Maurice Drummond 1st Thane of Lennox

• Preferred Name: Maurice Drummond 1st Thane of Lennox^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Burial: 1093 in England
  
• Birth: ABT 1050 in Magyarország. Hungary at LATI: N7 LONG: E9.5 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• FSID: GCQQ-7SF
  
• MilitaryService: Captain-General or Admiral to Prince Edgar
  
• Death: 29 NOV 1093 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England with note: GEDCOM data
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Thane, Senescal, or Steward heritable of Lennox.
  
• Residence: from King Malcolm - the lands of Roseneath, Cardross, Auchindown, parish of Drummond in Lennox, and Balfron. These lands lay in the shires of Dunbarton and Stirling, and jurisdiction of Lennox
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  https://www.geni.com/people/Maurice-de-Drummond-1st-Seneschal-of-Lennox/6000000003645966691
  
  Maurice de Drummond was an adult by 1067. His father is unknown. Despite the fanciful legend, he was not a son of Prince Gyorgy of Hungary.
  
  According to the traditional story, Maurice accompanied Edgar Atheling from Hungary to England in 1068. See David Malcolm, Genealogical memoir of the most noble and ancient house of Drummond (1808).
  
  For a simple discussion of the problems with this story, including chronological impossibility, see Are the Drummonds a branch of the Hungarian Arpads? in soc.genealogy.medieval.
  
  Origin of the Drummonds
  The Drummonds do not appear on record before 1271.
  
  "The early Drummonds were evidently closely related to the ancient Celtic earls of Menteith, whose Arms of three ways bar they bore differenced only by colour, and in whose family burial place at least one Drummond - of age by 1248 - was buried beneath a fine stone carved with his effigy in Celtic armour.
  
  "Their first undoubted ancestor [of the Drummonds] to be so far traced for certain was 'Maelcolum Beg' or 'Little Malcolm', who was obviously of West Highland birth and appears in still extant charters as seneschal of Lennox from about 1225.
  
  "His two sons are recorded as 'of Drummond' and his grandson seems to be the first one to have made Drummond into a surname."
  
  Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk and David Hicks, The Highland Clans (1967).
  
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  MAURICE DRUMMOND, FOUNDER OF THE HOUSE OF DRUMMOND, 1st HERITABLE THANE OF LENNOX
  Landed in Scotland in 1067.—Died in 1093.
  From the 10th to the 36th of Malcolm Canmore.
  
  As a mark of Queen Margaret's esteem, Maurice received in marriage one of her maids of honour, and from their children all the families of Drummond are descended. By this lady he left two sons:-
  1. Malcolm Drummond, his heir, named after his
  master and benefactor King Malcolm; and
  2. Maurice Drummond, of whom no certain account is preserved.
  Maurice, the first of the house of Drummond, died in 1093, and was succeeded by his son Malcolm.
  
  1º Drummond
  “O primeiro cidadão na história que usou o nome Drummond, era natural da Hungria e pertencia a uma família de conquistadores e de príncipes. Mauritz, 1° senescal de Lennox é o 1° Drummond. Mauritz era
  
  Maurice Drummond
  Here's some FH for your Sunday entertainment: On our maternal side going through my grandmother and the Holmes we traced back through the Drummonds in Scottland to the first Drummond, who was the
  
  === AKA ===
  György of Hungary
  
  === AKA ===
  George of Hungary
  
  === AKA ===
  Maurice of Hungary
  
  === Origin of the Drummonds ===
  
  The Drummonds do not appear on record before 1271.
  
  "The first undoubted ancestor of the Drummonds waa Malcolm Beg, who appears as Seneschal of Lennox about 1225.
  
  "The early Drummonds were evidently closely related to the ancient Celtic earls of Menteith, whose Arms of three ways bar they bore differenced only by colour, and in whose family burial place at least one Drummond - of age by 1248 - was buried beneath a fine stone carved with his effigy in Celtic armour.
  
  "Their first undoubted ancestor [of the Drummonds] to be so far traced for certain was 'Maelcolum Beg' or 'Little Malcolm', who was obviously of West Highland birth and appears in still extant charters as seneschal of Lennox from about 1225.
  
  "His two sons are recorded as 'of Drummond' and his grandson seems to be the first one to have made Drummond into a surname."
  
  Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk and David Hicks, The Highland Clans (1967).
  
  === Sources: ===
  Gyula Kristó, "A történeti irodalom Magyarországon a kezdetektől 1241-ig / The historical literature in Hungary from the beginnings to 1241", Argumentum, 1994, p. 120, Cited(translation): "He (Andrew I) begat György with one of his lovers who was from Marót village"Jump up^ Kubinyi, András: Törvénytelen gyermekek a magyar középkorban. Utódok, örökösök, fattyúk (Illegitimate Children in Medieval Hungary. Offsprings, Successors, Bastards), In: Historia (Budapest) vol. 21, 7 (1999) p. 20-22, Cited(translation): "According to the chronicles, a son (György) was born to him from his lover of Marót village"Jump up^ Moravský historický sborník: ročenka Moravského národního kongresu, Moravský národní kongres, 2002, p. 523
  
  === MAURICE DRUMMOND, FOUNDER OF THE HOUSE OF DRUMMOND ===
  
  lst HERITABLE THANE OF LENNOX, Landed in Scotland in 1067— Died in 1093.
  From the 10th to the 36th of Malcolm Canmore.
  Among the illustrious attendants, who landed with Edgar Atheling in Scotland, was Maurice, an Hungarian, the founder of the house of Drumrnond. He is said to have been the son of George, a younger son of Andrew king of Hungary. Educated at the court with the Saxon princes, his friendship for their family early, commenced, and, amidst all the vicissitudes of their fortune,
  his attachment to their interests was firm and sincere.
  When invited over to England, he accompanied them to the court of Edward; and, when the cruelties of the Norman conqueror drove them from the kingdom of their ancestors, Maurice set sail with them for Hungary, and shared all the dangers of their flight. He is said to have been the commander of the ship in which the royal fugitives escaped ; and, when the furious storm assailed
  them on the ocean, the vessel was preserved by his skilful conduct, and the royal family safely landed on the Scottish shore.
  About this time, surnames began to-be generally used in Scotland, and, soon after his arrival, Maurice received and assumed the name of Drummond. Like the other surnames of Scotland, this is derived, either from the lands originally appropriated to its first chief, or from the office he bore, or from some extraordinary occurrence in his life. If the name is derived from the lands, then it naturally comes from that property, in the parish of Drymen in Dunbartonshire, called Drummond, which formed part of the original grant of lands conferred by king Malcolm on this Hungarian stranger. If the name is supposed to have been given him, from the office he held as captain-general, or admiral to prince Edgar and his retinue, then it is derived from Dromont, or Dromond, a word used in different countries to denote a ship of a swift course, the captains of which were called Dromonts, or Dromoners— words of Greek original, derived from dromo, onis, in Latin, signifying a swift bark, that skims along the tops of the waves. But, it is most probable that the name has an allusion to the tempest which drove Maurice and his vesssel to the Scottish shore ; and hence its common derivation from the Celtic words drum, a height, steep, or back, and onde, a wave, denoting the back of a wave, or a high wave; and to this correspond the bars called unde or wavy, as they are blazoned on the Drummond's arms. The name, however, is evidently derived from the Latin words dromo unda, and signifies a swift ship assailed by a tempest, which commemorates the storm which brought the first founder of the name and the royal exiles to Scotland, and the appointment which he held as conductor of the ship.
  On Margaret's elevation to the throne, the services of Maurice were gratefully acknowledged. At her special request, Malcolm distinguished him with particular regard, and, investing him with the privileges of his native subjects, bestowed upon him a competent inheritance, by appropriating to him and his posterity, the lands of Roseneath, Cardross, Auchindown, the parish of Drummond in Lennox, and Balfron. These lands lay in the shires of Dunbarton and Stirling, and jurisdiction
  of Lennox, and, in that district, was the residence of the Drummonds originally fixed.
  In addition to this extensive property in lands, the king dignified this new Hungarian stranger with an honourable office, and made him thane, senescal, or steward heritable of Lennox. These titles signified the same thing, although the denomination altered with the times.
  By this office, the charge entrusted to the thane' was, to be justiciar and guardian of that country ; to lead forth the men appointed for the war, according to the rolls and lists made up for that effect; and to be collector or accountant to the abthane of the kingdom, for the king's rents within that circuit. The abthane was the highest officer under the king, the chief minister of state, general
  questor, principal treasurer, and great steward of Scotland. To him, the thanes were next in degree of honour, and were the first whom king Malcolm advanced to the new titles of earls.
  Upon this Hungarian gentleman, the king also conferred, as a lasting badge of honour, a noble coat of arms, fitly contrived to represent his present condition, and his former achievements. In memory of his having been the happy conductor of her majesty's safe landing in Scotland, he assigned him for his armorial bearing three bars wavy ; and, as the country where his property
  lay was full of rivers, woods, lakes, and mountains, these are emblematically expressed in the coat of arms, wherein hunting, waters, hounds, inhabitants wild and naked, are represented. This was blazoned as follows : Or, three bars wavy or undy gules ; a helmet, wreath, coronet and mantling, suitable to his degree; and, for a crest, a blood or slouth-hound proper collared, and leished gules ; with two wild naked men proper for supporters, wieathed about the head and middle with ivy or oak leaves, holding batoons over tkeir shoulders raguled, standing upon a compartment like to. a green hill semee of caltrops— with this motto, Gang warily.
  Such were the distinguished honours conferred on Maurice Drummond, soon after king Malcolm's marriage with the princess Margaret. Nor was the thane ungrateful for so illustrious favours. To the Saxon princes he had ever been affectionate and faithful ; and he was equally attached to his new sovereign, who had bound him to his interests by the most endearing obligations. In peace, and in war, he uniformly served him with fidelity and zeal. When William the Conqueror turned his anus against Malcolm, because he refused to deliver up Edgar Atheling, whom he claimed as his fugitive
  and competitor, he joined the Scottish warriors, and nobly defended the cause of his sovereign and prince, till an honourable peace was concluded, and Edgar's safety particularly secured. After the conqueror died, William Rufus ascended the throne. Without any provocation, he invaded Malcolm's dominions in Northumberland, and, cutting off the garrison, surprised and seized
  the castle of Alnwick. Maurice advanced with the king to repel the insolent invader : but Malcolm unfortunately falling by the treachery of Piercy, Maurice hastened to revenge his death, and, furiously enraged, with a few soldiers headed by prince Edward, rushed headlong on the foe, and, together with the prince, gloriously fell, covered with wounds. This sad accident - happened in
  1093.
  Contemporary with Maurice Drummond was Walter, first lord high steward of Scotland, the son of Fleance, son of Banquo, thane of Lochaber. For his great services against the rebels of Galloway, he was advanced to this dignity by Malcolm III. in 1062. Hence, he is styled Dapifer, or CEconomus Regis, Senescallus Regni, and Totius Scotix Stewartus. From this office arose the
  name of Stewart, and, from this Walter, sprung the royal house of Stewart.
  -As a mark of queen Margaret's esteem, Maurice received in marriage one of her maids of honour, and from their children all the families of Drummond are descended.
  By this lady he left two sons :— -
  1. Malcolm Drummond, his heir, named after his master and benefactor king Malcolm ; and,
  2. Maurice Drummond, of whom no certain account is preserved.
  Maurice, the first of the house of Drummond, died in 1093, and was succeeded by his son Malcolm.
  (Drummond-Genealogical memoir of the most noble and ancient house of Drummond 1808 by David Malcolm.pdf)
  
  2 - Before the reign of Malcolm Canmore, the highest dignity or jurisdiction enjoyed by subjects in Scotland was that of thane, which dignity was afterwards succeeded by that of earl.
  In 1057 this king held a connentum procerum, a convention of his nobles at Forfar, when some of the chiefs of his nobility were created earls, by the titles they formerly enjoyed as thanes.
  The first who enjoyed this new dignity, were Macduff thane of Fife, Martacus thane of Marr, Walter thane of Sutherland, and Gilchrist thane of Angus. In these times, they subscribed their
  names Earl Macduff, Earl Walfer, &c. without any addition.
  The title of duke was unknown in Scotland till 1398, when David prince of Scotland, the eldest son of Robert III and queen Annabella Drummond, was created duke of Rothsay, earl of Atholl and Carrick; and, in 1399, Robert Stewart was created duke of Albany, by his brother Robert III.
  (Drummond-Genealogical memoir of the most noble and ancient house of Drummond 1808 by David Malcolm.pdf) [1]

• m. BEF 1085 in Scotland

1. Malcolm Drummond The 2nd Thane of Lennox, b. 1075 in Scotland     d. 1131

1. Title: The Drummonds” by Libby Urquhart. Published by Lang Syne Publishers Ltd. 1997
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2. Title: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Drummond-512
   Author: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Drummond-512
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3. Title: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George,_son_of_Andrew_I_of_Hungary
   Author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George,_son_of_Andrew_I_of_Hungary
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   Note: Gyula Kristó, "A történeti irodalom Magyarországon a kezdetektől 1241-ig / The historical literature in Hungary from the beginnings to 1241", Argumentum, 1994, p. 120, Cited(translation): "He (Andrew I) begat György with one of his lovers who was from Marót village"Jump up^ Kubinyi, András: Törvénytelen gyermekek a magyar középkorban. Utódok, örökösök, fattyúk (Illegitimate Children in Medieval Hungary. Offsprings, Successors, Bastards), In: Historia (Budapest) vol. 21, 7 (1999) p. 20-22, Cited(translation): "According to the chronicles, a son (György) was born to him from his lover of Marót village"Jump up^ Moravský historický sborník: ročenka Moravského národního kongresu, Moravský národní kongres, 2002, p. 523
   
4. Title: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Drummond
   Author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Drummond
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   Note: Clan Drummond Profile scotclans.com. Retrieved 13 September 2013.^ Jump up to:a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Coventry, Martin. (2008). Castles of the Clans: The Strongholds and Seats of 750 Scottish Families and Clans. pp 161 - 163. ISBN 978-1-899874-36-1.^ Jump up to:a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah Urquhart, Libby. (1997). The Drummonds. Published by Lang Syne Publishers Ltd. ISBN 185217041-7.^ Jump up to:a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Way, George and Squire, Romily. (1994). Collins Scottish Clan & Family Encyclopedia. (Foreword by The Rt Hon. The Earl of Elgin KT, Convenor, The Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs). pp. 120 - 121.Jump up^ "Grande Enciclopédia Portuguesa e Brasileira", Vários, Editorial Enciclopédia, Lisboa, Vol. 9, pg. 308Jump up^ "Ascendência e descendência de Nicolau de Bettencourt", Vasco de Bettencourt de Faria Machado e Sampaio, Edição do Autor, 1.ª Edição, Lisboa 1991, Table 8Jump up^ Megginch Castle, Perthshire rampantscotland.com. Retrieved 13 September 2013.^ Burke, 1712.^ Barrett, Michael, Footprints of the Ancient Scottish Church, 1914.^ Barrett, Michael, Footprints of the Ancient Scottish Church, 1914.
   
5. Title: Maurice "the Hungarian, Thane of Lennox" Drummond
   Author: Maurice "the Hungarian, Thane of Lennox" Drummond Born about 1045 [location unknown] ANCESTORS ancestors Son of George Arpadhazi [uncertain] and [mother unknown] [sibling(s) unknown] [spouse(s) unknown] DESCENDANTS descendants Father of Malcolm Drummond Died 13 Nov 1093 [location unknown] Profile manager: Jessica Hatfield private message [send private message] Profile last modified 24 Mar 2020 | Created 1 Apr 2012 This page has been accessed 2,047 times. Biography MAURICE DRUMMOND, "the Hungarian," FOUNDER OF THE HOUSE OF DRUMMOND, 1st HERITABLE THANE OF LENNOX Landed in Scotland in 1067. - Died in 1093. Among the illustrious attendants, who landed" with Edgar Atheling in Scotland, was Maurice, an Hungarian, the founder of the house of Drummond. He is said to have been the son of George, a younger son of Andrew king of Hungary. Educated at the court with the Saxon princes, his friendship for their family early commenced, and, amidst all the vicissitudes of their fortune, his attachme
   Publication: Name: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Drummond-512;
   Note: Born about 1045 [location unknown] ANCESTORS ancestors Son of George Arpadhazi [uncertain] and [mother unknown] [sibling(s) unknown] [spouse(s) unknown] DESCENDANTS descendants Father of Malcolm Drummond Died 13 Nov 1093 [location unknown] Profile manager: Jessica Hatfield private message [send private message] Profile last modified 24 Mar 2020 | Created 1 Apr 2012 This page has been accessed 2,047 times. Biography MAURICE DRUMMOND, "the Hungarian," FOUNDER OF THE HOUSE OF DRUMMOND, 1st HERITABLE THANE OF LENNOX Landed in Scotland in 1067. - Died in 1093. Among the illustrious attendants, who landed" with Edgar Atheling in Scotland, was Maurice, an Hungarian, the founder of the house of Drummond. He is said to have been the son of George, a younger son of Andrew king of Hungary. Educated at the court with the Saxon princes, his friendship for their family early commenced, and, amidst all the vicissitudes of their fortune, his attachment to their interests was firm and sincere. When invited over to England, he accompanied them to the court of Edward; and, when the cruelties of the Norman conqueror drove them from the kingdom of their ancestors, Maurice set sail with them for Hungary, and shared, all the dangers of their flight. He is said to have been the commander of the ship, in which the royal fugitives escaped; and, when the furious storm assailed them on the ocean, the vessel was preserved by his skilful conduct, and the royal family safely landed on the Scottish shore. About this time, surnames began to be generally used in Scotland, and, soon after his arrival, Maurice received and assumed the name of Drummond. Like the other surnames of Scotland, this is derived, either from the lands originally appropriated to its first chief, or from the office he bore, or from some extraordinary occurrence in his life. If the name is derived from the lands, then it naturally comes from that property, in the parish of Drymen in Dunbartonshire, called Drummond, which formed part of the original grant of lands conferred by king Malcolm on this Hungarian stranger. [1] Sources ↑ A GENEALOGICAL MEMOIR OF THE MOST NOBLE AND ANCIENT HOUSE OF DRUMMOND, AND OF THE SEVERAL BRANCHES THAT HAVE SPRUNG FROM IT, AND FROM ITS FIRST FOUNDER MAURICE, TO THE PRESENT FAMILY OF PERTH. By David Malcolm, AcM. One of the Chaplains in ordinary, in Scotland, to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
   
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7. Title: https://www.geni.com/people/Maurice-de-Drummond-1st-Seneschal-of-Lennox/6000000003645966691
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