac Domhnall, 8th Mormaer (or Earl) of Mar, was a Scottish noble during the first War of Scottish Independence...
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probably developing from earlier Pictish territories. Provinces were led by a mormaer, the leader of the most powerful provincial kin-group, and had military...
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Harald Maddadsson (category Mormaers of Caithness)
shortly following David's suppression of a major revolt involving Mormaer Óengus of Moray, grandson of king Lulach, and Máel Coluim mac Alaxandair, the illegitimate...
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control of the Mormaer of Moray given its continued ownership in future years under the title Earl of Moray. From Findláech of Moray in 1014 through...
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border. Beaumont, in the meantime, was besieged in Dundarg by Sir Andrew de Moray of Avoch and Bothwell, the new Guardian of Scotland. Under continual attack...
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William Comyn, Lord of Badenoch (category 13th-century mormaers)
Lothian, and Hextilda of Tynedale. He was born in Scotland, in Altyre, Moray in 1163 and died in Buchan in 1233 where he is buried in Deer Abbey. William...
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Duffus Castle (category Castles in Moray)
become totally unsuitable as a dwelling and so was abandoned. Oengus, Mormaer of Moray, led a rebellion against David I, King of Scots in 1130. After Oengus'...
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Domnall mac Morgaínd, is very likely a brother of Domnall, and thus the Mormaer of Moray. The Mormaerdoms or kingdoms ruled by the two Cellachs cannot be identified...
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