Euphemia Ross

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• Alternate death: Abt 20 Feb 1389

Euphemia married Robert II, King of Scots about May 1355. Robert (son of Walter Stewart and Marjory Bruce) was born on 2 Mar 1316 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland; died on 19 Apr 1390 in Dundonald Castle, South Ayrshire, Scotland; was buried in Scone Abbey, Perthshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Their dispensation was dated 2 May 1355, they being related in the 4th degree of kindred and the 3rd degree of affinity.

1. Elizabeth Stewart

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4th Earl of Ross.

"Hugh Ross fourth earl of Ross (d. 1333), was showered with royal favours even before he succeeded to the earldom. Chief among these was his first marriage, to King Robert's sister Maud, daughter of Robert Brus, earl of Carrick, which took place some time before 1323. They had two sons and a daughter. Grants of lands and offices (some of them made to him jointly with his wife) included the sheriffdoms and burghs of Cromarty and Nairn, the Isle of Skye, and estates in southern Ross and the Black Isle, as well as the thanage of Glendowachy in Fife; they helped make Earl Hugh one of the richest magnates in the kingdom. In 1328 he swore on King Robert's behalf that the terms of the Anglo-Scottish treaty for the marriage of Prince David to Princess Joan would be observed. Maud had died some time before 24 November 1329, when Hugh received a dispensation for his marriage to Margaret Graham, daughter of Sir David Graham of Old Montrose; they had a son and three daughters. Hugh was loyal to the cause of King Robert's son. He brought a force to the army which fought for David II at Halidon Hill on 19 July 1333 and was killed there, one of the few Scottish magnates to distinguish himself in the battle." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]

Hugh married Margaret Graham before 24 Nov 1329. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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3rd Earl of Ross.

"[He] was among the nobles who swore in 1284 to uphold the claim of Margaret, the Maid of Norway, to the Scottish throne. In 1290 he subscribed the treaty of Birgham, for Margaret's marriage to Prince Edward of England. A supporter of John Balliol in the Great Cause, he was given custody by King John of a new sheriffdom embracing the outer isles, Skye, Wester Ross, and Kintail. When Anglo-Scottish hostilities began he was captured at the battle of Dunbar; imprisoned in the Tower of London he was not released until 1303, after his wife had petitioned Edward I for her husband's freedom. Shortly afterwards Edward made him warden of Scotland beyond Spey. William's Comyn connections caused him to oppose Robert Bruce in 1306, and when the latter's wife, daughter, and sister took sanctuary at Tain he handed them over to the English. But after his appeals for help to Edward II failed to bring him relief against Scottish attacks he made a truce and then, on 31 October 1308, submitted to King Robert. He was treated leniently and retained his lands (to which Dingwall was added in 1321). With his eldest son he attended Robert's first parliament in 1309, and he was one of the eight earls who set their seals to the declaration of Arbroath in 1320." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]

William married Euphemia de Barclay. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Abt 1329

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"Patrick Graham's son, David, who had fought with his father at Dunbar and was taken prisoner after the battle, succeeded. He continued to uphold the Balliol cause, and it was the killing of his patron, Sir John Comyn, by Robert Bruce, that explains his reluctance to espouse Bruce's cause and led to a period of English service. Following Bannockburn, however, Graham accepted the political situation and returned to serve Robert I, appending his seal to the declaration of Arbroath in 1320. In 1325 he exchanged lands in the earldom of Carrick with the king, for which he received lands including Old Montrose in the sheriffdom of Forfar." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]

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2nd Earl of Ross.

"He married Jean, daughter of William Comyn, earl of Buchan, and supported his brother-in-law Walter Comyn, earl of Menteith, during the minority of Alexander III. But when Alexander began to rule in person in the early 1260s, and resumed his father's efforts to extend royal power into the west of Scotland, William was active on the king's behalf. In 1262 he was one of the leaders of a force which ravaged Skye, and in the aftermath of the following year's unsuccessful expedition by the king of Norway appears to have been given custody of Skye and Lewis." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]

William married Jean Comyn. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Justiciar of Lothian.

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"[He] consolidated his father's estates in Lennox and Strathearn and took an active part in national politics following the death of Alexander III. Sheriff of Stirling by 1289, he served as one of the Scottish auditors in 1291, and was a steadfast supporter of John Balliol until he met his death at Dunbar in 1296." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]

Patrick married Annabella before 1260. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1st Earl of Ross. Also called Ferquhard Macintagart, Fearchar of Ross, Fearchar McTaggart.

"In the early summer of 1215 representatives of the families of Macwilliam and Macheth, claimants respectively, it would appear, to the Scottish throne and the earldom of Ross, invaded northern Scotland from the west and were suppressed by forces led by Farquhar Mactaggart. Suggestions that Farquhar's byname, meaning 'son of the priest', derived from his possession of the former west-coast monastery of Applecross, seem to have originated in nineteenth-century speculation; if he had an ecclesiastical connection it is more likely to have been with the shrine and sanctuary of St Duthac at Tain, on the southern shore of the Dornoch Firth. Probably a native of eastern Ross, he and others of that region would doubtless have regarded invasions from the west with hostility, looking for lordship to Scottish kings who were now increasingly active in the north of their realm, rather than to pretenders with Irish connections. On 15 June 1215 Farquhar presented the young Alexander II with the heads of his enemies, and was rewarded with a knighthood. In 1221 Alexander came to Inverness, and some time between then and 1226 he made Farquhar earl of Ross, the first in what proved a long-lasting dynasty. In July 1235 Farquhar justified his elevation during Alexander's campaign in Galloway, his arrival late in the day turning a desperate fight in the king's favour. He already had links with Galloway and the Western Isles. In the 1220s he founded a Premonstratensian abbey at Fearn with canons from Whithorn, while by 1223 his daughter Christina had married Óláf, afterwards king of Man, and he later assisted his son-in-law against enemies in Skye. He also made appearances at court, witnessing the treaty of York in 1237 and subscribing the copy of the Anglo-Scottish treaty of 1244 which was sent for papal confirmation." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]

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Justiciar; j.u. Earl of Buchan. Founded the Abbey of Deer in Buchan.

William married (Unknown first wife of William Comyn). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"David Graham, a member of a junior branch of the family, served Patrick, fifth earl of Dunbar, and was deputy justiciar of Lothian in 1248. A notable accumulator of estates, in 1253 he obtained royal confirmation for eighteen grants of land, including Eliston and Kinpunt in the west of Lothian, Dundaff and Strathcarron in Stirlingshire, and lands in Cunningham and Carrick. Substantial grants from the earl of Lennox were to form the basis of the Graham barony of Mugdock, and grants of land in Perthshire by Malise, earl of Strathearn, were to form the barony of Kincardine. Graham supported the Comyns in 1255, and shared their political eclipse, but was back in favour as sheriff of Berwick by 1264." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]

David married Agnes. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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4th Earl of Strathearn.

"[He] was a witness to his father’s charters to Inchaffray, 1199-1220, being described as s. and h. in that of 1210. He witnessed the pact made between Alexander II of Scotland and Henry III of England, in the presence of the Papal Legate at York, Sep. 1237." [Complete Peerage, citation details below]

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Justiciar of Scotland. One of the hostages for the Treaty of Falaise, 1174.

His alleged descent from Robert Comyn, eleventh-century Earl of Northumberland, was fastidiously demolished in 1904 by J. Horace Round (citation details below).

Richard married Hextilda of Tynedale. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married Amabel. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1150

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3rd Earl of Strathearn.

"As Gilbert, s. of Earl Ferteth, he witnessed a charter by King Malcolm to the monks of Scone at Stirling in 1164; and he was probably the Earl Gilbert named as Justiciary about 1190. He founded the Abbey of Inchaffray in 1200; was one of the Seven Earls who took measures for the Coronation of King Alexander II at Scone, 6 Dec. 1214.; and attended the funeral of his father, William the Lion, at Arbroath, 4 days later." [Complete Peerage, citation details below]

Gilbert married Maud d'Aubigny. Maud (daughter of William II d'Aubeney and Maud de Senlis) died after 1209. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Complete Peerage calls her "probably" a daughter of William d'Aubeney and Maud de Senlis.