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- From The Scots Peerage, citation details below:
MALCOLM, fourth Earl of Lennox, It is not known when he succeeded, but it seems probable that he was a minor at his father's death. He styles Earl Maldouen his grandfather in a charter by himself confirming that Earl's grant of Arrochar to Duncan, son of Gilchrist. Earl Malcolm does not appear on record until about 1270, when he presided over the court which tried the claim made by the grandnieces of Dugald, the rector of Kilpatrick. The claimants, on receiving 140 merks from the Abbey of Paisley, renounced their rights in favour of that monastery. On 6 July 1272 he received a grant of free forestry from King Alexander III, giving him exclusive rights of cutting timber or hunting over a considerable tract of land, though the boundaries stated are now not readily to be discovered. Like his predecessors, he was liberal to the Church, and conferred lands and some special privileges and immunities on the monks of Paisley. He took part also in public affairs, and was present in the Parliament of 1284, consenting to the right of the Princess Margaret [the "Maid of Norway" —PNH] to the Crown of Scotland. In 1290, at Birgham, he consented to her marriage with Prince Edward of England. He is said to have died between this and the year 1292, but there are reasons for believing that he survived until several years later, and that it was he who, in 1292, supported the elder Bruce in his claim to the Crown. He it was who had the long controversy with the Abbot and monks of Paisley, who were summoned to the Earl's court on a question affecting their church lands of Kilpatrick. This they deeply resented, and appealed to the Bishop of Glasgow, who, in August 1294, directed the thunder of the Church and threats of excommunication against the recusant Earl, but, so far as appears, without much result, and the matter was still undecided in 1296.
The Earl swore fealty to Edward I on 14 March 1295-96, and again on 28 August 1296, and he had a letter from that King on 24 May 1297, requiring him to give obedience to Treasurer Cressingham during the King's absence in France. This Earl is said to have been a friend of Sir William Wallace, and to have entertained him in the Castle of Faslane, but this rests only on the authority of Blind Harry. This Earl grants a good many charters, but they are all without date. He probably died in or about 1303. In 1305 Malcolm, Earl of Lennox, petitioned King Edward I that the 100 merks paid for his relief might be allowed in his ransom and the balance discharged, which suggests that he had then not long succeeded to the earldom, and was paying the usual casualty to the superior. Margaret, Countess of Lennox, in or about September 1303, wrote to the English King desiring aid against John Comyn of Badenoch, then in arms against Edward. It is probable that, as she wrote in her own name, she was then a widow.
The name of the fourth Earl's wife was Margaret, but her parentage has not been ascertained.
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- Abt 1303