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First I would like to say that you guys have put together an outstanding mod for warband and I would like to thank everyone for all their hard work.
I saw that you still needed some banners so I spent some time today and dug up the Scottish Heraldry for the Lords that are currently in the mod (pre.95). I’ve also included my research notes in the spoilers for each Lord as a reference if anybody is interested on how I came up with the information.
Ailean (Alan) Durward
Heraldry:
3543 Ermine, a chief
(Scottish Gaelic: Ailean Dorsair) († 1275)
was the son of Thomas de Lundin, a grandson of Gille Críst, Mormaer of Mar. His mother's name is unknown, but she was almost certainly a daughter of Máel Coluim, Mormaer of Atholl, meaning that Alan was the product of two Gaelic comital families.
Alan was one of the most important political figures of 13th century Scotland, and in fact effectively ruled the country at several points during the minority of Alexander III (Gaelic: Alasdair III mac Alasdair). Through his father Thomas, he inherited the office of hostarius, protector of the king's property. Alan probably participated in the campaign to crush the insurrection of Meic Uilleim (Mac Williams) in 1228-29. By 1233, and probably before, Alan was given control of Urquhart on the shores of Loch Ness. Alan was almost certainly responsible for the earliest motte phase of Urquhart Castle.
At the same point in time, between 1233 and 1235, Alan was styling himself "Count of Atholl". It has often been thought that, after the death of Thomas of Galloway, Earl of Atholl in 1232, Isabella, Countess of Atholl, married Alan. This however, rests solely on the appearance of Alan's styles. However, as Matthew Hammond has shown, this more is more likely to refer to fact that Alan, as a grandson of Máel Coluim, Earl of Atholl, probably sought to inherit the province; by January 9, 1234, King Alexander seems to have recognized this style. However, by the time of a charter of July 7, 1235, the style had disappeared and Alan was never called "Count" (Mormaer or Earl) again. Alan, like his father Thomas, would also challenge the rights of the Mormaers of Mar. Alan was descended from Gille Crist, Mormaer of Mar. However, Gille Críst's descendents had been excluded from inheritance by the line of Morggán, Mormaer of Mar, who were monopolizing the comital title. Alan tried and failed to oust Uilleam from his title. It would be the greatest failure of Alan's career that he failed to rise to comital rank.
Alan's illustrious career was marked by intense rivalry with the Comyns. The rivalry was a national phenomenon, and represented a larger factional conflict within the kingdom. There may have been some reconciliation towards the end of his life. Alan was made Justiciar of Scotia along with Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan, and campaigned with the latter in two expeditions against the Norwegians. Alan even witnessed one of Earl Alexander's charters in 1272.
Alan spent many of his later years in England. During the minority of Alexander III, Alan had courted the favor of King Henry III of England in an effort to stay in power. The King of the English even gave Alan his own English manor, Bolsover.
He died in 1275. He was buried in the Abbey of Coupar Angus. Alan had married Marjory, a bastard daughter of King Alexander II, by whom he had three children, Ermengarde (who married William de Soules, the royal butler), Anna (who married Colbán, Mormaer of Fife), and another daughter whose name is not known (she married John Bisset). Alan also had at least one bastard son, Thomas Durward. None of these children carried on their father's illustrious political career.
Heraldry:
Scotlands Historic History by Bruce A. McAndrew
Sir Thomas Durward d. 1296 (Bastard son of Alan Durward): as he did not inherit the main durward estates on the death of Alan Durward in 1275. He changed the argent field of his familys shield to ermine on his seal (SAS831)
McANDREW: RAGMAN ROLL
Joined by strings are
3543 Ermine, a chief (plain?) S'THOME DOREWARD
RR754 (SHS34115, SAS831) Thomas le Husher, ANG
Probably an illegitimate son of Alan Durward (L'Ussher) (d 1275) who bore Argent, a chief Gules
inWalford'sRoll(C66).
Walter Comyn
Heraldry:
Azure, three garbs, on seal 3464 Wautier Comyn PEB, who bore the garbs differenced with a baton, is a more recent cadet
Walter Comyn
Mormaer of Menteith
Walter Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, jure uxoris Earl of Menteith
(died 125
was the son of William Comyn, Justiciar of Scotia and Mormaer or Earl of Buchan by right of his second wife. Walter makes his first appearance in royal charters as early as 1211–1214. In 1220, he accompanied King Alexander II of Scotland during the latter's visit to York. He appears as "Lord of Badenoch" as early as 1229, after the defeat of the Meic Uilleim by his father. Like his father, Walter was given the hand of an heiress, Isabella, Countess of Menteith. By 1234, Isabella had inherited the Mormaerdom of Menteith, and so Walter became Mormaer or Earl of Menteith by right of his wife (jure uxoris). Walter appears to have had at least one child, a man called Henry who witnessed a charter, dated to 1250, of Maol Domhnaich, Mormaer of Lennox.
Walter was one of the leading political figures in the Kingdom of Scotland, especially during the minority of King Alexander III, when, along with Alan Durward, he essentially ran the country. He died suddenly in either the October or November of 1258. By this time, his son Henry must have been dead. Isabella remained countess until 1260–1261, when Walter Stewart, husband of Isabella's sister Mary, seized the province. As Walter had no surviving male children, the Lordship of Badenoch passed to Walter's nephew John. John was unable to inherit Menteith
Heraldry:
McANDREW: RAGMAN ROLL
Comyn: A great panoply of Comyns, no less than 14 homagers, perhaps 11 different individuals, appears in the Ragman Roll. It has been shown elsewhere that the principal branches of the family — Badenoch, Buchan and East Kilbride — all bore three garbs, and that differentiation was accomplished by change of tincture (McAndrew 1984). Ample evidence exists for Gules, three garbs Or for the Badenoch branch (C70, HE101, D183, E172, F91), On seal 3464 PEB, who bore the garbs differenced with a baton, is a more recent cadet, his lands in Peebles suggesting a Kilbride descent. Seal 1233, belonging to John Comyn of Skreesburgh is interesting: it is non-heraldic but the seal legend reads S'Joh'is d'Scraesbvro, a good example of a family name being replaced by a territorial one.
3464 Between 3 garbs, a baton S'WALTERI CUMVN
RR755 (SHS30606, SAS586) Wautier Comyn, PEB
Maol Choluim I
Heraldry:
Maol Choluim I
Mormaer Maol Choluim of Fife (1204–122, or Máel Coluim anglicised as Malcolm, was one of the more obscure Mormaers of Fife.
He married Matilda, the daughter of Gille Brigte, the Mormaer of Strathearn. He is credited with the foundation of Culross Abbey. He was succeeded by his nephew Maol Choluim II upon his death, probably in 1228.
Mormaer Maol Choluim I of Lennox ruled the Mormaerdom of Lennox, between 1250 and 1303.
He was an early supporter of the Bruces, and appeared before Edward I of England in 1292 amongst the supporters of Robert Bruce, 5th Lord of Annandale. Maol Choluim joined the revolt of Andrew de Moravia and William Wallace.
Maol Choluim married a women named Marjorie, and fathered his successor Maol Choluim II
He died in 1303.
Maol Choluim II
Heraldry:
sin, two chevrons,
Maol Choluim II
Mormaer of Fife
Maol Choluim II (or Máel Coluim II, usually anglicized as Malcolm II), was a 13th century Mormaer of Fife who ruled the mormaerdom or earldom of Fife between 1228 and 1266. He was the nephew of Maol Choluim I, the previous mormaer, and the son of Maol Choluim I's brother Donnchadh, son of Donnchadh II. He is one of the Scottish magnates whose name occurred as a guarantor in the Treaty of York, September 25, 1237. He participated in the famous inauguration of King Alexander III of Scotland at Scone on 13 July 1249, where the mormaers of Fife had a traditional senior role in the coronation. He played a role during the minority of Alexander III of Scotland, being appointed one of the guardians in the king, September 20, 1255.
Heraldry:
McANDREW: RAGMAN ROLL
3141 Round, obv: a king with crown and scepter seated; a bishop on right and another figure on left; below are three shields, centre, Scotland; dex, three pales, Fife; sin, two chevrons, Stratherne; rev: the Father seated holding the Son on the cross; beneath St Michael overcoming the devil
Uilleam (William) Mac Dhonnchaidh
Heraldry:
William has no record in the Ragman roll of having his own seal. With him being married into the Comyn –Buchan’s he could have reasonably used Comyn’s-Buchan seal.
Gules, three garbs
Uilleam (William) Mac Dhonnchaidh
Mormaer of Mar
Iverness Killdrummy Castle
Uilleam of Mar - Uilleam mac Dhonnchaidh (William, Duncan's son) - was perhaps the greatest of the Mar mormaers, ruling Mar from 1244 to 1276.
Uilleam was responsible for the construction of Kildrummy Castle, the greatest castle to have been built in 13th century northern Scotland. It is one of the few examples where a native Scottish magnate built a large-scale fortification, something normally practiced by the incoming French.
Uilleam, more than any of his predecessors, participated in Scottish and even British-wide politics, becoming a leading figure in the royal regime of Alexander II, and the minority of Alexander III. By 1244, Uilleam had married into the Comyn house, the fastest rising foreign family in the Scottish kingdom. He married Isabel, the daughter of Count William Comyn of Buchan. The Comyn-Mar 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 Críst to contest Uilleam's right to the Mormaerdom, but Uilleam successfully held off these claims. Uilleam and the Comyn Count of Menteith then launched accusations of treason towards Alan while at the court of Henry III of England at York.
Uilleam engaged in supplementing his power on a nation-wide basis. He held the post of Sheriff of Dumbarton between 1264 and 1266, a post which opened up connections in the western Highlands. Uilleam was able to marry his younger son Donnchadh to Christina MacRuaridh, the heiress of the Hebridean chief Alan MacRuadridh, the principle Hebridean supporter of the Scottish cause against Norway. When his wife Isabel died in 1267, Uilleam married Muriel, the daughter of Maol Íosa II, Mormaer of Strathearn. Uilleam died in 1276, and was succeeded by his son Domhnall.
Heraldry:
McANDREW: RAGMAN ROLL
William has no record in the Ragman roll of having his own seal. With him being married into the Comyn –Buchan’s he could have reasonably used Comyn’s-Buchan seal.
Maol Iosa II
Heraldry:
3274 A hawk killing a small bird
Maol Iosa II
Mormaer of Strathearn
Wick and Edinburg Castle
Maol Íosa II of Strathearn (English: Malise I of Strathearn) who ruled Strathearn 1245–1271, is the fifth known Mormaer of Strathearn, but of course this is simply a source problem and in no way means that he actually was the fifth.
Maol Íosa II, was the first known son of Mormaer Robert. He has been noted as the first Mormaer to encourage the movement of French and English settlers into his Mormaerdom, or at least to allow an influx of French-speaking warriors into his entourage (Neville, 2005, pp.23-4). We might regard it as part of the same phenomenon that following the reign of Maol Íosa II, the Mormaers of Strathearn thereafter remained pivotal and dynamic figures in the larger world of northern British politics, never again confining themselves purely within their mormaerdom.
Maol Íosa was an intelligent figure who managed to retain the favor of both the Scottish and English kings, and steer a middle line between the Comyn-Durward rivalry that dominated Scottish court politics in the middle of the 13th century
Maol Íosa married four times. These marriages included a marriage to the daughter of the Earl of Orkney, and one to the daughter of Ewen MacDougall. He had two known sons, Maol Íosa and Robert; and three known daughters, Muriel, Maria and Cecilia.
Maol Íosa II died in 1271, and was succeeded by his son, Maol Íosa III
Heraldry:
McANDREW: RAGMAN ROLL
3274 A hawk killing a small bird S'ANGNETE FIL' RANDUL? GRAHT?
RR839 Pieres de Graham, DMF
Alaxandair (Alexander) Stewart
Heraldry:
3003 A fess chequy
Alaxandair (Alexander) Stewart
High Steward of Scotland
Killdrummy Castle, Iverness
Alexander Stewart (1214–1283) was 4th hereditary High Steward of Scotland from his father's death in 1246. A son of Walter Stewart, 3rd High Steward of Scotland by his wife Bethóc, daughter of Gille Críst, Earl of Angus, Alexander is said to have accompanied King Louis of France on Crusade in 1248.[1] In 1255 he was one of the councillors of King Alexander III, though under age. He was the principal commander under King Alexander III of Scotland at the Battle of Largs, on October 2, 1263, when the Scots defeated the Norwegians under Haco. Subsequently the Scots invaded and conquered the Isle of Man the following year, which was, with the whole of the Western Isles, then annexed to the Crown of Scotland.
Alexander the Steward married Jean, daughter of Angus (or James) Macrory, Lord of Bue, said to be a grandson of Somerled.[8] They had issue: James Stewart, 5th High Steward of Scotland (c. 1243-1309)
Sir John Stewart of Bonkill, Berwickshire (1246-July 22, 129, described as the "second son" who married the Bonkill heiress, had seven sons and one daughter, and was killed in the Battle of Falkirk.
Elizabeth Stewart, (d. before 128 Married Sir William Douglas the Hardy, Governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed.[5] She was the mother of the Good Sir James Douglas. Through their eldest son James they were the grandparents of King Robert II, the first Stewart to be King of Scots, and thus ancestors of all subsequent Scottish monarchs and the later and current monarchs of Great Britain. Stewart was also, through his second son, the direct male ancestor of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, and of the Stuart monarchs of Scotland and England from Darnley's son James I onwards
Heraldry:
McANDREW: RAGMAN ROLL
Stewart Detached seals 3003, 3023, belonging to the High Steward and his brother, display the chequered fess of the Stewarts. The same charge is borne on detached seals 3011, 3030, and 3065 of their Menteith kinsmen. In addition this characteristic charge is found on the seals of a number of Stewart vassals: seal 3313 with the legend S'Simeon d'Huston, seal 3549 belonging to RR885 Sir Finlaye de Hustoun, seal 3550 belonging to RR888 Sir Huwe de Danielston, and seal 3591, the property of RR1115 Arthur de Donon
William Longleg
Heraldry:
3285 A chief, charges obliterated S'DNI WILLELMI DE DVGLAS
RR373 (SHS31614, SAS651) William de Douglas, LAN
Painted arms date from the Balliol Roll of 1334 for Sr de Douglas: Argent, on a chief Azure, three
stars of six points Argent, pierced Gules (BL2.
William Longleg
Lord of Douglas
Oban
William, Lord of Douglas (c. 1220 – c. 1274), known as 'Longleg', was a Scoto-Norman nobleman.
The years of the minority of King Alexander III (1249–1262) featured an embittered struggle for the control of affairs between two rival parties, the one led by the 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 reign. In 1255 an interview between the English and Scottish kings at Kelso led to Menteith and his party losing to Durward's party. Later both parties called a Meeting of the great Magnates of the Realm to establish a regency until Alexander came of age. William Lord of Douglas was one of the magnates called to witness. Douglas was a partisan of Durward's party. This can be explained by the fact that although most of his territories lay in Douglasdale, through his wife, Constance, he had obtained the rich Manor of Fawdon in Northumberland and it would do well to keep English Royal favour.
David Hume of Godscroft, the arch-panegyricist of the House of Douglas, states that Longleg married Marjorie, Countess of Carrick and had by her two sons and a daughter, the daughter inheriting the Earldom of Carrick. Marjorie went on to marry Robert the Bruce, father to King Robert I of Scotland, this however does not make any sense historically.
William Longleg, Lord of Douglas (died c. 1274) is said to have married Marjory de Abernethy, daughter of Orm de Abernethy leaving two sons:
Heraldry:
McANDREW: RAGMAN ROLL
3285 A chief, charges obliterated S'DNI WILLELMI DE DVGLAS
RR373 (SHS31614, SAS651) William de Douglas, LAN
Painted arms date from the Balliol Roll of 1334 for Sr de Douglas: Argent, on a chief Azure, three
stars of six points Argent, pierced Gules (BL2.
Uilleam I Mac Ferchar
Heraldry:
3022 Three lions rampant, tails contourne
Uilleam I Mac Ferchar
Mormaer of Ross
Uilleam I of Ross was the first successor of Ferchar mac an tSagairt, as Mormaer of Ross, with his comital dates traditionally given as 1251–1274.
Uilleam appears as early as 1232, witnessing a charter as the son of Ferchar. He was definitely Mormaer by 1258, but the traditional date is 1251. Uilleam played a pioneering role in the Scottish reconquest of the formally Norwegian Hebrides. Indeed, in many ways, he may be regarded as the instigator of Scottish aggression. Hakon's Saga tells us that in Norway: "In the previous summer [i.e. that of 1262], letters came east from the Hebrides ... and they brought forward much about the dispeace that the Earl of Ross ... and other Scots, had made in the Hebrides, when they went out to Skye, and burned towns and churches, and slew very many men and women ... They said that the Scottish king intended to lay under himself all the Hebrides." Uilleam's attacks on Norwegian possessions earned him the ire of King Håkon IV, who planned an expedition against him. However, Uilleam escaped this expedition. He was probably rewarded with Skye and Lewis after the Scottish reconquest of the Hebrides, a reward secured when the conquests were ratified by the Treaty of Perth in 1267. He married Johanna Comyn, the daughter of William Comyn, jure uxoris Earl of Buchan, by whom he fathered his successor Uilleam. He died, probably in 1274.
Heraldry:
McANDREW: RAGMAN ROLL
3022 Three lions rampant, tails contourne S'WILLELMI COMITIS DE ROS
RR- (SHS56610, SAS2326) William, Earl of Ross
Painted arms are found as Gules, three lions rampant Argent (LM49, Q17).
(Son of William I)
Patrick III
Heraldry:
3050 A lion rampant, tail contourne, a bordure
charged with eight roses
Patrick III
Earl of Dunbar
none
Said to be aged 35 in 1248,[2] he was the son of Patrick II, Earl of Dunbar (by Eupheme de Brus), who was son of Patrick I, Earl of Dunbar, who was son of Waltheof, Earl of Dunbar, who was descendant in male line of Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria. His successors controlled the marches, but the title Earl of March was only assumed by Patrick IV, Earl of March.
Patrick did homage for his lands in England to King Henry III in 1249. The earl was part of the English faction who opposed the Comyns and in 1255 he and others procured the dismissal of the Comyns and their faction from power. The same year he was nominated Regent and Guardian of the King and Queen. In 1258 the Comyn's faction prevailed, and Earl Patrick was excluded from the government.
In 1263 he founded a monastery for the Carmelites or White Friars in Dunbar; and led the left division of the Scottish army at the battle of Largs the same year. In 1266 when Magnus V of Norway ceded the Isle of Man and the Hebrides to King Alexander III of Scotland, the Earl of Dunbar's seal appears on the treaty, signed in Norway in 1266.
Patrick, Earl of Dunbar, was second in the list of thirteen earls who signed the marriage contract of Princess Margaret of Scotland and King Eric of Norway in 1281. In 1284 he attended the parliament at Scone which declared the Princess Margaret of Norway to be heiress to the Scottish Crown.
He died at Whittingehame, and was buried at Dunbar, East Lothian.[2]
He married firstly, before 1240, Cecily, daughter of John FitzRobert, Lord of Warkworth, Northumberland (died 1240),
He married secondly Christian, daughter of Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale, the 'Competitor' (1210–1295), and had five known children:
Patrick IV, Earl of March, a 'Competitor' (1242–130, son and heir.
Sir John de Dunbar, Knt.
Sir Alexander de Dunbar, Knt.
Agnes de Dunbar, who married Christell de Seton, 'in Jedburgh Forrest' (died c. 1300)
Cecily (or Cecilia) de Dunbar, who married Sir James Stewart, 5th High Steward of Scotland.
Heraldry:
McANDREW: RAGMAN ROLL
3050 A lion rampant, tail contourne, a bordure S'DNI PATRICK DE DUNBAR COM'
charged with eight roses MARC
RR192 (SHS33507, SAS786) Patrick de Dunbar, Earl of March
References:
I saw that you still needed some banners so I spent some time today and dug up the Scottish Heraldry for the Lords that are currently in the mod (pre.95). I’ve also included my research notes in the spoilers for each Lord as a reference if anybody is interested on how I came up with the information.
Ailean (Alan) Durward
Heraldry:
3543 Ermine, a chief
(Scottish Gaelic: Ailean Dorsair) († 1275)
was the son of Thomas de Lundin, a grandson of Gille Críst, Mormaer of Mar. His mother's name is unknown, but she was almost certainly a daughter of Máel Coluim, Mormaer of Atholl, meaning that Alan was the product of two Gaelic comital families.
Alan was one of the most important political figures of 13th century Scotland, and in fact effectively ruled the country at several points during the minority of Alexander III (Gaelic: Alasdair III mac Alasdair). Through his father Thomas, he inherited the office of hostarius, protector of the king's property. Alan probably participated in the campaign to crush the insurrection of Meic Uilleim (Mac Williams) in 1228-29. By 1233, and probably before, Alan was given control of Urquhart on the shores of Loch Ness. Alan was almost certainly responsible for the earliest motte phase of Urquhart Castle.
At the same point in time, between 1233 and 1235, Alan was styling himself "Count of Atholl". It has often been thought that, after the death of Thomas of Galloway, Earl of Atholl in 1232, Isabella, Countess of Atholl, married Alan. This however, rests solely on the appearance of Alan's styles. However, as Matthew Hammond has shown, this more is more likely to refer to fact that Alan, as a grandson of Máel Coluim, Earl of Atholl, probably sought to inherit the province; by January 9, 1234, King Alexander seems to have recognized this style. However, by the time of a charter of July 7, 1235, the style had disappeared and Alan was never called "Count" (Mormaer or Earl) again. Alan, like his father Thomas, would also challenge the rights of the Mormaers of Mar. Alan was descended from Gille Crist, Mormaer of Mar. However, Gille Críst's descendents had been excluded from inheritance by the line of Morggán, Mormaer of Mar, who were monopolizing the comital title. Alan tried and failed to oust Uilleam from his title. It would be the greatest failure of Alan's career that he failed to rise to comital rank.
Alan's illustrious career was marked by intense rivalry with the Comyns. The rivalry was a national phenomenon, and represented a larger factional conflict within the kingdom. There may have been some reconciliation towards the end of his life. Alan was made Justiciar of Scotia along with Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan, and campaigned with the latter in two expeditions against the Norwegians. Alan even witnessed one of Earl Alexander's charters in 1272.
Alan spent many of his later years in England. During the minority of Alexander III, Alan had courted the favor of King Henry III of England in an effort to stay in power. The King of the English even gave Alan his own English manor, Bolsover.
He died in 1275. He was buried in the Abbey of Coupar Angus. Alan had married Marjory, a bastard daughter of King Alexander II, by whom he had three children, Ermengarde (who married William de Soules, the royal butler), Anna (who married Colbán, Mormaer of Fife), and another daughter whose name is not known (she married John Bisset). Alan also had at least one bastard son, Thomas Durward. None of these children carried on their father's illustrious political career.
Heraldry:
Scotlands Historic History by Bruce A. McAndrew
Sir Thomas Durward d. 1296 (Bastard son of Alan Durward): as he did not inherit the main durward estates on the death of Alan Durward in 1275. He changed the argent field of his familys shield to ermine on his seal (SAS831)
McANDREW: RAGMAN ROLL
Joined by strings are
3543 Ermine, a chief (plain?) S'THOME DOREWARD
RR754 (SHS34115, SAS831) Thomas le Husher, ANG
Probably an illegitimate son of Alan Durward (L'Ussher) (d 1275) who bore Argent, a chief Gules
inWalford'sRoll(C66).
Walter Comyn
Heraldry:
Azure, three garbs, on seal 3464 Wautier Comyn PEB, who bore the garbs differenced with a baton, is a more recent cadet
Walter Comyn
Mormaer of Menteith
Walter Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, jure uxoris Earl of Menteith
(died 125
was the son of William Comyn, Justiciar of Scotia and Mormaer or Earl of Buchan by right of his second wife. Walter makes his first appearance in royal charters as early as 1211–1214. In 1220, he accompanied King Alexander II of Scotland during the latter's visit to York. He appears as "Lord of Badenoch" as early as 1229, after the defeat of the Meic Uilleim by his father. Like his father, Walter was given the hand of an heiress, Isabella, Countess of Menteith. By 1234, Isabella had inherited the Mormaerdom of Menteith, and so Walter became Mormaer or Earl of Menteith by right of his wife (jure uxoris). Walter appears to have had at least one child, a man called Henry who witnessed a charter, dated to 1250, of Maol Domhnaich, Mormaer of Lennox.Walter was one of the leading political figures in the Kingdom of Scotland, especially during the minority of King Alexander III, when, along with Alan Durward, he essentially ran the country. He died suddenly in either the October or November of 1258. By this time, his son Henry must have been dead. Isabella remained countess until 1260–1261, when Walter Stewart, husband of Isabella's sister Mary, seized the province. As Walter had no surviving male children, the Lordship of Badenoch passed to Walter's nephew John. John was unable to inherit Menteith
Heraldry:
McANDREW: RAGMAN ROLL
Comyn: A great panoply of Comyns, no less than 14 homagers, perhaps 11 different individuals, appears in the Ragman Roll. It has been shown elsewhere that the principal branches of the family — Badenoch, Buchan and East Kilbride — all bore three garbs, and that differentiation was accomplished by change of tincture (McAndrew 1984). Ample evidence exists for Gules, three garbs Or for the Badenoch branch (C70, HE101, D183, E172, F91), On seal 3464 PEB, who bore the garbs differenced with a baton, is a more recent cadet, his lands in Peebles suggesting a Kilbride descent. Seal 1233, belonging to John Comyn of Skreesburgh is interesting: it is non-heraldic but the seal legend reads S'Joh'is d'Scraesbvro, a good example of a family name being replaced by a territorial one.
3464 Between 3 garbs, a baton S'WALTERI CUMVN
RR755 (SHS30606, SAS586) Wautier Comyn, PEB
Maol Choluim I
Heraldry:
Maol Choluim I
Mormaer Maol Choluim of Fife (1204–122
, or Máel Coluim anglicised as Malcolm, was one of the more obscure Mormaers of Fife.He married Matilda, the daughter of Gille Brigte, the Mormaer of Strathearn. He is credited with the foundation of Culross Abbey. He was succeeded by his nephew Maol Choluim II upon his death, probably in 1228.
Mormaer Maol Choluim I of Lennox ruled the Mormaerdom of Lennox, between 1250 and 1303.
He was an early supporter of the Bruces, and appeared before Edward I of England in 1292 amongst the supporters of Robert Bruce, 5th Lord of Annandale. Maol Choluim joined the revolt of Andrew de Moravia and William Wallace.
Maol Choluim married a women named Marjorie, and fathered his successor Maol Choluim II
He died in 1303.
Maol Choluim II
Heraldry:
sin, two chevrons,
Maol Choluim II
Mormaer of Fife
Maol Choluim II (or Máel Coluim II, usually anglicized as Malcolm II), was a 13th century Mormaer of Fife who ruled the mormaerdom or earldom of Fife between 1228 and 1266. He was the nephew of Maol Choluim I, the previous mormaer, and the son of Maol Choluim I's brother Donnchadh, son of Donnchadh II. He is one of the Scottish magnates whose name occurred as a guarantor in the Treaty of York, September 25, 1237. He participated in the famous inauguration of King Alexander III of Scotland at Scone on 13 July 1249, where the mormaers of Fife had a traditional senior role in the coronation. He played a role during the minority of Alexander III of Scotland, being appointed one of the guardians in the king, September 20, 1255.
Heraldry:
McANDREW: RAGMAN ROLL
3141 Round, obv: a king with crown and scepter seated; a bishop on right and another figure on left; below are three shields, centre, Scotland; dex, three pales, Fife; sin, two chevrons, Stratherne; rev: the Father seated holding the Son on the cross; beneath St Michael overcoming the devil
Uilleam (William) Mac Dhonnchaidh
Heraldry:
William has no record in the Ragman roll of having his own seal. With him being married into the Comyn –Buchan’s he could have reasonably used Comyn’s-Buchan seal.
Gules, three garbs
Uilleam (William) Mac Dhonnchaidh
Mormaer of Mar
Iverness Killdrummy Castle
Uilleam of Mar - Uilleam mac Dhonnchaidh (William, Duncan's son) - was perhaps the greatest of the Mar mormaers, ruling Mar from 1244 to 1276.
Uilleam was responsible for the construction of Kildrummy Castle, the greatest castle to have been built in 13th century northern Scotland. It is one of the few examples where a native Scottish magnate built a large-scale fortification, something normally practiced by the incoming French.
Uilleam, more than any of his predecessors, participated in Scottish and even British-wide politics, becoming a leading figure in the royal regime of Alexander II, and the minority of Alexander III. By 1244, Uilleam had married into the Comyn house, the fastest rising foreign family in the Scottish kingdom. He married Isabel, the daughter of Count William Comyn of Buchan. The Comyn-Mar 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 Críst to contest Uilleam's right to the Mormaerdom, but Uilleam successfully held off these claims. Uilleam and the Comyn Count of Menteith then launched accusations of treason towards Alan while at the court of Henry III of England at York.
Uilleam engaged in supplementing his power on a nation-wide basis. He held the post of Sheriff of Dumbarton between 1264 and 1266, a post which opened up connections in the western Highlands. Uilleam was able to marry his younger son Donnchadh to Christina MacRuaridh, the heiress of the Hebridean chief Alan MacRuadridh, the principle Hebridean supporter of the Scottish cause against Norway. When his wife Isabel died in 1267, Uilleam married Muriel, the daughter of Maol Íosa II, Mormaer of Strathearn. Uilleam died in 1276, and was succeeded by his son Domhnall.
Heraldry:
McANDREW: RAGMAN ROLL
William has no record in the Ragman roll of having his own seal. With him being married into the Comyn –Buchan’s he could have reasonably used Comyn’s-Buchan seal.
Maol Iosa II
Heraldry:
3274 A hawk killing a small bird
Maol Iosa II
Mormaer of Strathearn
Wick and Edinburg Castle
Maol Íosa II of Strathearn (English: Malise I of Strathearn) who ruled Strathearn 1245–1271, is the fifth known Mormaer of Strathearn, but of course this is simply a source problem and in no way means that he actually was the fifth.
Maol Íosa II, was the first known son of Mormaer Robert. He has been noted as the first Mormaer to encourage the movement of French and English settlers into his Mormaerdom, or at least to allow an influx of French-speaking warriors into his entourage (Neville, 2005, pp.23-4). We might regard it as part of the same phenomenon that following the reign of Maol Íosa II, the Mormaers of Strathearn thereafter remained pivotal and dynamic figures in the larger world of northern British politics, never again confining themselves purely within their mormaerdom.
Maol Íosa was an intelligent figure who managed to retain the favor of both the Scottish and English kings, and steer a middle line between the Comyn-Durward rivalry that dominated Scottish court politics in the middle of the 13th century
Maol Íosa married four times. These marriages included a marriage to the daughter of the Earl of Orkney, and one to the daughter of Ewen MacDougall. He had two known sons, Maol Íosa and Robert; and three known daughters, Muriel, Maria and Cecilia.
Maol Íosa II died in 1271, and was succeeded by his son, Maol Íosa III
Heraldry:
McANDREW: RAGMAN ROLL
3274 A hawk killing a small bird S'ANGNETE FIL' RANDUL? GRAHT?
RR839 Pieres de Graham, DMF
Alaxandair (Alexander) Stewart
Heraldry:
3003 A fess chequy
Alaxandair (Alexander) Stewart
High Steward of Scotland
Killdrummy Castle, Iverness
Alexander Stewart (1214–1283) was 4th hereditary High Steward of Scotland from his father's death in 1246. A son of Walter Stewart, 3rd High Steward of Scotland by his wife Bethóc, daughter of Gille Críst, Earl of Angus, Alexander is said to have accompanied King Louis of France on Crusade in 1248.[1] In 1255 he was one of the councillors of King Alexander III, though under age. He was the principal commander under King Alexander III of Scotland at the Battle of Largs, on October 2, 1263, when the Scots defeated the Norwegians under Haco. Subsequently the Scots invaded and conquered the Isle of Man the following year, which was, with the whole of the Western Isles, then annexed to the Crown of Scotland.
Alexander the Steward married Jean, daughter of Angus (or James) Macrory, Lord of Bue, said to be a grandson of Somerled.[8] They had issue: James Stewart, 5th High Steward of Scotland (c. 1243-1309)
Sir John Stewart of Bonkill, Berwickshire (1246-July 22, 129
, described as the "second son" who married the Bonkill heiress, had seven sons and one daughter, and was killed in the Battle of Falkirk. Elizabeth Stewart, (d. before 128
Married Sir William Douglas the Hardy, Governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed.[5] She was the mother of the Good Sir James Douglas. Through their eldest son James they were the grandparents of King Robert II, the first Stewart to be King of Scots, and thus ancestors of all subsequent Scottish monarchs and the later and current monarchs of Great Britain. Stewart was also, through his second son, the direct male ancestor of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, and of the Stuart monarchs of Scotland and England from Darnley's son James I onwardsHeraldry:
McANDREW: RAGMAN ROLL
Stewart Detached seals 3003, 3023, belonging to the High Steward and his brother, display the chequered fess of the Stewarts. The same charge is borne on detached seals 3011, 3030, and 3065 of their Menteith kinsmen. In addition this characteristic charge is found on the seals of a number of Stewart vassals: seal 3313 with the legend S'Simeon d'Huston, seal 3549 belonging to RR885 Sir Finlaye de Hustoun, seal 3550 belonging to RR888 Sir Huwe de Danielston, and seal 3591, the property of RR1115 Arthur de Donon
William Longleg
Heraldry:
3285 A chief, charges obliterated S'DNI WILLELMI DE DVGLAS
RR373 (SHS31614, SAS651) William de Douglas, LAN
Painted arms date from the Balliol Roll of 1334 for Sr de Douglas: Argent, on a chief Azure, three
stars of six points Argent, pierced Gules (BL2
.
William Longleg
Lord of Douglas
Oban
William, Lord of Douglas (c. 1220 – c. 1274), known as 'Longleg', was a Scoto-Norman nobleman.
The years of the minority of King Alexander III (1249–1262) featured an embittered struggle for the control of affairs between two rival parties, the one led by the 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 reign. In 1255 an interview between the English and Scottish kings at Kelso led to Menteith and his party losing to Durward's party. Later both parties called a Meeting of the great Magnates of the Realm to establish a regency until Alexander came of age. William Lord of Douglas was one of the magnates called to witness. Douglas was a partisan of Durward's party. This can be explained by the fact that although most of his territories lay in Douglasdale, through his wife, Constance, he had obtained the rich Manor of Fawdon in Northumberland and it would do well to keep English Royal favour.
David Hume of Godscroft, the arch-panegyricist of the House of Douglas, states that Longleg married Marjorie, Countess of Carrick and had by her two sons and a daughter, the daughter inheriting the Earldom of Carrick. Marjorie went on to marry Robert the Bruce, father to King Robert I of Scotland, this however does not make any sense historically.
William Longleg, Lord of Douglas (died c. 1274) is said to have married Marjory de Abernethy, daughter of Orm de Abernethy leaving two sons:
Heraldry:
McANDREW: RAGMAN ROLL
3285 A chief, charges obliterated S'DNI WILLELMI DE DVGLAS
RR373 (SHS31614, SAS651) William de Douglas, LAN
Painted arms date from the Balliol Roll of 1334 for Sr de Douglas: Argent, on a chief Azure, three
stars of six points Argent, pierced Gules (BL2
.Uilleam I Mac Ferchar
Heraldry:
3022 Three lions rampant, tails contourne
Uilleam I Mac Ferchar
Mormaer of Ross
Uilleam I of Ross was the first successor of Ferchar mac an tSagairt, as Mormaer of Ross, with his comital dates traditionally given as 1251–1274.
Uilleam appears as early as 1232, witnessing a charter as the son of Ferchar. He was definitely Mormaer by 1258, but the traditional date is 1251. Uilleam played a pioneering role in the Scottish reconquest of the formally Norwegian Hebrides. Indeed, in many ways, he may be regarded as the instigator of Scottish aggression. Hakon's Saga tells us that in Norway: "In the previous summer [i.e. that of 1262], letters came east from the Hebrides ... and they brought forward much about the dispeace that the Earl of Ross ... and other Scots, had made in the Hebrides, when they went out to Skye, and burned towns and churches, and slew very many men and women ... They said that the Scottish king intended to lay under himself all the Hebrides." Uilleam's attacks on Norwegian possessions earned him the ire of King Håkon IV, who planned an expedition against him. However, Uilleam escaped this expedition. He was probably rewarded with Skye and Lewis after the Scottish reconquest of the Hebrides, a reward secured when the conquests were ratified by the Treaty of Perth in 1267. He married Johanna Comyn, the daughter of William Comyn, jure uxoris Earl of Buchan, by whom he fathered his successor Uilleam. He died, probably in 1274.
Heraldry:
McANDREW: RAGMAN ROLL
3022 Three lions rampant, tails contourne S'WILLELMI COMITIS DE ROS
RR- (SHS56610, SAS2326) William, Earl of Ross
Painted arms are found as Gules, three lions rampant Argent (LM49, Q17).
(Son of William I)
Patrick III
Heraldry:
3050 A lion rampant, tail contourne, a bordure
charged with eight roses
Patrick III
Earl of Dunbar
none
Said to be aged 35 in 1248,[2] he was the son of Patrick II, Earl of Dunbar (by Eupheme de Brus), who was son of Patrick I, Earl of Dunbar, who was son of Waltheof, Earl of Dunbar, who was descendant in male line of Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria. His successors controlled the marches, but the title Earl of March was only assumed by Patrick IV, Earl of March.
Patrick did homage for his lands in England to King Henry III in 1249. The earl was part of the English faction who opposed the Comyns and in 1255 he and others procured the dismissal of the Comyns and their faction from power. The same year he was nominated Regent and Guardian of the King and Queen. In 1258 the Comyn's faction prevailed, and Earl Patrick was excluded from the government.
In 1263 he founded a monastery for the Carmelites or White Friars in Dunbar; and led the left division of the Scottish army at the battle of Largs the same year. In 1266 when Magnus V of Norway ceded the Isle of Man and the Hebrides to King Alexander III of Scotland, the Earl of Dunbar's seal appears on the treaty, signed in Norway in 1266.
Patrick, Earl of Dunbar, was second in the list of thirteen earls who signed the marriage contract of Princess Margaret of Scotland and King Eric of Norway in 1281. In 1284 he attended the parliament at Scone which declared the Princess Margaret of Norway to be heiress to the Scottish Crown.
He died at Whittingehame, and was buried at Dunbar, East Lothian.[2]
He married firstly, before 1240, Cecily, daughter of John FitzRobert, Lord of Warkworth, Northumberland (died 1240),
He married secondly Christian, daughter of Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale, the 'Competitor' (1210–1295), and had five known children:
Patrick IV, Earl of March, a 'Competitor' (1242–130
, son and heir.Sir John de Dunbar, Knt.
Sir Alexander de Dunbar, Knt.
Agnes de Dunbar, who married Christell de Seton, 'in Jedburgh Forrest' (died c. 1300)
Cecily (or Cecilia) de Dunbar, who married Sir James Stewart, 5th High Steward of Scotland.
Heraldry:
McANDREW: RAGMAN ROLL
3050 A lion rampant, tail contourne, a bordure S'DNI PATRICK DE DUNBAR COM'
charged with eight roses MARC
RR192 (SHS33507, SAS786) Patrick de Dunbar, Earl of March
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Argent_a_chief_gules.svg
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/PSAS_2002/pdf/vol_129/129_663_752.pdf (pg 81)
http://books.google.com/books?id=QFkI3G31HTMC&pg=PA266&lpg=PA266&dq=alan+durward+heraldry&source=bl&ots=Rqterr9DP7&sig=pgwrFcwHDHvHlbVh96OwheABAUM&hl=en&ei=7oyCTPjFKon2tgP2muz2Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBkQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=alan%20durward%20heraldry&f=false (pg 266)
Feudal relations between the kings of England and Scotland under the early ...
By Charles Truman Wyckoff
http://books.google.com/books?id=457wzD8qMY4C&pg=PA120#v=onepage&q&f=false
A dictionary of Heraldry edited by Stephen Friar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Argent_a_chief_gules.svg
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/PSAS_2002/pdf/vol_129/129_663_752.pdf (pg 81)
http://books.google.com/books?id=QFkI3G31HTMC&pg=PA266&lpg=PA266&dq=alan+durward+heraldry&source=bl&ots=Rqterr9DP7&sig=pgwrFcwHDHvHlbVh96OwheABAUM&hl=en&ei=7oyCTPjFKon2tgP2muz2Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBkQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=alan%20durward%20heraldry&f=false (pg 266)
Feudal relations between the kings of England and Scotland under the early ...
By Charles Truman Wyckoff
http://books.google.com/books?id=457wzD8qMY4C&pg=PA120#v=onepage&q&f=false
A dictionary of Heraldry edited by Stephen Friar
