Malcolm

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Malcolm, who is first named in a charter dated 1225, as son of the Earl, and again in a charter by Walter the High Stewart, dated before 16 November 1228, and others by him. Later, he is described as son and heir. In 1239 he had a dispute with the Abbey of Paisley about the possession of certain lands belonging to their church of Kilpatrick. To settle the matter, Walter the High Stewart and the Earl arranged with the disputants that the Abbey should pay Malcolm sixty merks, while he quitclaimed the lands and confirmed the rights of the monks. Besides other writs in which Malcolm is named, the last transaction recorded of him was a dispute between him and Sir David Graham. Earl Maldouen had granted to the latter half a carucate, or about fifty acres, of Strathblane. At Whitsunday 1248, however, Malcolm objected to the grant, and trouble began. At Lammas, however, the influence of his father and other friends led to a settlement. Malcolm duly granted a quitclaim to Sir David of certain money, and agreed to give a charter of the lands. His sudden death a few days later prevented this, and Earl Maldouen himself made the necessary grant, explaining the circumstances and the reason of delay." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Malcolm of Lennox died about 1303.

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"MALDOUEN, third Earl of Lennox, who first appears on record in a charter by his father, Earl Alwin, to the church of Kilpatrick before 1199. Between 1208 and 1214 he granted the church of Campsie to the bishopric of Glasgow, and was then son and heir of his father. He succeeded before 10 August 1217, when he, as Earl, bestowed the lands and church of Kilsyth on his sister Eva and her husband. From this date on to 1250 he is frequently found granting charters, chiefly to the Abbey of Paisley. Other grants made by him were those to his brother Aulay of the lands of Faslane, to Gilchrist of the lands of Arrochar, and of the large territory of Colquhoun to Humphrey Kilpatrick. Following the example of King William the Lion, he was admitted into the fraternity of the Abbey of Arbroath, and in recognition of the fact he gave 'his brothers' an alms of four oxen each year, at Stirling, on St. John Baptist's Day, with a promise that, at his death, they were to have twenty oxen. His name and that of his brother Aulay were to be inscribed in the Abbey martyrology, 'that each year at our anniversary we may be absolved in their chapter.' This grant, which was continued yearly until 1317, when it was commuted into a yearly sum of two merks, to be paid at Cambuskenneth, was confirmed on 9 January 1231. He was present at the important treaty between Alexander II and Henry III, affecting the northern counties of England, on 25 September 1237, and he was a surety for the same in 1244. In 1238 he had a charter from King Alexander II of the earldom of Lennox, which his father Alwin held, except the Castle of Dumbarton, with the land of Murrach, with the whole part and the water and fishery of the River Leven, so far as the lands of Murrach extend, which the King retained in his own hands, with the Earl's consent. The last dated charter granted by the Earl was on 12 March 1250-51, containing a general confirmation of his benefactions to the monastery of Paisley. The date of this Earl's death is uncertain. His successor does not appear on record till about 1270. Earl Maldouen married a lady named Elizabeth, to whom he refers as his spouse in a charter of certain lands to the monks of Paisley, dated before 22 October 1228, when it was confirmed by King Alexander II. She is said to have been a daughter of Walter, the third High Stewart, and this is not improbable, as he not unfrequently is a witness to Earl Maldouen's charters, and seems to have taken an interest in the family affairs." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below]

Maldouen married Elizabeth Stewart. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The Complete Peerage says that she died before her husband.

The Scots Peerage (citation details below) identifies her as a daughter of Walter Stewart, d. 1241 (also called Walter fitz Alan), third high steward of Scotland. Andrew B. W. MacEwen (citation details below) clarifies that he was her brother, not her father.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1217

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Second earl of Lennox. "When he was fully invested in his earldom is unknown, but the first notice of him is a charter by himself to the church of Kilpatrick of the lands of Cochnach and others. This charter is of uncertain date, and can be fixed only as between 1182 and 1199, the year when Jocelyn, Bishop of Glasgow, died, who was present at the granting. Maldouen and Malcolm, two of the granter's sons, are witnesses. Between 1208 and 1214 he, as son and heir of Alwin, Earl of Lennox, bestowed the church and the church lands of Campsie upon the church of Glasgow. He also, at some unknown date, granted to Maldouen, Dean of Lennox (perhaps a kinsman), the lands of Luss, which afterwards came by marriage into possession of, and still belong to, the ancient family of Colquhoun. It is not certain when the second Earl Alwin died, but it was apparently before 1217, when his son Maldouen seems to have been Earl." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below]

Alwin married Eve of Menteith. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1150

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Also called Alan the Steward. 2nd High Steward. Accompanied Richard on the Third Crusade; returned to Scotland in July 1191. Patron of the Knights Templar.

Alan married Eva. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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According to Andrew B. W. MacEwen (citation details below), it was Eva, first wife of Alan Fitz Walter, who was the mother of his children, not his second wife Alesta, daughter of Morggán, Earl of Mar.

Eva has been said to be a daughter of Swain, son of Thor, the latter having been the first recorded sheriff of Lothian. The truth of this is the subject of inconclusive controvery stretching back at least a century.

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From The Scots Peerage, citation details below:

ALWIN, first Earl of Lennox, though he is distinctly named in his son's charters as Alwin the elder, Earl of Lennox, is historically a very shadowy personage, but the combined evidence of a contemporary poet and of an ancient Celtic genealogy, without following the latter to its ancient and perhaps mythical beginning, makes it probable that his father was named Muredach, and his grandfather Maldouen. The latter, Mr. Skene goes so far as to suggest, was identical with Meldionneth, son of Machedeth, the 'good and discreet judge,' who, in 1128, aided in settling a dispute as to the bounds of Kirkness. Be this as it may, the evidence, so far as it goes, seems to suggest that the immediate ancestors of Alwin were not only Celtic chiefs but were Mormaors of their own district. So also probably was Alwin before he was made Earl. The date of his creation, if such a ceremony ever took place, can only be presumed, as the evidence is very meagre. One charter by King William the Lion granting the Lennox to his brother David is now accessible, and its date may be stated to be between 1178 and 1182. This writ was unknown to Mr. Skene, and it qualifies his view that David was Earl of Lennox during Malcolm's reign, as the charter conveys the earldom of Lennox ('comitatum de Leuenaus cum omnibus pertinenciis'), thus showing that the earldom bad been already constituted and its limits defined before 1178. But there is evidence that Prince David may have had the earldom earlier, as he grants the churches of Campsie and Altermunin to the monks of Kelso, by a charter which is confirmed by King William about 1177, or perhaps so early as 1173. He may therefore have had an earlier grant of the earldom. It may be noted that Prince David is nowhere styled 'Earl' of Lennox, but his occupancy complicates the difficulty of fixing the date of Alwin's possession as Earl, though it is probable it was not quite so early as 1154, the date usually assigned, while, as stated, it may have been so late as 1185.

There are no charters of the first Earl Alwin known to exist in any form, but there can be little doubt that he was Earl for a time, and did grant lands to the church of Kilpatrick, though the date is uncertain. The poem by Muredach Albanach, his contemporary, adds little or nothing to our knowledge of him, except that his chief seat was at Balloch, afterwards a residence of the Earls. It is not known when he died, but it must have been before 1199. He left issue, but the name of his wife is unknown.

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"Gilchrist is the first Earl of Menteith whose name has come down to us. He witnessed a charter of Malcolm IV [S.] to the church of Scone in 1164, and one of William the Lion, between 1175 and 1178, to the city of Glasgow." [Complete Peerage, citation details below]

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1st High Steward of Scotland. Founder of Paisley Abbey. Described by A. M. Mackenzie as "a Norman by culture and a Breton by blood." A supporter of the Empress Matilda, he came to Scotland in 1136 and fought for it at the Battle of the Standard, following which David I made him Steward of Scotland and later confirmed the title as a hereditary office.

Walter married Eschyna de London. Eschyna (daughter of Uhtred fitz Liulf and (Unknown) de London) died after 1197. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1202

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Also called Eschina of Huntlaw; Eschyna de Molle.

Murdac married (Unknown daughter of Alwyn Mor). (Unknown (daughter of Alwyn Mor) was born about 1100. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sheriff of Shropshire from 1101 onwards. Founded Sporle Priory in Norfolk.

"[A] favoured supporter of Henry I, who was descended from the hereditary stewards of Dol in Brittany." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

Alan married Aveline de Hesdin. Aveline (daughter of Ernulf de Hesdin and Emmeline) died after 1148. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Uhtred married (Unknown) de London. (Unknown) (daughter of William de London and Emma de Falaise) was born between 1115 and 1131. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Possibly, according to CP, the Maldouen mac Murdac "who witnessed a charter of David I to Glasgow c. 1136".

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"[O]r Alwyn Mac Arkil, prominent at the court of David I (1124-53)." [Complete Peerage, citation details below]

According to The Complete Peerage (7:587), he was possibly a son of Arkil, son of Ecgfrith, and Arkil's wife Sigrid, a granddaughter of Aldun, Bishop of Lindisfarne. When the Danish fleet came up the Humber to York in 1069, many English joined them, including Arkil; in 1070, after this act of rebellion, he fled.

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Also called Flaald FitzAlan; Fledaldus. Dapifer of Dol. "Occurs at Monmouth 1101 or 1102 'frater' (et 'filius') Alani Dapiferi." (J. Horace Round, citation details below.)

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Hesdin, Picardy, France

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Also Ernulf, Seigneur de Hesding; Arnulf.

From the size and extent of his landholdings listed in Domesday he must have been a favorite of the Conqueror, but despite many unsourced claims little is actually known of his life. Modern interest in him appears to have developed after the 1850s, when Shropshire historian Robert William Eyton proved that he was the father of the Avelina who married Alan fitz Flaad, making Ernulf an ancestor both of the Stewart dynasty and of the FitzAlan earls of Arundel.

He was accused of supporting de Mowbray's rebellion in 1095. According to the Hyde chronicle, which claims this accusation was unjust, his representative in the ensuing trial-by-combat defeated the king's champion, but Ernulf was so disgusted by the accusation that he renounced his lands in England and left forever, enlisting in the First Crusade where (it is claimed) he died at Antioch.

He is the subject of a quite meticulous Wikipedia article which provides a painstaking account of what is known and what is only hypothesized about him.

Ernulf married Emmeline. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"William I de London [...] joined the invasion of Glamorgan under Robert fitz Hamon between 1094 and 1104 and thereby acquired the lordship of Ogmore, about 30 kilometres west of Cardiff." [Timothy Gordon Barclay, citation details below.]

William married Emma de Falaise. Emma (daughter of William de Falaise and Geva de Burci) was born between 1078 and 1093; died about 1130. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]